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burst into tears. Then remembering the impassable gulf between them, she rose and stood on one side. She ultimately became a Buddhist nun. -DAVID'S BUDDHISM.

Once upon a time Buddha lived in a village, and in the sowing season, went with his bowl in hand to the place where food was being given by a Brâhmana, who seeing him, spoke thus:

"O priest, I both plough and sow, and having ploughed and sowed, I eat; you also, O priest, should plough and sow, and having ploughed and sown, you should eat."

"I, too, O Brâhmana, plough and sow, and having ploughed and sown, I eat," said Buddha.

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"But we see neither the yoke, nor plough, nor ploughshare, nor goad, nor oxen, of the venerable Gautama. Being questioned by us as as to your ploughing, speak in such a manner as we may know of your ploughing." The Buddha replied: "For my cultivation, faith is the seed; penance the rain; wisdom my yoke and plough; modesty the shaft for the plough; mind the string; presence of mind my ploughshare and goad." Then the Brahmana offered him rice boiled in milk from a golden vessel.*

HIS PRECEPTS.

To cease from all sin,

To get virtue,

To cleanse one's own heart,

This is the religion of the Buddhas.

-DAVID'S BUDDHISM.

From Clodd's Childhood of Religions.

Scrupulously avoiding all wicked actions,
Reverently performing all virtuous ones,
Purifying this intention from selfish desire
Is the doctrine of all the Buddhas.

"LIGHT OF ASIA."*

Health is the greatest of gifts ;
Contentedness the best riches;
Trust is the best of relatives;

Perfect repose the highest happiness.

“ DHAMMAPADA.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought it is founded on : our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the cart.

As the bee collects honey, and departs without injuring the flower, or its colour or scent, so let a sage

dwell on earth.

"These sons belong to me, and this wealth belongs to me," with such thoughts a fool is tormented. He himself does not belong to himself, how much less sons and wealth!

Let no

man think lightly of evil, heart, It will not come nigh unto me.

saying in his Let no man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, It will not benefit me. Even by the falling of water-drops a waterpot is filled.

He whose evil deeds are covered by good deeds, brightens up this world like the moon when she rises from behind the clouds.

By Sir Edwin Arnold.

Let a man overcome anger by love, evil by good, the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth.

The fault of others is easily preceived but that of oneself is difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neighbour's faults like chaff, but his own faults he hides, as a cheat hides the bad die from the player.

Not by tonsure does an undisciplined man who speaks falsehood become a saint; can a man be a saint who is still held captive by desires and greediness?

What is the use of platted hair, O fool? What of the raiment of goat-skins? Within thee there is ravening, but the outside thou makest clean.*

-BUDDHA.

See what true knowledge has effected here!
The lust and anger which infest the world,
Arising from delusion, are destroyed
Like thieves condemned to perish. Ignorance
And worldly longings, working only evil,
By the great fire of knowledge, are burnt up
With all their mass of tangled roots. The cords
And knots of lands and houses and possessions,
And selfishness, which talks of "self" and "mine"
Are severed by the weapons of my knowledge.
The raging stream of lust which has its source
In evil thoughts, fed by concupiscence,
And swollen by sight's waters, are dried up
By the bright sun of knowledge; and the forest
Of trouble, slander, envy and delusion,

Is by the flame of discipline consumed.†

-BUDDHA.

From The Sacred Books of the East by Max Müller.

† From Indian Wisdom by Monier Williams.

Every man who calls himself a follower of Buddha

must vow

1. Not to destroy life.

2. Not to steal.

3.

To abstain from all unchastity.

4. Not to lie, deceive, or bear false witness.

5. To abstain from intoxicating drinks.

A layman of higher aspirations must promise in addition

6. Not to eat food at unseasonable times, that is, after the mid-day meal.

7. Not to dance, not to sing light songs; in fact, to avoid worldly dissipation.

8. Not to wear any kind of ornament, not to use any scents or perfumes; in short, to avoid whatever tends to vanity.

The priest or the friar or mendicant has to obey two more commandments :

9. To sleep on a hard and low couch. 10. To live in voluntary poverty.*

From the Collected Works of Max Müller.

16. BUSINESS.

Business is the salt of life.

A useful trade is a mine of gold.

It is the man, who determines the dignity of the occupation, not the occupation, which measures the dignity of the man.

The dignity of every occupation wholly depends upon the quantity and the kind of virtue that may be exerted in it.

-BURKE.

Honour and shame from no condition rise,
Act well your part-there all the honour lies.
-POPE.

Let parents choose betimes, the vocations and courses, they mean their children should take; for then they are most flexible; and let them not too much apply themselves to the disposition of their children, as thinking they will take best to that, which they have most mind to. It is true that if the affection or aptness of the children be extraordinary, then it is good not to cross it. -BACON.

Select the best life, habit will make it most agreeable.

There are three things necessary in business-knowledge, temper and time.