worldling

"It's enough for me now that I dress as a worldling.

It's corrupted you to have a worldling in your infirmary."

Even the confirmed worldling, France shows, finds hermits irresistible.

It was, momentarily, the poet's unreasoning prostration before the man of action, the worldling.

Hence, a name for a rich worldling.

"Sire, I'm learning to live as a worldling, but couldn't I do it slowly?"

This twofold force he opposed to the viewpoint of the agnostic, the rationalist, the mere worldling.

As a child, the little worldling, it was observed, took much after his secular father, but much more after his scheming mother.

Not only by discipline and vows, not only by much learning, do I earn the happiness of release which no worldling can know.

"But its metaphysical refinements are, I admit, considerably beyond the grasp of a vulgar worldling like myself." "

And the Blessed One said: "The worldling nourishes his body, but the wise man nourishes his mind.

When the Boones' oldest son Israel married a "worldling" in 1747, Squire Boone stood by him.

This fighter by vocation resolved in his mind to seize showy occasions and to court the favour- able opinion of his chiefs like a mere worldling.

In 1742, Boone's parents were compelled to publicly apologize after their eldest child Sarah married a "worldling", or non-Quaker, while she was visibly pregnant.

If then we accept Aunt Hester's view, Gibbon was a worldling, wallowing in the vanities of the flesh, scoffing at the holiness of the faith.

The worldling will not understand the doctrine, for to him there is happiness in selfhood only, and the bliss that lies in a complete surrender to truth is unintelligible to him.

I leave the legendary side, which is always in evidence in the case of a celebrated man,--that gossip, for example, which avers that Maupassant was a high liver and a worldling.

A man that dwells in lonely woods and yet covets worldly vanities, is a worldling, while the man in worldly garments may let his heart soar high to heavenly thoughts.

Financial necessity may have given scruples a last push, but Stubbs does an especially fine job of showing what preceded - and followed - the decision: the singular religious search of a spiritual worldling and genius.

When Boone's oldest brother Israel also married a "worldling" in 1747, Squire Boone stood by his son and was therefore expelled from the Quakers, although his wife continued to attend monthly meetings with her children.

Can events be foretold, events which have not yet assumed a body to become subject to mortal inspection, can they be foreseen by a vicious worldling, who pampers his appetites by preying on the foolish ones?

The Blessed One replied: "Is it not a wonderful thing, mysterious and miraculous to the worldling, that a man who commits wrong can become a saint, that by attaining true enlightenment he will find the path of truth and abandon the evil ways of selfishness?

The one who has "entered the stream" has ipso facto abandoned personality-view (sakkāya-ditthi), which is the self-view implicit in the experience of an ordinary worldling not free from ignorance, and understood the essential meaning of the Buddha's teaching on the Four Noble Truths.