The Gospel of Buddha
Paul Carus
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The Gospel of Buddha, passage 630
"Then will gladness spring up within me; thus gladdened, joy will come to me; and so rejoicing all my mind will be at peace. Being thus at peace I shall experience a blissful feeling of content; and in that bliss my heart will be at rest. That will be to me an exercise of my moral sense, an exercise of my moral powers, an exercise of the seven kinds of wisdom! This, Lord, was the advantage I had in view for myself in asking those eight boons of the Blessed One." 23
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1509
"A sick man may be cured by the healing power of medicine and will be rid of all his ailments without beholding the physician. 4
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1739
Now we have to state that the Eastern people, at least those of Hindu culture during the golden age of Buddhism in India, adopted the habit of translating not only terms but also names. A German whose name is Schmied is not called Smith in English, but Buddhists, when translating from Pāli into Sanskrit, change Siddhattha into Siddhartha.
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1045
"Nirvāna comes to thee, Kassapa, when thou understandest thoroughly, and when thou livest according to thy understanding, that all things are of one essence and that there is but one law. Hence, there is but one Nirvāna as there is but one truth, not two or three. 5
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 503
"And now as I briefly expound the law, let the Mahārāja listen and weigh my words, and hold fast that which I deliver! 16
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1057
And when the water had been poured away, the Blessed One asked again: "Is this vessel now fit for holding water to drink?" 7
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 320
"This is the middle path, O bhikkhus, that keeps aloof from both extremes." 15
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1552
"Buddha is the all-loving teacher assuming the shape of the beings whom he teaches. This is the Nirmāna Kāya, his apparitional body. 20
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 374
Yasa's father was the first lay-member who became the first lay disciple of the Buddha by pronouncing the threefold formula of refuge. 15
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 633
"O noble woman of an upright life, Disciple of the Blessed One, thou givest Unstintedly in purity of heart. 26
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 831
"So long as the people do not listen to the words of truth, the preacher knows that he has to dig deeper into their hearts; but when they begin to heed his words he apprehends that they will soon attain enlightenment. 17
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1267
The hunter said, "The dog is hungry," whereupon the frightened king ordered food for him. All the food prepared at the royal banquet disappeared rapidly in the dog's jaws, and still he howled with portentous significance. More food was sent for, and all the royal store-houses were emptied, but in vain.
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1364
The Bodhisatta, on hearing this, replied, "If, Tree-sprite, I cannot endure these monkeys' ill treatment without abusing their birth, lineage and persons, how can I walk in the eightfold noble path? But these monkeys will do the same to others thinking them to be like me. If they do it to any rogue elephant, he will punish them indeed, and I shall be delivered both from their annoyance and the guilt of having done harm to others." 8
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 229
"The doctrine of karma," he said, "is undeniable, but thy theory of the ego has no foundation. 14
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 311
"Neither abstinence from fish or flesh, nor going naked, nor shaving the head, nor wearing matted hair, nor dressing in a rough garment, nor covering oneself with dirt, nor sacrificing to Agni, will cleanse a man who is not free from delusions. 6
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1774
Cha'nna, _p._ and _skt._, prince Siddhattha's driver. Chu'nda, _p._ and _skt._, the smith of Pāvā.
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1770
Brahmada'tta, _p._ and _skt._, (etym. given by Brahmā) name of a mythical king of Kâshî, _skt._, or Kāsī.
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 233
"I observe the preservation and transmission of character; I perceive the truth of karma, but see no ātman whom your doctrine makes the doer of your deeds. There is rebirth without the transmigration of a self. For this ātman, this self, this ego in the '_I_ say' and in the '_I_ will' is an illusion. If this self were a reality, how could there be an escape from selfhood? The terror of hell would be infinite, and no release could be granted. The evils of existence would not be due to our ignorance and wrong-doing, but would constitute the very nature of our being." 18
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 871
If a man looks after the faults of others, and is always inclined to take offence, his own passions will grow, and he is far from the destruction of passions. 32
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1471
"Be it so, Lord!" said the venerable Ānanda; and he spread out the robe folded fourfold. 6
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1393
"Fivefold, O householders, is the loss of the wrong-doer through his want of rectitude. In the first place, the wrong-doer, devoid of rectitude, falls into great poverty through sloth; in the next place, his evil repute gets noised abroad; thirdly, whatever society he enters, whether of Brahmans, nobles, heads of houses, or samanas, he enters shyly and confusedly; fourthly, he is full of anxiety when he dies; and lastly, on the dissolution of the body after death, his mind remains in an unhappy state. Wherever his karma continues, there will be suffering and woe. This, O householders, is the fivefold loss of the evil-doer! 3
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 698
"The youth replied: 'When my father, O king, in the hour of his death said: "Be not far-sighted," he meant, Let not thy hatred go far. And when my father said, "Be not near-sighted," he meant, Be not hasty to fall out with thy friends. And when he said, "For not by hatred is hatred appeased; hatred is appeased by not-hatred," he meant this: Thou hast killed my father and mother, O king, and if I should deprive thee of thy life, then thy partisans in turn would take away my life; my partisans again would deprive thine of their lives. Thus by hatred, hatred would not be appeased. But now, O king, thou hast granted me my life, and I have granted thee thine; thus by not-hatred hatred has been appeased.' 36
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1252
And the Blessed One understood the emotions of her heart and he said: "Pakati, thy heart is full of love, but thou understandest not thine own sentiments. It is not Ānanda that thou lovest, but his kindness. Accept, then, the kindness thou hast seen him practise unto thee, and in the humility of thy station practise it unto others. 6
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1505
And the Blessed One replied: "I am not the first Buddha who came upon earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time another Buddha will arise in the world, a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. He will reveal to you the same eternal truths which I have taught you. He will preach his religion, glorious in its origin, glorious at the climax, and glorious at the goal, in the spirit and in the letter. He will proclaim a religious life, wholly perfect and pure; such as I now proclaim." 13
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 931
At that time many distinguished citizens were sitting together assembled in the town-hall and spoke in many ways in praise of the Buddha, of the Dharma, and of the Sangha. Simha, the general-in-chief, a disciple of the Niggantha sect, was sitting among them. And Simha thought: "Truly, the Blessed One must be the Buddha, the Holy One. I will go and visit him." 1
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1369
Said the Blessed One: "Nay, I will tell you: Ye who have left the world and have adopted this glorious faith of putting aside selfishness, ye shall not do evil for evil nor return hate for hate. Nor do ye think that ye can destroy wrong by retaliating evil for evil and thus increasing wrong. Leave the wicked to their fate and their evil deeds will sooner or later in one way or another bring on their own punishment." And the Tathāgata repeated these stanzas: 14
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1259
And they said: "Verily, it is sure that many will be slain and our own lives be jeopardized." 5
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1543
"'The truth is omnipresent and eternal, endowed with excellencies innumerable, above all human nature, and ineffable in its holiness.' 10
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 585
Jīvaka said: "Lord, it is a proper and unobjectionable request." 11
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 609
"By regarding her tears and her smiles as enemies, her stooping form, her hanging arms, and her disentangled hair as toils designed to entrap man's heart. 16
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 473
"My heart yearns to do what is right and to be a blessing unto my fellows. Let me then ask thee, Must I give up my wealth, my home, and my business enterprises, and, like thyself, go into homelessness in order to attain the bliss of a religious life?" 14
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 446
Then the Blessed One, having silently shown his consent and having gladdened and edified the Magadha king by religious discourse, rose from his seat and went away. 11
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1137
And the Blessed One asked in reply: "Which are the Jhānas through which man reaches Abhiñña?" 33
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 391
In the night the dragon came to the Buddha, belching forth in rage his fiery poison, and filling the air with burning vapor, but could do him no harm, and the fire consumed itself while the World-honored One remained composed. And the venomous fiend became very wroth so that he died in his anger. 7
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1642
Gospel: XXXVII Sources: MV, x, 5-6, 2 Sec. 3-20 Parallelisms: --
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1943
Naked ascetics. Nakedness, impure is. Name, honored be his. Nature of religion consists in worship and sacrifice, the. Nature of the rope, the. Nature of self, the. Near me, he who walks, righteously is ever. Necessity of dissolution. Nectar, the bee collects. Needed, the one thing that is. Noble, eightfold path, the. Noble truths, the four. Non-action. Non-existence of the soul. Non-identity, identity and. Not any means to avoid dying. Not worthy of yellow robes. Nothing remains. Nothing will remain. Nothingness stares me in the face. Nourishes his mind, the wise man. Novices, precepts for the. Now is the time to seek religion. Now my lot to help.
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 745
"He only who utterly abandons all thought of the ego escapes the snares of the Evil One; he is out of the reach of Māra. 25
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1529
And the venerable Anuruddha and the venerable Ānanda spent the rest of the night in religious discourse. 28
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1162
There was a man born blind, and he said: "I do not believe in the world of light and appearance. There are no colors, bright or sombre. There is no sun, no moon, no stars. No one has witnessed these things." 1
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1182
'But how wilt thou hold me to carry me along?' asked the lobster. 7
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1032
"Those only who do not believe, call me Gotama, but you call me the Buddha, the Blessed One, the Teacher. And this is right, for I have in this life entered Nirvāna, while the life of Gotama has been extinguished. 2
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 642
And the Blessed One said: "The Pātimokkha must be recited in this way: 8
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1879
Tiratana, _p._, Trira'tna, _skt._, the three jewels or the holy trinity of the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha, a doctrine peculiar to Northern Buddhism. (See Trikāya.)
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 47
We did not follow the spelling of the _Sacred Books of the East_, where it must be misleading to the uninitiated, especially when they write italicized _K_ to denote spelling of the English sound ch, and italicized _g_ to denote j. Thus we write "rājā," not "rāgā," and "Chunda," not "_K_unda."
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 834
"The Tathāgata is not avaricious, nor narrow-minded, and he is willing to impart the perfect Buddha-knowledge unto all who are ready and willing to receive it. Be ye like unto him. Imitate him and follow his example in bounteously giving, showing, and bestowing the truth. 20
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1691
Gospel: LXXXIV, 1-14 Sources: BP, pp. 98 et seqq. Parallelisms: Greek versions quoted by Jacob H. Thiessen, LKG.
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 44
The h after _p, b, k, g, t, d_ is audible as in du_b h_im, be_g h_er, bric_k h_ouse, an_t h_ill. Pronounce Tat-hāgata, not Ta-thāgata.
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1245
"Whosoever is a provoker and is avaricious, has evil desires, is envious, wicked, shameless, and without fear to commit wrong, let him be known as an outcast. 4
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 97
Blessed is he who has found enlightenment. He conquers, although he may be wounded; he is glorious and happy, although he may suffer; he is strong, although he may break down under the burden of his work; he is immortal, although he may die. The essence of his being is purity and goodness. 14
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 718
The Blessed One received Ajātasattu kindly and taught him the way of salvation; but Devadatta still tried to become the founder of a religious school of his own. 10