The Discipline of Transcendence Vol 3 ~ 01
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 21 Oct 1976 am |
| location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 38min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Not available |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | TRANS301 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutras ("The Sutra of Forty-two Chapters")
- The Buddha said:
- "Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in years. If you hanker after worldly fame and practise not the way, your labours are wrongfully applied and your energy is wasted. It is like unto burning an incense stick. However much its pleasing odour be admired, the fire that consumes is steadily burning up the stick."
- The Buddha said:
- "People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue."
- The Buddha said:
- "Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the maws of a tiger he will jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly arhats."
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