Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
dead, O reverend lady?” The reply given to this was : "Neither, O king, has the Sublime One revealed that he who is perfect does not exist now that he is dead." “Am I to believe, then,” continued the king," that the Perfect One being dead, neither exists nor does not exist ?” But the King might have put this to a statue of stone for it remains unanswered to this day.
We have not to deal with a case where the disciples low intelligence is to be blamed for errors in expounding the doctrine of their Master; Buddha himself had nothing definite to say on the point. A wandering monk once asked him: “How is it, Gotama ? Is there an I?” No reply was vouchsafed by Buddha. The monk continued: “How is it, Gotama ? Is there nut an I?” But the Enlightened One simply preserved silence, till, at last, the monk grew impatient and went away.
Another monk asked him, “Who has contact ? who has sensation ?” Buddha replied: “The question is not admissible. I do not say, 'He has contact.' Did I say, 'He has contact,' the question, 'Who has contact, Reverend Sir?' would be admissible. Since, however, I do not say so, then of me that do not speak thus, it is only admissible to ask, 'From what, Reverend Sir, does contact proceed ?'”
"Buddhism,” says Paul Dahlke, in ' Buddhism and Science,' at page 240, "is the doctrine of actuality, and its value as a view of the world from the standpoint of epistemology, lies in the fact that it teaches us to accept actuality as actuality. To this idea it is itself a martyr, inasmuch as its own teaching here is nothing ideally