Single Idea 7898

[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism]

Full Idea

When a man considers this world as a bubble of froth, and as the illusion of an appearance, then the king of death has no power over him.

Gist of Idea

The world is just the illusion of an appearance

Source

Anon (Dham) (The DhammaPada [c.250 BCE], §13.170)

Book Reference

'The DhammaPada', ed/tr. Mascaro,Juan [Penguin 1973], p.60


A Reaction

Strictly, of course, this says you can 'consider' things this way. Perhaps we could substitute 'pretends', but the world's great religions don't go in for that sort of thing. Berkeley would be shocked to learn he was approaching Buddhism.