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Abbidhamma Ajapala Akása all-wise counsellor Anuradhapura Arahat attained beautiful become Buddha believe their Bible believe these books Benares birth blind from ignorance Bó-tree Bodhisat Buddha's Doctrine Buddhism and science Buddhism teach BUDDHIST CATECHISM Buddhist priests Buddhists believe Buddhists consider Buddha Ceylon Channa Dagoba deep stream saves destruc devas Dhamma-pada disciples discovered the safe edicts exactly that reward father five companions Five Skandhas Four Noble Truths High Priest human misery Iddhi idol jungle Kapilavastu Karma King Asoka Kondanya less quickly Lokothra Magadha Málunka Meditation merit or demerit metaphysics of Buddhism mind moral nature Nirvana Noble Eightfold Path numbered OLCOTT palaces Páli perfect wisdom preaching Rahula Rajagriha rebirth reborn religion revere reward or punishment salvation Saññá Science teaches Sinhalese spirit of Buddha's SUMANGALA Sutta Tanha Teacher THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY things tion tree Tripitikas universal law unsatisfied desire Uruwela Vedaná Vinaya virtue can save whole spirit WIDYODAYA College Widyodaya Parivena word Yasodhara
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Page 7 - The miseries of existence ; 2. The cause productive of misery, which is the desire ever renewed, of satisfying oneself without being able ever to secure that end ; 3.
Page 26 - Q * of anger, passion, cruelty, or extravagance ; generosity, and tolerance, and charity — such are the lessons which ' the kindly king, the delight of the gods,' inculcates on all his subjects.
Page 11 - To cease from all sin, To get virtue, To cleanse one's own heart — This is the religion of the Buddhas.
Page 19 - soul " to be a word used by the ignorant to express a false idea. If everything is subject to change, then man is included, and every material part of him must change. That which is subject to change is not permanent: so there can be no immortal survival of a changeful thing.
Page 16 - Thus regarding a personal God "as only a gigantic shadow thrown upon the void of space by the imagination of ignorant men...
Page 8 - A condition of total cessation of changes, of perfect rest ; of the absence of desire, and illusion, and sorrow ; of the total obliteration of everything that goes to make up the physical man.
Page 13 - ... was Buddha to us and all other beings ? A. ' An all-seeing, all-wise counsellor ; one who discovered the safe path and pointed it out ; one who showed the cause of, and the only cure for, human suffering. In pointing to the road, in showing us how to escape dangers, he became our Guide. And as one leading a blind man across a narrow bridge, over a swift and deep stream, saves his life, so in showing us, who were blind from ignorance, the way to salvation, Buddha may well be called our
Page 2 - Deva l appeared to him when driving out in his chariot, under four impressive forms, on four different occasions. 35. Q. What were these different forms ? A. Those of a very old man broken down by. age, of a sick man, of a decaying corpse, and of a dignified hermit. 36. Q. Did he alone see these ? A. No, his attendant, Channa, also saw them. 37. Q. Why should these sights, so familiar to everybody, have caused him to go to the jungle ? A. We often see such sights: he had not seen them, so they made...
Page 23 - You may perhaps be given to think 'the word is ended now our Teacher is gone,' but you must not think so. After I am dead let the Law and the rules of the Order be a Teacher to you.