Laying Down the Rod

By Bodhi, Bhikkhu, Venerable

Book Id: WPLBN0000705006
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 5.63 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Laying Down the Rod
Author:	Bodhi, Bhikkhu, Venerable
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Language:	English
Subject:	Religion, Buddhism, Buddhism and literature
Collections:	BuddhaNet: Buddhist Information and Education Network
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Publisher:	BuddhaNet: Buddhist Information and Education Network


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Excerpt: The textbooks of history come into our hands bound in decorative covers and set in crisp clear types. To the discerning reader, however, their glossy pages are stained with blood and wet with streams of tears. The story of man's sojourn on this planet has generally not been a very pretty one. For sure, deeds of virtue and flashes of the sublime light up the tale like meteorites shooting across the night time sky. But the pageant of events that the records spell out for us unfolds according to a repeated pattern in which the dominant motifs are greed and ambition, deceit and distrust, aggression, destruction and revenge.