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ćsthetic artist Asahi Shimbun beauty Botamochi Buddha Buddhist Bunsei called character charm city of Japan color dead death detchi dhist divine doctrine dream dwelling ethical existence expression face feeling flowers foreign former births geisha Genzō ghost girl grandmother Hamaguchi Gohei Hanshirō heart heaven Hodokubo honor human hundred idea illusion individual infinite ingwa Japa Japan Japanese art Japanese drawing Karma Kato Kiyomasa Katsugorō Kobé Kyōto Kyūbei light lives look Manyemon meaning ment mind modern mother Mushiki Nagasena Nembutsu nese never Nirvana Occidental Ontaké Ōsaka pain pass perhaps person pleasure priest rebirth remember sect sensation sense sentiency shadow Shinto Shōtoku Taishi shrine signifying song sorrow soul streets Sutra teaching temple Tennōji texts things thought thousand tion Tōkyō tones touch Tōzō truth Tsuya Vaisravana verse village Western wonder word Yedo Yuko
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Page 191 - I HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot tell : I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, — How long ago I may not know : But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore.
Page 266 - Natural knowledge tends more and more to the conclusion that "all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth" are the transitory forms of parcels of cosmic substance wending along the road of evolution, from nebulous potentiality, through endless growths of sun and planet and satellite; through all varieties of matter; through infinite diversities of life and thought; possibly, through modes of being of which we neither have a conception, nor are competent to form any, back to the indefinable...
Page 263 - Sahampati, at the moment of his passing away from existence, uttered this stanza : 'They all, all beings that have life, shall lay Aside their complex form — that aggregation Of mental and material qualities, That gives them, or in heaven or on earth, Their fleeting individuality ! E'en as the teacher — being such a one, Unequalled among all the men that are, Successor of the prophets of old time, Mighty by wisdom, and in insight clear — Hath died!
Page 169 - HE REMITS THE TAXES) ] Thereupon the Heavenly Sovereign, ascending a lofty mountain and looking on the land all round, spoke, saying : " In the whole land there rises no smoke ; the land is all " poverty-stricken. So I remit' all the people's taxes and " [forced labour*] from now till three years [hence].
Page 32 - Manyemon remembers hearing when he himself was a boy: — Things never changed since the Time of the Gods: The flowing of water, the Way of Love.
Page 259 - We may look upon each individual as something not wholly detached from its parent source, — as a wave that has been lifted and shaped by normal conditions in an unknown, illimitable ocean. There is decidedly a solidarity as well as a separateness in all human, and probably in all lives whatsoever ; and this consideration goes far, as I think, to establish an opinion that the constitution of the living Universe is a pure theism, and that its form of activity is what...
Page 228 - ... metamorphosed into the rods and cones. Suppose now that the sac of the brain could be brought back to its original form ; then the rods and cones would form part of the lining of a side pouch of the brain. But one of the most wonderful revelations of embryology is the proof of the fact that the brain itself is, at its first beginning, merely an infolding of the epidermic layer of the general integument.
Page 95 - ... souls that are Nihilists, deserving Siberia; — sleepless souls, hating inaction, and hermit souls, dwelling in such meditative isolation that only at intervals of years can I feel them moving about; — souls that have faith in fetiches ; — polytheistic souls; — souls proclaiming Islam; — and souls mediaeval, loving cloister shadow and incense and glimmer of tapers and the awful altitude of Gothic glooms. Cooperation among all these is not to be thought of: always there is trouble, —...
Page 259 - We must not permit ourselves to consider each human or other personality as something supernaturally added to the stock of nature, but rather as a segregation of what already existed, under a new shape, and as a regular consequence of previous conditions. Neither must we be misled by the word
Page 214 - They shall be endowed with the Highest Wonder"? IX NIRVANA A STUDY IN SYNTHETIC BUDDHISM I It is not possible, O Subhflti, that this treatise of the Law should be heard by beings of little faith — by those who believe in Self, in beings, in living beings, and in persons. The Diamond-Cutter THERE still widely prevails in Europe and America the idea that Nirvana signifies, to Buddhist minds, neither more nor less than absolute nothingness — complete annihilation. This idea is erroneous. But it...