…d h I which means awakening it comes from the same root as the word buddha b o d h buddha or b? U d h. Buddha is to know, but better to be awake. You know some of you have probably thought yourselves to the teachings of Gurdjieff, the wonderful old…

…you will find stated as a teacher of Buddhism is actually a question of a teacher. Let's go to a very fundamental point. Buddha can deal with the problem of suffering because after all suffering is the problem. That's what we mean by the whole idea of…

…we live it is suffering. Anitya, impermanent, anatman, without self. And he said: buddha teach dukkha to contradict wrong view dukkha. Buddha teach anitya contradict wrong view nitya. You see, wonderful. The whole idea you see is that you don't, you can't…

…and all you have to do is to say his name in the formula namu Amida Butsu, which means namu, name Amida Butsu of Amida Buddha namu Amida Butsu, and all you have to do is to say that formula and after death you will be reborn in a special Paradise…

…did not say a word. And then there's another talk about the meaning of the term buddha. This was given in April 1939. Buddha is that even mind, even and calm which radiates in multiple directions at once. The word buddha came from the sanskrit root to…

…that even mind, even and calm which radiates in multiple directions at once. The word buddha came from the sanskrit root to know. Buddha is one who knows the knower. So this present consciousness is the buddha, the knower. We know, we see, we hear, we…

…This power of knowing actually performing within us is buddha. This is our god. We worship this. We do not bow down to worship this. Buddha, we meditate upon it. We do not call its name, we do not look up to the sky or peep down into the earth to…

…task of religious experience. There are experiences of visions, that people have revelations they see jesus Christ, the virgin Mary, Krishna, Buddha or who have you, but these are in a certain way less interesting than the experiences in which the individual…

…is like and nobody has confused the actual image, say of a buddha such as you saw at the beginning of this program. Buddha is of course never identified with a god because buddha is a human being. These images are never seriously confused with what they…

…and all you have to do is to say his name in the formula namu Amida Butsu, which means namu, name Amida Butsu of Amida Buddha, namu Amida Butsu, and all you have to do is to say that formula and after death you will be reborn in a special Paradise…

…sutra to pacify the old folks. They want the whole thing changed and they sing in the Buddhist Churches in the United States. Buddha loves me this I know for the sutra tells me so they have Sunday School and everything they organize just like a…

…in just the same way, the Centre of Buddhism the only really important thing about Buddhism, is the experience which they call awakening. Buddha is a title and not a proper name. It comes from a sanskrit root bud, and that sometimes means to know, but…

…Followers or Buddhists. Because you see, whoever really gets this thing and understands it knows that he hasn't attained anything. Buddha said in the diamond sutra when I attained complete, perfect and unexcelled awakening, I attained nothing at all. And you…

…delusive sense of his own existence. And it is thus that the very word buddha in Buddhism is from a root in sanskrit. Buddha, which means to awake, to awaken, to awaken from the illusion is then to undergo a radical change of consciousness with regard…

…certain interior joy and peace which comes about because they don't need a religion anymore. They've been cured of religion by religion. Buddha gave the example of his doctrine, the dharma or the method of Buddhism. He likened it to a raft for crossing a…

…that way for a while until he really throws you with one. Why are you concentrating? See, Buddhism works this way. Buddha said: if you suffer, you suffer because you desire and your desires are either unattainable or always being disappointed or something.…

…and all you have to do is to say his name in the formula namu Amida Butsu, which means namu, name Amida Butsu of Amida Buddha namu Amida Butsu. And all you have to do is to say that formula and after death you will be reborn in a special Paradise…

…by my parents I've been to such and such a College I've done these things in my profession and I produce a little biography. Buddha says: forget it that's not you, that's some story that's all gone that's all past. I want to see the who the real you…

…that way for a while until he really throws you with one. Why are you concentrating? See, Buddhism works this way. Buddha said: if you suffer, you suffer because you desire, and your desires are either unattainable or always being disappointed or something.…