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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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r FALLACY OF BUDDHIST IDEAL 315
r There are few men who have no kindly feelings, and would
not wish, if they could, to be at peace with all the world.
Yet the idea may have its danger and be as likely to lead
downward as upward. It may lull to rest and render
useless passions and energies which ought to be given
play to. And the evil of Lamaism is that it has fostered
lazy repose and self-suppression at the expense of useful
activity and self-realization.
Iii The Mongols in their deserts, the Tibetans in their
ii mountains, have had the amplest opportunity for carrying
into effect the Buddhist idea. I have seen the one in
the deepest depths of their deserts, and the other in the
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i)2 innermost sanctuary of their mountains, and to me it
till `~ seems that they hae both been pursuing a false ideal.
The have sought by withdrawing from gthe world into
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It the desert and into the mountain to secure present peace
for the individual, instead of, by manfully taking their
rfli part in the work of the world, aiming at the eventual
1 unison of the whole. Peace, instead of harmony, has
ni been their ideal—peace for the emasculated individual
la instead of harmony for the united and full - blooded
ii whole.
Ili The Tibetan's main idea, in fact, has been to save his
it own soul. He does not trouble about others so long as
iii he can save himself. Indeed, he thinks it will require all
ii his energies to do even that much, for at heart he is still
ii full of his original religion of demonology. He looks
II upon the spiritual world as filled with demons, ready to
i prey upon him if he makes the slightest slip. Every
Io temple, almost every house, is full of fantastic pictures
s of the most terrible and blood-curdling devils, with glaring
II eyes, open fang-studded mouth, extended neck and out-
stretched arm, ready to pounce upon some miserable
i victim. The belief in heaven is vague. The belief in hell
is the one great fact in their lives, and how real it is may
be imagined when we hear of these poor wretches, who,
in order to escape its terrors, voluntarily allow themselves
to be walled into solitary cells, from which for years they
never emerge, but take in their food once a day through
a narrow opening. Thus only do those poor deluded
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