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FO-SHO-HING-TSAN-KING.
V, 26.
(destruction) of hate and ignorance, yet if lust (love) remains, then there is a return of birth ; even as water, cold in its nature, may by fire be heated, 2003
But when the fire goes out then it becomes cold again, because this is its constant nature; so (we may) ever know that the nature which lust has is permanent (or, 'endurance, we may know, is the nature of lust '], and neither hearing, wisdom, or perseverance can alter it. 2004
Neither capable of increase or diminution, how can there be deliverance? I held aforetime (thus he thought) that (those things capable of) birth and death resulted thus, from their own innate nature; 2005
But now I see that such a belief excludes deliverance; for what is (born) by nature must endure So, what end can such things have? 2006
Just as a burning lamp cannot but give its light; the way (doctrine) of Buddha is the only true one, that lust, as the root-cause, brings forth the things that live (the world); 2007
Destroy this lust (love) then there is Nirvana (quiet extinction); the cause destroyed then the fruit is not produced. I formerly maintained that 'I' (self) was a distinct entity (body), not seeing that it has no maker. 2008
But now I hear the right doctrine preached by Buddha, there is no 'self' (personal self) in all the world, for all things are produced by cause, and therefore there is no creator (isvara). 2009
If then sorrow is produced by cause (or, if then cause producing things, there is sorrow), the cause may likewise be destroyed; for if the world is cause
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| 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 |