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India and Tibet : vol.1 |
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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.
The Mongols in their deserts, the Tibetans in their
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
innermost sanctuary of their mountains, and to me it
seems that they have both been pursuing a false ideal.
They have sought by withdrawing from the world into
the desert and into the mountain to secure present peace
for the individual, instead of, by manfully taking their
part in the work of the world, aiming at the eventual
unison of the whole. Peace, instead of harmony, has
been their ideal—peace for the emasculated individual
instead of harmony for the united and full-blooded
whole.
The Tibetan's main idea, in fact, has been to save his
own soul. He does not trouble about others so long as
he can save himself. Indeed, he thinks it will require all
his energies to do even that much, for at heart he is still
full of his original religion of demonology. He looks
upon the spiritual world as filled with demons, ready to
prey upon him if he makes the slightest slip. Every
temple, almost every house, is full of fantastic pictures
of the most terrible and blood-curdling devils, with glaring
eyes, open fang-studded mouth, extended neck and out-
stretched arm, ready to pounce upon some miserable
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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