A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics of the Fourth Century B.C.: Being a Translation, Now Made for the First Time from the Original Pali, of the First Book in the Abhidhamma Piṭaka, Entitled, Dhamma-sangani (compendium of States Or Phenomena) with Introductory Essay and Notes by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids |
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... including the Summary and Emptiness divisions.1 [ 161 ] Which are the states that are good ? When , that he may attain to the heavens of Form , he cultivates the way thereto , suppressing the working of conception and of thought ...
... including the Summary and Emptiness divisions.1 [ 161 ] Which are the states that are good ? When , that he may attain to the heavens of Form , he cultivates the way thereto , suppressing the working of conception and of thought ...
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[ 163 ] Which are the states that are good ? When , that he may attain to the heavens of Form , he cultivates the way thereto , and further , through the waning of all passion for joy , 1 holds himself unbiassed , 2 the while , mindful ...
[ 163 ] Which are the states that are good ? When , that he may attain to the heavens of Form , he cultivates the way thereto , and further , through the waning of all passion for joy , 1 holds himself unbiassed , 2 the while , mindful ...
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[ 165 ] Which are the states that are good ? When , that he may attain to the heavens of Form , he cultivates the way thereto , and , by the putting away of ease and by the putting away of ill , by the passing away of the happiness and ...
[ 165 ] Which are the states that are good ? When , that he may attain to the heavens of Form , he cultivates the way thereto , and , by the putting away of ease and by the putting away of ill , by the passing away of the happiness and ...
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[ 168 ] Which are the states that are good ? When , that he may attain to the heavens of Form , he cultivates the way thereto , and so , by earth - gazing , enters into and abides in the Second Jhana ( the second rapt medi- tation ) ...
[ 168 ] Which are the states that are good ? When , that he may attain to the heavens of Form , he cultivates the way thereto , and so , by earth - gazing , enters into and abides in the Second Jhana ( the second rapt medi- tation ) ...
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[ 176 ] Which are the states that are good ? When , that he may attain to the heavens of Form , he cultivates the way thereto , aloof from sensuous appetites , aloof from evil ideas , and so , by earth - gazing , enters into and abides ...
[ 176 ] Which are the states that are good ? When , that he may attain to the heavens of Form , he cultivates the way thereto , aloof from sensuous appetites , aloof from evil ideas , and so , by earth - gazing , enters into and abides ...
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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.: Being a Translation, Now Made for the First Time from the Original Pali, of the First Book in the Abhidhamma Piṭaka, Entitled, Dhamma-sangani (compendium of States Or Phenomena) with Introductory Essay and Notes by Caroline A ... Volume 12 of Publications, London Oriental Translation Fund |
| 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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