…it's not swami so and so it's not buddha so and so it's not saint so and so it's you. You do it, as sir Edwin Arnold put the words into the mouth of the buddha. You suffer from yourselves, none else compels, none other holds you that you live and…

…happening. So in this, do you see what has happened? By dying to yourself, by having become completely incompetent and found that you don't exist, you're reborn, you become everything. In the words of sir Edwin Arnold: forgoing self, the universe grows. I

…you are making the problem. And this comes back, you see to the most fundamental original ideas of Buddhism, which sir Edwin Arnold expresses in his poem about the teaching of the buddha: ye suffer from yourselves. None else compels, none other holds you…

…the idea of the existence in some objective sense of immutable laws of nature. Probably some of you know that poem which sir Edwin Arnold wrote called the light of Asia, which was a kind of epic about the life and the doctrine of the buddha. It…

…is represented as teaching the existence of an immutable natural law as a sort of ultimate reality. And the words which sir Edwin Arnold puts into his mouth are: before beginning and without an end as space eternal and as surety sure is fixed a power…

…distinct from the merry go round samsara, the wheel of becoming, the bhava chakra, the wheel of birth and death. And sir Edwin Arnold, in his poem the light of Asia, makes the buddha say: you suffer from yourselves. None else compels, none other holds…

…happening. So in this, do you see what has happened? By dying to yourself, by having become completely incompetent and found that you don't exist, you're reborn you become everything in the words of sir Edwin Arnold: Foregoing self, the universe grows. I.