Oriental mythologyPenguin Books, 1976 - Mythology |
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... tree of awakening , " the Bo- or Bodhi - tree ( bodhi , “ awakening ” ) . The Blessed One , alone , accompanied only by his own resolve , with his mind fixed only on attainment , rose up like a lion at nightfall , at the time when ...
... tree of awakening , " the Bo- or Bodhi - tree ( bodhi , “ awakening ” ) . The Blessed One , alone , accompanied only by his own resolve , with his mind fixed only on attainment , rose up like a lion at nightfall , at the time when ...
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... tree ; and to know those ways is not enough . To see the tree is not enough . Even to go sit beneath the tree is not enough . Each has to find and sit beneath the tree himself and then , in solitary thought , begin the passage into and ...
... tree ; and to know those ways is not enough . To see the tree is not enough . Even to go sit beneath the tree is not enough . Each has to find and sit beneath the tree himself and then , in solitary thought , begin the passage into and ...
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... Tree ( sang ) , " which , as he declares , must have got its name " from some famous old mulberry tree , probably the center of a cult , a common phenomenon even in modern China . " 48 The readi- ness of the virtuous lord T'ang to offer ...
... Tree ( sang ) , " which , as he declares , must have got its name " from some famous old mulberry tree , probably the center of a cult , a common phenomenon even in modern China . " 48 The readi- ness of the virtuous lord T'ang to offer ...
Contents
The Signatures of the Four Great Domains | 3 |
The Shared Myth of the One That Became Two | 9 |
The Two Views of Ego | 13 |
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