The Praises of Amid

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: II. Idols and Religious Symbols. Thus sjake Buddlia to Fu-0: The Forest of Iran is in area ten yojanas square, and there is in it one pl.mt only of seajau. 'I he seifdatf being as yet uuly a roqt, arid nqt having appeared above-ground, the whole forest .of iron is foul and devoid of fragrancy, so that when...
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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: II. Idols and Religious Symbols. Thus sjake Buddlia to Fu-0: The Forest of Iran is in area ten yojanas square, and there is in it one pl.mt only of seajau. 'I he seifdatf being as yet uuly a roqt, arid nqt having appeared above-ground, the whole forest .of iron is foul and devoid of fragrancy, so that when the iron is in flower and puts fotth fruit, all otjier plants and animals drcop and die. But afterwards, when the sendan pushes up and grows into a bush, the air is filled with beauty, and all living creatures are renovated. Then Buddha sake again to Fu-0: It is just the same when living creatures in the midst of life and death, think of the ihiddha in .their heart. If they meditate on Him well and without ceasing they will certainly come into His presence. If once they puss from death unto life, then will they put away from .them all Evil and .Sin and make perfect the Greqt Mercy. The Meditation on Buddha is like the plant of sendan, -which puts new life into the whole forest of iron. KWAM-BU;rSU-S.VM-MAI-ICVO. I. In the days before the Restoration of Meiji, when the whole country was bubbling over with talk .about the bringing .back of the Mikado, the up-holding of the Shogunate, 'find other kindred subjects, there was a s.amitraiof Mito, Takecla Kounsai by name, who conceived a great desire to serve his country by some distinguished 'eed of valour or act of wisdom, and who, for that purpose, collected a band of like-minded knights and set out for Kyoto. But the fear of the Tokugawa Government still lay heavy on the majority of the clans, and travelling from district to district was both dangerous and and difficult, and so it came to pass that after making their way safely, through many perils, as far as Echizen, the little band was one day suddenly arrest...