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PT. II. SECT. XII. THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-BZE.
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water without encountering any obstruction, treads on fire without being burned, and walks on high above all things without any fear; let me ask how he attains to do this? ?' The warden Yin replied,
It is by his keeping of the pure breath (of life); it is not to be described as an achievement of his skill or daring. Sit down, and I will explain it to you. Whatever has form, semblance, sound, and colour is a thing; how can one thing come to be different from another ? But it is not competent for any of these things to reach to what preceded them all ;they are but (form and visibility. But (the perfect man) attains to be (as it were) without form, and be. yond the capability of being transformed. Now when one attains to this and carries it out to the highest degree, how can other things come into his way to stop him ? He will occupy the place assigned to him without going beyond it, and lie concealed in the clue which has no end. He will study with delight the process which gives their beginning and ending to all things. By gathering his nature into a unity, by nourishing his vital power, by concentrating his virtue, he will penetrate to the making of things. In this condition, with his heavenly constitution kept entire, and with no crevice in his spirit, how can things enter (and disturb his serenity)?
'Take the case of a drunken man falling from his carriage ;-though he may suffer injury, he will not
The gate was at the passage leading from the Royal Domain of those days into the great feudal territory of Zin;—from the north-west of the present province of Ho-nan into Shen-hsî.
Lieh-zze puts an absurd question to the warden, which is replied to at length, and unsatisfactorily. We need not discuss either the question or the answer in this place.
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| SR No. | 007682 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 02 |
| 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 |