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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII GOTAMA AS TEACHER The gift of the Teaching excels all other gifts.--Dhammapada 354. We have seen that Gotama claimed to be "King of the Dhamma," and it is as a teacher of morals that he must be finally judged. It is so that he viewed his own mission; like Socrates he was a physician of the soul, and anything that did not tend to moral health he ignored. In this sphere he claims to teach as one who is himself without fault, and it was largely his moral prestige which won for him so ready a hearing. This claim, explicitly made in many passages such as those quoted above,1 is implied in several of his sayings: "Does this man, himself a slave to desire," he asks concerning a skeptical monk, "claim to excel the teaching of the Master?"2 and that teaching was almost exclusively concerned with the moral life and its reward. Gotama was not a social reformer except in the secondary sense which is true of all religious and moral teachers; he is said, in fact, to have warned some of his monks to avoid the example of certain heretics who were acting also as doctors.8 Their task was to administer a moral tonic: let them see to it! Nor was he a teacher of philosophy; again and again he insists that he has no concern with metaphysics, and when men press him for information on such high and difficult matters as the origin of the world, he refuses to discuss them. "It is, Brothers, as if a man were pierced through by a poisoned arrow, and his friends, companions, and near rela 1 See also Anguttara Nikaya, IV. 82, quoted by Poussin, "Opinions," p. 142. 2 Samyutta Nikaya, III. 103. Ibid., p. 149. Ttmjja Su.Ua ("Sacred Books of the East," XI. 200). tives called in a surgeon, and he should say, 'I will not have this arrow pulled out until...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gotama Buddha; A Biography (Based on the Canonical Books of the Therav Din). To get started finding Gotama Buddha; A Biography (Based on the Canonical Books of the Therav Din), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII GOTAMA AS TEACHER The gift of the Teaching excels all other gifts.--Dhammapada 354. We have seen that Gotama claimed to be "King of the Dhamma," and it is as a teacher of morals that he must be finally judged. It is so that he viewed his own mission; like Socrates he was a physician of the soul, and anything that did not tend to moral health he ignored. In this sphere he claims to teach as one who is himself without fault, and it was largely his moral prestige which won for him so ready a hearing. This claim, explicitly made in many passages such as those quoted above,1 is implied in several of his sayings: "Does this man, himself a slave to desire," he asks concerning a skeptical monk, "claim to excel the teaching of the Master?"2 and that teaching was almost exclusively concerned with the moral life and its reward. Gotama was not a social reformer except in the secondary sense which is true of all religious and moral teachers; he is said, in fact, to have warned some of his monks to avoid the example of certain heretics who were acting also as doctors.8 Their task was to administer a moral tonic: let them see to it! Nor was he a teacher of philosophy; again and again he insists that he has no concern with metaphysics, and when men press him for information on such high and difficult matters as the origin of the world, he refuses to discuss them. "It is, Brothers, as if a man were pierced through by a poisoned arrow, and his friends, companions, and near rela 1 See also Anguttara Nikaya, IV. 82, quoted by Poussin, "Opinions," p. 142. 2 Samyutta Nikaya, III. 103. Ibid., p. 149. Ttmjja Su.Ua ("Sacred Books of the East," XI. 200). tives called in a surgeon, and he should say, 'I will not have this arrow pulled out until...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gotama Buddha; A Biography (Based on the Canonical Books of the Therav Din). To get started finding Gotama Buddha; A Biography (Based on the Canonical Books of the Therav Din), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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