Word: belief
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...root of Buddhism, said Professor Lanman, is popular pessimism. The early Hindoos however, were not pessimists. It is only the later Hindoos who believed life not worth having. Transitoriness, misery, and lack of reality, are the three characteristics of the Buddhist belief. Buddhism then, is a psychology without a soul, combined with a belief in transmigration. This apparent inconsistency is explained by calling that which migrates or Karma, a balance in the debit and credit account with futurity...
...Doctrine or Dhamma.- Popular pessimism and belief in transmigration.- The "Three Characteristics": transitoriness, misery, lack of substantive reality (anniccam, dukkham, anattam).- Karma and rebirth.- Meditation and Nirvana...
...Donald's sermon was an earnest plea for the need of believing in the power of Jesus; that men through such a belief might become living examples that nearness to Christ is nearness to God. The early Christians who were with Christ when he raised Lazarus from the dead saw then that what He taught was true, and thenceforth they were willing to bear record for Him. So today what society needs is men and women who shall follow Christ's teachings, and through their influence and example lead others to follow...
...northern and southern literature of India. That of the south comes nearest to the personality of Buddha. The importance of the Buddha legend lies in the fact that a knowledge of Buddha's personality is necessary to understand Buddhism. The basis of the whole system is a belief in pessimism and innumerable births...
...come now to the greater question of religious belief. The very essence of religion is to propose to us, first, that the best things are the more eternal; second, that we are better off by believing this truth. In case both branches of this hypotheses are true, we are supposed to gain a certain good by belief. If we avoid the issue, we lose the good. The sceptic says, "Better risk loss of truth than chance of error." But we have no evidence that dupery through hope is worse than dupery through error. A sceptic, by requiring absolute proof before...