The Life of Buddha And Its Lessons

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4. What he taught may be summed up in a few words, as the perfume ofmany roses may be distilled into a few drops of _attar_: Everything inthe world of Matter is unreal; the only reality is in the world ofSpirit. Emancipate yourselves from the tyranny of the former; striveto attain the latter. The Rev. Samuel Beal, in his _Catena ofBuḍḍhist Scriptures from the Chinese_ puts it differently. "Theidea underlying the Buddhist religious system is, " he says, "simplythis: 'all is vanity'. Earth is a
... show, and Heaven is a vain reward. "Primitive Buḍḍhism was engrossed, absorbed, by one thought--thevanity of finite existence, the priceless value of the one conditionof Eternal Rest.
If I have the temerity to prefer my own definition of the spirit ofBuḍḍha's doctrine, it is because I think that all themisconceptions of it have arisen from a failure to understand his ideaof what is real and what is unreal, what worth longing and strivingfor and what not. From this misconception have come all the unfoundedcharges that Buḍḍhism is an "atheistical, " that is to say, agrossly materialistic, a nihilistic, a negative, a vice-breedingreligion.


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