Chapter Vi. The Silence Of Buddha : * "The Creed of Buddha", by Edmond Holmes, [1919], p. 135 CHAPTER VI THE SILENCE OF BUDDHA IT is the silence of Buddha which has misled so many of his commentators. The teacher who, while pointing out to us the ultimate issues of life, keeps silence as to its ultimate realities and ultimate...
Chapter Vii. The Secret Of Buddha : * "The Creed of Buddha", by Edmond Holmes, [1919], p. 158 CHAPTER VII THE SECRET OF BUDDHA THE creed which I am trying to interpret is that of Buddha himself. With the creed of the Buddhist world, with the creed of this or that Buddhist Church, I have no direct concern. Dr Paul Carus is gratified...
Chapter Ii. The Wisdom Of The East : * "The Creed of Buddha", by Edmond Holmes, [1919], p. 20 CHAPTER II THE WISDOM OF THE EAST THERE were mighty warriors before the days of Agamemnon, and mighty thinkers before the days of Socrates and Plato. Greatest of all the forgotten thinkers of antiquity, greatest, as it seems to me, of all...
Chapter Ix. Light From The East : * "The Creed of Buddha", by Edmond Holmes, [1919], p. 231 CHAPTER IX LIGHT FROM THE EAST UNABLE to meet its obligations, unable to supply the soul with the ideas that it needs for the due interpretation and evolution of its desires, Western thought can save itself from hopeless insolvency only by...
Chapter V. A Misreading Of Buddha : * "The Creed of Buddha", by Edmond Holmes, [1919], p. 97 p. 98 CHAPTER V A MISREADING OF BUDDHA SET forth in as few words as possible, Buddha's message to man is an appeal to him to find his true self, with all that this can give him--joy, peace, knowledge, love--by suppressing egoism, with all...
Preface : * "The Creed of Buddha", by Edmond Holmes, [1919], p. v PREFACE AS I do not know a word of Pli or any other Eastern 1 language, I owe a debt of gratitude to those distinguished scholars whose translations of the Buddhist scriptures and expositions of the teaching of Buddhism have made it possible...
Title Page : * "The Creed of Buddha", by Edmond Holmes, [1919], THE CREED OF BUDDHA BY EDMOND HOLMES New York: J. Lane (2nd. Ed.) [1919] Scanned, proofed and formatted , November 2005, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published prior to 1923.
Chapter Iii. The Path Of Life : * "The Creed of Buddha", by Edmond Holmes, [1919], p. 42 CHAPTER III THE PATH OF LIFE LET us suppose that a great prophet appeared on earth, one who was in equal degrees a lover of his kind and a dreamer of spiritual dreams. Let us suppose that this prophet had drunk at the pure fountain of Indi...
Chapter Viii. The Bankruptcy Of Western Thought : * "The Creed of Buddha", by Edmond Holmes, [1919], p. 203 CHAPTER VIII THE BANKRUPTCY OF WESTERN THOUGHT THE higher thought of the West is bankrupt, in the sense that it can no longer meet its obligations. When I say this I do not merely mean that its liquid assets are less than its liabilities...
Chapter Iv. The Teaching Of Buddha : * "The Creed of Buddha", by Edmond Holmes, [1919], p. 60 CHAPTER IV THE TEACHING OF BUDDHA I N the Sixth Century before the birth of Christ, India, which had long been seething and fermenting with spiritual thought, gave to the world a great teacher. The son of an Indian chieftain, Gaudama Buddh...
Untitled : * Edmond Holmes, a Pantheist, reviews Buddhist theology and critiques Western conceptions (or misconceptions) of fundamental concepts such as Nirvana. In this book Holmes attempts to get back to the core of what Buddha taught, not necessarily what is considered orthodox. His interpretation is...
Chapter I. East And West : * "The Creed of Buddha", by Edmond Holmes, [1919], p. 1 THE CREED OF BUDDHA CHAPTER I EAST AND WEST THE religions of the civilized world may be divided into two great groups, those of which the paramount deity is the Jewish Jehovah, and those of which the paramount deity is the Indian Brahm...
