All 4 Uses of
benevolent
in
Siddhartha
- Unchanged and flourishing was only the joy and the cheerful benevolence of his face.†
Chpt 11
- He commands benevolence, clemency, sympathy, tolerance, but not love; he forbade us to tie our heart in love to earthly things.
Chpt 12 *benevolence = kindness and goodwill
- And, Govinda saw it like this, this smile of the mask, this smile of oneness above the flowing forms, this smile of simultaneousness above the thousand births and deaths, this smile of Siddhartha was precisely the same, was precisely of the same kind as the quiet, delicate, impenetrable, perhaps benevolent, perhaps mocking, wise, thousand-fold smile of Gotama, the Buddha, as he had seen it himself with great respect a hundred times.†
Chpt 12
- The face was unchanged, after under its surface the depth of the thousandfoldness had closed up again, he smiled silently, smiled quietly and softly, perhaps very benevolently, perhaps very mockingly, precisely as he used to smile, the exalted one.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(benevolent) kind, generous, or charitable