A Study of Pleasure and PainTheosophical Press, 1962 - 97 من الصفحات The theme of this book is that pain is functional in the advancement and enrichment of life in nature and in man, therefore it should be received with understanding and consideration. The arguments found within are purely scientific and illustrated by examples in the lives of common people. Fully discussed are the topics of how pain arises and ceases and the different kinds of pain. |
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... kind of pain to stir them into activity - I refer to hunger . An old scripture of India says : " Life is hunger , hunger is life . " This goes behind our stock modern scientific statements that living creatures are characterized by ...
... kind of pain to stir them into activity - I refer to hunger . An old scripture of India says : " Life is hunger , hunger is life . " This goes behind our stock modern scientific statements that living creatures are characterized by ...
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... kind of human trouble was brought forcibly to my attention one day while I was strolling in the grounds of a large state hospital along with one of its senior doctors . I was much impressed by the size of the pile of buildings , and the ...
... kind of human trouble was brought forcibly to my attention one day while I was strolling in the grounds of a large state hospital along with one of its senior doctors . I was much impressed by the size of the pile of buildings , and the ...
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... kind of a pain which is not use- ful ? This insanity has natural utility in that it certainly would make for quick elimination from the ranks of the living , were the person not maintained and protected by other people . But in what way ...
... kind of a pain which is not use- ful ? This insanity has natural utility in that it certainly would make for quick elimination from the ranks of the living , were the person not maintained and protected by other people . But in what way ...
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action activity animal antelope anxiety attention awakening better Bhagavad Gita bodily body Buddha called cause Chapter coherence comes consciousness death doctrine emotional pains enhancement enjoyment Epictetus Epicurean evolution example experience extent eyes fact faculties feeling function further give grow happiness Hindu human hunger ice-cream idea impulse individual intellect intelligence interest Jesus Julian Huxley kind knowledge law of karma legs living look lower mind material forms matter means meditation memory ment mental modern nature nirvana object observed old age one's organs ovum paramecium Patanjali PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY perhaps person picture plants pleasure present psychosis purusha realization reason regard Sankhya Sanskrit seen self-image sense sexual selection Sir Edwin Arnold sometimes speak stages Stoic Theosophical Society Theosophists things thinking thought tion tree trouble true truth uncon unity word Yoga Yoga Sutras