Buddhist Popular Lectures Delivered in Ceylon in 1907Theosophical Publishing Society, 1908 - 129 หน้า |
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หน้า 32 - ... their religions are the growing strength and vitality of every great religion of the world to-day. Trace our history, if you would see the truth of what I say, and you will, I think, find that in every land into which we have gone there has been a revival of the religions of the people of that land. We make no converts. We leave the people in the religion in which we find them ; but the religions become more vital, stronger, more able to sustain themselves against attack, because we offer them...
หน้า 23 - ... of these the philosophy of life must have something to say, some message to deliver. I will take them in the reverse order to that which we have just followed, beginning with religion. And let m'e say a prefatory word in connexion with the appearance in our own time of what we call Theosophy. Now, Theosophy is not a new thing, but the oldest of all old things. It has nothing in it that is really new. All its teaching may be found in the great religions of the world, living and dead. In the great...
หน้า 109 - His law ; and you are born not only inhabitants of Ceylon, but you are born into the faith of the Lord Buddha, the vast majority of you. Other religions may come among you, but Ceylon, as a nation, is, has been, and must be Buddhist.
หน้า 107 - ... mothers. Only thus can you have religious peace and religious respect. Do not let your ship of nationality be ship-wrecked on the rocks of religious hatred and religious suspicion. Learn mutual respect. Learn that each has something to learn from the religions of the rest of mankind : from Buddhism learn that heart of love and infinite compassion which is the great characteristic of the Law of the Buddha...
หน้า 60 - It is a colony which, anyhow, goes very far back into the 72 early ages of Christianity. All these different religions compete, as it were, for recognition, and how could the Government lend its weight to any one of them without going beyond the functions of a Government ? So, Lord Macaulay decided that the State had nothing to do with religious education.