Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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2017	Flowers 44. Who shall overcome this earth, and the world of Yama( the lord of the departed), and the world of the gods?
2017	He himself does not belong to himself; how much less sons and wealth?
2017	He whom no desire with its snares and poisons can lead astray, by what track can you lead him, the Awakened, the Omniscient, the trackless?
2017	Him I call indeed a Brahmana who has no interests, and when he has understood( the truth), does not say How, how?
2017	How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning?
2017	Is there in this world any man so restrained by humility that he does not mind reproof, as a well- trained horse the whip?
2017	Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord?
2017	Those white bones, like gourds thrown away in the autumn, what pleasure is there in looking at them?
2017	Who shall find out the plainly shown path of virtue, as a clever man finds out the( right) flower?
2017	Why do you not seek a light, ye who are surrounded by darkness?
2017	what of the raiment of goat- skins?
18223	144 Was Poe Immoral?
18223	171 Has Life Any Meaning?
18223	How can a system requiring the infliction of misery on other beings be called a religious system?...
18223	How should I be capable of leaving thee in thy calamity?...
18223	I then will ask you, if a man, in worshipping... sacrifices a sheep, and so does well, wherefore not his child,... and so do better?
18223	Is She of small account?
18223	Is she a child?
18223	Is she honorable?
18223	Is she old?
18223	Shall we in worshipping slay that which hath life?
18223	What is a true gift?
18223	What is goodness?
18223	What is it to you... whether another is guilty or guiltless?
18223	What man is there who would be remiss in doing good to mankind?
18223	Wherein does religion consist?
18223	Who is a( true) spiritual teacher?
18223	Why should there be such sorrowful contention?
18223	Why should we cling to this perishable body?
2124	( 13) Was, or could, this prefect be Le E?
2124	( 2) Was it a custom to wash the hands with"earth,"as is often done with sand?
2124	( 3) Are two classes of opponents, or only one, intended here, so that we should read"all the unbelievers and Brahmans,"or"heretics and Brahmans?"
2124	( 4) What can we do?"
2124	( 6) Where and when?
2124	( 7) Did they not contrive to let him in, with some cachinnation, even in so august an assembly, that so important a member should have been shut out?
2124	( 8)?
2124	(?
2124	Are we now with them in 402?
2124	But what had disciples of Buddha to do with hunting and taking life?
2124	Fa- Hsien first spoke assuringly to them, and then slowly and distinctly asked them,"Who are you?"
2124	He asked further,"What country is this?"
2124	He then asked,"What are you looking for among these hills?"
2124	How should there be eighteen copies, all different from the original, and from one another, in minor matters?
2124	I am( but) a woman; how shall I succeed in being the first to see him?
2124	Must it not have been a good act, when it was attended, in the very act of performance, by such blessed consequences?
2124	The Tushita heaven was a more likely place to find her than the Trayastrimsas; but was the former a part of the latter?
2124	They replied,"We are disciples of Buddha?"
2124	Was there a repetition of it here in the Deer- park, or was a prediction now given concerning something else?
2124	What has he to do with the Path( of Wisdom)?
2124	When was this first assembly in the time of Sakyamuni held?
2124	Why should there not have been schools in those monasteries in India as there were in China?
2124	here be extended to the Vinaya rules, as well as the Sutras, and mean"the standards"of the system generally?
2124	munshee(?
29288	And those books?
29288	But do you not see that the powerful, and the rich, sow among the children of Israel a spirit of rebellion against the eternal power of Heaven?
29288	But you, yourselves; do you not possess copies of the scrolls bearing upon the prophet Issa?
29288	But,said the priests,"how could the people live according to your rules if they had no teachers?"
29288	By whose command the angels compiled His Word in laws for the governance of His people, which were given to Zoroaster in Paradise? 29288 Can one raise against estrayed men, to whom darkness has hidden their road and their door?"
29288	Did you enjoy our little festival?
29288	Do all perform mysteries similar to that which I have just witnessed?
29288	Does Cæsar possess a divine right?
29288	How is Issa looked upon in Thibet? 29288 In what language are written the principal scrolls bearing upon the life of Issa?"
29288	Is there not, among those books, some account of the prophet Issa?
29288	Of what new God dost thou speak? 29288 Where can those writings be found, and who compiled them?"
29288	Which Dalai- Lama of the Christians do you refer to?
29288	Who, then, art thou, who darest to utter blasphemies against our God and sow doubt in the hearts of believers?
29288	Who, then, has caused that this star lights the day, warms man at his work and vivifies the seeds sown in the ground?
29288	Why dost not thou perform a miracle,replied the priests,"and let thy God confound ours, if He is greater than they?"
29288	Why?
29288	Would you commit a sin in reciting your copy of the life of Issa to a stranger?
29288	--"And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me?
29288	And now comes another question: Why should he, a prince, have attached himself to the Israelites?
29288	But, how could this be?
29288	Could you not tell me anything about him?"
29288	Has he the repute of a saint?"
29288	How did this legend take root?
29288	How otherwise could his great legislative work, his broad views, his high administrative qualities be satisfactorily explained?
29288	I showed my manuscript to a cardinal very near to the Holy Father, who answered me literally in these words:--"What good will it do to print this?
29288	Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar, or not?"
29288	It makes one''s heart ache to see the pale and tired- looking figures of these carriers; but what is to be done?
29288	Man; that thou incitest the populace against the authorities, with the purpose of thyself becoming King of Israel?"
29288	Then the elders asked him:"Who art thou, and from what country hast thou come to us?
29288	Thereupon the governor said to the judges:"Have you heard this?
29288	Where, truly, in man, is the line that separates courage from cowardice?
29288	Who is he?"
29288	Will you kindly excuse me?"
29288	_ Chapter XII__ § 1_--"Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou?
29288	the spies asked him again;"and is he the best of mortals?"
29288	wist ye not that I must be about my Father''s business?"
8390	But what say the holy books? 8390 But you, yourself, are you not one of the holy ones?"
8390	Can you express this experience in words?
8390	Do you believe in the salvation of all beings?
8390	Does anything exist?
8390	Does faith save such a man?
8390	Is not this entirely negative?
8390	Well, about what do you think?
8390	What energizing power does Buddhism provide?
8390	What happens when you meditate or pray?
8390	What hope has such a man?
8390	What is the driving power in all this?
8390	What_ work_ have you done?
8390	Who are you?
8390	But where do the fiery chariots come from?
8390	Do they not promise rewards for such deeds?"
8390	Do you believe in the existence of_ purgatory?_ What sufferings will those endure who do not live a virtuous life?
8390	Do you believe in the existence of_ purgatory?_ What sufferings will those endure who do not live a virtuous life?
8390	Do you believe in the reality of the Western Paradise?
8390	Has not Christianity a message of balm and peace for these sons of the East who are so sensitive to the touch of the eternal and sublime?
8390	He was asked,"Would you adapt some of the symbols of the Chinese religions?"
8390	Heaven and Purgatory_"Do heaven and purgatory exist?"
8390	How can one enter it?
8390	How can they reach the Pure Land?
8390	How is the middle and the small merit accumulated?
8390	If its premises are granted, the conclusion is inevitable:"If the fiery chariots are seal, why does not man see them?
8390	If they are false, how is it that man feels the pain?
8390	In what do you trust?
8390	Is not Buddhism more democratic than Christianity, because it holds out the possibility of Buddhahood to all beings?
8390	Is not Buddhism more inclusive, because it provides for the salvation of all beings?
8390	Is not Shang Ti the tribal god of the Jews?
8390	Is not real religion a matter of the heart?"
8390	Is not your Shang Ti( name for God used in China) a being lower than Buddha and just a little higher than a Bodhisattva?
8390	Is the reality of religion for you also an inward experience of the heart?"
8390	Mrs. Chang accordingly went to Yama and said,"During life we honored Buddha and so why should we become animals after death?"
8390	Nirvâna__"Do you know of any one who attained Nirvâna?
8390	People with the face of a man and the heart of a beast, should they not be punished?"
8390	Relation to Confucian Ideals_ Why have not these ideals exercised a larger influence in China?
8390	Salvation for the Common Man_"What can Buddhism do for the lowest class?"
8390	Salvation for the Highest Class_"And the third class?"
8390	Salvation of the Second Class_"How do those of the second class attain salvation?"
8390	Sin_"Does sin exist?"
8390	The Place of Faith_"Can any man enter the western paradise of Amitâbha?"
8390	The Threefold Classification of Men Under Buddhism_"What does Buddhism do for men?"
8390	Then turning to a friend of mine the speaker said:"What have you done in Buddhism?"
8390	There being three kinds of merit, by what method is the great merit accumulated?
8390	To be branded without inward faith would be an insult to your religion as well as treachery to my own, would it not?
8390	What are the fruits of these proportions of merit and what are they like?
8390	What work of meditation do you perform?
8390	Why worry?
8390	Yama said,"What use is it to honor Buddha?
8128	And how many men,I said,"would want to be reborn as women?"
8128	But what did you think of the personages?
8128	But where does it stay?
8128	Can it be true?-or is it only a dream? 8128 Do you mean,"I asked,"that a man would be reborn as a woman, and a woman as a man?"
8128	Eyebrows?
8128	Have I become a god?
8128	Is it possible,he exclaimed,"that you never saw a silkworm- moth?
8128	May I put your theory some day into print?
8128	Reborn in some one of the heavens?
8128	Reborn, then, in what form?
8128	So it was he who told you?
8128	Tasogare("Who- Is- there?"
8128	Well, mistress,said O- Yone,"you will wait,--will you not,-- until to- morrow night?"
8128	Who?
8128	Why not give English readers the ghostly part of the story?
8128	Why not?
8128	Why repeat such unlucky words?... 8128 ''Do you know where he lives?'' 8128 ''Master,''Nanda inquired of the Buddha,''for whom has this vessel been prepared?'' 8128 ''O Master,''cried Nanda,` what wonderful festival is this?'' 8128 ( 2).... What does this mean? 8128 --that is to say,Have I died?--am I only a ghost in this desolation?"
8128	AUTUMN FANCIES( 1) Faded the clover now;--sere and withered the grasses: What dreams the matsumushi(1) in the desolate autumn- fields?
8128	And to myself I said:--Is it wonderful that the voice of the sea should make us serious?
8128	And what, under such circumstances, would have been the Western estimate of Leander?"
8128	But the little private work...?
8128	But what would become of this human imago in a state of perfect bliss?
8128	Did you ever visit them at that place?
8128	Do not our common forms of prayer prove our desire for like attention?
8128	Do not whole scales of colors invisibly exist above and below the limits of our retinal sensibility?
8128	I queried,--"by the Apparitional Birth?"
8128	Koko(?)
8128	Koko(?)
8128	Kwakko( Bishop''s- wort?)
8128	My friend says that he has seen two Chinese versions,--one in the Hongyo- kyo(?
8128	O poor singer of summer, Wherefore thus consume all thy body in song?
8128	O- Yone at last made answer,--"My dear young lady, why will you trouble your mind about a man who seems to be so cruel?...
8128	SHINTO REVERY Mad waves devour The rocks: I ask myself in the darkness,"Have I become a god?"
8128	Shomokko(?)
8128	The incense first mentioned, for example, is called by the poets''name for the gloaming,--Tasogare( lit:"Who is there?"
8128	The woman said:--"And if I should be disowned by my father, would you then let me come and live with you?"
8128	Then the Buddha asked him:''Is there any one among these maidens, Nanda, equal in beauty to the woman with whom you have been in love?''
8128	This is what I wanted to say to you, dear Yukiko.... Have you been able to understand?"
8128	Who could fully describe even five minutes of it?
8128	Who told you?"
8128	Whose dog is it?"
8128	You did not suppose that ghost- story was true, did you?"
8128	Yusai wonderingly exclaimed:--"Yes, he is dead;--but how did you learn of it?"
8128	[ Laughing] Is n''t it a sin to have been born so handsome that the girls die for love of you?
8128	compassionately exclaimed the priest;--"why do you torment it so, children?"
8128	exclaimed Nanda,''how can a lovely woman be compared with an ugly ape?''
8128	look?--where is the place of parting?
8128	or"Who is it?")
8128	repeated Shinzaburo, turning white,--"did you say that she is dead?"
8128	sobbed the other,--"have we to go back to- night again without seeing Hagiwara Sama?
8128	the tombs of O- Tsuyu and O- Yone?"
8128	where does she dwell to- day, our dear little vanished sister?
8128	why will you ask me to do these things?"
8128	will you not allow her to stay here to- night?"
8920	''Tis good,the Sage rejoined,"Most noble Prince, If these thou know''st, needs it that I should teach The mensuration of the lineal?"
8920	And none can say,` I sleep Happy and whole tonight, and so shall wake''?
8920	And the end of many aches, Which come unseen, and will come when they come, Is this, a broken body and sad mind, And so old age?
8920	But by what road Wendeth my Lord?
8920	But,spake he to the herdsmen,"wherefore, friends, Drive ye the flocks adown under high noon, Since''t is at evening that men fold their sheep?"
8920	Come such ills unobserved?
8920	Die?
8920	In this,he said,"That happy earth they brought me forth to see?
8920	Is there a gift for me?
8920	Most honored,spake again the charioteer,"Bethink thee of their woe whose bliss thou art-- How shalt thou help them, first undoing them?"
8920	Then all men live in fear?
8920	What power superior draws us from our flight?
8920	What would my Lord?
8920	Wherefore thus Bowest thou, Brother?
8920	''How could love Leave what it loved?''
8920	Am I not she thou lovedst?"
8920	And light and kind these men that are not kings, And sweet my sisters here, who toil and tend; What have I done for these to make them thus?
8920	And she would ask,"What ails my Lord?"
8920	Are men born sometimes thus?
8920	Ask of the sick, the mourners, ask of him Who tottereth on his staff, lone and forlorn,"Liketh thee life?"
8920	But Buddh said,"What is it thou dost bring me?"
8920	But didst thou find The seed?"
8920	But most the women gathering in the doors Asked:"Who is this that brings the sacrifice, So graceful and peace- giving as he goes?
8920	But spake the Prince, still comforting the man,"And are there others, are there many thus?
8920	Can he be Sakra or the Devaraj?"
8920	Can life and love suffice?"
8920	Finds he no food that so his bones jut forth?
8920	For which of all the great and lesser gods Have power or pity?
8920	For who hath grieved when soft arms shut him safe, And all life melted to a happy sigh, And all the world was given in one warm kiss?
8920	How should I not be happy, blest so much, And bearing him this boy whose tiny hand Shall lead his soul to Swerga, if it need?
8920	Know''st thou, my brother, if it be not thus, After their many pains, with saints in bliss?
8920	Or might it be to me as now with him?"
8920	So, in full council of his Ministers,"Who is the wisest man, great sirs,"he asked,"To teach my Prince that which a Prince should know?"
8920	Then Sorrow ends, for Life and Death have ceased; How should lamps flicker when their oil is spent?
8920	Then he--"What is with thee, O my life?"
8920	Then spake the Prince"But shall this come to others, or to all, Or is it rare that one should be as he?"
8920	Then spake the Prince,"Is this the end which comes To all who live?"
8920	Then the King amazed Inquired"What treasure?"
8920	There must be many we should love-- how else?
8920	What good gift have my brothers but it came From search and strife and loving sacrifice?
8920	What grief Springs of itself and springs not of Desire?
8920	What have they wrought to help their worshippers?
8920	What heaven hast thou found like that we knew By bright Rohini in the Pleasure- house, Where all these weary years I weep for thee?
8920	What is his caste?
8920	What knows this noble boy of beauty yet, Eyes that make heaven forgot, and lips of balm?
8920	What lets?--Brothers?
8920	What meaneth he Moaning''tomorrow or next day I die?''
8920	What pleasure hast thou of thy changeless bliss?
8920	What woe hath happened to this piteous one?"
8920	When was fond Love so pitiless to love Save that this scorned to limit love by life?)
8920	Where tether they that swift steed of the tale?
8920	Who hath seen them-- who?
8920	Why have I never seen and never sought?
8920	Why is it, Channa, that he pants and moans, And gasps to speak and sighs so pitiful?"
8920	Why, if I love them, should those children know?
8920	Will you send?"
8920	Wilt thou go forth into the friendless waste That hast this Paradise of pleasures here?"
8920	Wilt thou ride hence and let the rich world slip Out of thy grasp, to hold a beggar''s bowl?
8920	Yet dost thou truly find it sweet enough Only to live?
8920	Yet who shall shut out Fate?
8920	as ye lie asleep so must ye lie A- dead; and when the rose dies where are gone Its scent and splendour?
8920	do your Gods endure For ever, brothers?"
8920	dost see?
8920	he said,"And dear to leave; yet if I leave ye not What else will come to all of us save eld Without assuage and death without avail?
8920	heir of this spacious power, and heir Of Kings who did but clap their palms to have What earth could give or eager service bring?
8920	if I feed her, who shall lose but I, And how can love lose doing of its kind Even to the uttermost?"
8920	is there so wide a world?
8920	she lowly asked,"And hath my gift found favour?"
8920	the charioteer replied-- Slow- rising from his place beside the gate"To ride at night when all the ways are dark?"
8920	what harm Hath fallen?
8920	what is this you ask?
8920	what may such visions mean Except I die, or-- worse than any death-- Thou shouldst forsake me or be taken?"
8920	what thing is this who seems a man, Yet surely only seems, being so bowed, So miserable, so horrible, so sad?
8920	when looked a Rishi thus?"
8920	when the lamp is drained Whither is fled the flame?
8920	whence hath he eyes so sweet?
8920	wherefore canst thou not arise?
8920	who?
8920	why is this?"
34578	But,replied the monarch,"are we not the descendants of the illustrious Prince Thamadat?
34578	But,retorted Buddha,"if in that new place we be likewise reviled, what then?"
34578	But,said Buddha,"if we be ill- treated in the new place we go to, what is to be done?"
34578	By what means,said he to himself,"can a heart find peace and happiness?"
34578	How is this?
34578	How is this?
34578	Is it you, great Rahan,cried Kathaba,"whom we see here?"
34578	My son,answered Buddha,"in what country does your brother Thariputra spend his season?"
34578	To whom,said he,"shall I announce the law?"
34578	What is the doctrine of that great master?
34578	What wonder will you work, my daughter, Garamie?
34578	What?
34578	Where is he now?
34578	Who advised you to commit the murder?
34578	Who are you?
34578	Who is here watching?
34578	Who is that man?
34578	Anatapein asked Gaudama how he wished the donation should be made and effected?
34578	And have you no other science to teach us?"
34578	As soon as he saw him he exclaimed:"Illustrious Buddha, why do you expose us to such a shame?
34578	Buddha considered a third time, and said to himself:"To whom shall I go to preach the law?"
34578	Buddha coolly asked the king,"What is that object which is stretched before us?"
34578	Buddha said to him:"Do you believe those beauties before you to be equal to Dzanapada?"
34578	Buddha said to them,"Which, in your opinion, is the best and most advantageous thing, either to go in search of yourselves or in search of a woman?"
34578	Buddha then thought: Where shall I find a stone to rub it upon?
34578	Buddha, addressing Ratha''s father, said to him,"What will you have to state in reply to what I am about to tell you?
34578	But how is a world brought into existence?
34578	But such a happy state is, as yet, at a great distance; where is the road leading thereto?
34578	But why is it so?
34578	By what means can a man get out of the stream or current of passions?
34578	By what means can such an invaluable treasure be procured?
34578	By what means can this ignorance be done away with?
34578	By what possible means could you ever succeed in bringing me back into the whirlpool of passions?"
34578	Can his parents or wife be really happy by the mere accidental ties that connect them with his person?
34578	Can it be conferred upon man by the possession of some exterior object?
34578	Could not a better and more decent mode be resorted to for supplying your wants?"
34578	Could you ever prove, by indisputable evidence, that you have ever made offerings enough to be deserving of this throne?"
34578	FOOTNOTES[ 1] Which of the two systems, Buddhism or Brahminism, is the most ancient?
34578	Gaudama hearing all these words said:"What means this?
34578	He asks himself, In what consists true and real happiness?
34578	He said aloud,"Who are they that can do wonders?
34578	He said to him,"O wretched one, are you not aware that fear is no longer to be found in him who has become a Rahanda?"
34578	He thought again: Where is a fit spot to extend my clothes upon?
34578	He thought again: Where is a proper place to dry it upon?
34578	How can he cross over the sea of existences?
34578	How can he free himself from the evil influence?
34578	How could that be so?
34578	How is it that at midnight there was such an uncommon splendour?
34578	How is it, moreover, that the tree Yekadat is now bending down its branches?"
34578	How is this power conferred upon him?
34578	How shall he be able to purify himself from the smallest stain of concupiscence?"
34578	I am old now, and the end of my existence is quite uncertain; could you not undertake to bring my son over to me?
34578	In what consists the fulfilment of the religious duties?
34578	In what does such a perfection consist?
34578	Is it necessary to go from door to door to beg your food?
34578	It may be asked what becomes of the sum of demerits and its consequent evil influence, whilst the superior good influence prevails?
34578	May I be allowed to ask what country you belong to, who you are, and from what illustrious lineage and descent you are come?"
34578	On hearing this unusual noise, the chief of Nagas awoke from his sleep, and said:"How is this?
34578	On my appearance before the crowd they will ask, What is this water- fowl?
34578	Phralaong at that moment said to Manh:"How do you dare to pretend to the possession of this throne?
34578	Shall I not be able to get a person who could procure for me some information respecting my son?"
34578	Surprised at what he perceived, he said to Buddha:"O Rahan, formerly there were here neither tank nor stone; how is it that they are here now?
34578	The enraged Manh cried to his followers,"Why do you stand looking on?
34578	The heretics, informed of this, said,"What will become of us?
34578	The king said to them,"Wicked men, is it true that you have killed the woman Thondarie?"
34578	The members of the deputation having duly paid their respects, said to him,"O most excellent Phra, which is the best thing to be bestowed in alms?
34578	They continued addressing Buddha, and said:"What shall we henceforth worship?"
34578	They said to Thindzi,"Teacher, is this all that you know?
34578	To what law or doctrine have you given preference in your arduous studies?"
34578	To what purpose are uttered so many fine expressions?"
34578	To what shall I liken it as regards the happy results it produces?
34578	To whom shall I go now?"
34578	Under what teacher have you become a Rahan?
34578	Unmoved by all their allurements, Buddha said to them,"For what purpose do you come to me?
34578	Was the monarch induced by considerations of a higher order to send for Buddha?
34578	What are the causes productive of such a burning?
34578	What are the duties to be performed in order to become a real Pounha?"
34578	What causes birth, old age, and death?
34578	What has become of that form which deceived and enslaved so many?
34578	What is meant by Dzan?
34578	What is meant by the religious disposition?
34578	What is pain, which is the first of the great truths?
34578	What is the destruction of pain, which is the third great truth?
34578	What is the production of pain, the second sublime truth?
34578	What is the real renouncing?
34578	What is the true knowledge?
34578	What is the way leading to the destruction of that desire, which is the fourth great truth?
34578	What shall it avail any man to feel envious at the success he obtains by so legitimate a means?"
34578	What will become of my throne?
34578	What will become of our country?"
34578	Whence comes the name Pounha?
34578	Whence that involuntary cry for assistance, but from the innate consciousness that above man there is some one ruling over his destinies?
34578	Where is it to be found?
34578	Which is the best and the fittest thing to put an end to passions?"
34578	Which is the most pleasurable?
34578	Which is the most savoury and relishing of all things?
34578	Which is the most valuable, a small quantity of water or the lives of countless beings, and, in particular, the lives of princes?"
34578	Who could, then, wonder at the conduct of Tsampooka?
34578	Who has ever thought of giving any credence to those fables?
34578	Who is your guide in the way to perfection?
34578	Who will now ever presume to say that he ought to subject himself again to them and bend his neck under their baneful influence?"
34578	Why do they exist?
34578	Why is there birth?
34578	Why should I bestow signs of compassion upon it?
34578	Would any one take her now for half that sum?"
34578	[ 2] I will repay their good offices to me, by preaching to them the law, but where are they now?"
34578	[ 4] Is not that young man doing the duty of forerunner of Buddha on the occasion of his solemn entry into the city of Radzagio?
34578	and what is the doctrine he is preaching to you?"
34578	said he, with an unfeigned feeling of surprise,"and by what way did you come and contrive to arrive here before me?"
34578	said he,"is it against me alone that such a countless crowd of warriors has been assembled?
34578	said the astonished Thagia;"am I doomed to lose my happy state?"
34578	what does this mean?"
34578	who has ever equalled him?
14867	Does the perfect Buddha live on beyond death, or does he not? 14867 I cannot-- will not fight,"he says;"I seek not victory, I seek no kingdom; what shall we do with regal pomp and power?
14867	Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you?
14867	Now, that which is created,he adds,"must of necessity be created by some cause-- but how can we find out the Father and maker of all this universe?
14867	[ 26] There is a deep pathos in the question which I have just quoted,How can we find out the Father and maker of all this universe?"
14867	''Is Buddhism really older than Christianity, and does it really contain many things which are found in the Bible?''"
14867	''Is it really true?''
14867	''Why did you not tell us all this before?
14867	... Did humanity begin with a coarse fetishism, and thence rise by slow degrees to higher conceptions?
14867	Again, the question arises, How can responsibility be transferred from one to another?
14867	And how are we to account for their striking similarities?
14867	Are not we sons of the mighty Duryodani?
14867	But are they?
14867	But does conversion mean the same, or anything like the same, thing in each?
14867	But how shall the false systems of religions be studied?
14867	But the question may be asked,"Do we not admit a similar principle when we speak of a man''s influence as something that survives him?"
14867	But what is the evidence found in the legends themselves?
14867	But what is the testimony of the great dead religions of the past with respect to a primitive monotheism?
14867	But who knows whence his blessings come to him?
14867	But_ how_ have these conquests in Central Africa been made?
14867	Do the traces of a comparatively pure monotheism first show themselves in the recent periods of idolatry?
14867	Do they appear to have risen from polytheism toward simpler and more spiritual forms, or have simple forms been ramified into polytheism?
14867	Dost Thou only care for men?
14867	Even if change were possible, therefore, how shall the old score be settled?
14867	For what else have many excellent members of our faith done?
14867	Good men are asking,"Is not such a study a waste of energy, when we are charged with proclaiming the only saving truth?
14867	Have they shown an upward or a downward development?
14867	Have we forgotten our Rama and Arjun, Yudistar or Bishma or Drona the Wise?
14867	How can he be a lover of truth, which is God, if he knows not his beloved under such a disguise?
14867	How can there be reconciliation to God, then, without repentance and humiliation?
14867	How can we attain unto them?
14867	How could Buddhism grow out of such a soil and finally cast its spell over so many peoples?
14867	How did the early Church succeed in its great conquest?
14867	How is it with the authenticity of Buddhist literature?
14867	How is the young missionary, who knows nothing of their systems or the real points of comparison, to deal with such men?
14867	How much may we expect to prove from the early history of the non- Christian systems?
14867	How shall we account for the similarities above indicated, except on the supposition of a common and a very ancient source?
14867	How shall we explain that career?
14867	How then did they succeed?
14867	How was it that Islam gained its conquests, and what is the secret of that dominion which it still holds?
14867	How was such a man to be met?
14867	How will the mere philosopher explain this wonderful power of personality over men of all races, if it be not Divine?
14867	How, then, shall we draw the line between history and legend?
14867	If Krishna is within and without, what is the use of austerities?
14867	If Krishna is_ not_ within and without, what is the use of austerities?
14867	If Krishna is_ not_ worshipped, what is the use of austerities?
14867	In the old churches of the East or on the Continent of Europe, how much of virtual idolatry is there even now?
14867	In the receptacle of what was it contained?
14867	Is it any wonder that such persons have a warm side toward Buddhism?
14867	Is it_ in pari materia_, and if not, is the comparison worth the paper on which it is written?
14867	Is not downright earnestness better than any possible knowledge of philosophies and superstitions?"
14867	May there not, after all, be danger in the study of false systems?
14867	May we not believe that the ideas here expressed had always existed in the minds of the more devout rulers of the empire?
14867	Men had begun to ask themselves the great questions of human life and destiny,"Whence am I?
14867	Mr. Goldwin Smith, in an able article published in the_ Forum_ of April, 1891, on the question,"Will Morality Survive Faith?"
14867	No man sings there,''Shall not my soul be submitted unto God?
14867	O Almighty One, hast Thou not power to make us other than we are, that we too may have some part in the blessings of life?"
14867	Of what value can heathen asceticism and merit- making be while the heart is still barred and buttressed with self- righteousness?
14867	Or Lactantius, or Victorinus, Optatus, Hilary, not to speak of the living, and Greeks innumerable?
14867	See we not how richly laden with gold and silver and apparel that most persuasive teacher and most blessed martyr, Cyprian, departed out of Egypt?
14867	Stop, O Brahman; why do you engage in austerities?
14867	The Bhagavad Gita and the Gospel both enjoin the brotherhood of men, but what are the meanings which they give to this term?
14867	The eating of bread is in conformity with the ordinance of God; can one forget that his blessing rests thereupon?...
14867	The question"Are ye not of more value than many sparrows?"
14867	The question, What is Nirvana?
14867	The real question is, what was the_ drift_ of the prophet''s character?
14867	Then follow other questions:''Does Buddhism really count more believers than any other religion?''
14867	There is recognized no future intervention that can effect a change in the downward drift, and why should a thousand existences prove better than one?
14867	Was it enveloped in the gulph profound of water?
14867	What are the lessons of the various ethnic traditions?
14867	What are their aims, respectively?
14867	What could be more horrible than the story just brought down by the messengers who were with Major Festing?
14867	What could have produced them?
14867	What has become of the tens of thousands of peaceful agriculturists, their wives and their innocent children?
14867	What help, what rescue can mere infinitude of time afford, though the transmigrations should number tens of thousands?
14867	What human skill could have depicted a character which no ideal of our best modern culture can equal?
14867	What is the relation between these two currents?
14867	What is this mysterious being of which I am conscious?"
14867	What methods were adopted, and with what measures of success?
14867	What then enshrouded all the teeming universe?
14867	What was the influence of his professed principles on his own life?
14867	What were the elements of power which enabled the great sage of China to rear a social and political fabric which has survived for so many centuries?
14867	What, then, is Kharma?
14867	Where can we point to so easy a conquest as that of Patrick in Ireland, or that of the Monks of Iona among the Picts and Scots?
14867	Where did Shankar and great Dayananda arise?
14867	Where do violence, meanness, and deception gradually beam forth into benevolence and truth?
14867	Where is the system in which such an incident and such a lesson would not be wholly out of place?
14867	Wherein, then, consists the unique supremacy of the Christian faith?
14867	Who shall change the leopard''s spots or deflect the fatal drift of a human soul?
14867	Who would think of quoting"Paradise Lost"in any sober comparison of Biblical truth with the teachings of other religions?
14867	Will there not be found perplexing parallels which will shake our trust in the positive and exclusive supremacy of the Christian faith?
14867	Without a Daysman how shall we bridge the abyss that lies between?
14867	Yet where in all the wide waste of heathen faiths or philosophies is there anything which even remotely resembles the story of the Prodigal?
14867	or has perchance some other God made us?
14867	what with enjoyments, or with life itself, when we have slaughtered all our kindred here?"
22782	How do I know?
22782	Must die?
22782	Oh, Channa,said I to the charioteer:"Why does this happen?
22782	A self?
22782	ANATHA PINDIKA stands below with clasped hands.__ KALA UDAYIN sinks to his knees with clasped hands.__ B._ My friend, what brings you here?
22782	And can you not Search for the truth here in this pleasant garden?
22782	And he is my son Siddhattha?
22782	And if he is the Buddha, is it right to wage a war against his people?--What shall I do?
22782	And shall I listen to its tender voice?
22782	At a distance a flourish of trumpets.__ D._ What military signals do I hear?
22782	But tell me How is to- day Kala Udayin''s father?
22782	Did the Buddha ever beg you to support his brotherhood?
22782	Dost thou forget the promise made me on our wedding day?
22782	Has the Buddha received these men?
22782	Have you seen my son?
22782	He stands pondering for a moment.__ B._ Who will instruct me where my duty lies?
22782	How deserves this man The wretchedness of his great agonies?"
22782	How did you die?
22782	I ask you, will you be such friends to me?
22782	I clasp my hands to him as to a god; and so do you mother, do you not?
22782	Is father a king?
22782	Is old age truly telling on him?
22782	Is that my duty?
22782	Is this, in sooth, my duty?
22782	KALA stops them.__ K._ What do you carry?
22782	Must I be gone?
22782	O Kala, advise me, what can I do?
22782	Say, is that my duty?
22782	Shall women rule, Or art thou master still in thine own home?
22782	Thou sayest I do wrong?
22782	VISAKHA knocks at the gate._ Who is on guard?
22782	What are wealth and power?
22782	What crown and scepter?
22782	What does Siddhattha say?
22782	What is a kingdom?
22782	What is thy doctrine, venerable monk?
22782	What profit can there be in gossip such as you two carry on?
22782	What shall I do?
22782	Where are you?
22782	Where is your mother?
22782	Who art thou?
22782	Who is this?
22782	Whose is it then, yours or mine?
22782	Why are you so excited?
22782	Why borrow trouble before it comes?
22782	Why did you leave me?
22782	Why didst thou go begging Here in my capital?
22782	Why dost thou shame thy father in his own home?
22782	Will you, my good Lord?
22782	With bowl in hand, a homeless mendicant?
22782	Would you deign to accept his invitation?
22782	Would you like me to play with a viper?
22782	[_ The maid takes his bundle and carries it into the house._] What news do you bring of Prince Siddhattha?
22782	_ A._ Indeed he is and may I be permitted to inform him of the danger that threatens his father''s house?
22782	_ A._ What do you mean?
22782	_ A._ Why?
22782	_ Ap._ Did he ever offer you the support of his vows, or did he ever praise the efficacy of his holiness?
22782	_ Argues with himself._ May I not listen to a traitor''s words, Nor hear him,--profit by his information?
22782	_ B._ And how is Rahula?
22782	_ B._ And shall the world wait for another Buddha?
22782	_ B._ And tell me how the princess fares?
22782	_ B._ But who will laugh at it, my friend?
22782	_ B._ Could we be truly happy while the world Is filled with misery?
22782	_ B._ Dost thou not know this boon is but a burden?
22782	_ B._ How can that be, my good Kala Udayin?
22782	_ B._ Tell me, my friend, how is my father?
22782	_ B._ Thou speakst of Bimbisara, King of Magadha?
22782	_ B._ What sayest thou?
22782	_ B._ Who tells him?
22782	_ B._ Why art thou sad, my good Yasodhara?
22782	_ B._ Wouldest thou not rejoice if I fulfilled My mission; if I reached the highest goal?
22782	_ B._ Wouldst thou by night sleep under forest trees?
22782	_ B._ Wouldst thou go begging food from house to house?
22782	_ B._ Wouldst thou go with me?
22782	_ B._[_ Addressing the vision in the air._] Mara, thou here?
22782	_ Bb._ Are you not a disciple of Gotama, who is called the Buddha?
22782	_ Bb._ What brings you to my presence?
22782	_ Bb._[_ With an inquiring look_] Why?
22782	_ Bb.__ Nodding kindly to VISAKHA, then turning to NAGADEVA._ Is our kingdom in readiness?
22782	_ Dd._ Why do you waste your time, Siddhattha, with this frivolous lad?
22782	_ Exit.__ KALA UDAYIN enters and bows to ANATHA PINDIKA.__ A._ You want to see the Blessed One?
22782	_ G._ First, you are not everybody, and secondly, would it not be a blessing if the whole world would try to be sanctified?
22782	_ G._ Well?
22782	_ G._ What do you want?
22782	_ GS._ Are you the steward of the goddess''property?
22782	_ GS._ What crowd is gathered there with flags and flowers?
22782	_ GS._ What does that signal mean?
22782	_ GS._ Who art thou, wondrous monk?
22782	_ He hesitates.__ S._ Well, Devala?
22782	_ K._ And why should it not, sweet Prince?
22782	_ K._ Could you help him, princess?
22782	_ K._ How can you doubt, my Prince?
22782	_ K._ Then wilt thou be a Buddha?
22782	_ K._ Well then?
22782	_ K._ Why then, good Lord, Why wilt thou not its merry lesson learn?
22782	_ Lost in contemplation._ Is Sakyamuni the Buddha?--Is he truly the Buddha?
22782	_ M._ Wilt thou not listen to my good advice?
22782	_ M._ Wilt thou not stay, my noble Prince Siddhattha?
22782	_ P._ Who told you any news?
22782	_ Pr._ How dar''st thou rudely interfere, strange monk, With our most sacred sacrifice?
22782	_ R._ Did he find them?
22782	_ R._ Did you see father?
22782	_ R._ Has father found the cause of evil?
22782	_ R._ How does a man find the truth?
22782	_ R._ Is father rich?
22782	_ R._ Mother, what is a Buddha?
22782	_ R._ Self?
22782	_ R._ What does that mean, Kala?
22782	_ R._ What does that mean?
22782	_ R._ What is the cause of evil?
22782	_ R._ What?
22782	_ R._ Why does Kala not speak to father?
22782	_ R._ Why does he?
22782	_ R._ Why must he find out the cause of evil?
22782	_ R._ Why should mother not mention father?
22782	_ R._ Will he be king of it?
22782	_ S._ And he is here, this wonderful man?
22782	_ S._ At last thou comest back, my wayward son, But why didst shame me?
22782	_ S._ Bring you good news, Udayin?
22782	_ S._ Do you love him more than your grandfather?
22782	_ S._ Tell me at once, how did your mission speed?
22782	_ S._ There he lives in luxury?
22782	_ S._ What kind of a place is that?
22782	_ S._ What sayest thou, my trusty counselor?
22782	_ S._ What then is your opinion of the case?
22782	_ S._ Where did you find him?
22782	_ S._ Where did you find him?
22782	_ Servant exit.__ Ap._ Is he not one of the disciples of the Buddha?
22782	_ She can scarcely conceal her joy.__ Y._ You heard grandfather say so?
22782	_ The BUDDHA nods and with a distant look sits a few moments in silence.__ B._ And she is a good mother?
22782	_ The moon sinks behind a cloud.__ SIDDHATTHA comes.__ B._ What may the trouble be?
22782	_ The others rise gradually.__ F._ What shall I do, good master?
22782	_ The people rise to their feet again; KALA joins GOPA.__ S._ Tell me, what are the rules of former Buddhas?
22782	_ V._ And has Siddhattha succeeded?
22782	_ V._ Is he dying?
22782	_ V._ What is the idea of these fasts?
22782	_ Y._ And whither did Siddhattha go from Rajagaha?
22782	_ Y._ But where does the thought come from?
22782	_ Y._ Did he speak kindly of us?
22782	_ Y._ Did you meet people who saw him?
22782	_ Y._ How do you know?
22782	_ Y._ How is his health, and will he come back?
22782	_ Y._ Is King Bimbisara so religious?
22782	_ Y._ O good Kala, what shall I do?
22782	_ Y._ What did he bid him?
22782	_ Y._ What did the people of Rajagaha say?
22782	_ Y._ What is it, boy?
22782	_ Y._ Why do you think so?
22782	_ Y._ Why dost thou trouble about others?
22782	_ Y._[_ Addressing Devadatta_] And brother, will you come along?
22782	_ Y._[_ rises_] Why, is it possible?
22782	_ Y._[_ with passionate outburst_] Siddhattha, O my Lord, my husband, what wilt thou do?
22782	_ YASODHARA and PAJAPATI withdraw to the partition behind the curtains.__ S._ You say, that my son is greeted even by kings with clasped hands?
22782	_ YASODHARA picks RAHULA up.__ R._ Why do you sleep on the floor, Mother?
22782	cried I,"What does that word portend?"
22782	did he really say so?
22782	did you hear the news?
22782	enters.__ Ap._ Are they gone, my Lord, and what did you decide?
22782	how is Rahula?
29527	''And after thou hast run over all things, what will it profit thee if thou hast neglected thyself?''
29527	''And if a young man fell in love with a girl?''
29527	''And if he did n''t?''
29527	''And then?''
29527	''And yet what would I have gained by wailing and lamenting either for myself or for others?
29527	''Are there not charms that will prevent you being hurt if you are hit, and that will not allow a sword to cut you?
29527	''Can you do anything,''I asked,''to cheer him?
29527	''Could government do nothing?''
29527	''Did n''t anyone come to call?''
29527	''Has ever anyone died in your household?''
29527	''How can I take you back again?''
29527	''I wonder what''s in that tin box?''
29527	''Is n''t that rather old to be just married?''
29527	''Is there no food in the bazaar, that you must go and take the lives of animals?''
29527	''It is your own look- out,''they would say;''if you want to die why should we prevent you?
29527	''Suppose you think of your good deeds, what then?
29527	''Thakin,''she said at last,''what am I to do?
29527	''The blossoms are beautiful,''they said;''what care we for the thorns?
29527	''Then, who wrote the letter?''
29527	''They are very beautiful,''they said,''but these roads that pass through them, whither do they lead?
29527	''To see him,''he said,''I must remove the hand of his mother, and she may awake; and if she awake, how shall I depart?
29527	''Was I not aware,''he said, with bitter indignation at his weakness,''that when I became a recluse I must eat such food as this?
29527	''What did she pray for?''
29527	''What is the use of that?''
29527	''What is the use,''said my friend,''of this religion that we see so many signs of?
29527	''What seek you here?
29527	''What should she pray for, thakin?
29527	''What would happen,''I asked once,''if anyone went into that wood?
29527	''When were you married?''
29527	''Why does the law discriminate?''
29527	''Why is this difference?''
29527	''Why should that be so?''
29527	''Would he return?''
29527	''You are so strong, have you no compassion for him who is weak, who is tempted, who has fallen?''
29527	''You would n''t have one law for a man and another for a woman?''
29527	--_Burmese Love- Song._ If you were to ask a Burman''What is the position of women in Burma?''
29527	A Burman would not ask,''Were they married?''
29527	All was as before, and the truth-- the truth, where was that?
29527	And amongst the audience were there not the girls''relations, their sisters, their lovers?
29527	And beyond death?
29527	And he who can live his life, what cares he for reading of the lives of other people?
29527	And how can you turn your mind to meditation and thought if your body is in suffering?
29527	And if there is any merit in such little charity, as the Burmese say there is, why should I not gain it, too?
29527	And if we have none?
29527	And if we should say that this Deliverance from life, this Great Peace, is Death, what matter, if it be indeed Peace?
29527	And if you ask them, they will say:''If a man be sick, do you shoot him?
29527	And is the girl alone?
29527	And my gift?
29527	And the Burman would say at length to himself, Can this be the belief of this people at all?
29527	And the boy?
29527	And the lady?
29527	And the paper?
29527	And then?
29527	And what would he see?
29527	And when he dies, shall they go down into the void with him?
29527	And why?
29527	And yet what could I have gained by wailing and lamentation either for myself or for others?
29527	And yet what have I done?
29527	Are not visions and trances, dreams and imaginations, the very proof of holiness?
29527	But do you think a Burman would render this homage to a monk whom he could not respect, who did actions he should not?
29527	But if they had been chained together, what then?
29527	But now, what was to be done?
29527	But what is the use of Buddhism?
29527	But what is the use of Buddhism?''
29527	But, after all, could he help it?
29527	CHAPTER XII PRAYER''What is there that can justify tears and lamentations?''
29527	Can anyone ever tell when the influence of a monk has been other than for pity or mercy?
29527	Can there be a more valuable knowledge for anyone than this?
29527	Can there be anywhere a greater contrast than this?
29527	Can you imagine a more successful end than that?
29527	Can you imagine the religious teachers of any other religion being warned to keep themselves free from visions?
29527	Can you imagine this happening anywhere else?
29527	Can you think of any other schoolboys sparing any animal they caught, much less poisonous snakes?
29527	Can you wonder that his followers love him?
29527	Can you wonder that his teaching has come home to them as never did teaching elsewhere?
29527	Could anything be expected from this except what actually did happen?
29527	Could they act one thing and believe another?
29527	Could they be reconciled?
29527	Did I not live in one of their monasteries for over two months when we first came and camped there with a cavalry squadron?
29527	Did not our teacher fail?
29527	Did not the Buddha prove the futility of this long ago?
29527	Do you speak to him of what may happen after death, of hopes of another life?''
29527	Do you suppose the people would reverence it as they do if it were corrupt?
29527	Do you think I could now turn round and criticise you?
29527	Do you think a queen would pray differently to any other woman?''
29527	Do you think that a Burmese boy would be allowed to birds''-nest, or worry rats with a terrier, or go ferreting?
29527	Do you think that when she talked religion with her husband she ever thought that it would cause him to leave her and go away for ever?
29527	Does it matter much which was right or wrong, now that the mischief was done?
29527	Does not this out- miracle any miracle?
29527	For are not these, too, of the very soul of the people?
29527	For does he not daily see people who know of their former lives?
29527	For if you lose your temper, who is the sufferer?
29527	For life is short, and though to- day be to us, who can tell for the morrow?
29527	Has any religion ever had for twenty- four centuries such a proof as this?
29527	Has not everyone learnt it, this, the first truth of Buddhism, long before his hair is gray, before his hands are shaking, before his teeth are gone?
29527	Have not all religions been glad to give their fanes the glory and majesty of great trees?
29527	Have not trees been always sacred things?
29527	He bent forward till his head was close to the merchant''s head, and whispered:''Friend, have you any whisky?''
29527	He played his game, he lost, and paid; but the girl?
29527	He would find---- But need I say what he would find?
29527	How can you forget the body, and turn the soul to better thoughts, if you are for ever torturing that body, and thereby keeping it in memory?
29527	How could I have lived those years alone?
29527	How else should it be determined?
29527	How shall a man so think and so act that he shall come at length unto the Great Peace?
29527	How shall we escape from it?
29527	How were the beliefs of a people to be known, and why should there be such difficulties in the way?
29527	I can smell it, ca n''t you?''
29527	I could forgive the theft, but the being in gaol-- how can I forgive that?''
29527	If he injure his spine so that he will be a cripple for life, do you put him out of his pain?''
29527	If it be a different way of soothing a man''s end from those which other nations use, is it the worse for that?
29527	If many of you had not admitted me, a stranger, into your friendship during my many very solitary years, of what sort should I be now?
29527	If the fruit be rotten, can the tree be good?
29527	If there be trouble for to- day, what can it matter if you do but command yourself?
29527	If they should do so, can you wonder?
29527	If we can get it up, may we have it back to hang in our pagoda as our own again?''
29527	If we find the way dark and weary, if our footsteps fail, if we wander in wrong paths, did not he do the same?
29527	If you are guilty of disgraceful acts, of discourteous words, who suffers?
29527	If you say by religion, he laughs, and asks what religion has to do with such things?
29527	In a summer sea, where is the need of havens?
29527	In this terrible scene of anarchy and confusion, in this death peril of their nation, what were the monks doing?
29527	Is it an exception?
29527	Is it true, he would say to himself, that these people believe that riches are an evil thing?
29527	Is not this teaching the very reverse of that of all other peoples and religions?
29527	Is the Nat really gone?
29527	Is this always true?
29527	Martyrdom-- what is martyrdom, what is death, for your religion, compared to living within its commands?
29527	Men would help me if they could, but they can not; surely there will be someone?''
29527	Nay, does he not himself, often vaguely, have glimpses of that former life of his?
29527	Nothing is worth anything to him compared with that, for while a man lives, what is the good of all these things if he have no leisure to enjoy them?
29527	Shall I give him up to death?''
29527	She hath precious stones in her ears, but her eyes, what jewels can compare unto them?
29527	So I went to a friend of mine, a Burman magistrate, and I asked him:''When a man is dying, what does he try to think of?
29527	So, then, the question, How do you know that your faith is true?
29527	Surely someone will help me?
29527	Surely they believe their religion?
29527	That a woman should have a nagging tongue, that a man should be a drunkard, what could be better cause than this?
29527	The men joke and laugh, and you laugh, too; the children smile at you as they pass, and you must smile, too; can you help it?
29527	The slave was much troubled at this, and he did his best to avoid her; but he was a slave and under orders, and what could he do?
29527	They did not dance very well, perhaps; they were none of them very beautiful; but what matter?
29527	They nearly always ended in our favour-- how could it be otherwise?
29527	Think not that I, though the Buddha, have not felt all this even as any other of you; was I not alone when I was seeking for wisdom in the wilderness?
29527	To see the moon rise on the river as you float along, while the boat rocks to and fro and someone talks to you-- is not that better than any tale?
29527	Truly,_ are_ these their beliefs?
29527	Was I not alone when I was seeking for wisdom in the wilderness?
29527	Were the fares too high?--was it uncomfortable?
29527	What business is it of ours?''
29527	What could I say but that I would remember, that I was not offended, but would be careful?
29527	What do these monks do?
29527	What do they care for justice?
29527	What do women care for laws of righteousness?
29527	What do you say to comfort him that his last moments may be peace?
29527	What does it matter to us?''
29527	What does it matter who the other person be?
29527	What does my husband care that we were married by your law?
29527	What for the everlasting sequences that govern the world?
29527	What help did it give to its believers in their extremity?
29527	What if the people make merry, too, if they make their holy days into holidays, is that any harm?
29527	What is change but the death of the present?
29527	What is so terrible as a war of religion?
29527	What made you wait so long?''
29527	What makes you think that?''
29527	What was Buddhism doing?
29527	What would be the good of charms?''
29527	What would the forest be without its thorns?
29527	Whence, then, come their acts, for their acts seem to show that they hold riches to be a good thing?
29527	Where was his help?
29527	Where would be the use?
29527	Who are more criminal than English boys?
29527	Who can tell in this war?''
29527	Who can tell?
29527	Who could this woman be, he thought, to ask such a question?
29527	Who gave that?
29527	Whom was she beseeching?
29527	Will Time never cease to drive us on and on?
29527	Will not the sahib keep the paper?''
29527	Will that bring peace?''
29527	Will these lights_ never_ cease to flash to and fro?''
29527	Wo n''t that be best?''
29527	Would all people have done this?
29527	Would any people, not firmly bound by their religion, put up with it all for a moment?
29527	Would he be killed, or what?''
29527	Would it have been any help to those I had left?''
29527	Would it have been any help to those whom I had left?
29527	Would it have brought to me any solace from my loneliness?
29527	Would it have brought to me any solace from my loneliness?
29527	Would not they involve all other men, all earth and heaven, in bottomless chaos, to save one heart they loved?
29527	You may force or persuade him into an outer agreement with you, but what is the value of that?
29527	but,''Are they man and wife?''
29527	he said, shaking his head;''what could they do?''
29527	or if evil so outnumbered the good deeds as to hide and overwhelm them, what then?
29527	she would say,''why should I hurt it?
29527	would not that alone make the girls dance well, make the audience enthusiastic?
2500	An advice? 2500 And do you know,"Siddhartha continued,"what word it speaks, when you succeed in hearing all of its ten thousand voices at once?"
2500	And do you, sir, intent to continue travelling without clothes?
2500	And now, Siddhartha, what are you now?
2500	And what''s the use of that? 2500 And would you rather die, than obey your father?"
2500	And would you write something for me on this piece of paper?
2500	Are you Siddhartha?
2500	Are you kidding?
2500	But did n''t you yesterday wear a beard, and long hair, and dust in your hair?
2500	But if you do n''t mind me asking: being without possessions, what would you like to give?
2500	But what are you planning to live of, being without possessions?
2500	But what if I had n''t been willing?
2500	But where would you be without me? 2500 Dear Kamala, thus advise me where I should go to, that I''ll find these three things most quickly?"
2500	Did you,so he asked him at one time,"did you too learn that secret from the river: that there is no time?"
2500	Do you hear?
2500	Do you think so?
2500	How come?
2500	How come?
2500	How could I part with him?
2500	How do you think, Govinda,Siddhartha spoke one day while begging this way,"how do you think did we progress?
2500	However did you get here?
2500	I do n''t quite understand yet,asked Govinda,"what do you mean by this?"
2500	If you''re coming from the Samanas, how could you be anything but destitute? 2500 No, my dear, how should I be sad?
2500	Nothing else?
2500	O Siddhartha,he exclaimed,"will your father permit you to do that?"
2500	Permit me to ask, sir, from where do you know my name?
2500	Siddhartha,he spoke,"what are you waiting for?"
2500	So will you abandon your plan?
2500	That''s everything?
2500	Were n''t you already standing out there yesterday, greeting me?
2500	What are you waiting for?
2500	Why did you take the axe along?
2500	Why have you told me this about the stone?
2500	Will you always stand that way and wait, until it''ll becomes morning, noon, and evening?
2500	Would you like to ferry me over?
2500	You have achieved it?
2500	You have found peace?
2500	You''ll go into the forests?
2500	You''re able to read? 2500 You''ve lost your riches?"
2500	Alas, I have also grown old, old-- could you still recognise me?"
2500	And Siddhartha said quietly, as if he was talking to himself:"What is meditation?
2500	And asked:"And only to tell me this, Siddhartha has come to me?"
2500	And could you in any way protect your son from Sansara?
2500	And have you not at one time said to me, you would not walk the path of the Samanas for much longer?"
2500	And now let''s get to it: You are n''t satisfied with Siddhartha as he is, with oil in his hair, but without clothes, without shoes, without money?"
2500	And what about the gods?
2500	And what is it now what you''ve got to give?
2500	And write?"
2500	Are n''t the Samanas entirely without possessions?"
2500	Are n''t you able to do anything else but thinking, fasting, making poetry?"
2500	Are n''t you too, ferryman, a searcher for the right path?"
2500	But are n''t you mistaken in thinking that you would n''t force him, would n''t punish him?
2500	But do we, you and me, know what he is called upon to do, what path to take, what actions to perform, what pain to endure?
2500	But have you not also developed a desire, an eagerness, to hear these teachings?
2500	But he, Siddhartha, where did he belong to?
2500	But is n''t every life, is n''t every work beautiful?"
2500	But look, how shall I put him, who had no tender heart anyhow, into this world?
2500	But speak, lovely Kamala, could n''t you still give me one small advice?"
2500	But tell me, how should this be possible?
2500	But tell me: Have you seen the multitude of my Samanas, my many brothers, who have taken refuge in the teachings?
2500	But tell us, oh mother of the pilgrims, do you know him, the Buddha, have you seen him with your own eyes?"
2500	But what will become of you?
2500	But where, where was this self, this innermost part, this ultimate part?
2500	But you, Siddhartha, where are you going to?"
2500	But you, my honoured friend, do n''t you also want to walk the path of salvation?
2500	By means of teachings, prayer, admonition?
2500	By what do I still recognise that you''re Siddhartha?
2500	Did any Samana or Brahman ever fear, someone might come and grab him and steal his learning, and his religious devotion, and his depth of thought?
2500	Did he have to leave them to become a Kamaswami?
2500	Did he not have to expect the same fate for himself?
2500	Did he not, again and again, have to drink from holy sources, as a thirsty man, from the offerings, from the books, from the disputes of the Brahmans?
2500	Did he still need her, or she him?
2500	Did she not always expect it?
2500	Did the sacrifices give a happy fortune?
2500	Did they not play a game without an ending?
2500	Did we reach any goals?"
2500	Did you mark my words?"
2500	Do n''t you make him feel inferior every day, and do n''t you make it even harder on him with your kindness and patience?
2500	Do n''t you see that he does n''t want to be followed?"
2500	Do n''t you shackle him with your love?
2500	Do you have a faith, or a knowledge, you follow, which helps you to live and to do right?"
2500	Do you have a spell?"
2500	Do you have a teaching?
2500	Do you know it now, Samana from the forest?
2500	Does it please the venerable one to listen to me for one moment longer?"
2500	For example, the fasting-- what is it good for?"
2500	For what else?
2500	For whom else were offerings to be made, who else was to be worshipped but Him, the only one, the Atman?
2500	Govinda said:"But is that what you call` things'', actually something real, something which has existence?
2500	Had his father not also suffered the same pain for him, which he now suffered for his son?
2500	Had his father not long since died, alone, without having seen his son again?
2500	Had not this bird died in him, had he not felt its death?
2500	Have n''t you''ve been a Samana?
2500	Have you never thought of this?"
2500	He smiled a little--was it really necessary, was it right, was it not as foolish game, that he owned a mango- tree, that he owned a garden?
2500	How come?
2500	How could you have learned meditation, holding your breath, insensitivity against hunger and pain there among these wretched people?"
2500	How could you?
2500	How should the Gotama''s teachings, even before we have heard them, have already revealed their best fruit to us?"
2500	Is n''t forced, is n''t he punished by all this?"
2500	Is n''t it just a deception of the Maja, just an image and illusion?
2500	Is n''t it just as if I had turned slowly and on a long detour from a man into a child, from a thinker into a childlike person?
2500	Is n''t it so?"
2500	Kamala pointed to her boy and said:"Did you recognise him as well?
2500	Kamaswami left the room and returned with a scroll, which he handed to his guest while asking:"Can you read this?"
2500	Make offerings?
2500	Might it come from that long, good sleep, which has done me so good?
2500	Might we get closer to enlightenment?
2500	Might we get closer to salvation?
2500	Might you have become destitute, Brahman, so that you seek to serve?"
2500	Often I have thought: Wo n''t Govinda for once also take a step by himself, without me, out of his own soul?
2500	Only Kamala had been dear, had been valuable to him-- but was she still thus?
2500	Or do we perhaps live in a circle-- we, who have thought we were escaping the cycle?"
2500	Or from the fact that I have escaped, that I have completely fled, that I am finally free again and am standing like a child under the sky?
2500	Or from the word Om, which I said?
2500	Or might you have only travelled for your amusement?"
2500	Perhaps that you''re searching far too much?
2500	Perhaps, he had really died, had drowned and was reborn in a new body?
2500	Practise meditation?
2500	Quietly, he asked:"What do you think should I do?"
2500	Quoth Siddhartha after a long pause:"What other thing, Vasudeva?"
2500	Quoth Siddhartha:"What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one?
2500	Quoth the Brahman:"Is that you, Siddhartha?
2500	Sad was how Govinda looked like, sadly he asked: Why have you forsaken me?
2500	Siddhartha answered:"How old, would you think, is our oldest Samana, our venerable teacher?"
2500	So what if he died, how did this concern the boy?
2500	So, where, where was it?
2500	Speak, friend, would n''t we want to go there too and listen to the teachings from the Buddha''s mouth?"
2500	Study?
2500	Tell me, my dear: you''re not taking control of your son''s upbringing?
2500	That in all that searching, you do n''t find the time for finding?"
2500	That perhaps your little son would be spared, because you love him, because you would like to keep him from suffering and pain and disappointment?
2500	The sacrifices and the invocation of the gods were excellent-- but was that all?
2500	Tiredness and hunger had weakened him, and whatever for should he walk on, wherever to, to which goal?
2500	To reach this place, the self, myself, the Atman, there was another way, which was worthwhile looking for?
2500	Very good are the teachings of the exalted one, how could I find a fault in them?"
2500	Was he not a Samana, a man who was at home nowhere, a pilgrim?
2500	Was it necessary to live for this?
2500	Was it not a comedy, a strange and stupid matter, this repetition, this running around in a fateful circle?
2500	Was it not due to this death, that he was now like a child, so full of trust, so without fear, so full of joy?
2500	Was it not the Atman, He, the only one, the singular one?
2500	Was it not this what he used to intend to kill in his ardent years as a penitent?
2500	Was it not this, which today had finally come to its death, here in the forest, by this lovely river?
2500	Was it possible, to breathe in again and again, to breathe out, to feel hunger, to eat again, to sleep again, to sleep with a woman again?
2500	Was it really Prajapati who had created the world?
2500	Was it still at all possible to be alive?
2500	Was it therefore good, was it right, was it meaningful and the highest occupation to make offerings to the gods?
2500	Was not Atman in him, did not the pristine source spring from his heart?
2500	Was this cycle not exhausted and brought to a conclusion for him?
2500	Was this not the river in which he had intended to drown himself, in past times, a hundred years ago, or had he dreamed this?
2500	Were his father''s religious devotion, his teachers warnings, his own knowledge, his own search able to keep him safe?
2500	Were the gods not creations, created like me and you, subject to time, mortal?
2500	What can stand the test?
2500	What is fasting?
2500	What is holding one''s breath?
2500	What is it that you''ve learned, what you''re able to do?"
2500	What is leaving one''s body?
2500	What might you be able to do?"
2500	What remains?
2500	What would be its title?"
2500	What would you be, if Kamala was n''t helping you?"
2500	What, oh Siddhartha, what would then become of all of this what is holy, what is precious, what is venerable on earth?!"
2500	Whatever should I do at home and at my father''s place?
2500	When was there ever a time when he had experienced happiness, felt a true bliss?
2500	Where are you going to, oh friend?"
2500	Where else might my path lead me to?
2500	Where is Siddhartha the Brahman?
2500	Where is Siddhartha the Samana?
2500	Where is Siddhartha the rich man?
2500	Wherever from, he asked his heart, where from did you get this happiness?
2500	Who has kept the Samana Siddhartha safe from Sansara, from sin, from greed, from foolishness?
2500	Who would n''t like to give an advice to a poor, ignorant Samana, who is coming from the jackals of the forest?"
2500	Whose language would he speak?
2500	Why did he, the irreproachable one, have to wash off sins every day, strive for a cleansing every day, over and over every day?
2500	Why had Gotama, at that time, in the hour of all hours, sat down under the bo- tree, where the enlightenment hit him?
2500	Why not?
2500	With whom would he share his life?
2500	Would n''t you, ferryman, like to accept these clothes, which are a nuisance to me, from me?
2500	Would you actually believe that you had committed your foolish acts in order to spare your son from committing them too?
2500	Would you like to give me a kiss for a poem?"
2500	Would you like to tell me something, oh honourable one?"
2500	Would you think, my dear, anybody might perhaps be spared from taking this path?
2500	Would you want to hesitate, do you want to wait any longer?"
2500	Yes, he thought, standing there with his head low, what would remain of all that which seemed to us to be holy?
2500	You also do not love-- how else could you practise love as a craft?
2500	You do n''t beat him?
2500	You do n''t force him?
2500	You do n''t punish him?"
2500	You''ve changed a lot, my friend.--And so you''ve now become a ferryman?"
2500	Your stone, your tree, your river-- are they actually a reality?"
34325	18 As he described this koan in a letter to a laywoman:_ What is the Sound of the Single Hand? 34325 26 When a monk asked him,"What is the real significance of Bodhidharma''s coming from the west?"
34325	6 Yet does it really matter whether the legend is meticulously faithful to the facts? 34325 And how,"shot back Ma- tsu,"do you go about tending it?"
34325	Are you tired?
34325	Are you your own master or not?
34325	Barring conscious intention,the disciple continued to inquire,"how can we attain to a knowledge of the Tao?"
34325	But it is impossible to do so?
34325	Does a dog have Buddha nature[ i.e., is a dog capable of being enlightened]?
34325	Have you finished your rice gruel?
34325	Have you seen the standing image of Buddha?
34325	How can I not be awed by a word that astounds people?
34325	How can you go where it is changeless?
34325	How do you see your real self subjectively?
34325	How do you teach a man who does not uphold either of these?
34325	I do n''t suppose your sect has miracles the way our sect does?
34325	If they neither read sutras nor learn meditation, what in the world are they doing?
34325	Is n''t it a clay statue that sits in the shrine?
34325	Is there any way to approach it?
34325	Since I have brought nothing with me, what can I lay down?
34325	Tell me,began Shih- t''ou,"how have you practiced Ch''an after coming here to this mountain?"
34325	The monk again questioned,If you met a man free from attachment to all things, what would you tell him?"
34325	Then do they learn meditation?
34325	Then who is the Buddha?
34325	Then why should you conduct the memorial service for him, if he did not instruct you?
34325	Well,spat out the_ yamabushi_,"How about you, Zen monk?
34325	What are you doing?
34325	What is that which is called foot travel?
34325	What is the meaning[ of your asking] at this moment?
34325	What is the most important principle of Buddhism?
34325	What?
34325	When there is neither going out nor remaining in, what way would you say this was?
34325	Where is my abiding place?
34325	Where is this master of yours?
34325	Where is your hoe?
34325	Who lost by a fluke?
34325	Why do n''t you speak of it?
34325	''From whence come all the buddhas?''
34325	850?
34325	866?)
34325	A monk asked,"What about the cardinal principle of the Buddha- dharma?"
34325	A monk asked,"What is my own self?"
34325	A perfumed breeze across my pillow; Am I asleep or awake?
34325	According to the story, P''ang asked Ma- tsu,"What kind of man is he who has no companion among all things?"
34325	After a short silence, he asked the Prime Minister,"Do you understand?"
34325	After a time Ma- tsu''s curiosity bested him and he inquired,"Why are you rubbing that brick on a stone?"
34325	After doing so, the supervisor asked,"Master, how can you let such a madman insult you like that?"
34325	And what have I got inside my house?
34325	And why have the insights of obscure rural teachers from the Chinese and Japanese Middle Ages remained pertinent to much of modern life in the West?
34325	Another anecdote recounts a similar incident:_ A monk said to Nan- ch''uan,"There is a jewel in the sky; how can we get hold of it?"
34325	Another monk asked:"What about the cardinal principle of the Buddha- dharma?"
34325	Another version of the story says Hui- k''o greeted Seng- ts''an with the words,"You are suffering from leprosy; why should you want to see me?"
34325	As a typical example, there is the story of a monk coming to him to ask,"What was the purpose of Bodhidharma''s coming from the West?"
34325	At that reckoning what would he give to return to the simple life, where there was poverty but also freedom?
34325	At this the Master again asked,"What way do you mean?"
34325	But how did Ma- tsu handle this question when it was presented to him?
34325	But how exactly can we say that all things are one?
34325	But if it''s miracles, why do n''t you show the sort of miracles that your people have?"
34325	But just what was this mind that was being transmitted?
34325	But the question those who relate this story never resolve is: Which of the four shouts was the shout he used on the student?
34325	But then, how do you test the ultimate realization that there is nothing to realize other than what you knew all along?
34325	But what about the Ch''an outside the monasteries?
34325	But what about the Rinzai Zen teaching that enlightenment is sudden and can not be induced by gradual practice?
34325	But what is the finger?"
34325	But what is the moon?"
34325	But what is this state called"no- thought"?
34325	But why would we want to do this in the first place?
34325	Chao- chou answered,_"Mu_[ a word whose strict meaning is"nothingness"]._"4 Quick, what does it mean?
34325	Chao- chou got up and went away.25 A monk asked,"When a beggar comes, what shall we give him?"
34325	Considering that you can use this treasure freely, why then do you persist in wandering abroad?"
34325	Conversely, if the Buddha nature must be acquired, how can it be inherent in all things, as was taught?
34325	Could it be that the fruit had been ready to fall from the tree, with this just the shake needed?
34325	Could it be that this was the moment he had been hoping for?
34325	Could it be that with this incident we have finally captured a wordless transmission?
34325	Creel, Herrlee G. What Is Taoism?
34325	Did I not open your eye after taking pains so much on my part?"
34325	Did Ma- tsu''s influence extend to the lay community?
34325	Did all of them practise_ Zazen_?
34325	Do you possess enough discernment to distinguish the guest from the host[ i.e., the unenlightened from the enlightened]?
34325	Does he forget about the money because all eyes are upon him?
34325	For example, if you are meditating and your mind wants to meander and look for something to dwell on, what should you do?
34325	For example, there is a story that a local governor asked Ma- tsu,"Master, should I eat meat and drink wine?"
34325	From day to day what is there to trouble me?
34325	He said,"Leaving alone the question of''different,''let me ask you what is''species''anyway?"
34325	He struck up a conversation with the master there, who suddenly asked him:_"Where are you going, sir?"
34325	He then demanded of the Master,"Besides saying that one line is long and the other three are short, what else could you say?"
34325	He was in a temple in Niigata prefecture, meditating on the"Mu"koan( Q:"Does a dog have Buddha- nature?
34325	Here in my school, to have no thoughts is sitting, and to see one''s original nature is_ dhyana_( Ch''an).15 What happened to Indian meditation?
34325	His very first question to the older master reportedly was"How did the early Ch''an masters guide their followers?"
34325	How are you going to deal with my miracle?"
34325	How did Zen finally emerge, after all the centuries and the convolutions?
34325	How do you expect to become enlightened?"
34325	How do you really know I''ve achieved enlightenment?"
34325	How do you understand this?"
34325	How is this done?
34325	How much of the story of Bodhidharma is legend?
34325	How so?
34325	How then can it be made the subject of discussion?
34325	How then could he be made the founder of the Ch''an schools blooming all over China?
34325	How will you govern the people?"
34325	However, Lin- chi seized the tool, lifted it up, and exclaimed,"How then could it be in my hands?"
34325	Huai- hai continued,"Have you seen any tigers?"
34325	I replied:"What sort of place does_ Mu_ have that one can attach arms and legs to it?"
34325	I want those blows again, but who can give them to me now?"
34325	If one exempts all nature-- including pigs-- from distinction, discrimination, and duality, why exclude them as drinking companions?
34325	If you can not recognize your real self objectively, how can you see your real self subjectively?"
34325	In a moment, ashamed and surprised at his remark, I said to him,"What are they?"
34325	In both of these anecdotes, Ma- tsu is asked,"What is Buddha?"
34325	Is there nothing more?"
34325	It recalls Keats''nightingale--"Fled is that music:--Do I wake or sleep?"
34325	Lao Tzu asks,"What is the difference between good and bad?
34325	Ma- tsu continued by asking him,"Is this all there is?
34325	Ma- tsu paused and then demanded of his pupil,"Where have they gone?"
34325	Ma- tsu posed a counterquestion:"What teachings do you maintain?"
34325	Ma- tsu retorted,"What way do you mean?"
34325	Ma- tsu turned to his pupil and asked,"What was that sound?"
34325	Monk:"How about yourself?"
34325	Monk:"When you happen to meet your parents, what should you do?"
34325	Monk:"Who is he in our country that holds a sword in his hand?"
34325	Monk:"Whom do you want to kill?"
34325	Monk:"Why should you not kill yourself, too?"
34325	Nan- ch''uan asked Huang- po,"Where are you going?"
34325	Nan- ch''uan opened with the standard question:_"Where have you just come from?"
34325	Nan- ch''uan went on,"What do you use to pick cabbage?"
34325	Now, can it be carved into the image of Buddha?"
34325	Of what use is it to read the scriptures and recite the_ nembutsu_?
34325	One of the best known is the following:_ A monk asked,"Since all things return to One, where does this One return to?"
34325	Pointing to an open- air pillar, he asked:"Is this secular or sacred?"
34325	Probing for a response, he asked,"Given all I have done, what Merit have I earned?"
34325	Seng- ts''an replied that he knew of the Sangha, but what was meant by the Buddha and the Dharma?
34325	Showing it to his disciple, he asked,"Is this not fire?"
34325	Since he did not want to break the bottle or kill the goose, how would he get it out?"
34325	Since these ancient sages were so diligent, how can present- day trainees do without the practice of_ zazen_?
34325	Since you do nothing more than sit cross- legged, how can this mere sitting be a means of gaining enlightenment?
34325	Tao- hsin reportedly inquired,"But do n''t you have a''family name''?"
34325	The Master exclaimed,"Are you not a lion?"
34325	The Master said,"Where is the finger that you do not ask about?"
34325	The Master said:"How do you understand Chao- chou''s_ Mu_?"
34325	The Master then asked:"What one is your real self?"
34325	The Master:"Who can do anything to me?"
34325	The Master:"Why should you have any choice?"
34325	The celebrated answer was:"How can you become enlightened by sitting in meditation?"
34325	The exchange began with a question by Tung- shan:_"What is your name?"
34325	The following anecdote suggests his idea of Buddhism had little to do with the Buddha:_ Master Chao- chou was asked by a monk,"Who is the Buddha?"
34325	The master asked,"How did you expose them?"
34325	The master greeted him with the puzzled observation:"Have n''t you come back a bit too soon?
34325	The monk asked,"What is that which was possessed by the ancients?"
34325	The monk challenged him,"I asked about the finger; why should you answer me,''the moon''?"
34325	The monk persisted,"When the crying has stopped, what is it then?"
34325	The monk said dubiously,"Master, why should you lie?"
34325	The monk said,"How can the ladder be put up in the sky?"
34325	The older master then inquired:_"Where are you going?"
34325	The questioner pressed,"If there is nothing and no mind, then how can it be transmitted?"
34325	The story goes as follows:_ A monk who lectured on Buddhism came to the Master and asked,"What is the teaching advocated by the Ch''an masters?"
34325	Then he asked another,"Have you been here before?"
34325	Then what is the Tao that is beyond things?"
34325	There are roads, but they do not reach the world; Since I am mindless, who can rouse my thoughts?
34325	They are all empty, no substantialities have they, and who knows what is and what is not?
34325	They are all phantom creations and not realities, and who knows who is right and who is wrong?
34325	This received the most attention from the Lin- chi sect-- whose masters would answer the question"What is the meaning of Ch''an?"
34325	To begin, they said that if there really is no duality in the world, then how can the mind be divided into"false"and"true"?
34325	To this Ma- tsu replied,"What can you expect to learn from me?
34325	Tung- shan demonstrated this when he was asked,"When a snake is swallowing a frog, should you save the frog''s life?"
34325	Two of the better- known follow:_ A monk asked Yun- men,"What is the teaching that transcends the Buddha and patriarchs?"
34325	Understandably puzzled, Huai- hai asked,"What is this treasure that I have been ignoring?"
34325	Was Shen- hui really the father of the new"meditationless"Ch''an of the mind?
34325	What are the four?
34325	What charge is there against woman?
34325	What do we get to know?
34325	What does self- deception mean?
34325	What eventually happened to this traveling Indian guru?
34325	What exactly is it that you understand on the other shore?
34325	What is it that one will hear constantly which one has never heard?"
34325	What is it that they transmit to one another?"
34325	What is it you just realized?
34325	What is the meaning of this?"
34325	What is the self that is known subjectively?"
34325	What is the use of working so hard as a tenzo monk?"
34325	What then did he teach, if there is nothing to be taught?
34325	What then was required?
34325	What virtue is there in man?
34325	What will you get by sleeping?"
34325	What, instead, should you call it?"
34325	When he met the Master in front of the Monks''Hall, he asked:"Do the monks of this monastery read the sutras?"
34325	Whereupon Tan- hsia scooped up and threw three handfuls of water on the Layman, saying:"What can you do now?"
34325	Which is"reality"?
34325	Whom did P''ang go to visit?
34325	Why do n''t you do_ zazen_[ Zen meditation] or study the koan of ancient masters?
34325	Why do you ignore the treasure in your own house and wander so far abroad?"
34325	Why?
34325	Why?
34325	You still are not free from''this''?"
34325	Yun- men said,"A sesame bun._"19_ A monk asked Yun- men,"What is Buddha?"
34325	Yun- men said,"What words are being offered at Hsi- ch''an these days?"
34325	_ A monk asked Yun- Men,"What is Buddha?"
34325	_ Another time a monk asked, what is the meaning of Bodhidharma coming from the West?"
34325	_ How is my hand like Mori''s hand?
34325	_ Monk:"With what man of Tao should one associate, so that one will hear constantly what one has never heard?"
34325	_ Once Huang- po was asked,"If you say that mind can be transmitted, then how can you say it is nothing?"
34325	_ One day Huai- hai asked Huang- po,"Where have you been?"
34325	_ One morning, as Chao- chou was receiving new arrivals, he asked one of them,"Have you been here before?"
34325	_ The Master asked a monk,"Where do you come from?"
34325	_ The Master asked a nun:"Well- come or ill- come?"
34325	_ What is meant by"How to requite hatred"?
34325	_ What is this true meditation?
34325	_ Yun- men[ 862/4- 949] asked a monk,"Where have you come here from?"
34325	_"Hey, Your Reverence, what sect are you?"
34325	asked Huang- po"I just started working; how can you say that I am tired?"
34325	what is this teaching that we call"sitting in meditation"?
34325	which is Ch''an parlance for"What is the basic principle of Zen?"
5173	Do the inanimate preach the Doctrine?
5173	How art thou going to encounter it?
5173	How can you turn Self into the phenomenal universe?
5173	How do you display your supernatural powers?
5173	How do you, sir,questioned the monk,"teach about that?"
5173	I have been reciting the sacred Canon, why do you not see? 5173 Is there not anything good in the worshipping of the Buddha?"
5173	Let go of that, I say,the Muni commanded again; but the Brahmin, having nothing to let go of, asked:"What shall I let go of, Reverend Sir?
5173	Obak said:''How dares this lunatic come into my presence and play with a tiger''s whiskers?'' 5173 Then who is that confronts us?"
5173	What doctrine do the masters of the South teach?
5173	What has brought you here?
5173	What have I to do when death takes the place of life?
5173	What is the best way of living for us monks?
5173	What is the spiritual body of Buddha who is immortal and divine?
5173	What is, reverend sir,asked a man of Chao Cheu( Jo- shu),"the holy temple( of Buddha)?"
5173	What is, sir,asked a monk to Yen Kwan( Yen- kan),"the original body of Buddha Vairocana?
5173	Who are you,demanded the Fifth Patriarch,"and whence have you come?"
5173	Who can hear them?
5173	Who is the master of the temple?
5173	Why, then, do I not hear them?
5173	[ FN#262] Who could cheer him up who abandons himself to self- created misery? 5173 [ FN#37]"I know, your reverence,"said the man,"that you belong to Samgha; but what are Buddha and Dharma?"
5173	''Are these sages alive?''
5173	''How should you, a wheelwright, have anything to say about the book which I am reading?
5173	''O monk,''demanded the man, as Boku- den was clad like a Zen monk,''what school of swordsmanship do you belong to?''
5173	''There are nettles everywhere, but are not smooth, green grasses more common still?''
5173	''What is life and death?''
5173	''What is the real nature of mind?''
5173	''What is the spirit of Bodhidharma?''
5173	''Where is my visitor, where my dear monk?''
5173	''Why not,''he might have thought within himself,''why all this is futile?
5173	''Why, you might go to the master and ask him what is the essence of Buddhism?''
5173	''Why,''said the teacher,''art thou so late?''
5173	A man asked Chang Sha( Cho- sha):"How can you turn the phenomenal universe into Self?"
5173	A man asked Poh Chang( Hyaku- jo):"How shall I learn the Law?"
5173	A monk, Hwui Chao( E- cha) by name, asked Pao Yen( Ho- gen):"What is Buddha?"
5173	Again, if there be nothing real in the universe, what is it that causes unreal objects to appear?
5173	Again, if there be nothing real in the universe, what is it that causes unreal objects to appear?
5173	Are the stars too distant?
5173	Are there not holy men, Holy Truths, Holy Paths stated in the scriptures?
5173	Are there not many who are rich without any virtues, while some are poor in spite of their virtues?
5173	Are there not the humane, who die young, while the inhuman enjoy long lives?
5173	Are there not the unjust who are fortunate, while the just are unfortunate?
5173	Are we doomed to be victims for the jaws of the environment?
5173	Are we not endowed with inner force to fight successfully against obstacles and difficulties, and to wrest trophies of glory from hardships?
5173	Are we to be slaves to the vicissitudes of fortune?
5173	But are your beliefs, we should ask, based on historical fact?
5173	But as soon as they withdraw into themselves and ask themselves,''Am I now happy?''
5173	But is there inner life expressed, or possible to be expressed, in any other form save physical organism?
5173	By what authority does he declare all this meritless?
5173	Can a superior man be without the feeling of shame to such an extent as this?''
5173	Can you assert that those traditions which deify Mohammed and Shakya are the statements of bare facts?
5173	Can you cause things to fall off the earth against the law of gravitation?
5173	Can you not recognize something undisturbed and peaceful among disturbance and trouble?
5173	Can you realize that death, which you have yet no immediate experience of, is the greatest of evil?
5173	Can you recognize something awe- inspiring in the rise and fall of nations?
5173	Can you say that such traditional and self- contradictory records as the four gospels are history in the strict sense of the term?
5173	Can you thus prove that you- in- yourself exist beyond or behind you?
5173	Confucius replied:''What words are these?
5173	Could there be any meat that is not fresh in my shop?''
5173	Do n''t you see?"
5173	Do they denote or connote anything?
5173	Do you bear the trumpet call?
5173	Do you feel the earth tremble?
5173	Do you not need to mitigate the struggle for existence more sanguine than the war of weapons?
5173	Do you not shed tears over those hunger- bitten children who cower in the dark lanes of a great city?
5173	Do you not sympathize with poverty- stricken millions living side by side with millionaires saturated with wealth?
5173	Do you not want to do away with the so- called armoured peace among nations?
5173	Do you not wish to put down the stupendous oppressor-- Might- is- right?
5173	Does He not give new forms to His design?
5173	Does He not show us new materials for His building?
5173	Does He not surprise us with novelties, extraordinaries, and mysteries?
5173	Does not even a stone tell the mystery of Life?
5173	Does this not amount to your stealing the annual salary from your lord?"
5173	Does, then, Zen use no scripture?
5173	For what purpose is your question?
5173	For whose sake should he take life,[FN#350] or commit theft, or give alms, or keep precepts?
5173	For whose sake, then, should he be lustful or angry?
5173	Has it a form?
5173	Has not art found that she is beautiful?
5173	Has not each of us a light within him, whatever degrees of lustre there may be?
5173	Has not even grass some meaning?
5173	Has not philosophy announced that she is spiritual?
5173	Has not religion proclaimed that she is good?
5173	Has not science proved that she is truthful?
5173	Has there been any paramour who disgraced himself that lie might help his neighbours?
5173	Has there been any traitor who performed the ignoble conduct to promote the welfare of his own country or society at large?
5173	Has there been anyone who committed theft that he might further the interests of his villagers?
5173	Has, then, the divine nature of Universal Spirit been completely and exhaustively revealed in our Enlightened Consciousness?
5173	Have we not hundreds of thousands of life- long slaves to gold among us?
5173	Have we not myriads of lifelong slaves to vanity among us?
5173	Have we not thousands of life- long slaves to spirits among us?
5173	Have we not, nevertheless, hundreds of life- long slaves to cigars among us?
5173	He replied:''What profession is there which has not its principles?
5173	How can he be so?
5173	How can it, by coming quickly into the eyes and ears, distinguish the pleasing from the disgusting in external objects?
5173	How can such a person be the master of things?
5173	How can the divine law of causality be so unreasonable?
5173	How can the spirits of the past always live in a crowd?
5173	How can there be reward for the good( as it is taught in your sacred books),[FN#315] that Heaven blesses the good and shows grace to the humble?
5173	How can this one put the others in motion, or communicate with them, in order to co- operate in producing Karma?
5173	How can we suppose that we, the children of Buddha, are put at the mercy of petty troubles, or intended to be crushed by obstacles?
5173	How can you be saved when you are at the verge of death?
5173	How can you single out angels from among devils?
5173	How could I understand all human affairs, ancient and modern, in the world?
5173	How could he be reluctant to give his halo?"
5173	How could he, however, succeed in his task unless he has two or three lives, as some animals are believed to have?
5173	How could it be called a noble( path)?
5173	How could it be possible to make the unmoral being moral or immoral?
5173	How could man, the most spiritual of the Three Powers[FN#284] exist without an origin?
5173	How could one extirpate man''s bad nature implanted within him at his origin?
5173	How could such a dull fellow as I grasp its spirit?"
5173	How could we save the dying by persuading them that death is a bare privation of life?
5173	How could you establish the authority of morality?
5173	How could you know Him to be a Divine man different from other criminals who were crucified with Him?
5173	How could you say that its relation to a knower is the only and fundamental relation for the existence of the tree?
5173	How could you think anything purely spiritual and formless existing without blending together with other things?
5173	How did he come to consider that he ought to be good and ought not to be bad?
5173	How do kings differ from beggars in the eye of Transience?
5173	How do you know the causes of one are more numerous than the causes of the other?
5173	How does it differ from soul?
5173	How was it possible for man to do good before these sages''appearance on earth?
5173	How, then, can the heart within freely pass to the organs of sense without?
5173	How, then, did philosophers come to consider reality to be unknowable and hidden behind or beyond appearances?
5173	How, then, do you distinguish the real cause of pain from that of pleasure?
5173	How, then, does Alaya give rise to them through transformation?
5173	How, then, is life sustained there and kept up in continuous birth after birth?
5173	Hwui Chung( Ye- chu), a famous disciple of the Sixth Patriarch in China, to quote an example, one day asked a monk:"Where did you come from?"
5173	If it be said that it is the mind that produces Karma( I ask), what is the mind?
5173	If it be the will of Heaven to bless so limited a number of persons at all, and to curse so many, why is Heaven so partial?
5173	If man be double- natured, how did he come to set good over evil?
5173	If mind as well as external objects be unreal, who is it that knows they are so?
5173	If morality be merely subjective, and there be no objective standard, how can you distinguish evil from good?
5173	If the dream is not the same as the things dreamed, in what other form does it appear to you?
5173	If the external objects which are transformed are unreal, how can the Vijnyana, the transformer, be real?
5173	If there be no distinction between the pleasing and the disgusting, why does it accept the one or reject the other?
5173	If there be no individual soul either in mind or body, where does personality lie?
5173	If there be no life in earth, how could life come out of it?
5173	If there be no life similar to ours in animals, how could we sustain our life by subsisting on them?
5173	If there be no life, the same as the animal''s life in the vegetables, how could animals sustain their lives feeding on vegetables?
5173	If there be no unchanging mirror, bright and clean, bow can there be the various images, unreal and temporary, reflected in it?
5173	If there be no unchanging mirror, bright and clean, how can there be various images, unreal and temporary, reflected in it?
5173	If there be no water of unchanging fluidity, how can there be the unreal and temporary forms of waves?
5173	If there be no water of unchanging fluidity,[FN#373] how can there be the unreal and temporary forms of waves?
5173	If there be no way of escape, why do you trouble yourself about it?
5173	If this assertion be true, is it not a useless task to educate man with the purpose of making him better and nobler?
5173	If vices be congenial and true to man''s nature, but virtues be alien and untrue to him, why are virtues honoured by him?
5173	If vices be genuine and virtue a deception, as you think, why do you call the inventors of that deceiving art sages?
5173	If you contend that good is man''s primary nature and evil the secondary one, why is be so often overpowered by the secondary nature?
5173	If you could conquer the enemy without fighting, what then is your sword for?''
5173	If, again, man''s nature is essentially bad, as Siun Tsz holds, how can he cultivate virtue?
5173	In short, why are so many destined to be unlucky and so few to be lucky?
5173	In such a world as this, what is the use of the enjoyment of pleasures, if he who has fed on them is to return to this world again and again?
5173	Is he himself not one of the holy men?''
5173	Is it bright?
5173	Is it conscious?
5173	Is it empty?
5173	Is it intelligent?
5173	Is it non- intelligent?
5173	Is it not a fact that the more virtuous one grows the more sinful he feels himself?
5173	Is it not best for it to do so?
5173	Is it not just one moment from the nuptial song to the funeral- dirge?
5173	Is it not just one step from rosy childhood to snowy age?
5173	Is it not mere tautology?
5173	Is the doomsday coming instead?
5173	Is there any example of an individual object that escaped the government of that law in the whole history of the world?
5173	Is there any instance of an individual who escaped it in the whole history of mankind?
5173	Is there any merit, Reverend Sir, in our conduct?"
5173	Is this not contrary to fact?
5173	Laying aside his hammer and chisel, Phien went up the steps and said:''I venture to ask your Grace what words you are reading?''
5173	Let us ask you: Are you satisfied with the present state of things?
5173	Li Ngao( Ri- ko) one day asked Yoh Shan( Yaku- san):"What is the way to truth?"
5173	Might I ask you, sir, to pacify my mind?"
5173	Nothing exists from the first What can be dimmed by dust and dirt?"
5173	Now ask yourself what is you- in- yourself?
5173	Now if I, being born among men, know not whence I came( into this life), how could I know whither I am going in the after- life?
5173	Now the question arises, If all human beings are endowed with Buddha- nature, why have they not come naturally to be Enlightened?
5173	Now, then, what is the use of our life, if it stand still?
5173	Now, then, who can point out any sinless person in the present world?
5173	Of what use( then) are the teachings of Lao Tsz and Chwang Tsz?
5173	One day she instructed a young girl to embrace and ask him:"How do you feel now?"
5173	Or did you do so, in the service of a perishing state, by the punishment of an axe?
5173	Or was it that you had completed your term of life?''
5173	Or was it through your evil conduct, reflecting disgrace on your parents and on your wife and children?
5173	Or was it through your hard endurances of cold and hunger?
5173	Ordinary people know not even the phenomena actually occurring before them; how could they understand the unseen?
5173	Pao Chi( Ho- shi), a Buddhist tutor to the Emperor, asked the perplexed monarch:"Does your Lordship understand him?"
5173	Perhaps he might have thought:''Why is nothing holy?
5173	Providence, salvation, and divine grace-- what are they?
5173	Say, one and all, how do you understand the Law?"
5173	Shall we perish in the darkness of scepticism, shutting our eyes to the light of Tathagata?
5173	Shall we say, then, that the shape of the nail gave the shape of the coat, or in any way corresponds to it?
5173	Shall we starve ourselves refusing to accept the rich bounty which the Blessed Life offers to us?
5173	Shall we suffer from innumerable pains in the self- created hell where remorse, jealousy, and hatred feed the fire of anger?
5173	So why do they not see and hear and thus produce Karma?
5173	Such is the clearness of still water, and how much greater is that of the human spirit?
5173	Tapping it with his horse- switch, he asked it saying:''Did you, sir, in your greed of life, fail in the lessons of reason and come to this?
5173	The elder said:''Have you ever approached the master and asked his instruction in Buddhism?''
5173	Then Tung Shan went round the chair, taking the officer with him, and making a bow again to the officer, asked:"Do you see what I mean?"
5173	Then an attendant of his asked"What is the matter?"
5173	Then the monk bowed politely to the teacher, who questioned:"How did you understand me?"
5173	Then, turning to another monk, inquired:"How did you understand me?"
5173	Thus thinking, he inquired:"What is the holy truth, or the first principle?"
5173	To the question,"What and who is Buddha?"
5173	Tung Shan( To- Zan) was on one occasion attending on his teacher Yun Yen( Un- gan), who asked:"What are your supernatural powers?"
5173	Was it not typical of a so- called great man of the world?
5173	Was not Jesus also a criminal?
5173	Was not Socrates a criminal?
5173	Was the golden age of man, then, over in the remote past?
5173	We have to ask, in what respects does the interrelation between mind and body resemble the relation between a coat and a nail?
5173	Were we born eyeless, should we not be happy, as we are in no danger of suffering from eye disease?
5173	Were we born headless, should we not be happy, as we have to suffer from no headache?
5173	What business have you, a Samurai, with a thing of that sort?
5173	What can I do for you?"
5173	What does he hold as the first principle of Buddhism?''
5173	What does his Absolute, or One, or Substance mean?
5173	What does his Reality or Truth imply?
5173	What holy text can be quoted to justify his assertion?
5173	What is Real Self?
5173	What is his view in reference to the different doctrines taught by Shakya Muni?
5173	What is morality, then?
5173	What is our sin, after all?
5173	What is self?''
5173	What is the difference between eternal life, fixed and constant, and eternal death?
5173	What is the difference between everlasting bliss, changeless and monotonous, and everlasting suffering?
5173	What is the reason of all this?
5173	What is the use of your endeavour in the reformation of society, which does not endure any longer than the castle in the air?
5173	What is the use of your exertion, they would say, in accumulating wealth, which is doomed to melt away in the twinkling of an eye?
5173	What is the use of your striving after power, which is more short- lived than a bubble?
5173	What you hold as duty may I not condemn as sin?
5173	What you honour may I not denounce as disgrace?
5173	What, then, are the spirits of the dead( which they believe in)?
5173	What, then, is the chief agent that produces Karma?
5173	What, then, is the use of your worship?"
5173	When that monk came down and approached him with a respectful salutation, he asked:''Where art thou from?
5173	Where do you go when your body is reduced to elements?
5173	Where does the Root of the Illusion Lie?
5173	Where does the Root of the Illusion Lie?
5173	Where does the real nature of mind exist?
5173	Where, then, does the Error Lie?
5173	Where, then, does the Error Lie?
5173	Where, then, does the error lie in the four possible propositions respecting man''s nature?
5173	Who can deny furthermore that Wang''s philosophy is Zen in the Confucian terminology?
5173	Who can deny that one''s physical conditions determine one''s character or personality?
5173	Who can draw a strict line of demarcation between mind and body?
5173	Who can live the same moment twice?
5173	Who can overlook the fact that one''s bodily conditions positively act upon one''s personal life?
5173	Who can say that Zen is nihilistic?"
5173	Who can tell whether another sanguinary affair will not break out before the Bulgarian bloodshed comes to an end?
5173	Who could blind your spiritual eyes, unless you yourself shut them up?
5173	Who could chain your will but your own will?
5173	Who could prevent you from enjoying moral food, unless you yourself refuse to eat?
5173	Who could put fetters on your mind but your mind itself?
5173	Who could save him who denies his own salvation?
5173	Who is that other person?"
5173	Who, then, after the destruction of body by death, would receive the retribution( in the form) of pain or of pleasure?
5173	Why are trees and grass which were also formed of the same Gas unconscious?
5173	Why did Lao Tsz, Chwang Tsz, Cheu Kung[FN#304] and Confucius do such a useless task as to found their doctrines and lay down the precepts for men?
5173	Why do the sun and the earth seem changeless and constant to you?
5173	Why do we prefer an animal life, which passes away in a few scores of years, to a vegetable life, which can exist thousands of years?
5173	Why do we prize changing organism more than inorganic matter, unchanging and constant?
5173	Why do we value the morning glory, which fades in a few hours, more than an artificial glass flower, which endures hundreds of years?
5173	Why do you bother yourself about such an idle question?
5173	Why do you not preach?"
5173	Why do you waste your energy in the construction of the Three Worlds?
5173	Why does it wait for some direct or indirect causes( to gain its knowledge), and to acquire them through study and instruction?
5173	Why not, then, these trees, grass, etc., the alphabets of Nature when they compose the Volume of the Universe?
5173	Why so many to be low and so few to be high?
5173	Why, then, do you trouble yourself about it?
5173	Why, we must ask, do you trouble yourself so much about death?
5173	Would you know where He is?
5173	Would you like to hear me, sir, tell you about death?''
5173	Yoh Shan, pointing to the sky and then to the pitcher beside him, said:"You see?"
5173	[ FN#261]"Who ties you up?"
5173	[ FN#407] Ratnakuta- sutra(?
5173	what does it avail you to come and go all the time like this?''