Karma Story of Buddhist Ethics

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

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1, Page 7.
Devas are spiritual beings, gods, or angels.
NOTES.
2, Page II.
This sentiment, though thoroughly Buddhistic, is found also. in other religions and seems to grow naturally when a certain moral maturity is reached.
Every one knows the passage in the Gospel according to Mat. thew: "But I say unto you, Love your enemies."
Lao Tze (V.. 44) the sage of China said: pao guen i teh, i. e., "Requite hatred with virtue."
And Socrates expressed himself no less plainly in Plato's Crito, 49:
Οὔτε ἀνταδικεῖν δεῖ, οὔτε κακῶς πολεῖν εἰδέναι ἀνθρώπων, οὐδ' ἂν ὁτιοῦν πάσχῃ ὑπ' αὐτῶν.
One must neither return evil, nor do any ill to any one among men, not even if one has to suffer from them.
See The Open Court for January, 1901, p. 9. for further quotations from the Greek.
Buddhist monastery.
p. 169.
3. Page II.
4. Page 12.
Buddhist Birth Stories.
Translated by T. W. Rhys Davids,
5, Page 13.
Krishna, a Brahman god, an incarnation of Vishnu, the second person of the Brahman trinity. Mallika's language implies that he is not a Buddhist.