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?" |
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?'' |