Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon c9.s2.4

c9.s2.4

There are other passages which permit of a similar rendering; the Buddha declares there are four kinds of persons, he who applies himself to the good of another not of the self, &c.;² the self is declared to be the lord of the self, the witness of its good and evil, in the *Dhammapada*,³ and it is clearly no adequate answer to argue that the self is nothing but the thought (*citta*), for that is merely a question of phraseology. What we recognize in such expressions is the fact that there is a dominant element in the individual, the object of taming, and we find in the *Milinda-pañha*⁴ the analogous conception in the intellectual sphere; the intelligence (*viññāṇa*) is compared with the guardian of a city, who, seated at the cross roads, watches the coming of men from diverse directions.