The Psychology of Oriental Religious Experience: A Study of Some Typical Experiences of Japanese Converts to Christianity

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George Banta Publishing Company, 1915 - 102 стор.
 

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Сторінка 12 - ... of all vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences.
Сторінка 40 - Honor thy Father and thy Mother:. . . Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet.
Сторінка 71 - All our attitudes, moral, practical, or emotional, as well as religious, are due to the 'objects' of our consciousness, the things which we believe to exist, whether really or ideally, along with ourselves. Such objects may be present to our senses, or they may be present only to our thought. In either case they elicit from us a reaction; and the reaction due to things of thought is notoriously in many cases as strong as that due to sensible presences. It may be even stronger.
Сторінка 62 - When this knowledge, this insight had arisen within me, my heart was set free from intoxication of lusts, set free from the intoxication of becomings, set free from the intoxication of ignorance. In me, thus emancipated, there arose the certainty of that emancipation. And I came to know : "Rebirth is at an end. The higher life has been fulfilled. What had to be done has been accomplished.
Сторінка 28 - I daily examine myself on three points:— whether, in transacting business for others, I may have been not faithful;— whether, in intercourse with friends, I may have been not sincere;— whether I may have not mastered and practised the instructions of my teacher.
Сторінка 74 - My sense of myself grows by imitation of you, and my sense of yourself grows in terms of my sense of myself.
Сторінка 33 - I was taught in my New England College is of comparatively little use in clearing up our doubts and spiritual phantasmagorias. I believe nobody . made a greater mistake than those Unitarian and other intellectually-minded missionaries, who thought that we • Orientals are intellectual peoples, and hence we must be / intellectually converted to Christianity. We are poets and not scientists, and the labyrinth of syllogism is not the path by which we arrive at the Truth.
Сторінка 1 - Ought it to be assumed that in all men the mixture of religion with other elements should be identical? Ought it, indeed, to be assumed that the lives of all men should show identical religious elements? In other words, is the existence of so many religious types and sects and creeds regrettable? To these questions I answer "No
Сторінка 28 - There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute. Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.
Сторінка 65 - He fulfils the Confucian reverence for the past by adding hope for the future ; he fulfils its stability by progress, its faith in man with faith in God, its interest in this world with the expectation of another, its sense of time with that of eternity. Confucius aims at peace, order, outward prosperity, virtue, and good morals. All this belongs also to Christianity, but Christianity adds a moral enthusiasm, a faith in the spiritual world, a hope of immortal life, a sense of the Fatherly presence...

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