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Buddhaghosha's Parables - Page lxv
by Buddhaghosa - 1870 - 206 pages
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Buddhaghosha's parables, tr. by T. Rogers. With an intr., containing Buddha ...

Buddhaghosa (theologian.) - 1870 - 410 pages
...Nidanas, viz. the Garamarana (decay and death) and the Gati (new birth). (See Koppen, 'Die Eeligion des Buddha,' p. 609.) advanced in reflection, delight...hill looks down on those who stand on the ground. 29. Eeflecting among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers, the wise man advances like a racer leaving...
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Lectures on the Science of Religion

Friedrich Max Müller - 1874 - 316 pages
...reflects and meditates, obtains ample joy. 28. When the learned man drives away vanity by reflection, he, the wise, having reached the repose of wisdom,...Reflecting among the thoughtless, awake among the dleepers, the wise man advances like a racer leaving behind the hack. 30. By earnestness did Maghavan...
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Lectures on the Science of Religion

Friedrich Max Müller - 1874 - 316 pages
...reflects and meditates, obtains ample joy. 28. When the learned man drives away vanity by reflection, he, the wise, having reached the repose of • wisdom,...hill looks down on those who stand on the ground. 29. 30. By earnestness did Maghavan (Indra) rise to the lordship of the gods. People praise earnestness...
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In the Outer Court

Annie Besant - 1895 - 172 pages
...toiling crowd, as one that stands on a mountain looks down upon them that stand upon the plain. Earnest among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers, the...man advances like a racer, leaving behind the hack. By earnestness did Maghavan rise to the lordship of the Gods. People praise earnestness ; thoughtlessness...
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The Library of Original Sources: The ancient world

Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 462 pages
...crowd, as one that stands on a mountain looks down upon them that stand upon the plain. 29. Earnest among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers, the...wise man advances like a racer, leaving behind the back. 30. By earnestness did Maghavan (Indra) rise to the lordship of the gods. People praise earnestness...
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The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: With Historical Surveys ...

Charles Francis Horne - 1917 - 436 pages
...sorrowing crowd, as one that stands on a mountain looks down upon them that stand upon the plain. Earnest among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers, the...man advances like a racer, leaving behind the hack. By earnestness did Maghavan (Indra) rise to the lordship of the gods. People praise earnestness; thoughtlessness...
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The Futurism of Young Asia: And Other Essays on the Relations Between the ...

Benoy Kumar Sarkar - 1922 - 422 pages
...restraint and control, the wise man may make for himself an island that no flood can overwhelm. "Earnest among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers, the...man advances like a racer leaving behind the hack. "By earnestness (energizing) did Indra rise to lordship of the gods. People praise earnestness; thoughtlessness...
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Old Lamps for New: The Ancient Wisdom in the Modern World

Claude Fayette Bragdon - 1925 - 228 pages
..."His good works receive him who has done good, and has gone from this world to the other." "Earnest among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers, the...man advances like a racer, leaving behind the hack." The prevalent and popular conception is that Buddhism is preeminently a religion of pessimism, of negation,...
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Character and Culture: Essays on East and West

Irving Babbitt - 1995 - 416 pages
...in the same relation to truth as sleeping to waking.' 'Strenuous among the slothful,' says Buddha, 'awake among the sleepers, the wise man advances like a racer leaving behind the hack.' ii If Buddha is positive like Aristotle, he is not positive in the more recent sense that has been...
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Being Consciousness Bliss: A Seeker's Guide

Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 390 pages
...restraint and control, the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.... Earnest among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers, the...man advances like a racer, leaving behind the hack. — Dha m mapada You must raise your sail! The wind of Grace will fill it. — Ramakrishna Discrimination...
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