Religion in China : Containing a Brief Account of the Three Religions of the Chinese, With Observations On the Prospects of Christian Conversion Amongst That People
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The mode in which these are now operating in China may be illustrated by the following notes of an actual conversation. I once asked an aged priest at the head of a monastery if he had attained to the true fruit.
(The result of meditation and discipline is termed fruit.) He replied, that he had not. He was again asked " Do 138 RELIGION IN CHINA.
you, with the ' Diamond Book of Transcendental Wisdom, hold that all things having colour and form are empty and unreal, so that the objects surroundin...g us have no exist- ence but in imagination?" His answer was, "It is diffi- cult to say. Those who have attained the true fruit see aU things to be delusive, but others cannot do so." This was an honest confession on the part of the aged monk.
He did not himself believe, as his religion teaches, that matter is unreal, and that our senses are always deceiviag us ; but he thought that those who have risen into a state of exalted reverie are. able to discern the truth of these pro- positions. I agaiu asked him, " Are you the better for sub- mitting to the tonsure and renouncing the world ?" " No," said he ; " it is good to be a monk, and it is also good to be a common man." " Then why," he was asked, " did you become a monk at all ?" " To keep the heart at rest," he said, "so that it may not be ruffled by common affairs." " And have you attained that stage of advancement?" " No," was his response; " but there is a priest here who has done more than I have." He led me to see him.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The mode in which these are now operating in China may be illustrated by the following notes of an actual conversation. I once asked an aged priest at the head of a monastery if he had attained to the true fruit.
(The result of meditation and discipline is termed fruit.) He replied, that he had not. He was again asked " Do 138 RELIGION IN CHINA.
you, with the ' Diamond Book of Transcendental Wisdom, hold that all things having colour and form are empty and unreal, so that the objects surroundin...g us have no exist- ence but in imagination?" His answer was, "It is diffi- cult to say. Those who have attained the true fruit see aU things to be delusive, but others cannot do so." This was an honest confession on the part of the aged monk.
He did not himself believe, as his religion teaches, that matter is unreal, and that our senses are always deceiviag us ; but he thought that those who have risen into a state of exalted reverie are. able to discern the truth of these pro- positions. I agaiu asked him, " Are you the better for sub- mitting to the tonsure and renouncing the world ?" " No," said he ; " it is good to be a monk, and it is also good to be a common man." " Then why," he was asked, " did you become a monk at all ?" " To keep the heart at rest," he said, "so that it may not be ruffled by common affairs." " And have you attained that stage of advancement?" " No," was his response; " but there is a priest here who has done more than I have." He led me to see him.
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