Questions of King Milinda Part 02

SR No.: 007682
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 2240
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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THE QUESTIONS AND PUZZLES
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'Such are the virtues sold in that bazaar,
"
The shop of the Enlightened One, the Blest; Pay Karma as the price, O ye ill-clad ! Buy, and put on, these lustrous Buddha-gems!" [337] 15. And what, O king, is the Blessed One's jewel of meditation? The meditation that consists of specific conceptions, and of investigation regarding them1;-the meditation that consists of reflection only, specific conceptions being lost sight of 2; the meditation that continues after specific conceptions and reflection on them have both ceased;-the meditation that is void (of lusts, evil dispositions, and Karma); -the meditation from which three signs (of an unconverted life-lust, malice, and dullness) are absent;-the meditation in which no low aspirations remain *. And when a Bhikkhu, O king, has put on this jewel of meditation (Samâdhi), then ideas of lust, and ideas of anger, and ideas of cruelty, and all the various bad thoughts that have their basis in the evil dispositions of pride, self-righteousness, adhesion to wrong views, and doubt-all these, since they come into contact with meditation, flow off from him, disperse, and are dispelled, they stay not with him, adhere not to him. Just, O king, as when water has fallen on a lotus leaf it flows off from it, is dispersed and scattered
V, 15.
I think the first Ghâna (see Buddhist Suttas,' p. 272) is
meant.
Apparently the passage over from the first to the second
Ghana.
* But insight, and the resulting bliss, remain. Compare above, II. 2, 3 (I, 67).
4
Compare above, V, 8, on the last three.
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