Buddhist sayingsБуддийские изречения
2 passagesотрывков: 2
Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
2. Взгляни на небо и на землю и подумай: всё это преходяще, все эти и горы, и реки, и различные формы жизни, и произведения природы. Всё это преходит. Как только ты ясно поймешь это, тотчас явится просветление, и ты узнаешь то, чтó есть и не преходит.
2. Look at the sky and at the earth, and consider: all this is passing — all these mountains, and rivers, and the various forms of life, and the works of nature. All this passes away. As soon as you clearly understand this, enlightenment will come at once, and you will know that which is and does not pass away.
From Sutra in Forty-two Sections · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changedAdds the last clause: once you understand that all passes, “you will know that which is and does not pass away.”
What Tolstoy read · Moncure D. Conway, The Sacred AnthologyLet one behold heaven and earth, and think, ' These are impermanent' — and so the mountains and rivers, the varied forms of life and the productions of nature, all passing away! Attaining to this condition of mind, in a moment there will be illumination.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Sutra in Forty-two Sections, the section on impermanence.
Conway's English (after Beal), closely, to 'in a moment there will be illumination'. The last clause, 'и ты узнаешь то, чтó есть и не преходит', is Tolstoy's own. The Chinese ends 'holding the mind thus, one attains the Way quickly'.
8. Учи свое сердце, а не учись у него.
8. Teach your heart, and do not learn from it.
Probably from Mahaparinirvana Sutra · close to the original (more).
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A likely source, not certain. Mahaparinirvana Sutra (大般涅槃經), 40-fascicle Chinese version, fasc. 28, chapter of the Bodhisattva Lion's Roar (師子吼菩薩品).
The same saying in the same turn: 'may I be the teacher of my mind, and not take my mind as teacher' (願作心師不師於心), one of a bodhisattva's vows in the Chinese Nirvana Sutra (Dharmaksema, 5th century). It became a proverb in Japanese Buddhism. How it reached Tolstoy was not found, and no European rendering of it was found in the saved anthologies; hence candidate. No public-domain English translation exists. Not in Thoughts of Wise Men (1903).
Searched: Thoughts of Wise Men (1903) and its source list (Jubilee vol. 40); Conway's Sacred Anthology; Müller's Dhammapada; Beal's Catena of Buddhist Scriptures (1871); Carus's Gospel of Buddha; The Voice of the Silence; Coit, Southgate (both), and Tileston; Chinese Wikisource for 願作心師.