Ceylon Buddhism

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Dhammapada (in Sinhalese, Dam Piyava) or Footsteps of Religion, is one of the fifteen books belonging to the fifth or last section of the discourses of Buddha. It contains 423 Pali verses which appear to have been spoken on various occasions and afterwards collected into one volume. The verses contain...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Dhammapada (in Sinhalese, Dam Piyava) or Footsteps of Religion, is one of the fifteen books belonging to the fifth or last section of the discourses of Buddha. It contains 423 Pali verses which appear to have been spoken on various occasions and afterwards collected into one volume. The verses contain four or six lines of eight syllables each, although the other measures are admitted, and exhibit the morality of Buddhism rather than its peculiar doctrines. The work has been translated into Sinhalese or rather paraphrased, and is much valued by the people. As an example of the text, the fint verse is here quoted. Manopubbangama dhamniu Manosettha mununmyii, Manasa ce padutthena Bhasati va karoti va, Tato nan dukkhamanveti Cakkan va vahato padanti. Our being all U wrought by Mind. Mind rules. Mind causes every deed. That one who has a Mind corrupt Whether he either speak or aot Grief will pursue relentlessly Ah wheel the oxen's lifted foot. Noti?The Dhammapada was first printed in The Friend, 1840, and wai reprinted with alterations in the Ceylon Friend, 1881, THE DOUBLE ANSWERING VEESES. 1. Mind precedes action. The motive is chief: actions proceed from mind. If any one speak or act from a corrupt mind, suffering will follow the action, as the wheel follows the lifted foot of the ox. 2. Mind precedes action: the motive is chief: actions proceed from mind. If any one speak or act with a pure intention, enjoyment will follow the action, as the shadow attends the substance. 3. Their anger is not subdued who recall to mind: ' he abused me, he struck me, he conquered me, he plundered me.' 4. But their anger is subdued who do not recall to Mana: mind. This comprises the four grand divisions of sensations, perception, thought and consciousness...