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All that he truly cared for was to be centered in himself. Only thus could he be sure that Fortune would not wrest it from him. The apathy or passionlessness of the sage is another of his most salient features. The passions being, on Zeno's showing, not natural, but forms of disease, the sage, as being the perfect man, would of course be wholly free from them.
But there are two Nirvanas; that of entire passionlessness attained in this life, and the consummate Nirvana entered at death. The saint does not need to wait for death for his redemption, nor must he hasten his death in order to enjoy it fully; Buddha, by example and by precept, forbids any such anticipation.
Beset with lust, men run about like a snared hare; held in fetters and bonds, they undergo pain for a long time, again and again. Beset with lust, men run about like a snared hare; let therefore the mendicant drive out thirst, by striving after passionlessness for himself.
The best of ways is the eightfold; the best of truths the four words; the best of virtues passionlessness; the best of men he who has eyes to see. This is the way, there is no other that leads to the purifying of intelligence. Go on this path! This is the confusion of Mâra, the tempter. If you go on this way, you will make an end of pain!
And the lessons to be derived are that House of Commons' eloquence should be easy, genial in temper, reserved in force in short, that it should put things with the agreeable candour, and passionlessness want of exaggeration which characterise well-bred conversation. A foredoomed sheep could not have been brought more unwillingly to the slaughter than was Mr.
Meantime while his whole attention was absorbed, the Parsee was kneeling beneath him on the ship's deck, and with face thrown up like Ahab's, was eyeing the same sun with him; only the lids of his eyes half hooded their orbs, and his wild face was subdued to an earthly passionlessness.
The gentleness, the dreamy passionlessness of those features, the immense repose of the whole figure are full of beauty and charm.
Meantime while his whole attention was absorbed, the Parsee was kneeling beneath him on the ship's deck, and with face thrown up like Ahab's, was eyeing the same sun with him; only the lids of his eyes half hooded their orbs, and his wild face was subdued to an earthly passionlessness.
The Stoic extreme of passionlessness is almost as false as the Epicurean hedonism, and the mean between them is the ideal Jewish life, in which godliness and humanity are blended.
And Lafcadio Hearn, that learned authority on everything Japanese, who has brought into all his writings a poetical feeling which breathes the very spirit of old Japan, has observed in regard to the same statue: "The gentleness, the dreamy passionlessness of those features the immense repose of the whole figure are full of beauty and charm.
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