For us is this lesson: Buddhism, brought face to face with the problem
of the world's evil and possible improvement, evades it; begs the whole
question at the outset; prays: "Deliver us from existence. Save us from
life and give us as little as possible of it." Christianity faces the
problem and flinches not; orders advance all along the line of endeavor
and prays: "Deliver us from evil;" and is ever of good cheer, because
Captain and leader says: "I have overcome the world." Go, win it for me.
"I have come that they might have life, and that they might have it more
abundantly."
CHAPTER VII - RIY[=O]BU, OR MIXED BUDDHISM
"All things are nothing but mind."
"The doctrines of Buddhism have no fixed forms."
"There is nothing in things themselves that enables us to
distinguish in them either good or evil, right or wrong. It is
but man's fancy that weighs their merits and causes him to
choose one and reject the other."
"Non-individuality is the general principle of
Buddhism."--Outlines of the Mah[=a]y[=a]na.
"It (Shint[=o]) was smothered before reaching maturity, but
Buddhism and Confucianism had to disguise and change in order to
enter Japan."
"Life has a limited span and naught may avail to extend it.
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