Questions of King Milinda Part 02

SR No.: 007682
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 2240
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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THE TEXTS OF TÂOISM.
BK. II.
sagely man seems stupid and to know nothing?. He blends ten thousand years together in the one (conception of time); the myriad things all pursue their spontaneous course, and they are all before him as doing so.
How do I know that the love of life is not a delusion ? and that the dislike of death is not like a young person's losing his way, and not knowing that he is (really) going home? Li Kiwas a daughter of the border Warden of Âi. When the ruler of) the state of Zin first got possession of her, she wept till the tears wetted all the front of her dress. But when she came to the place of the king3, shared with him his luxurious couch, and ate his grain-andgrass-fed meat, then she regretted that she had wept. How do I know that the dead do not repent of their former craving for life?
Those who dream of (the pleasures of) drinking may in the morning wail and weep; those who dream of wailing and weeping may in the morning be going out to hunt. When they were dreaming they did not know it was a dream ; in their dream they may even have tried to interpret it 4; but when they awoke they knew that it was a dream. And
Compare Lâo-zze's account of himself in his work, ch. 20. ? See note 2 on page 191. The lady is there said to have been the daughter of a barbarian chief; here she appears as the child of the border Warden of Âi. But her maiden surname of Kî (h.) shows her father must have been a scion of the royal family of Kâu. Had he forsaken his wardenship, and joined one of the Tî tribes, which had adopted him as its chief?
3 Zin was only a marquisate. How does Kwang-sze speak of its ruler as ' a king ?'
4 This could not be; a man does not come to himself in his dream, and in that state try to interpret it.
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