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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Siddhartha Gautama, the great Indian philosopher, is believed to have attained "Enlightenment" sometime in the middle of the 5th century before the Common Era, while meditating under a "Bodhi" tree. From that time of Enlightenment until his death, by which he entered "Nirvana," he traveled by foot around the countryside of India, teaching others his philosophy of the Middle Path. The foundations of Buddhist tradition and practice are often called the Three Jewels: "the Buddha," "the Dharma" (teachings), and "the Sangha" (community).
Presented in this modern special edition is a unique selection of the ancient texts which would follow the path of the Silk Road from India to China to Japan, and evolve into the school of thought known today as Zen Buddhism. This path follows the Indian Mahayana verses from the "Dhammapada," to a collection of Buddhist sutras (scriptures) transcribed from Chinese texts, and finally concludes with the Threefold Lotus, the three Pure Land sect sutras favored in Japan.
Excerpt from "Zen Buddhism - The Path to Enlightenment - Special Edition" Reprinted by permission - All rights reserved.
The Buddha said: ""There are two aims which he who has given up the world ought not to follow after - devotion, on the one hand, to those things whose attractions depend upon passions, a low and pagan ideal, fit only for the worldly-minded; ignoble, unprofitable; and the practice on the other hand of asceticism, which is painful, ignoble, and unprofitable.
There is a Middle Path discovered by the Tathagata a path which opens the eyes, and bestows understanding, which leads to peace, to insight, to the higher wisdom, to Nirvana. It is the Noble Eightfold Path...""

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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: . And in this connection we will listen for a moment to Mr. Barton's poet friend. The Dumb Christ. Ay, dumb Why should he speak ? Had he not spoken ? But who believed? Who but at last forsook, And left him on the world's wheel to be broken, Who had escaped the meaning of that look? Ay, dumb Of what avail were speaking now? Powers of the world were speaking near and far, In whom he had no part, for on his brow Was set a crown that held no glittering star; His robes were not the robes of mortal kings? The Wronged, the Bruised, the Desolated One Nor was his kingdom one of earthly things,? Sin's Victim-martyr, God's obedient Son Speak ? He had spoken as man never spake, Words that earth's multitudinous dead shall yet awake/ G. J. B. "Ix is More Blessed To Give Than To Receive.' Then will I give out of the heart's great store, Give as the rivers flowing to the sea. Give to the full,?till I can give no more, Nor ever ask it once returned to me. Take, O ye needy, though I thirst and die, All that I have' and am, heart, life, and limb, "ZMore blessed to give than to receive." 19 Take, for the love of Christ doth sanctify, I give as I were giving unto Him. O trembling hearts that wither in the shade, Come forth and sun ye in the light of God; He hateth nothing He hath ever made, But loveth most when most doth fall the rod. Come forth, ye hungry, here is store for all ? Bread without stint, whoe'er doth crave or call. G. J. B. chapter{Section 4Beverly Bridge.?I. "I, too, saw the reflection of the summer sky in the water, Had my eyes dazzled by the shimmering track of beams, Look'd at the fine centrifugal spokes of light round the shape of my head in the sun-lit water." W. Whitman. All bridges are poetic and...