By H. Saddhatissa
ISBN-10: 0700701818
ISBN-13: 9780700701810
This is often one of many oldest collections of Buddhist discourses within the Pali canon; through a long way probably the most renowned in addition to an important. Written in a mix of prose and verse, it provides a code of behavior and offers the root for a procedure of ethical philosophy. a major resource work.
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The Ven. Prof. Hammalawa Saddhatissa Maha Thera (1914–1990) was once an ordained Buddhist monk, missionary and writer from Sri Lanka, expert in Varanasi, London, and Edinburgh.He was once a latest of and in lots of methods equivalent to Walpola Rahula, additionally of Sri Lanka.
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1 (243) 6 In this world those who are rude, arrogant, backbiting, treacherous, unkind, excessively egoistic, miserly, and do not give anything to anybody; this is stench . . (244) 7 Anger, pride, obstinacy, antagonism, deceit, envy, boasting, excessive egoism, association with the immoral; this is stench . . (245) 8 Those who are of bad morals, refuse to pay their debts, slanderous, deceitful in their dealings, pretentious, those who in this world, being the vilest of men, commit such wrong things; this is stench .
16) 17 He who has eradicated the five hindrances,3 freed from confusion, having overcome doubts and sorrow . . ’ 2 Second part of the stanza in the text appears as saritaṃ sīghasaraṃ visosayitvā, whereas the Commentary states: saritaṃ gataṃ pavattaṃ, sīghasaraṃ, sīghagāminiṃ, saritaṃ sīghasaraṃ pi taṇhaṃ. The latter means ‘the craving which flows quickly’. In similar stanzas, the second and fourth similes have been given in the second part. On the analogy of these two stanzas, therefore, I feel that the reading has been corrupt, even during the Commentary period.
Muni1 Sutta The Sage In praise of the solitary life of self-control 1 Fear arises because of intimacy. Sensual desire is born of the household life. Homelessness and detachment is, therefore, appreciated by the sage. (207) 2 One who cuts off defilements that have arisen, who would not plant them again and who would not enter into what is being grown, he is said to be the solitary wandering sage. That great sage has seen the State of Peace [Nibbāna]. (208) 3 Having considered the ground, having discarded the seed and not supplying moisture for the growth of that seed; having abandoned sophistry, that sage who has seen the end of birth cannot be categorically described.
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