A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics of the Fourth Century B.C.Royal Asiatic Society, 1900 - 393 pages |
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... insight , as a contribution of peculiar interest . The contents would no doubt yield no new matter of philosophic tradition . But they would certainly teach something respecting such points as pre- Aristotelian logical methods , and the ...
... insight , as a contribution of peculiar interest . The contents would no doubt yield no new matter of philosophic tradition . But they would certainly teach something respecting such points as pre- Aristotelian logical methods , and the ...
Page xvii
... insight and sagacity . And on the results of that psychological analysis it sought to base the whole rationale of its practical doctrine and discipline . From studying the processes of attention , and the nature of sensation , the range ...
... insight and sagacity . And on the results of that psychological analysis it sought to base the whole rationale of its practical doctrine and discipline . From studying the processes of attention , and the nature of sensation , the range ...
Page xxxvi
... insight . And since neither self nor aught belonging to self , brethren , can really and truly be accepted , is not the heretical position which holds : -This is the world and this is the self , and I shall continue to be in the future ...
... insight . And since neither self nor aught belonging to self , brethren , can really and truly be accepted , is not the heretical position which holds : -This is the world and this is the self , and I shall continue to be in the future ...
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... insight referred to already as ya thabhutam sammappaññāya daṭṭhabbam , or the higher wisdom of regarding things as in themselves they really are ' to adopt Matthew Arnold's term . The stream of phenomena , whether of social life , of ...
... insight referred to already as ya thabhutam sammappaññāya daṭṭhabbam , or the higher wisdom of regarding things as in themselves they really are ' to adopt Matthew Arnold's term . The stream of phenomena , whether of social life , of ...
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... insight , theoretical or practical . Now if we turn to the later expression of old tradition in the Commentaries , we find , on the one hand , an analysis of the meaning of ' good ' ; on the other , the rejection of precisely that sense ...
... insight , theoretical or practical . Now if we turn to the later expression of old tradition in the Commentaries , we find , on the one hand , an analysis of the meaning of ' good ' ; on the other , the rejection of precisely that sense ...
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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....