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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X, 2, 20.
SCHISMS AMONG THE SAMGHA.
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what my father said, O king, in the hour of his death : 'Not short'-(means): 'Do not be hasty to fall out with your friends;' this did my father mean when he said in the hour of his death : Not short.' And what my father said, O king, in the hour of his death : 'For not by hatred, my dear Dighâvu, is hatred appeased; by not-hatred, my dear Dighâvu, is hatred appeased'-(means this): You have killed my father and mother, O king. If I should deprive you therefore of life, O king, then your partisans, O king, would deprive me of life; my partisans again would deprive those of life. Thus by hatred that hatred would not be appeased. But now, O king, you have granted me my life, and I, O king, have granted you your life; thus by not-hatred hatred has been appeased.' This did my father mean when he said in the hour of his death : 'For not by hatred, &c."
20. "Then king Brahmadatta of Kasi, O Bhikkhus, thought: “O wonderful ! O marvellous ! How clever is this young Dighâvu, that he understands in its full extent the meaning of what his father spoke so concisely,"--and he gave him back his father's troops and vehicles, his realm, his treasuries and storehouses, and he gave him his daughter.
'Now, O Bhikkhus, if such is the forbearance and mildness of kings who wield the sceptre and bear the sword, so much more, O Bhikkhus, must you so let your light shine before the world that you, having embraced the religious life according to so welltaught a doctrine and a discipline, are seen to be forbearing and mild.'
And for the third time the Blessed One thus
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