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THE DOCTRINE OF THE BUDDHA

THE RELIGION OF REASON AND MEDITATION

By

GEORGE GRIMM

Edited by

M. KELLER-GRIMM AND MAX HOPPE

            2^nd revised edition

            2^nd to 4^th thousand

                                    “Among beings there are some whose

                                    Eyes are not quite covered with dust:

                                    They will perceive the truth”

AKADEMIE – VERLAG . BERLIN

            1958

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

I.                    who was the Buddha?

II.                 What is a Buddha

III.               The Method of Handing down the “Marvel”

Theme and Basis of the Doctrine of the Buddha

I.                    The most excellent Truth of Suffering

The Criterion of Suffering

Personality

The World of Suffering

The Subject of Suffering

II.                 The most excellent Truth of The Arising of Suffering

General introduction

Old age and Death – Birth as immediate Conditions Suffering

The Conditions of Rebirth – the Law of Karma

The Conditioning of Thirst

The Sankhãrã

Ignorance – Summary of the Chain of Suffering

      III        The most excellent Truth of the Annihilation of Suffering – Nibbãna

      IV        The most excellent Truth of the Path leading to the Annihilation of Suffering

A.    The excellent eightfold Path in General

B.     The several Steps of the Path

1.      The Going into Homelessness

2.      Taking Refuge with the three Jewels

3.      Moral Purity

4.      The concentration – the Meditation

5.      The contemplative visions

The Abyss beyond sensual Pleasures or the step Ascent to the state that is absolutely adequate to us and thus to perfect Happiness

C.     The Means of Concentration

D.    The four Holy states

Appendix

1.      The Doctrine of the Buddha as the Flower of Indian Thought

2.      The Metaphysics of the Buddha

3.      Right Cognition

4.      The Reach in the Doctrine of the Buddha of Atakkãvacara, the Idea of Not within-the-realm-of-logical-thought

Index

      Quotations of the Pãli-Texts made use of

      General index

      Index of Proper Names

      Pãli and Sanskrit Index

Some of the books made use of and other Publications

A short Biography of George Grimm

PREFACE

      The present main work appeared in German language in fourteen impressions during the author’s lifetime. The fourteenth impression was translated into English by Bhikkhu Silacara in 1926. As appendix were added “the Doctrine of the Buddha as the Flower of Indian Thought”, “The Metaphysics of the Buddha” and “Right Cognition”. In the meantime also the fifteenth and sixteenth thousand have appeared in the German impression. The author finds the connecting bridge to true Indian spirit as is once more expressed in a most excellent manner in the appendix in the chapter “The Doctrine of the Buddha as the Flower of Indian Thought”. This most comprehensive spirit already during the lifetime of Dr. George Grimm enabled a community of faithful followers to gather round him. After his decease on 26^th August 1945 at Utting am Ammersee – he was born on 25^th February 1868 at Rollhofen near Lauf ander Pegnitz in Middle Franconia – this community grew to considerable numbers; graphical notes at the end of the book). For this reason a second English edition has become necessary, which is herewith presented.

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