The Library of Original Sources: The ancient worldUniversity Research Extension, 1907 |
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adversaries Agni Ahura Mazda Ambapali Arahat arose Asavas asked become Bhikkhus Blessed One addressed body Brahman Brahmans versed breath brethren Buddha called Chapter whereby Circle of gods Confucius death deeds desire divine doctrine dwells earth Egypt Egyptians ether evil faith father fire Ganaka Vaideha Gargi Gotama happiness hath hear heart heaven honour Horus immortal kalpa KHANDA king knowledge Kshatriya Kusinara light live Lord makest thine appearance Mallas Marduk Maruts Master meditates mighty moon mouth Nakiketas night Nirvana noble eightfold path noble truth offer Oh thou Osiris pass path pranas Righteous Order Righteousness sacred sacrifice Sakalya Samana soul spake speak speech spirits Subhadda Tathagata tell thee things Thoth thou art thought Three Vedas Thy Good Mind Tiamat Tuat unto Vasettha Vayu Vedas venerable Ananda Verily Vesali virtue wise words Yagnavalkya replied
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Page 320 - THAT WE ARE is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.
Page 336 - He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear.
Page 398 - The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.
Page 387 - A transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving the ancients, I venture to compare myself with our old P'ang.
Page 107 - Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice ? " He who gives life. He who gives strength ; whose blessing all the bright gods desire ; whose shadow is immortality, whose shadow is death. Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice ? " He who through his power is the only king of the breathing and awakening world.
Page 334 - There is no satisfying lusts, even by a shower of gold pieces ; he who knows that lusts have a short taste and cause pain, he is wise ; 187. Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.
Page 331 - Looking for the maker of this tabernacle, I shall have to run through a course of many births, so long as I do not find ( him ) ; and painful is birth again and again. But now, maker of the tabernacle, thou hast been seen; thou shalt not make up this tabernacle again. All thy rafters are broken, thy ridge-pole is sundered; the mind, approaching the Eternal ( visankhara, nirvana ) has attained to the extinction of all desires.
Page 403 - What do you say concerning the principle that injury should be recompensed with kindness?' 2. The Master said, With what then will you recompense kindness? 3. 'Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
Page 320 - For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
Page 387 - I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out any one who is not anxious to explain himself. When I have presented one corner of a subject to any one, and he cannot from it learn the other three, I do not repeat my lesson.