The Buddha's way of virtue E-Book

W. D. C. WAGISWARA AND K. J. SAUNDERS

• Herausgeber: GIANLUCA
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The Buddha’s Way Of Virtue is a translation of the Dhammapada, which is a collection, in verse form, of the sayings of Buddha.

Leseprobe

THE BUDDHA’S “WAY OF VIRTUE”

A TRANSLATION OF THE DHAMMAPADA FROM THE PALI TEXT

by

W. D. C. WAGISWARA AND K. J. SAUNDERS

First digital edition 2017 by Gianluca Ruffini

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

- 1. THE TWIN TRUTHS

- 2. ZEAL

- 3. THE MIND

- 4. FLOWERS

- 5. THE FOOL

- 6. THE WISE MAN

- 7. THE ARAHAT

- 8. THE THOUSANDS

- 9. VICE

- 10. PUNISHMENT

- 11. OLD AGE

- 12. SELF

- 13. THE WORLD

- 14. THE BUDDHA

- 15. BLISS

- 16. AFFECTION

- 17. ANGER

- 18. SIN

- 19. THE RIGHTEOUS

- 20. THE PATH

- 21. MISCELLANY

- 22. HELL

- 23. THE ELEPHANT

- 24. DESIRE

- 25. THE BHIKKHII

- 26. THE BRAHMIN

NOTES

APPENDIX, THE BUDDHIST IDEAL

INTRODUCTION

I

The Dhammapada was accepted at the Council of Asoka in 240 B.C. as a collection of the sayings of Gautama; yet it was not put into writing until some generations had passed, and probably contains accretions of later date.

However, that may be, there is no doubt that it breathes the very spirit of the Teacher, and it has always been used in Buddhist lands as a handbook of “devotion” or meditation, in whose solemn precepts men hear the voice of Sakyamuni summoning them to the life of contemplation, of strenuous mind-culture. The world, it tells them, is without permanence or purpose, other than that of expiation; the body is “a nest of disease” and the seat of “desire”; the mind itself is subject to decay, and capricious, easily led away after false pursuits.