Buddhism -- Burma; Burma -- Religion; Burma -- Social life and customs
But now science has learned a new wisdom, to look only at what it can
see, to leave vain imaginings to children and idealists, certain always
that the truth is inconceivably more beautiful than any dream.
Science with us has gained her freedom, but the soul is still in bonds.
Only in Buddhism has this soul-freedom been partly gained. How beautiful
this is, how full of great thoughts, how very different to the barren
materialism it has often been said to be, I have tried to show.
I believe myself that in this teaching of the laws of righteousness we
have the grandest conception, the greatest wisdom, the world has known.
I believe that in accepting this conception we are opening to ourselves
a new world of unimaginable progress, in justice, in charity, in
sympathy, and in love.
I believe that as our minds, when freed from their bonds, have grown
more and more rapidly to heights of thought before undreamed of, to
truths eternal, to beauty inexpressible, so shall our souls, when freed,
as our minds now are, rise to sublimities of which now we have no
conception.
Let each man but open his eyes and see, and his own soul shall teach him
marvellous things.
THE END.
BILLING AND SONS, PRINTERS, GUILDFORD.
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