Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" There are two extremes, O Bhikkhus, which he who has given up the world, ought to avoid. What are these two extremes ? A life given to pleasures, devoted to pleasures and lusts : this is degrading, sensual, vulgar, ignoble, and profitless ; and a life... "
Hindu Castes and Sects: An Exposition of the Origin of the Hindu Caste ... - Page 525
by Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya - 1896 - 623 pages
Full view - About this book

Journal and Proceedings, Volume 63

Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal - 1895 - 626 pages
...extremes, 0 Bhikkhus which he who has given up the world ought to avoid. What are these two extremes PA life given to pleasures, devoted to pleasures and...ignoble and profitless. By avoiding these two extremes the Buddha has gained the knowledge of the Middle Path which leads to insight and to wisdom ; which...
Full view - About this book

Vinaya texts: Volume 13

Religion - 1881 - 448 pages
...One thus addressed the five Bhikkhus2: 'There are two extremes, O Bhikkhus, which he who has given up the world, ought to avoid. What are these two extremes...and profitless. By avoiding these two extremes, O Bhikkhus, the Tathagata has gained the knowledge of the Middle Path which leads to insight, which leads...
Full view - About this book

The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, Volume 18

Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - Unitarianism - 1882 - 592 pages
...thus addressed the five Bhikkhus : * There are two extremes, O Bhikkhus, which he who has given up the world ought to avoid. What are these two extremes?...and profitless. By avoiding these two extremes, O Bhikkhus, the Tathagata f has gained the knowledge of the Middle Path which leads to insight, which...
Full view - About this book

A History of Civilization in Ancient India: Based on Sanscrit ..., Volume 2

Romesh Chunder Dutt - India - 1889 - 368 pages
...from the very commencement of his religious career, he expressed his pronounced disapprobation of the two extremes : " A life given to pleasures, devoted...mortifications ; this is painful, ignoble and profitless." Mahdvagga, I, 6, 17The middle path is one of holy purity and calm sinless contemplation, and this is...
Full view - About this book

History of Religion: A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices ...

Allan Menzies - Religions - 1895 - 468 pages
...life devoted to pleasures and lusts ; this is degrading, sensual, vulgar, profitless ; the other is a life given to mortifications ; this is painful,...ignoble, and profitless. By avoiding these two extremes the Tathagata has gained the knowledge of the Middle Path, which leads to insight, wisdom, calm, to...
Full view - About this book

Ancient Ideals: A Study of Intellectual and Spiritual Growth from ..., Volume 1

Henry Osborn Taylor - Civilization - 1896 - 484 pages
...willingly. Whereupon he addressed them thus: " There are two extremes, O Bhikkhus, which he who has given up the world ought to avoid. What are these two extremes? A life given to pleasures and —^ E- . . lusts : this is degrading, sensual, vulgar, ignoble, fold patt, and profitless ; and...
Full view - About this book

Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or ..., Volume 28

Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1896 - 380 pages
...up the world ought to avoid, viz., a life given to pleasures, devoted to pleasures and lusts, which is degrading, sensual, vulgar, ignoble, and profitless: and a life given to mortification, which is painful, ignoble, and profitless. By avoiding," he says, " these two extremes,...
Full view - About this book

The Dhamma of Gotama the Buddha and the Gospel of Jesus the Christ: A ...

Charles Francis Aiken - Buddha (The concept) - 1900 - 376 pages
...excessive mortifications, he said : — " There are two extremes, O Bhikkhus, which he who has given up the world ought to avoid. What are these two extremes? A life given to pleasure, devoted to pleasures and lusts : this is degrading, sensual, vulgar, ignoble, and profitless...
Full view - About this book

India: Its History, Darkness and Dawn

William St. Clair Tisdall - India - 1901 - 202 pages
...are two extremes, 0 Mendicants, which he who has given up the world ought to avoid. A life given up to pleasures, devoted to pleasures and lusts : this is degrading, sensual, vulgar, ignoble, profitless ; and a life given over to mortifications : this is painful, ignoble, and profitless. By...
Full view - About this book

The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis ..., Volume 5

Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1906 - 522 pages
...recluses, which he who hath given up the world ought to avoid. What are these two extremes ? First, a life given to pleasures, devoted to pleasures and...degrading, sensual, vulgar, ignoble and profitless; and second, a life given to mortifications : this is painful, ignoble and profitless. By avoiding these...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF