Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.s1.t5.36

c8.s1.t5.36

Such similes run through the discourse on sorrow and deliverance. Through the measured formality of the monastic church-diction, we constantly feel the breath of intelligent sympathy with life and nature, that genuine human desire to observe this motley world, and see whether it cannot by its figurative language throw some light on the spirit world and its secrets.