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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... realization of immortal life , when they had learned to under- stand and master this world of semi - death - or world of obstruc- tion - with all its human problems . Briefly , all this pain was not a bad thing , but was a challenge to ...
... realization of immortal life , when they had learned to under- stand and master this world of semi - death - or world of obstruc- tion - with all its human problems . Briefly , all this pain was not a bad thing , but was a challenge to ...
الصفحة 58
... realization of the puny possibility of even the best of human minds . You cannot , with a whole life - time's work , know much of many sub- jects , perhaps not all of any one science . So pride , love of one's own self - image ...
... realization of the puny possibility of even the best of human minds . You cannot , with a whole life - time's work , know much of many sub- jects , perhaps not all of any one science . So pride , love of one's own self - image ...
الصفحة 60
... realization will then be a matter of direct experience , but not of anything in any mental category . The religious story about the descent into hell and rising on the third day is a good allegory . The mind of man is described as three ...
... realization will then be a matter of direct experience , but not of anything in any mental category . The religious story about the descent into hell and rising on the third day is a good allegory . The mind of man is described as three ...
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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