The author points out that the self-control brought about by the methods of attention, meditation, will and effort as taught in Buddhism, can applied even to the control of dreams and consciousness during sleep. Outlining the views of a Afteenth-century Til Buddhist, Tsong Khapa, she
given to sleep, either by remaining, When once asleep, inert as a stone, This pentia not to waste the time or Be ce mind to wander absurd or harmful disorderly manifestaof mental activi he submits in dreams cost an expenditure of ener; could have been applied useful purpose. Moreover, the d or the thoughts while dreaming have identical with those. of the and thoughts of the man when This theory will probably astonish many Westerners, writes Madame 4 ldNeel; but she points out that this is sufficient evidence that Freud "was not the first to perceive this intrusion of the contents of the subconscious into the consciousness of the sleeper, and its consequences,"
Different Interpretations Tt will have been seen that Madame Mavid-Noel approaches the subject of Buddhist doctrine as having bearing "upon our present-day life and problems, As she puts it in her introduction Phe contrast exis between our Habitual opinions and those expressed Fand to other countries than ours, #2 help us to see more clearly is Dur stock of ideas and This principle might well be ex-amplified in what Madame David-Noel describes as "the great difference "which exists between the Semitic interpretation, Jewish or Christian, of the command not to kill, and that of the. Buddhists." For here the Christian, like the Buddhist, must consider the character and the con-of modern warfare, which our time is so far from having ret ask if his actions will square and like the Buddhist he "with the faith he professes—p.r.
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