Karma Story of Buddhist Ethics

Author(s): Paul Carus
Publisher: Chicago Open Court Publishing Company

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THE SPIDER-WEB.
the easier will be the efforts of every one of them. But as soon as the idea arises in a man's heart: "This is mine; let the bliss of righteousness be mine alone, and let no one else partake of it,' the thread breaks and he will fall back into his old condition of self, hood. For selfhood is damnation, and truth is bliss. What is Hell? It is nothing but egotism, and Nirvâna is a life of righteousness."
“Let me take hold of the spider-web,” said the dying robber chief, when the samana had finished his story, “and I will pull myself up out of the depths of Hell."