A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics of the Fourth Century B.C.Royal Asiatic Society, 1900 - 393 pages |
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Abhidhamma abides absence of lust accompanied by disinterestedness aloof from evil aloof from sensuous answer arahat Arahatship arise arisen attain Atthakatha bodily contact bodily nutriment bodily nutriment-this body-sensibility born of contact Buddha Buddhaghosa Buddhist causally induced cittam cognition of body conception connexion consciousness derived dhamma discursive thought dulness ease ekaggata ethical evil ideas external Fetters five kinds five senses five skandhas form cognizable formless four Great Phenomena four skandhas Higher Ideal ibid intellect Intoxicant invisible and reacting issue of grasping Jhana karma kilesa kinds of sense-objects mental mind modes Nirvana object of thought occasion occasion-these odour omitted Path perception printed text psychological rapt meditation Rhys Davids rupam saññā self-collectedness sensuous appetites skandhas of feeling smell sphere of visible Sutta Sutta Pitaka tangible tanha taste term thereto tion uncompounded element Unincluded upekkha vedana Vibhanga visible form vision visual cognition visual contact worlds of sense
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Page xliv - 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 353 - 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 353 - ... 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 xxvi - 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 67 - 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 283 - We may say, it is not required to maintain, but to reproduce, the effect, or else to counteract some force tending to destroy it. And this may be a convenient phraseology ; but it is only a phraseology. The fact remains, that in some cases (though these are a minority) the continuance of the condition!) which produced an effect is necessary to the continuance of the effect.
Page 53 - 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 70 - ... 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 liii - Resultant 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 persons affected.
Page 157 - What on that occasion is self-collectedness ? The stability, solidity, absorbed steadfastness of thought which on that occasion is the absence of distraction, balance, imperturbed mental procedure, quiet, the faculty and the power of concentration1 — this is the self-collectedness that there then is.
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| Title | A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics of the Fourth Century B.C. Issue 12 of Oriental Translation Fund Volume 12 of Publications new series, Oriental Translation Fund Volume 12 of Publications, London Oriental Translation Fund |
| Translated by | Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids |
| Contributor | Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Royal Asiatic Society, 1900 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 393 pages |
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