Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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III, 15.
how can he get rid of lust who pampers lust? Scatter the fire amid the desert grass, dried by the sun, fanned by the wind, 1242
TURNING THE LAW-WHEEL.
'The raging flames who shall extinguish? Such is the fire of covetousness and lust (or, hankering lust), I, then, reject both these extremes, my heart keeps in the middle way. 1243
'All sorrow at an end and finished, I rest at peace, all error put away; my true sight' greater than the glory of the sun, my equal and unvarying wisdom 2, vehicle of insight, 1244
'Right words as it were a dwelling-place, wandering through the pleasant groves of right conduct, making a right life my recreation, walking along the right road of proper means, 1245
'My city of refuge in right recollection, and my sleeping couch right meditation; these are the eight even and level roads by which to avoid the sorrows of birth and death; 1246
'Those who come forth by these means from the slough, doing thus, have attained the end; such shall fall neither on this side or the other, amidst the sorrow-crowd of the two periods 10. 1247
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'The tangled sorrow-web of the three worlds by this road alone can be destroyed; this is my own way, unheard of before; by the pure eyes of the true law, 1248
1 Samyag drisha.
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Samyag våk.
⚫ Samyag âgiva.
1 Samyak smriti.
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Samyak samkalpa.
Samyak karma.
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Samyag vyâyâma.
⚫ Samyak samâdhi.
The right roads (orthodox ways).
10 Or rather, of the 'two ages;' this age and the next.
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