Karma: A Story of Buddhist Ethics

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Open Court Publishing Company, 1894 - 46 หน้า
 

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หน้า i - Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
หน้า 46 - Cloth, $1.25. (6s. 6d.) 285. WHENCE AND WHITHER. An Inquiry into the Nature of the Soul, Its Origin and Its Destiny. Paul Carus. Cloth, 75c net.
หน้า 38 - By ourselves is evil done, By ourselves we pain endure. By ourselves we cease from wrong, By ourselves become we pure. No one saves us but ourselves, No one can and no one may: We ourselves must walk the path, Buddhas merely teach the way.
หน้า 9 - I will give you this purse, and when you come to Baranasi drive up to the inn which I shall point out to you ; ask for Pandu, the Brahman, and deliver to him his gold. He will excuse himself for the rudeness with which he treated you, but tell him that you have forgiven him and wish him success in all his undertakings. For, let me tell you, the more successful he is, the better you will prosper ; your fate depends in many respects upon his fate. Should the jeweller demand any explanation, send him...
หน้า 45 - FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS. The Method of Philosophy as a Systematic Arrangement of Knowledge.
หน้า ii - The truth, much slurred in these days, that evil can be avoided and good achieved by personal effort only and that there exists no other means of attaining this end, has here been shown forth with striking clearness. The explanation is felicitous in that it proves that individual happiness is never genuine save when it is bound up with the happiness of all our fellows. From the...
หน้า 26 - Kandata remained silent, for he had been a cruel man, but the Tathagata in his omniscience saw all the deeds done by the poor.
หน้า 14 - Give me, O samana, the explanation," said the jeweller, "and I shall thereby be better able to follow your advice." The samana said: "Listen then, I will give you the key to the mystery. If you do not understand it, have faith in what I say. Self is an illusion, and he whose mind is bent upon following self, follows a will-o'-the-wisp which leads him into the quagmire of sin. The illusion of self is like dust in your eye that blinds your sight and prevents you from recognising the close relations...
หน้า 10 - ... of Joseph, the poor Hebrew youth who became minister of state, and succeeded with unscrupulous but clever business tricks in cornering the wheat market, so as to force the starved people to sell all their property, their privileges, and even their lives, to Pharaoh. And we read in the Jataka Tales...
หน้า 2 - The farmer remonstrated because, being so near the slope of the road, it would jeopardise his cargo; but the Brahman would not listen to the farmer and bade his servant overturn the rice-cart and push it aside. Mahaduta, an unusually strong man, who seemed to take delight in the injury of others, obeyed before the samana could interfere. The rice was thrown on the wayside, and the farmer's plight was worse than before. The poor farmer began to scold, but when the big, burl}' Mahaduta raised his fist...

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