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… only cease to talk of the wickedness of causing death, but you would perceive the First Noble Truth, that no existence can be free from sorrow; the second, that the desire for existence only leads to sorrow; that the ceasing from existence is the ceasing of sorrow (the third); and you would seek in the fourth the Way, the Noble Eightfold Path. ‘‘T know, O Arahats, that you do not need this instruction: but my words will not stay here: they will go forth and illuminate the whole system of ten thousand worlds, where Arahats do not grow on every …
1906 · PDF PAGE 251
… identities. First then let us examine that great Summary of the Buddhist Faith, the Four Noble Truths. “IIT. THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS, (1) SORROW.—Existence is Sorrow. This means that ‘*no known form of Existence is separable from Sorrow.” This truth is stated by Huxley, almost in so many words, in Evolution and Ethics. ‘‘It was no less plain to some of these antique philosophers -than to the fathers of modern philosophy that suffering is the badge of all the tribe of sentient things; that it is no accidental accompaniment, but an essential const…
1906 · PDF PAGE 231
…the hearts of the parents were woe because of him. But it is written that misfortune knoweth not the hour to cease, and that the seed of sorrow is as the seed of the Banyan Tree. It groweth and is of stature as a mountain, and, ay me! it shooteth down fresh roots into the aching earth. For the boy grew and became a man; and his eyes kindled with the lust of life and love; and the de- sire stirred him to see the round world and its many marvels. Wherefore he went forth, taking his father’s store of gold, laid up for him against that bitter day, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 252
…s this desire inherent in me for continued consciousness that is responsible for it all, and this leads us to the Third Noble Truth. (3) SoRROW’S CEASING.—The cessation of desire is the cessation of sorrow, This is a simple logical inference from the second Truth, and needs no comment. (4) THE NosLeE EIGHTFOLD ParH.— There f a way, to be considered later, of realising the Third Truth. But we must, before we can perceive its possibility on the one hand, or its necessity on the other, form a clear idea of what are the Buddhist tenets with regard …
1906 · PDF PAGE 16
…al fire In the veins of a man, that deathly days Have robbed of the masteries of desire? Who can give garlands of fadeless bays Unto the sorrow and pain we praise? 1 Priapus. Yea, we must praise, though the deadly shade . Fall on the morrow, though fires of hell Harrow our vitals; a miracle Springs at thy kisses, for thou hast made Anguish and sorrow desirable ; Torment of hell as the leaves that fade Quickly forgotten, despised, decayed. They are decayed, but thou.springest again, Mother of mystery, barren, who bearest Fidwers of most comelies…
1906 · PDF PAGE 123
…oke springs up. MEDEA. Alas! for me! All is but lost. ALCESTIS. Canst thou do anything? What ! Shall the hunter find his joy abroad, And sorrow in his house? MEDEA. Thy very hearth Polluted with the old man’s blood ! ACASTUS. What blood ? Answer me, woman ! MEDEA. To thy knees, false hound, Fawning to snap! ACASTUS. What misery, pale slaves, Lament ye? CHORUS. Ah! the ill omen! Ah, the day! Alcestis hath her sire in error slain. ACASTUS. Sister ! ALCESTIS. O brother, bear thine anger back ! ACASTUS. Speak ! ALCESTIS. Ah, the prophecy! Ai Ai! CH…
1906 · PDF PAGE 86
…Lost upon lips with love not overtired, But fearing many things—the after year, The end, the man—O no, not him! the tear, The children’s sorrow, and our own shame fired Not less in doing all that love desired: We have forgotten, surely—being here! We have forgotten every shape of sorrow, Knowing no end to one night’s ecstasy In the night’s kiss from morning that we borrow, From the hard usurer, Eternity— Seeing we have it in our power to die Before the new kiss kindle for the morrow. THE THIRTY-SEVENTH DAY. ‘* By long and vehement suit I was se…
1906 · PDF PAGE 31
…e, as in my hermit’s hood I grow the thing I contemplate—that selfless solitude ! THE STORM. Written on the North Atlantic Ocean. In the sorrow of the silence of the sunset, when the world’s heart sinks to sleep, And the waking wind arises from the wedding of the aether and the deep, There are perfumes through the saltness of the even ; there are hints of flowers afar; And the God goes down lamented by the lonely vesper star. 1 The universe. The monsters rise around us as we move in moving mist, Slow whales that swim as musing, and lo! or ever …
1906 · PDF PAGE 137
…ain, the chariot seems A poised fiend flogging you to hell. CRIOSDA. These thoughts, Maurya,—Maurya ! they become you not. Child, to see sorrow is to taste it. MAURYA. No; For such a sorrow is its own calm joy. But—share me now your pain. Criospa. [/x agony.| No! no! not that ! MauRYA. [Srzling.] The priest has secrets from the goddess? CRIOSDA. [With acry as of physical pain, deadly sharp. Stop! No jesting there. MAURYA. I did not mean to jest. As brother to sister? CRIOSDA. Ah! that hurts, that hurts. Maurya. I am heavy? Criospa. Ileavy as my…
1906 · PDF PAGE 47
…‘‘T am not weary of the soul of spring,” He said, ‘‘none happier in this causeless chain Of life that bears no fruit of pain, No seed of sorrow,” yet his heart was stirred, And, wasting no weak word On the invulnerable air, that had No soul of memories sad, He passed through all the palace: in his bowers He stooped and kissed the flowers ; And in his hall of audience stayed awhile, And with a glad strange smile Bade a farewell to all those lords of his; And greeted with a kiss The virgins clustered in his halls of bliss. Next, passing through t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 201
… duster; nor stop the revolution of the stars with a lever of lath. Awake, awake only! let there be ever re- membrance that Existence is sorrow, sorrow by the inherent necessity of the way it is made; sorrow not by volition, not by malice, not by carelessness, but by nature, by ineradicable tendency, by the incurable disease of Desire, its Creator, is it so, and the way to destroy it is by the uprooting of Desire; nor is a task so formidable accomplished by any threepenny-bit- in-the-plate-on-Sunday morality, the '‘ deceive others and self-dece…
1906 · PDF PAGE 50
…we time in talking ? Let us now away unto the mountains !” So the wise, enlightened by compassion, Seeks that bliss for all the world of sorrow, Swears the bitter oath of Vajrapani: ‘‘ Ere the cycle rush to utter darkness Work I so that every living being Pass beyond this constant chain of causes. If I fail, may all my being shatter Into millions of far-whirling pieces !” Swears that oath, and works, and studies silence, Takes his refuge in the triple jewel, Strangles all desires in their beginning, Leaves no egg of thought to hatch its serpent…
1906 · PDF PAGE 49
…oreshadows my own bliss Of falling into death when life is tired. For of all things desired Not one as death is so desirable, Seeing all sorrows pass, all joys endure, All lessons last. Not heaven and not hell (My spirit is grown sure) Await the lover But death’s veil draws, life’s mother to dis- cover, Nature ; no longer mother, but a bride ! Ay ! there is none beside. O brothers mightier than my mightiest word In the least sob that stirred Your lyres, bring me, me also to the end ! Be near to me, befriend Me in the moonlit, moonless deeps of …
1906 · PDF PAGE 200
…d so his cutting irony—drink no intoxicating drinks ! When I go to take Pansil,* it is in no spirit of servile morality; it is with keen sorrow gnawing at my heart. ‘These five causes of sorrow are indeed the heads of the serpent of Desire. Four at least of them snap their fangs on me in and by virtue of my very act of re- ceiving the commands, and of promising to obey them; if there is a little difficulty about the fifth, it is an omission easily rectified -- and I think we should all make a point about that; there is great virtue in completen…
1906 · PDF PAGE 122
…t misery ! FIRST WOMAN. See! the lady weeps! ALCESTIS. Ai Ai! the black fiend, how he dogs my feet ! The fatal day! Ai! Ai! CHORUS. What sorrow thus, ‘Maiden, removes the feet of fortitude? ALCESTIS. Who shall arouse him? CHORUS. Peace, our lady sleeps. ALCESTIS. Ah ine! but she must wake ! deed Hangs on the house. A black, black MEDEA. What meets my waking ear ?. Alcestis !
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…, for this type of man is probably more prone to repro- duce his species than any other. He called it ‘*Summa Spes.”’ I. Existence being sorrow, The cause of it desire, A merry tune I borrow To light upon the lyre: If death destroy me quite, Then, I cannot lament it; I've lived, kept life alight, And—damned if I repent it! Let me die in a ditch, Damnably drunk, Or lipping a punk, Or in bed with a bitch ! I was ever a hog ; Muck? Iam one with it! Let me die like a dog; Die, and be done with it! * Famous Adelphi villain. II, As far as reason goes…
1906 · PDF PAGE 177
… I deplore These limitations of the mind. I strain my eyes until they’re blind, And cannot pierce the awful veil * In Memoriam. + All is Sorrow. Bard is pleased with himself. Poetee mani- fests a natural irritation. Sabbé pi Duk- kham ! ¢ Beyond thought, is there hope? Maya again. Vision of the
1906 · PDF PAGE 103
ACTUS SECUNDUS 97 JASON. Nay, brother. is sorrow The voice was: ‘‘ The end '» THESEUS. Ye heard not, O dull-witted! Unto me (Alone of all ye wise) the great voice came, ‘““The Gates of Hell prevail.” shall not in = all CASTOR. I heard, ‘‘ Regret not thy mortality ! Love conquers death !” POLLUX. But I, ‘‘ Regret not thou Thine immortality! Love conquers life !””! ORPHEUS. A partial wisdom to a partial ear. JASON. But what speech came to thee ? ORPHEUS., I heard no voice. ARGUS. What means this? Here’s my labour thrown away, My skill made jest o…
1906 · PDF PAGE 247
…as he will himself assure you. True, Hegel says: ‘‘ Pure being is pure nothing!” and it is true that the infinite heat and cold, joy and sorrow, light and darkness, and all the other pairs of opposites,” cancel one another out: yet I feel rather afraid of this Absolute! Maybe its joy and sorrow are represented in phases, just as 0° and finity are phases of an iden- tical expression, and I have an even chance only of being on the right side of the fence! The Buddhist leaves no chances of this kind; in all his categories he is infinitely un- exte…
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…Her sunless breast. Her love is like pain, but enchanted : Her kiss is an opiate breath Amorously panted : Her fervours last granted Are sorrow, and death. Nor death as ye name in derision The change to a cycle of pain, To a cycle of joy as a vision Ye chase, and may capture in vain. Endeth you peace, and your change is Like the change in a measure that shrills And slackens and ranges; your passion estranges The love of the hills ! Nay ! death is a portal of passing To miseries other but sure. Yet the snow on the hills amassing The wind of an h…