A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics of the Fourth Century B.C.Royal Asiatic Society, 1900 - 393 pages |
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... given it . I will now only maintain that it is even more suggestive to have at hand the best tradition of the Buddhist schools at the fulness of their maturity for the understanding of a work like the Dhamma - Sangani than for the study ...
... given it . I will now only maintain that it is even more suggestive to have at hand the best tradition of the Buddhist schools at the fulness of their maturity for the understanding of a work like the Dhamma - Sangani than for the study ...
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... given to my translation is not in any way a faithful rendering of the canonical name of the Manual . This is admitted on my title - page . intelligible for us in the expression or Compendium of Phenomena . ' might find it so or not ...
... given to my translation is not in any way a faithful rendering of the canonical name of the Manual . This is admitted on my title - page . intelligible for us in the expression or Compendium of Phenomena . ' might find it so or not ...
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... Given › man as a moral being , what do we find to be the content of his consciousness ? Now this term dhammo is , as readers are already aware , susceptible of more than one interpretation . Even when used for the body of ethical ...
... Given › man as a moral being , what do we find to be the content of his consciousness ? Now this term dhammo is , as readers are already aware , susceptible of more than one interpretation . Even when used for the body of ethical ...
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... given to dhammo ( when employed in this sense in the Sutta just quoted ) by Dr. Neumann : ' Da wacht ein Monch bei den Erscheinungen . . . . If I have used states , or states of consciousness , instead of phenomena , it is merely ...
... given to dhammo ( when employed in this sense in the Sutta just quoted ) by Dr. Neumann : ' Da wacht ein Monch bei den Erscheinungen . . . . If I have used states , or states of consciousness , instead of phenomena , it is merely ...
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in the Atthasalini , not only by the above - given definition of dhamma's , but also by the equally or even more emphatic affirmation respecting them , given in my note 1 to p . 33 - There is no permanent entity or self which acquires ...
in the Atthasalini , not only by the above - given definition of dhamma's , but also by the equally or even more emphatic affirmation respecting them , given in my note 1 to p . 33 - There is no permanent entity or self which acquires ...
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abides accompanied by disinterestedness aloof from evil aloof from sensuous Answer arahat Arahatship arise arisen associated attain Atthakatha bad and indeterminate bodily nutriment body-sensibility born of contact Buddha Buddhaghosa Buddhist causally induced causes cittam co-Intoxicant conception connexion consciousness dhamma disconnected discursive thought disregard of blame dulness ease ethical evil ideas Fetters five skandhas formless four skandhas hate heavens of Form Higher Ideal Hindrances ibid impingeing insight intellect Intoxicant invisible and reacting issue of grasping Jhana karma kilesa mental mind modes Nirvana object of thought occasion occasion-these odour omitted pañña Path perception printed text progress whereto psychological rapt meditation result Rhys Davids rupam sankhara saññā self-collectedness sense-objects sensual sensuous appetites sensuous universe skandhas of feeling sphere of visible Sutta Sutta Pitaka syntheses tangible tanha taste term thereto tion uncompounded element Unincluded Upekkha vedana Vibhanga visible form visual cognition wisdom words worlds of sense
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Page lxxiii - Jhfma, not as an end in itself, but as a symbol and vehicle of that habit of selection and single-minded effort which governed ' life according to the Higher Ideal.
Page xlviii - I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven — whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.
Page 359 - There is no such thing, O king, as alms or sacrifice or offering. There is neither fruit nor result of good or evil deeds. There is no such thing as this world or the next. There is neither father nor mother, nor beings springing into life without them. There are in the world no recluses or...
Page 359 - ... offering. There is neither fruit nor result of good or evil deeds. There is no such thing as this world or the next. There is neither father nor mother, nor beings springing into life without them. There are in the world no recluses or Brahmins who have reached the highest point, who walk perfectly, and who having understood and realized, by themselves alone, both this world and the next, make their wisdom known to others.
Page 151 - Herein, O bhikkhus, a brother, aloof from sensuous appetites, aloof from evil ideas, enters into and abides in the First Jhana, wherein there is cogitation and deliberation, which is born of solitude and is full of joy and ease. Suppressing cogitation and deliberation, he enters into and abides in the Second Jhana, which is self-evoked, born of concentration, full of joy and ease, in that, set free from cogitation...
Page 289 - The coincidence, however, is extremely doubtful. The Pali even leaves it vague as to whether the concomitant cause is the cause of the state in question; sometimes, indeed, this is evidently not the case. Eg, in § 1077 'dulness' is a hetu-dhammo, but not therefore the cause of the concomitant states, lust and hate. The compilers were, as usual, more interested in the psychology than in the logic of the matter, and were inquiring into the factors in cases of mental association. Those states, to wit...
Page xxx - Namely, that it is, in the first place, a manual or textbook, and not a treatise or disquisition, elaborated and rendered attractive and edifying after the manner of most of the Sutta Pitaka. And then, that its subject is ethics, but that the inquiry is conducted from a psychological standpoint, and, indeed, is in great part an analysis of the psychological and psycho-physical data of ethics.
Page 59 - Jhana, which is self-evoked, born of concentration, full of joy and ease, in that, set free from cogitation and deliberation, ', the mind grows calm and sure, dwelling on high. And further, disenchanted with joy, he abides...
Page 167 - ... by turning the attention from any consciousness of the manifold, he enters into and abides in that rapt meditation which is accompanied by the consciousness of the sphere of unbounded space...
Page lvii - form,' or form producing an impact of one specific kind; (c) Impact between (a) and (b); (d) Eesultant modification of the mental continuum, viz.: in the first place, contact (of a specific sort); then, hedonistic result, or intellectual result, or, presumably, both. The modification is twice stated in each case, emphasis being laid on the mutual impact, first as causing the modification, then as constituting the object of attention in the modified consciousness of the person affected. B. The Sense-objects....