The Gospel of Buddha
Paul Carus
1,999 passages indexed from The Gospel of Buddha (Paul Carus) — Page 36 of 40
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The Gospel of Buddha, passage 686
"And it happened that the king heard a sweet voice ringing through the night and singing to the lute a beautiful song that gladdened his heart. And having inquired among his attendants who the singer might be, was told that the master of the elephants had in his service a young man of great accomplishments, and beloved by all his comrades. They said, 'He is wont to sing to the lute, and he must have been the singer that gladdened the heart of the king.' 24
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1499
And the Blessed One said to the venerable Ānanda, as he sat there by his side: 7
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 808
"The evils of the body are, murder, theft, and adultery, of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse, and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred, and error. 2
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1456
And the Blessed One, seeing the quivering eyelids of Ānanda, read the deep grief in the heart of his beloved disciple, and he asked again: "Hast thou, indeed, faith, Ānanda?" 9
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1452
And the venerable Ānanda addressed the Blessed One and said: "Vouchsafe, Lord, to remain with us, O Blessed One! for the good and the happiness of the great multitudes, out of pity for the world, for the good and the gain of mankind!" 4
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1023
"Verily, O Lord," rejoined Kūtadanta, "this is not a fair retribution. I cannot recognize the justice that others after me will reap what I am sowing now." 60
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 518
"Exhibit true superiority by virtuous conduct and the exercise of reason; meditate deeply on the vanity of earthly things, and understand the fickleness of life. 33
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 894
The sun is bright by day, the moon shines by night, the warrior is bright in his armor, thinkers are bright in their meditation; but among all the brightest with splendor day and night is the Buddha, the Awakened, the Holy, Blessed. 55
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 356
And the Blessed One seeing that it was impossible to attend to all who wanted to hear the truth and receive the ordination, sent out from the number of his disciples such as were to preach the Dharma and said unto them: 14
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 908
Said the Blessed One: "Thus it is impossible that Brahmans versed in the three Vedas should be able to show the way to a state of union with that which they neither know nor have seen. Just as when a string of blind men are clinging one to the other. Neither can the foremost see, nor can those in the middle see, nor can the hindmost see. Even so, methinks, the talk of the Brahmans versed in the three Vedas is but blind talk; it is ridiculous, consists of mere words, and is a vain and empty thing." 17
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1200
"Lastly, the gift is large and the merit is large, when a wealthy man, in an unselfish spirit and with the wisdom of a Buddha, gives donations and founds institutions for the best of mankind to enlighten the minds of his fellow-men and to administer unto their needs." 7
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1436
"What, then, Ānanda, does the order expect of me? I have preached the truth without making any distinction between exoteric and esoteric doctrine; for in respect of the truth, Ānanda, the Tathāgata has no such thing as the closed fist of a teacher, who keeps some things back. 7
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1809
Kond'añña, _p._, Kaundi'nya, _skt._, name of Buddha's first disciple, afterwards called Ājñā'ta Kaundi'nya in _skt._ and Aññā'ta Konda'ñña in _p._
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1623
Gospel: XX Sources: Fo, vv. 1335-1379; MV, 1, 22 Parallelisms: --
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1260
"The blood of men, however," said Buddha, "has it less intrinsic value than a mound of earth?" 6
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1784
Go'tama, _p._, Gau'tama, _skt._, Buddha's family name; Gotama denies the existence of the soul; Gotama is gone, Buddha remains; Buddha not Gotama; Gotama the samana; Gotama Siddhattha.
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1847
Pu'kkusa, _p._, Pu'kkasha or Pu'kkasa, _skt._, name of a low caste.
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1555
"Let us then keep sacred and revere the traditions; let us keep sacred the memory of Gotama Sakyamuni, so that people may find the truth; for he whose spiritual eye is open will discover it, and it is the same to every one who possesses the comprehension of a Buddha to recognize it and to expound it." 23
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 700
Having finished the story, the Blessed One said: "Brethren, ye are my lawful sons in the faith, begotten by the words of my mouth. Children ought not to trample under foot the counsel given them by their father; do ye henceforth follow my admonitions." 38
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 760
"I have given you the refreshing drink called the perception of truth, and he who drinks of it becomes free from excitement, passion, and wrong-doing. 8
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 65
The glory of the world is like a flower: it stands in full bloom in the morning and fades in the heat of the day. 3
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 728
"And the cripple were to say to the man blind from birth as follows: 'See here! I am able to use my eyes, but I have no legs with which to go forward and back.' 8
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1560
Now reason, as the helpmate of self, implicated all living beings more and more in the meshes of lust, hatred, and envy, and from lust, hatred, and envy the evils of wrongdoing originated. Men broke down under the burdens of life, until the saviour appeared, the great Buddha, the Holy Teacher of men and gods. 4
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 818
"The preacher must propound the truth with unshrinking mind. He must have the power of persuasion rooted in virtue and in strict fidelity to his vows. 4
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1674
Gospel: LXI, 6-9 Sources: _Sutra Dsauglun_ [cf. R. Seydel "_Das Ev. v. Jesu in s. Verb. z. Buddha-Sage_" pp. 184-185] Parallelisms: Matth. v, 1-2
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 137
With no selfish aim, but regarding his child and the people at large, Siddhattha, the prince, attended to his religious duties, bathing his body in the holy Ganges and cleansing his heart in the waters of the law. Even as men desire to give happiness to their children, so did he long to give peace to the world. 10
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 981
"Only through ignorance and delusion do men indulge in the dream that their souls are separate and self-existent entities. 10
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1890
Va'jji, _p._, Vri'ji, _skt._, name of a people living in the neighborhood of Magadha; assemblies of the Vajji.
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 221
"Is not man an organism of many aggregates? Are we not composed of various attributes? Man consists of the material form, of sensation, of thought, of dispositions, and, lastly, of understanding. That which men call the ego when they say '_I_ am' is not an entity behind the attributes; it originates by their co-operation. There is mind; there is sensation and thought, and there is truth; and truth is mind when it walks in the path of righteousness. But there is no separate ego-soul outside or behind the thought of man. He who believes that the ego is a distinct being has no correct conception of things. The very search for the ātman is wrong; it is a wrong start and it will lead you in a false direction. 6
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 347
"This is the holy brotherhood; this is the church, the congregation of the saints of the Buddha; this is the Sangha that establishes a communion among all those who have taken their refuge in the Buddha." 5
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 123
"The king of the law has come forth to rescue from bondage all the poor, the miserable, the helpless." 24
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 260
"As the rays of the sun drown the darkness of the world, so he who perseveres in his search will find the truth and the truth will enlighten him." 10
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 181
"For as the fall of a stone thrown into the air, as the death of a mortal, as the sunrise at dawn, as the lion's roar when he leaves his lair, as the delivery of a woman with child, as all these things are sure and certain--even so the word of the Buddhas is sure and cannot fail. 19
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 761
"The very gods envy the bliss of him who has escaped from the floods of passion and has climbed the shores of Nirvāna. His heart is cleansed from all defilement and free from all illusion. 9
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1019
"Very well," said Buddha. "This is what thou desirest and this is the cleaving to self. This is thy error. All compound things are transitory: they grow and they decay. All compound things are subject to pain: they will be separated from what they love and be joined to what they abhor. All compound things lack a self, an ātman, an ego." 55
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1020
"Where is thy self?" asked the Buddha. And when Kūtadanta made no reply, he continued: "Thy self to which thou cleavest is a constant change. Years ago thou wast a small babe; then, thou wast a boy; then a youth, and now, thou art a man. Is there any identity of the babe and the man? There is an identity in a certain sense only. Indeed there is more identity between the flames of the first and the third watch, even though the lamp might have been extinguished during the second watch. Now which is thy true self, that of yesterday, that of to-day, or that of to-morrow, for the preservation of which thou clamorest?" 57
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 895
At one time when the Blessed One was journeying through Kosala he came to the Brahman village which is called Manasākata. There he stayed in a mango grove. 1
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1983
A description of all the caves as well as a selection of the best mural paintings in colored pictures are to be found in Griffith's elegant work _The Paintings in the Buddhist Cave Temples of Ajanta_[1] and some reproductions from it have been made further accessible in Dr.
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 456
When they saw the bhikkhus, they reviled them, saying: "The great Sakyamuni has come to Rājagaha subduing the minds of men. Who will be the next to be led astray by him?" 10
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1690
Gospel: LXXXIII, 5, 6, 9 Sources: ChD and SS Parallelisms: Matth. xxii, 30
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1821
Māyā-de'vī, also called Mahā-Māyā, or simply Māyā, _p._ and _skt._, the wife of Suddhodana and mother of Buddha. She died in childbed, and Buddha ascends to heaven to preach to her the good law and the gospel of salvation.
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1476
Then the third time the Blessed One addressed the venerable Ānanda, and said: "Fetch me some water, I pray thee, Ānanda, I am thirsty, Ānanda, and would drink." 11
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 743
"Machines are geared to work by ropes; So too this body is, in fact, Directed by a mental pull Whene'er it stand or sit or act. 23
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 942
"I deem, Simha, unrighteous actions contemptible, whether they be performed by deed, or by word, or by thought; but I deem virtue and righteousness praiseworthy." 13
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 613
And a heavy rain fell during the night and the next morning; and the bhikkhus doffed their robes to keep them dry and let the rain fall upon their bodies. 3
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1694
Gospel: LXXXV, 6 Sources: ChD, cf OC No. 470 Parallelisms: Rom. iii, 28
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 419
"But now we see the marks of joy and sorrow. Where is any constancy? If there is no permanent self that does our deeds, then there is no self; there is no actor behind our actions, no perceiver behind our perception, no lord behind our deeds. 11
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 606
"Better far with red-hot irons bore out both your eyes, than encourage in yourself sensual thoughts, or look upon a woman's form with lustful desires. 12
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1565
Neither is there any room for truth in rationality. Rationality is a two-edged sword and serves the purpose of love equally as well as the purpose of hatred. Rationality is the platform on which the truth standeth. No truth is attainable without reason. Nevertheless, in mere rationality there is no room for truth, though it be the instrument that masters the things of the world. 9
The Gospel of Buddha, passage 1355
And the World-honored One repeated these lines: "He who inflicts pain on the gentle, or falsely accuses the innocent, will inherit one of the ten great calamities. But he who has learned to suffer with patience will be purified and will be the chosen instrument for the alleviation of suffering." 5