The East is calling to the West for help in making the Wisdom of the East available for the life of today and in the like wise the West is calling to the East— What is more each is answering the other’s call. [...] Translation has been the means iznployed as being the most effectual and the selections of the book relate to the life of the Buddha his struggle attainment of Buddhaship and the events after the attainment of enlightenment his early Retirement & Death. [...] Then follows a description of the daily routine of The Buddha’s ministry and the last section of this chapter gives the Pali account of how The Buddha died. [...] If he is such a one as to think : " The man who if all within the rion of the world were to become water would be ready to swim across it with his own arms and get to the further shore — lie is the one to attain the Buddhaship; or in case all within the rim of the world were to become a jungle of bamboo would be ready to elbow and trample his way through it and get to the further side — he i [...] " As at the waning of the night The rising of the sun is sure So what the glorious Buddhas speak Is sure and steadfast to the end.
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