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…fore ; no word more, but—to the work ! XII. THE THREE REFUGES, Buddham Saranangachami. Dhammam Saranangachami. Sangham Saranangachami. I take my refuge in the Buddha. I take my refuge in the Dhamma. I take my refuge in the Sangha. This formula of adhesion to Buddhism is daily repeated by countless millions of humanity; what does it mean? It is no vain profession of reliance on others ; no cowardly shirking of burdens—burdens which cannot be shirked. It is a plain estimate of our auxiliaries in the battle; the cosmic facts on which we may rely, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 267
…position with regard to Buddhism. Buddhism is a logical development of observed facts; whoso is with me so far is Sammadazittht, and has taken the first step on the Noble Eightfold Path. Let him aspire to knowledge, and the stone to success; every mistake is the key | Second Step is under his feet. to a new truth The rest lies with Research. Aum ! I take my refuge holy in the Light and Peace of Buddh. Aum! I take my refuge, slowly working out His Law of Good. Aum ! I take my refuge Jowly in His Pitying Brotherhood.
1906 · PDF PAGE 185
…th so very close is To similar experience ; Lies, in a word, beneath suspicion To ordinary common sense . And logic’s emery attrition. I take, however, as before Your own opinions, and demand Some test by which to understand Huxley’s piano-talk,* and find If my hypnosis may not score A point against the normal mind. (As you are pleased to term it, though ! I gather that you do not know ; Merely infer it.) Here’s a test ! What in your whole life is the best Of all your memories? They say You paint—I think you should one day Take me to see your S…
1906 · PDF PAGE 141
…n ! [She rzses up. Mine is the spoil Of the grimly toil. Gloomy, gloomy! | Ah! but I laugh. He is but a fool. He has lost ! He is lost ! Take the staff! ‘Trace the rule Of the circle crossed ! [She makes a circle and a cross therein. No light therein ! Mother of sin, Thou hast won ! Death to the sun! Hail to the glow Of the corpse decayed ! Hail to the maid ! Ho! Ho! [Ske rambles about the stage, mutter- ing savage runes with dismal laughter. Her words are tnarticu- late, when with a last Ho! Ho! the curtain falls. [Zhe scene rises, and we agai…
1906 · PDF PAGE 190
…othings, lest the mystic jeer ‘‘ So logic bends its line severe Back to my involuted curve !” These are my thoughts. I shall not swerve. Take them, and see what. dooms deserve Their rugged grandeur—heaven or hell? Mind the dark doorway there! ® Farewell ! How tedious I always find That special manner of my mind ! Aum ! let us meditate aright On that adorable One Light, Divine Savitri! So may She Illume our minds! So mote it be! 795 800 805 810 815
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…Destiny, All the earth for their spittoon. 1 Mr. Gladstone was attacked by a cow in Hawarden Park in 1891. Toads are gnawing at my feet. Take them off me quick, I pray! Worms my juicy liver eat. Take the awful beasts away ! Vipers make my bowels their meat. Fetch a cunning knife and slay ! Kill the tadpoles in my lung, And the woodlice in my spine, And the beast that gnaws my tongue, And the weasel at my chine, And the horde of adders young That around mine entrails twine! Come, dissect me! Rip the skin! Tear the bleeding flesh apart ! See ye a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 194
… so egregious a crime. What father of to-day would disin- herit, would hunt down to death, a beloved son, on such evidence? Or are we to take it that the eclipse gave proof unshakable of a phenomenon so portentous? In Scene ii. we have another taste of Kent’s gentlemanly demeanour; let our conven- tionalist interpreters defend this unwarrantable bullying if they dare! Another might be so gross, so cowardly; but not our greatest poet ! A good portion of this play, as will be shown later, is devoted to a bitter assault upon the essentially Englis…
1906 · PDF PAGE 266
260 SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM I take my refuge in the Sangha. These are not isolated efforts on my part ; although in one sense isolation is eternally perfect and can never be overcome,! in another sense associates are possible and desirable. One third of humanity are Buddhists ; add men of Science and we form an absolute majority; among Buddhists a very large proportion have deliberately gone out from social life of any kind to tread these paths of Research. Is the Way very hard? Is the brain tired? The results slow to come ? Others are work- ing, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 165
…m—provided they are passed Beyond all change and pain at last Out of this universe accurst. But otherwise! I lift my voice, Deliberately take my choice Promethean, eager to rejoice, In the grim protest’s joy to revel Betwixt Iscariot and the Devil, Throned in their midst! No pain to feel, Tossed on some burning bed of steel, But theirs: My soul of love should swell And, on those piteous floors they trod, Feel, and make God feel, out of Hell, Across the gulf impassable, That He was damned and I was God! Ay! Let him rise and answer me. Ethical an…
1906 · PDF PAGE 242
…, he took refuge in silence, which his disciples very conveniently interpreted as meaning that the question tended not to edification. I take it that the Buddha (ignorant, doubt- less, of algebra) had sufficiently studied philosophy and possessed enough worldly wisdom to be well aware that any system he might promulgate would be instantly attacked and annihilated by the acumen of his numer- ous and versatile opponents. Such teaching as he gave on the point may be summed up as follows. ‘ Whence whither, why, we know not; but we do | know that we…
1906 · PDF PAGE 124
…y thy decree? MEDEA. Nay ! MADNESS. | Safer is it to admit to these Fools—charge the child with lack of fortune ! MEDEA. Yea! I bade her take a waxen shape, carved well To look like the old man ALCESTIS. Nay! nay! the Sire Himself we stole on sleeping —— CHORUS. Hewn apart ! Ai Ai! MEDEA. I said not thus ! ALCESTIS. I am so wild, Bewildered with these tears. ACASTUS. Enough of this ! It is the malice of that sorceress Disguised —she well knows how. CHORUS. Thus, thus it is! We know the witch’s cunning. JASON. Dogs and fools! For this ye die. MA…
1906 · PDF PAGE 251
…ioned English orthodoxy! But when Buddhism condescends to be vulgarly scientific; to observe, to classify, to ¢hzzk ; -I conceive we may take the matter seriously, and accord a reasonable investigation to its assertions. Examples of such succinctness and clarity may be found in The Four Noble Truths; The Three Characteristics; The Ten Fetters; and there is clearly a definite theory in the idea of Karma. Such ideas are basic, and are as a thread on which 1 See Huxley's classical example of the horse, zebra, and centaur. 2 Similarly, where Buddhi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 168
…. I go beneath the outward faith Find it a devil or a wraith, Just as my mood or temper tends! And thus to-day that “ Christ ascends,” I take the symbol, leave the fact, Decline to make the smallest pact With your creative Deity, And say: The Christhood-soul in me, Risen of late, is now quite clear Even of the smallest taint of Earth. Supplanting God, the Man has birth (“ New Birth” you'll call the same, I fear,) Transcends the ordinary sphere And flies in the direction ‘‘x.” (There lies the fourth dimension.) Vex My soul no more with mistransl…
1906 · PDF PAGE 163
…ies bleeding :—- | have pity: (Result of sin ?)—I do not care ; had Christ I will admit : here ! any? The you anywhere . Sheep and the I take your premisses themselves Goats. And, like the droll despiteful elves They are, they yet outwit your plan. 1 will prove Christ a wicked man
1906 · PDF PAGE 241
…hip, and in- genuity to this question is the best proof of the fatuity of the Advaita position. There is then a flaw somewhere. I boldly take up the glove against all previous wisdom, 1 Or as the Sunday-school boy said: ‘‘ Faith is the power of believing what we know to be untrue.’’ I quote Deussen with the more pleasure, because it is about the only sentence In all his writings with which I am in accord. revert to the most elementary ideas of canni- bal savages, challenge all the most vital premisses and axiomata that have passed current coin …
1906 · PDF PAGE 167
…All that he can or ought to think? No! the strong man‘and self-reliant Is the true spiritual giant. I blame no weaklings, but decline To take their maunderings for mine. You see I do not base my thesis On your Book’s being torn in pieces By knowledge ; nor invoke the shade Of my own boyhood’s agony. Soul, shudder not! Advance the blade Of fearless fact and probe the scar ! You know my first-class memory ? Well, in my life two years there are Twelve years back—not so very far ! Two years whereof no memory stays. One ageless anguish filled my day…
1906 · PDF PAGE 247
…ay dismiss from our minds any alarm in respect of this contingency. On mature consideration, therefore, I con- fidently and deliberately take my refuge in the Triple Gem. Namo Tasso Bhagavato Arahato Samma- sambuddhasa !3 Let there be hereafter no discussion of the classical problems of philosophy and_re- ligion! In the light of this exposition the 1 Wala, one whose business is connected with anything. #.g. Jangli-wala, one who lives in, or has business with, a jungle, z.e. a wild man, or a Forest Conservator. 2 The Hindus see this as well as a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 149
…c precipice, over which we may cast all our impedimenta of lies and trickeries, political, social, moral, and religious, and (ourselves) take wings and fly. The comparison be- tween myself and the masters of English thought I have named is unintentional, though perhaps unavoidable; and though the presumption is, of course, absurd, yet a straw will show which way the wind blows as well as the most beautiful and elaborate vane : and in this sense it is my most eager hope that I may not unjustly draw a com- parison between myself and the great re-…
1906 · PDF PAGE 150
…ide Of the metaphysical lotus-eyed,® And I was-—anyhow, what’s the odds? or What isTruth? The life tolive? The thought to think? Shall I take refuge sald jesting In a tower like once Childe Roland {7 found, blind, deaf, huge, 10 ilate: but . Crowley waits Or in that forest of two hundred thousand for an answer.t Trees,® fit alike to shelter man and mouse, and— Shall I say God? Be patient, your Reverence,? I warrant you'll journey a wiser man ever hence! Let’s tap (like the negro who gets a good juice of it, 16 Cares nought if that be, or be not…
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…and words uttered more than two thousand years ago: ‘‘ Therefore, O Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves. Be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to any one be- sides yourselves.” (Mahaparanibbana Sutta, ii. 33.) And to such seekers only does the Buddha promise ‘‘ the very topmost Height ” —if only they are ‘‘anxious to learn.” This is the corner-stone of Buddhism ; can scien- tific men deny their assent to these words when th…