BUT if we exaggerate, the world revenges itself
upon the super-world. The worship of the
Absolute requires quiet, leisure, and contemplation.
Gautama in the beginning put away the activities of
his state and family never again to resume them, and
Buddhism has consistently insisted upon flight from
the world. Its method forbids occupation, toil, the
activities of life; for the world is evil through and
through and must be renounced, and this not in
theory only but in practice. Yet Gautama turned
from asceticism as a failure -- a failure in its principle
and in its results. Thus he accepted in the beginning
of his career the "deer park," which became his abode
in the rainy season, for the super-nature still finds its
support in nature, and the man of the world endows
establishments for religion, vicariously sharing in their
benefits. Monks were forbidden all industry, and

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