Excerpt: ... mother. Y. Father says there is no self, that self is an illusion. R. What does that mean? Y. It means that we are not separate beings. I think 47 a thought and speak it out and you hear it. I believe in that thought and so do you. Whose is it then, yours or mine? R. It belongs to both. Y. But where does the thought come from? If it is true it belongs to the truth, and it was true before I thought it. R. Yes, mother. Y. And if it was wrong, it is evil, and it was evil before we thought it. R. Yes, mother. Y. ...
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Excerpt: ... mother. Y. Father says there is no self, that self is an illusion. R. What does that mean? Y. It means that we are not separate beings. I think 47 a thought and speak it out and you hear it. I believe in that thought and so do you. Whose is it then, yours or mine? R. It belongs to both. Y. But where does the thought come from? If it is true it belongs to the truth, and it was true before I thought it. R. Yes, mother. Y. And if it was wrong, it is evil, and it was evil before we thought it. R. Yes, mother. Y. And so are all our thoughts, but almost everybody assumes that his self thinks these thoughts and invents them; and that is an illusion. R. I see. Y. to herself His eyes close. He is tired. to Rahula Now go to sleep again, Rahula, and dream of your father. I will sing you one of father's songs. Yasodhara lays Rahula down in the high bed and sings: By ourselves is evil done, By ourselves we pain endure. By ourselves we cease from wrong, By ourselves become we pure. No one saves us but ourselves, No one can and no one may. 48 We ourselves must walk the path, Buddhas merely teach the way. The boy sleeps. Then Yasodhara herself lies down on the mat on the floor. Above her appears the vision of her dream. Under the Bodhi tree in a forest landscape Siddhattha sits. He is surrounded by a halo of light. Mara approaches to tempt him. M. Thou art ahungered, worthy Sakyamuni, Ahungered art thou from continued fasts, And thou wilt starve unless thou take and eat. I bring delicious food, take, eat and live. B. I shall not eat until my quest be done. Much better 'tis to die in glorious battle Than flee and lead a coward's life, defeated. I shall not eat, O Mara, take thee hence. M. Wilt thou not listen to my good advice? B. The tempter always calls his councils good, But pleasures which he promises are evil. M. I will not suffer thee to stay, Siddhattha, And shall disturb thy daring quest of truth. I'll split the Bodhi tree by lightning And frighten thee...
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