Word: buddhisme
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...clearly a man who was more interested in power than religion. In 1956, when Bandaranaike was running for election, Buddharakitha organized the United Monks' Front, which went scuttling off to the hustings to recommend Banda and his Freedom Party, on the grounds that Banda promised to give Buddhism its "rightful place" in Ceylon and to make Sinhala, the tongue spoken by most Ceylonese Buddhists, the official language of the land...
...universe where all creatures are interdependent parts of God. In the Upanishads, nonviolence (ahimsa) became one of the five moral virtues. Gautama Buddha (500 B.C.) preached the impracticality of selfishness and hatred, saying that "hatreds are not quenched by hatred. Hatreds are quenched by love." Side by side with Buddhism in the 6th century B.C. came the similar, if sterner, ethics of Jainism, which held that because "all beings hate pains," the "quintessence of wisdom is not to kill anything...
...marvelous mind, but his most recent pronouncements regarding the futility of looking to Asia for enlightenment and spiritual guidance seem exceedingly irresponsible, unfair and misleading. By dwelling on the extremes of Oriental religions and their mystifying mysticism, he grossly distorts the wisdom of the East. He rejects Zen Buddhism and at the same time discounts the essence of Zen, which is not a spiritual doctrine, not a religion, not even a philosophy. One who understands Zen has no gods to fail him. For Zen is not a faith, but faith; not hopes, but hope; not beliefs, but belief...
Asleep or Awake. Japan was no wet diaper, but "a scented bath which gives you electric shocks at unexpected moments." Many of the shocks came from Zen Buddhism, which Koestler feels makes sense in Japan's rigidly conformist social structure. "Taken at face value and considered in itself," he writes, "Zen is at best an existentialist hoax, at worst a web of solemn absurdities. But within the frame work of Japanese society, this cult of the absurd, of ritual leg-pulls and nose-tweaks, made beautiful sense. It was, and to a limited extent still is, a form...
...years of filing notes on his reading on two-by-three cards. After the convention, he selected some 200 items, had them photostated, and arranged them into his nugget book. Included in it are quotations from men as varied as Churchill, De Gaulle, Lincoln, Asoka (early apostle of Buddhism), Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Milton, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and Will Rogers, as well as some stray doggerel that happens to appeal...