World's Strange Religions, 第 4 巻

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Thompson Barlow Company, 1927

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12 ページ - If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant — I should point to India.
29 ページ - Now this, O Bhikkhus, is the noble truth concerning suffering: 'Birth is attended with pain, decay is painful, disease is painful, death is painful. Union with the unpleasant is painful, painful is separation from the pleasant; and any craving that is unsatisfied, that too is painful.
7 ページ - If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power, and beauty that nature can bestow — in some parts a very paradise on earth — I should point to India.
29 ページ - There are two extremes, O Bhikkhus, which the man who has given up the world ought not to follow — the habitual practice, on the one hand of those things whose attraction depends upon the passions, and especially of sensuality — a low and pagan way (of seeking satisfaction) unworthy, unprofitable, and fit only for the worldly-minded — and the habitual practice, on the other hand, of asceticism (or self-mortification), which is painful, unworthy, and unprofitable.
29 ページ - There is a middle path, O Bhikkhus, avoiding these two extremes, discovered by the Tathagata (ie, the Perfect One, The Buddha) — a path which opens the eyes, and bestows understanding, which leads to peace of mind, to the higher wisdom, to full enlightenment, to Nirvana!
30 ページ - Now this, O Bhikkhus, is the Noble Truth concerning the origin of suffering. Verily, it is that thirst or craving, causing the renewal of existence, accompanied by sensual delight, seeking satisfaction now here, now there — that is to say, the craving for the gratification of the passions, or the craving for a future life, or the craving for success in this present life.
39 ページ - What is made is Mine ! But them that worship Me with love, I love; They are in Me, and I in them ! Nay, Prince! If one of evil life turn in his thought Straightly to Me, count him amidst the good; He hath the high way chosen ; he shall grow Righteous ere long; he shall attain that peace Which changes not.
44 ページ - ... and their power to produce merit or demerit from the connection of the mind with them. THEREFROM spring up in the ascetic the powers; to move his body from one place to another with the quickness of thought, to extend the operations of his senses beyond the trammels of place or the obstructions of matter, and to alter any natural object from one form to another.
38 ページ - The man who has transgressed one law and speaks lies and denies a future world, there is no sin he could not do. ' The real treasure is that laid up through charity and piety, temperance and self-control; the treasure thus hid is secured, and passes not away.
34 ページ - The fool who knows his foolishness, is wise at least so far. But a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed.

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