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...mer but a member of the more affluent class and this by Thai, although not Buddhist standards, was well revered. How swift one's encroaching alonenes... ...glasses that caged her tepid orbs and to not succumb them to rapturous non-Buddhist primal yearnings. She did not care to dodge the aloneness of her ... ...ieged by an orderly society of ants. He was beginning to acknowledge that Buddhist principles were curtailed by reality: a few ants allowed to live w... ...e aunt's insistence his mother and father had paid for him to go to a poor Buddhist school run by the monks. The monks had been impressed by his acade... ...e a coffin. In it was a large golden pen that gleamed like the roofs of a Buddhist temple. Minutes passed. She continued to exhibit the pen and her ... ...festival, or Buddhist rosaries and necklaces to old women during religious holidays. " Please come over to my table, boys." They smiled and cam... ...and that he be able to direct foreigners where they needed to go. National holidays (when he got them) were spent in the vicarious borrowing of a pers...

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... Power of sorcerers 103 * From tradition to belief in development 104 Buddhist religion Buddhism of the village community 107 From local reli... ... of morality that existed in the Christian villages of the past or in the Buddhist communities of this book. Never has so much information and resear... ...lowed to stay away from school for months and people waited and hoped for holidays so children could work at home, help with looking after the buffal... ... before, but today one cannot say that, and such dishonesty is contrary to Buddhist morality. Improvements in the roads and in villagers' community sp... ...ed to adapt to Thai society, they speak the Thai language and also observe Buddhist customs. It is often said that the Chinese immigrants were mostly ... ... calendars, but some have acquired carved teak plaques depicting national (Buddhist) themes and blending in with the style of the carved furniture. A ... ...is counted from the birth of Buddha (543 BC). The old Buddhist calendar of holidays is also adapted to international months, but many old temple days ...

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...dilemma was not knowing who the guarantor was, so he sunk himself into the Buddhist myths of his culture. Ubiquitous superstition, the guardian agains... ...onveying the same grief of being bereft of family--were common on all Thai holidays. For it was on such days that happy or speciously happy groups bur... ...ups more fully tangled his steps like seaweed washed on crowded shores. On holidays like this, families were everywhere except in fetid trains, like t... ... self to be more comically intriguing than any other being. It was on such holidays, as teenagers, that he and Noppawan, and the "they" that they bot... ...feless aching. It was not all that different than the monotonous chants of Buddhist monks that were broadcast from speakers hanging in tree limbs of ... ... "Nawin Biadklang's paintings are almost like a hybrid of Montien Boonma's Buddhist sculpture with an amateur painter's penchant for easily obtained n... ...rom that area." "With a road map and a desire to see the Midwest for their holidays," he added facetiously. It was an utterance meant to make their re... ...nt human weakness suggested that the peace of mind he hoped to obtain by a Buddhist trip into Vientiane could be easily ravaged by wild desires as ran... ...novel even if this particular context for it was. It seemed to him to have Buddhist or Biblical implications which he supposed as having been transmit...

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...roastrians believe in a single God. This is called monotheism. The purist Buddhists would not believe in a special god, but some Buddhist sects do a... ...t of Yahweh, God or Allah. And they speak of their experiences just as do Buddhists or Hindus who have united with the oneness of nature. These saint... ... you. Throw in 2/3rds of a billi on Hindus and a third of a billion Buddhists and you have most of the world categorized. The Jews, for all the... ...world. The places of worship like the Greek temples on the Acropolis, the Buddhist shrines at Ankor, the magnificent Christian cathedrals and the in... ...—―Why haven‘t the states of the West adopted the peaceful approach of the Buddhists or the Jains. War would certainly not be an option. But using the... ...ve their way of life. Welfare states allow nearly free medical care, long holidays, job protection, early retirement—but many people in the world are... ...educed. ―Norwegians get 4 to 6 weeks of paid vacation and 11 paid holidays, so the work year is about 45 weeks. Of that, the average Norwegi... ...ive vacation time in many European countries. In addition to the national holidays that all countries enjoy. Denmark, Finland and Austria give six we...

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...than one million tribals Religion: 83% Muslim, about 16% Hindu, less than 1% Buddhist, Christian, and other Language: Bangla (official), English widel... ...0% Chi- nese, 16% other Religion: 60% Muslim (official); 8% Chris- tian; 32% Buddhist and indigenous beliefs Language: Malay (official), English, and ... ...9% Shan, 7% Karen, 4% Raljome, 3% Chinese, 2% Indian, 7% other Religion: 85% Buddhist, 15% indigenous beliefs, Muslim, Christian, or other Language: B... ...gal Studies at Libreville; compulsory ICJ jurisdiction not accepted National holidays: Renovation Day, 12 March; Independence Day, 17 August; major Is... ...tion Day, 12 March; Independence Day, 17 August; major Islamic and Christian holidays Branches: power centralized in President, elected by universal s... ...ies Islamic principles of government National holiday: Shi'a Islam religious holidays observed nationwide Branches: Ayatollah ol-Ozma Ruhollah Khomein... ...eview was suspended; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdic- tion National holidays: anniversaries of the 1958 and 1968 revolutions are celebrated 1... ..., 0.6% other (mostly Korean) Religion: most Japanese observe both Shinto and Buddhist rites; about 16% belong to other faiths, including 0.8% Christia... ...5% Phouth- eung (Kha); 14% Tribal Tai; 13% Meo, Yao, and other Religion: 50% Buddhist, 50% animist and other Language: Lao (official), French, and Eng...

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...nsider that you have earned your money? Would you go off on their junkets and holidays called business trips? To hob-nob with your fellow cronies a... ...will fail. If you leave your family at an early age, and study under famous Buddhist sages, and practice Buddhism all your life; you will not beco... ...hist sages, and practice Buddhism all your life; you will not become a famous Buddhist sage. Only one… one token person will ever gain that token ... ...vicariously entertained, or it inspires us to escape it temporarily by having holidays or vacations. It inspires us either to be active or non-activ... ...self-indulgence. It is pure spiritual corruption. Why are the Christmas holidays felt to be so loving? Because for one evening… we can exclude... .... This is why each family closes its doors to all strangers during the winter holidays; and huddles together to celebrate their own closeness by sh... ...ake voluntary vows of poverty and chastity… and practice voluntary hardship. Buddhist Taoist, Shintoist monks in the East practiced it long before ... ...ual teaching still does not work … then what the fuck is it good for? The Buddhist ethic is based upon pure cynicism. The ultimate achievement o... ...me exact type of insanity. This kind of mental madness has been practiced by Buddhist masters for over 7,000 years. So sitting and staring at noth...

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... halted amazed. In the entrance hall stood the larger figures of the Greco Buddhist sculptures done, savants know how long since, by forgotten workmen... ...s and slabs crowded with figures that had encrusted the brick walls of the Buddhist stupas and viharas of the North Country and now, dug up and labell... ... few in the world who still have the secret of the conventional brush pen Buddhist pictures which are, as it were, half written and half drawn. But t... ...id Father Victor, when he had talked without a break for ten minutes. ‘His Buddhist friend has levanted after taking my name and address. I can’t quit... ... of this, for he began to understand where examinations led. Then came the holidays from August to October–the long holidays imposed by the heat and t... ... ’ He paused, with a puzzled smile. ‘What am I? Mussalman, Hindu, Jain, or Buddhist? That is a hard knot.’ ‘Thou art beyond question an unbeliever, an... ...oo late, therefore, to send thee to any Hill school.’ ‘I have said that my holidays are my own. I do not go to school twice over. That is one part of ... ... good little boy and mind your book, as the English say, and perhaps, next holidays if you care, you can come back to me!’ Kim’s face fell. ‘Oh, I mea... ... of a fish,’ was his pro verbial philosophy. It behoved him to forget his holidays (there would always remain the fun of inventing imaginary adventur...

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...tic air which added to the impression. He often related that on one of his holidays in Boulogne, one of those holidays upon which his wife for economy... ...ther , and then more, and they began to talk about their doings during the holidays, where they had been, and what wonderful cricket they had played. ... ..., for he knew quite well that he had bought the pen-holder during his last holidays at Blackstable for one and twopence. He did not know in the least ... ...o ask at school, so he kept the question he had in mind till the Christmas holidays, and then one day he made an opportunity. It was after supper and ... ...e believed. For once he looked forward with eager - ness to the end of the holidays. He laughed to himself as he thought of his uncle’s astonish- ment... ...merciful judge, reserving the flames of hell for the heathen— Mahommedans, Buddhists, and the rest—would spare Dissenters and Roman Catholics (though ... ... of England, and from that he led him to admit that the Mahommedan and the Buddhist were convinced also of the truth of their respective religions. It...

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...untless treasures; the green country rattling by on either side, and the children in all the villages contemplating him with envy and wonder? It is be... ...d; and she seemed to take a gentle pleasure in recalling all that was fortunate in his little existence. No schoolboy could have talked more of the 3... ...32 Robert Louis Stevenson ‘Y ou sleep alone at school,’ objected his mother. ‘Come, come, you must be a man.’ But he protested that school was a diffe... ...onsidered them like a part of the landscape. I take it, in short, that I was about as near Nirvana as would be convenient in practical life; and if th...

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...shop’s mind. And others no less wicked followed it. Once during his summer holidays in Florence he and Lady Ella had subscribed to an association for ... ...eternally against that Being of silence and darkness beyond the stars. The Buddhists made the Lord Buddha the leader of men out of the futility and co... ...come apart from the great world of faith, Catholic, Islamic, Brahministic, Buddhistic, that grows now to a common consciousness of the near Advent of ...

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...titution, and we have a Working Men’s Institu tion—may it hold many gipsy holidays in summer fields, with the kettle boiling, the band of music playi... ... am a good workman. Not a Teetotaller; but never drunk. When the Christmas holidays were over, I went up to London by the Parliamentary T rain, and hi... ... honourable friend (who was a dis ciple of Brahma in his youth, and was a Buddhist when we had the honour of travelling with him a few years ago) al ... ...extraordinary sounds when he sometimes tried to play it of an evening. His holidays never began (on account of the bills) until long after ours; but, ...

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... Neither Lousteau nor Bianchon replied; they were waiting perhaps till the holidays. Bianchon, who had won his professor’s chair the year before after... ...come to, monsieur?” asked the lawyer. “T o adultery!—For thus, monsieur, a Buddhist as he smokes his pipe may very well assert that the Christian reli...

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...erable temples of the Christian and quasi-Christian sects, the Mahomedans, Buddhists, Gnostics, Spook Worshippers, the Incubus Wor- shippers, the Furn... ...ers who refuse to go back,” said Asano. “These people are always ready for holidays.” Graham walked to the parapet and stood leaning over, look- ing d...

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...ty; nothing, we might plausibly argue, will so harden and degrade the minds of those that practise it. And yet we ourselves make much the same appeara... ...ng of hounds in a distant kennel. The slaves are certainly not overworked—children of ten do more without fatigue—and the Apemama labourers have 225 ...

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...beginning and end of the 48 school week, and the beginning and end of the holidays. This was a whole life! Sometimes she had periods of tight horror,... ... the lake. Gudrun had waded out to a gravelly shoal, and was seated like a Buddhist, staring fixedly at the water-plants that rose succulent from the ...

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...onable people who see their children three or four times a year during the holidays, and then not oftener than they can help, living meanwhile in dail... ...so unpleasant as to be clearly unnatural. To people who are not overworked holidays are a nuisance. To people who are, and who can afford them, they a... ...dependent income is striving for one or long- ing for one because it gives holidays for life. To which I re- ply, first, that heaven, as conventionall... ...if they complain of harsh treatment. Gratuities are voted, indulgences and holidays are pleaded for, delin- quencies are excused in the most sentiment... ... farmer sees his children constantly: the squire sees them only during the holidays, and not then oftener than he can help: the tram conductor, when e... ...socialists, so it should know that there are Christians and Mahometans and Buddhists and Shintoists and so forth, and that they are on the average jus...

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... to be sure.” “And why live? The Schopenhauers, the Hartmanns, and all the Buddhists, say that the greatest happiness is Nir- vana, Non-Life; and they... ...oung woman collected each morn- ing, intending to keep them for the Easter holidays. She made daily visits to the barn, where, under an old wagon, she... ...n to kill such a devil in human form.” It happened once, before the Easter holidays, that one of these meetings was held in the woods, where Michael h... ...already given orders that they should be ready to plough during the Easter holidays, and to sow the field with oats, whereupon the serfs became strick... ...t you think of the sin we shall be committing if we work during the Easter holidays— for you will refuse to work then yourself?” “Well, then,” replied... ...nd their wid- owed daughter (who was visiting them, as was her cus- tom on holidays) had been to church and returned. A steaming samovar awaited them,...

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... but he has no private character. He is a graceful cloak or lay-figure for holidays. All our poets, heroes, and 303 Emerson saints, fail utterly in s... ...r the surface of the water. But this is flat rebellion. Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in ev- ery ...

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...y now at a high school, had to go over the lessons of the term in the summer holidays. Darya Alexandrovna, who had been studying Latin with her son in... ...t know which drinks most, the peasantry or our own class; the peasants do on holidays, but. . . ” But Kitty took not the slightest interest in discuss... ...II — Chapter 18 767 What relation to this revelation have the beliefs of the Buddhists, Mohammedans, who preached and did good too! It seemed to him t... ... called the church. Well, but the Jews, the Mohammedans, the Confucians, the Buddhists—what of them?” he put to himself the question he had feared to ...