…evasion of them under the normal way in which we live. A very interesting story comes out on that from one of the discourses of Buddha. It seems that once upon a time a great general who was the head of the armies to defend a native ruler went to…

…of Buddha. It seems that once upon a time a great general who was the head of the armies to defend a native ruler went to Buddha and said, I've taken an oath to defend my king and my country. And if there's war, I have an oath that I must win that…

…an oath that I must win that war if I can. And yet you tell me that I must not kill. What is the answer? The Buddha looked at him for a couple of moments. He said, You swore the allegiance to your king. When you did that, you did not realize that…

…little worse. This type of situation has to be faced by everyone who believes in reincarnation, who believes that they are here, as Buddha pointed out, for one reason only, that they are not perfect. If we were perfect, we wouldn't be here. If we made…

…one of those who have become the spiritual and philosophical leaders of the race the great examples of beings like Buddha Confucius Christ all of these great teachers whom we have identified with the highest nobility of our attributes characteristics and…

…is very largely the traditional explanation or interpretation of the word karma. It also is found in the Buddhist scriptures, where Buddha says, effects follow their causes, as the wheels of the cart follow the foot of the oxen. Therefore, we are dealing…

…below is evil, above is good. And in this philosophy of these people, the cessation of all motion, is only possible in what Buddha called the Mahaparinibbana. The dying out of the three fires. And the three fires are the three powers of the soul. Kill…

…with complete suspension of motion. Therefore, it is the unmoved mover of all other things. And that which is unmoved, as Buddha says, in pain or pleasure, that which is itself superior to quality or condition, gradually rises triumphant over the mystery of…

…nauseous. Because the end of great soul power is exactly as we find it in the lives of the great teachers. We find Buddha who achieved a magnificent power of soul understanding, a simple quiet man who went to sleep beside the Indian rose. We find…

…we have the trinity components of Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva. And in these Buddhist concepts, we have the trinity consisting of Buddha and then the two total religions, wisdom and compassion. So true wisdom and compassion become, so to say, the primary…

…by the strange, mysterious master of the mystery. Therefore, Isis is the Virgin of the world, Tertia, mother, the mother of Buddha, mother, the mother of Jesus. The British Virgin, Diana, goddess of the Ephesians, the mother of Mania, the mother of the…

…is a primary illusion. And from this one basic illusion, all others naturally follow, which is essentially the teaching of Buddha, He was convinced that the acceptance of the illusion of personal divinity or personal self either must ultimately lead to…

…any excessive action or attitude. The moment you feel your temper rising, quietly relax it before it has a chance to arise. Buddha gives a very good little formula for this, and of course Zen is Buddha. Buddha says, the moment you feel the slightest…

…relax it before it has a chance to arise. Buddha gives a very good little formula for this, and of course Zen is Buddha. Buddha says, the moment you feel the slightest tendency to irritation against anyone or anything, relax. Drop it. Even before it has…

…it before it has a chance to arise. Buddha gives a very good little formula for this, and of course Zen is Buddha. Buddha says, the moment you feel the slightest tendency to irritation against anyone or anything, relax. Drop it. Even before it has taken…

…of desire is another thing. Wherever it is right, it has no tension. Wherever it is tense, There's something wrong with it. So Buddha pointed out, don't wait until you're angry at the man. The moment you sense anger, the moment you say to yourself, I…

…requirements. Whether it be in relation to children, or parents, or husband and wife, the final answer to this whole thing, as Buddha pointed out in Amita Sutra, is unselfish love. Love suffers long and is current. Where we love, we give our time on…

…do succeed. Where they are absent, We have the panorama of today, of great emotional instability, sickness, misery, all, as Buddha points out, traceable to one thing, self-interest. That which is forever seeking the superiority of itself, that which is…

…determined by ancient circumstances but to a large measure determines future circumstances and all that may reasonably be expected from man Buddha took the position that at some remote time man made a mistake this is the understatement of the ages because…

…and insight, hope and despair, faith and fear. These polarities force the individual to remain in that channel of causations by which Buddha shows the symbol in the wheel of the law forever turning. There is no escape from the wheel to the individual who…

…of everything he owns. So the problem of what to do that is just, right, and proper is more complicated than it appears. Perhaps Buddha is right. The simplest thing is to know what not to do. This apparently you can learn. But in order to nor what to…

…every solution has to arise in an unfoldment of character. Unless it is achieved, there can be no solution. Plato, Plotinus, Buddha, all held that what we now call philosophy was the science of character. That by means of philosophy, man became aware…

…to correct some vice in our nature, what vice should we correct? By the correction of which. we will correct most other vices. Buddha answered selfishness. If you can get rid of that, you can get rid of most everything. If you get rid of selfishness,…

…in values, were the archetypes of what we know all human beings should be. Therefore, perhaps we think of Jesus or Buddha or Zoroaster or Confucius or Laozi, Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras. These were the people, to our thinking, who were most nearly complete…

…improve conduct and character. So we're looking for this kind of person. We know that we cannot find him unless we create him. Buddha is very clear on this point, and no thought was ever more honest, that every individual has to be the sculptor of his…

…and the misused. And of course, I have always felt rather strongly One of our best sources of information on this subject was Buddha. The first place he has been called an atheist. He has been called an atheist because he held very largely the exact…

…where did it start just gets bigger. Instead of having answers, we merely push back the horizon of our comparative knowing. But as Buddha said, as veil upon veil we lift, we find veil upon veil behind. The universe suddenly emerges as a splendor of laws…

…never been a scientific discovery that conflicts with Buddhism. Because Buddhism simply won't be conflicted with. It has no dogma. Buddha, by his own psychological and almost scientific mind, realized the danger of darkness and realized the fact that finally…

…Mecca or to Jerusalem on the Arizat, that is very important to them. The exams of the elevation of Nirvana of the Buddha were important to those people. Every great religious ceremony is important to someone We have religious ceremonies in every nation of…

…to secure a series, not I couldn't afford them all, but a series of Tibetan tankers or paintings of the life of Buddha. So I secured the painting for the Nativity and the painting for him ascending to the Nishthushita heaven to preach the doctrine…

…rule in connection with all transcendentalism is to take the self out of it. I think this was the burden of Buddhism. Buddha, of course, lived in India. The Brahmins and Hindus of his time practiced magical rites. They called upon the gods. They invoked…

…of his time practiced magical rites. They called upon the gods. They invoked spirits. They did many other things of this nature. Buddha warned against it, as also in Greece did Pythagoras. He warned against it on the ground that all of these rites and…

…in nature by which he attempts to evade that which is his natural and proper destiny. If man must pray for something, as Buddha points out, let him pray for enlightenment. Let him pray that the only desire that is desirable is the desire for truth…

…able to sustain the exceptional energies that are cast upon it by some resolution of the will. It is therefore, as Buddha points out, very important that the individual, first of all, clears the mental, emotional, vibratory fields. that before he attempts…

…condition prior to this enlightenment. Thus we can say that the mystical enlightenment of Jesus, or the enlightenment of Buddha, represented consciousness unfolding into a greater dimension. It is quite evident that from such a positive consciousness, and the…

…But actually the true substance of this unknown condition is unexperienced. We do not have any concept of its true nature. Buddha likened this final experience to the Mahaparinirvana itself. For in this absolute contact with space and eternity, we come into…

…souls of the lost. Or the way he descended into the infernal regions. In Buddhism, the same concept is described, in which the Buddha is said to have multiplied his nature so that he appeared simultaneously in all of the 49 realms of Avicii, or the…

…only hope harder to try to fathom something of the mystery of it, to find out how to explain his place in this project. Buddha was very suspicious that man would ever be able to know, as a mental fact, the truth about himself. Buddha realized that the…

…place in this project. Buddha was very suspicious that man would ever be able to know, as a mental fact, the truth about himself. Buddha realized that the mind is the slayer of the real that the mind locks us in attitudes but that this is strange but…

…the vestments of the most advanced human types to produce the next general demarcation. Having established this demarcation, the Buddha is saying these progenitors, these pioneers gradually retire. permitting them the more and more evolving groups for which…

…we can gain to the seventh state is that of the conception that the tendai Buddhists have of the nature of the Buddha Virakana. Virakana is in a sense the seventh race consciousness. It is actually the complete suspension of every faculty, force or power…

…do not fully appreciate right now. But the Atman, or the final overself, whether it be union in consciousness with the Buddha, whether it means the ultimate attainment of Buddhahood itself, which the Buddhist tradition affirms, or the Hindu Atman, or reunion…

…mostly given under the earth in caverns and these caverns were often arranged like the septapana king in india where Buddha is said to have initiated his disciples. These subterranean regions, therefore, represented the inner structure or life of the…

…chain, which binds all life together. We can say, and using the Buddhist concept, mineral, plant, cannibal, man, ahat, bodhisattva, Buddha. In other words, we can have an ascending order of consciousness. But this ascending order of consciousness may or may…

…may not be all visible. The apex of the pattern in Buddhism would be to place man on the fourth level and to declare Buddha, the historical Buddha, to be the example as they did. An example, for they never made it unique. An example of the transcendent…

…visible. The apex of the pattern in Buddhism would be to place man on the fourth level and to declare Buddha, the historical Buddha, to be the example as they did. An example, for they never made it unique. An example of the transcendent possibility of…

…In this pattern of the earth, in the Mahayana system, each of the planets, the logos of the groups, becomes the Buddha of the northern system. Each of the planets is really an embodied Buddha in eternal meditation. From this meditation springs out…

…sky were actually temples, shrines, pagodas, mysterious places of worship for great spiritual beings. Every light in the sky was a Buddha in meditation upon the infinite. And when somewhere in the great field of space another living creature being or power…

…Each one in his own level interprets, but he is interpreting from his own level of insight. And he has no true evidence, as Buddha points out, that any of these levels of insight is adequate. He has no way of knowing. He is willing to argue to the…

…planets and suns, laws are released by light itself. This perhaps is the explanation of the great Buddhist deity, the Virokhana Buddha. This Dainichi Nyori is the great cosmic abstraction. It is the ultimate conceivable form of a rational being, beyond which…

…the same essential problem. For cosmic consciousness, in this case, is substituted the principle consciousness or energy of the Nirakana Buddha. All things live by virtue of this cosmic power in perpetual meditation. Functioning from the Dharma Rupa or body…

…cosmic power in perpetual meditation. Functioning from the Dharma Rupa or body of the law this consciousness of the Virakana Buddha remains forever in the contemplation of the infinite purpose remaining so to say eternally introverted in a state of absorption…

…but the individualization of the energy of the sun. They are all manifestations of some quality of Dainichi Nyori or the great Buddha of Rokkana. Actually, therefore, just as every color that we see comes from the sun's light, just as every flavor that we…

…their purposes are finished, these energies are withdrawn and these hierarchies retire again into the eternal nature. In the illumination of Buddha, we find the symbolism of the great teacher surrounded by the hierarchs. We find him in the presence of all…

…Death takes man out of the world, but initiation takes worldliness out of the man, and these two are vastly different things. Buddha points this out in his doctrine of rebirth, stating that the Loss of body has no essential effect upon consciousness, for…

…be played by Faust. We know also that man possesses a power which is called will. And we know that this power of will, as Buddha has well pointed out to us, is in a wonderful and strange way the supreme adversary with which man has to contend in his…

…Man, demanding to do as he wills, creates the situation that ultimately brings him to the precarious edge of self-destruction. Buddha points this out very definitely. Misery is due to the exercise of the will. The individual who wills creates adversary…

…these things are the creations of selfishness, degeneracy, in the psychic atmosphere of man, and they arise one and all, as Buddha tells us, from the simple seed of selfishness, self-will, the determination of the individual to succeed at the expense of…

…to attain its particular purpose, caused to emerge from itself the five senses. And the five senses, in turn, are what Buddha called the machine of the senses, by means of which the illusion of self-security or self-existence is perpetuated indefinitely. In…

…to discover these emblems to unlock their secrets then causes man to begin the long journey The great journey into homelessness, as Buddha called it. This journey that goes on and on and must leave behind by degrees everything that has been established as…

…way to intuit truly is this mysterious quietude which we must cultivate by means of which we can truly be still and know so Buddha says that if all of the volition of the will all of the pressure of of the machine of the sensory perception is brought…

…by a strange failing of outward parts a strange detachment from the world in other words the prophet the great teacher as Buddha later said has gone forth into homelessness he has gone forth into a strange universal citizenship he moves again toward the…

…was the sanctuary of the flame. The flame was life. When the flame burned, man lived. When the fuel parried, man died. Buddha in one of his discourses goes into considerable detail in the symbolical use of fire. He explains, for example, that if every…

…flaming forth because of the fuel. The fuel which it is to consume. Consciousness consuming body. And perhaps if the pessimism of Buddha is correct, dying with it. But a great blame. while still it shines the candles upon an altar the incense burner the…

…complete concept of samadhi has been developed in Eastern thinking. It is also the concept that underlies the parinirvana of the Buddha. Cognition without self. In other words, the pronunciation or the envisioning of the power of the sacred name, and it is…

…direct, honest evaluation. And I know of no work dealing with this subject more appropriate than one of the Discourses of Buddha. The original Discourse is rather complicated. and involves a number of strains and difficult terms, and also embraces a much…

…be happy. If I do not have this, I shall be unhappy. Therefore, I must quest desperately after the object of my desire." Then Buddha says, but the wise man, when desire arises in the mind, shall say, desire has arisen in the mind. This is all the fact…

…if we can come down to this very simple core realization, we will begin to have a greater insight into realization as honesty. Buddha then goes on to take a wide variety of situations. A man may say to himself, this I hate, therefore this is hateful.…

…are a little afraid of fact. They regard it as cold and rather calculating. not very inspiring. But this concept, as given by Buddha, is not cold, nor is it condemning, nor is it self-criticizing, nor does it lack gentleness or insight. It is simply the…

…that they themselves are false." Now, we cannot expect persons to make complete renovations of themselves in a moment. Certainly, Buddha never expected his disciples to achieve this. All that he asks is that the individual becomes aware. And, having once…

…deeply and wonderfully and miraculously changed, then the so-called exercises or disciplines have really achieved little, if anything. And Buddha tells us how we shall recognize essential change. Inasmuch as this change, coming as it must from within, becomes…

…in connection with the section, which is somewhat based upon one of Buddha's dialogues, which I think is also important to us. Buddha wrote in a number of instances in a very curious way in which he makes two statements that apparently oppose each other…

…which might be a channel, or an interior strength, or an interior extension, is broken up. fragmented by attitudes. And as Buddha points out, nearly all attitudes, when they achieve a certain dogmatic place in the mind, become slayers of the real. Almost…

…in books. And student number eight destroys truth by declaring that it cannot be discovered in books. Now, the point that Buddha tells us, of course, is this. Buddha says that man blocks himself by saying, by studying the teachings of the Buddha,…

…destroys truth by declaring that it cannot be discovered in books. Now, the point that Buddha tells us, of course, is this. Buddha says that man blocks himself by saying, by studying the teachings of the Buddha, I shall achieve nirvana. He is wrong.…

…again, is one explanation for discipline. These disciplines must clear the psychic field. They must liberate man from the dominance of externals. Buddha is very definite on this point. It sounds like he wants everyone to be an ascetic, but this is not the…

…is very definite on this point. It sounds like he wants everyone to be an ascetic, but this is not the meaning. What Buddha is trying to tell us is that while man mistakes the world for himself, simply because this world appears to him coming from…

…which make the earth beneath us an uncertain ground. to seat oneself means to resolve. We are told that in the illumination of Buddha in the deer park at Sarna, now at the Bodhi tree at Bodhigaya later he spoke at Sarna, but the original revelation was…

…law. Therefore, we take our position firmly upon the great pattern of the law, and particularly upon the two great laws which Buddha taught, reincarnation and karma. But we'll suddenly rest our case upon the infinite plan of things, and say, here I accept,…

…not concentrating all the time. I found in working with people that each individual had a kind of starting ground. As Buddha points out, the long journey begins with the first step. And this is true in concentration. Most individuals will find concentration…

…to attempt to advance his own spiritual destiny with total disregard for those around him. There may be evidence in the dialogues of Buddha that the individual so doing has performed a virtue, but in the West it would not be a virtue. It would mean a…

…the individual wiping himself off as a chalk mark on a wet slate actually all of these achievements are highly relative. Buddha, however, pointed out that even the smallest step in the direction of reality is accompanied by a certain enlargement of reality.…

…to reach man during sleep than at any other time, because during this period the objective dissenter is temporarily suspended. As Buddha points out, the machinery of the sensory perception, having seen, man is relieved of the pressure of the appearances of…

…soul, to keep man in bonding to the innumerable patterns and forms which surround him and which are made known But, substantially, Buddha held the same position. He regarded the material state of man as a prison, as a place of limitation, or perhaps, at…

…to the mystery of being. This aha not only represented the production or product of a system. In the oldest records that we have, Buddha himself stands in the position of an eye. In this, he is sustained by his own concept. But in a mysterious way, he…

…eye. In this, he is sustained by his own concept. But in a mysterious way, he was neither God nor man. He was a Buddha. And in this peculiar sense of isolation, he rejected not only the limitations of humanity, But the grandeur of the Arhat concept, or…

…or the grandeur of the idea of being a divine person, or one peculiarly and inevitably the channel of a divine purpose. Buddha originally did not invest himself with these attributes, but he was a great saint, a great sage, a great philosopher. And in…

…are almost too exact to be explained in any other way. For example, in the Mahayana concept, there cannot be but one Buddha. In other words, all Bodhisattvas do not become Buddhas. They become Buddhas. And in this realization, the entire road or path of…

…in order that he might accomplish the ministry for which he was intended the buddha thus Before Abraham was, I am. The Buddha could say that all preceding Buddha beings existed in him, and that he existed in them. He could therefore regard himself not…

…their schools or have sent forth from themselves their orders and their hierarchs of teachers. The other two await like the sixth and seventh Buddha for the time which shall be with us in the great day. In other words, in the time which is next, or in…

…them. The sixth century B.C. was one of the great centuries in the history of the world, where in that century Pythagoras, Buddha, Confucius, and Laozi, and Zoroaster, Svetlana, were all alive at the same time. We know that 600 years later was the…

…like a vast ocean, moves relentlessly on its way, dissolving, breaking down removing every barrier to the fulfillment of itself. As Buddha pointed out, a very great deal of human misery is man forced to stand and watch his own disobedience swept away.…

…for some reason he does not desire to endure the effect, then he must cease to produce the cause. On one occasion, Buddha, discussing this with one of his disciples, the disciple explained to him all the sorrows and miseries through which he was passing,…

…with one of his disciples, the disciple explained to him all the sorrows and miseries through which he was passing, and the Buddha explained to him that it was the working out of karma. And the tired and harassed sufferer asked if there wasn't something…

…was the working out of karma. And the tired and harassed sufferer asked if there wasn't something he could do about it. And Buddha gently patted him on the shoulder and said, yes, brother, endure it. And once the cause is set in motion, wisdom is the…

…a long time, but in eternity all things are bound together into a complete and finished product, whatever that may be. So Buddha points out that wherever the individual, in the presence of an effect, is able to produce only a commendable reaction from…

…nature of consciousness in relationship to what we term mind, or the illusional intellectual succession. And we remember that Buddha considered sleep be the most approximate symbol of consciousness, and that it is from this mysterious root, this unconditioned…

…three powers now represented, and here we must pause for a moment in our study of this section. We have begun with Atma, Buddha, and Manus. We have come to the monastic field, which is the field of the great thought. Now how shall we understand this…

…see where we are with our concept of the basic nature of the creation process. We now have the great seal, the ungrun of Buddha, of Beini. We have in the midst of it the blazing center of the divine force. All this is invisible, totally beyond our…

…So he's struggling now with this mysterious problem of the interval between ego, mind and thought. Now ego actually is a product of mind. Buddha points this out very clearly to us. Namely that There is a kind of mind that is not egoic, that the ego is…

…solutions the world has ever had to its problems. It simply states very clearly that what you sow, so shall you reap. Or as Buddha put it, the ox and the cart. The ox leads and the cart follows. Wherever the ox leads or the cart follows, the wagon…

…will find gradually that the simple things of life will come through. Kindness will take hold. In the Buddhist doctrine, the next Buddha, according to them, is the Lord Maitreya, who is waiting in the Tushtyavan to come to earth after a certain period of…

…not persons. They never were. They are embodiments or personifications of qualities. And therefore it is appropriate that the next great Buddha to come should be the Lord Maitreya. For in Sanskrit the word Maitreya means kindness. Therefore it is the coming…

…reward of his own wealth. He has the means, but lacking the integrities finds the wealth a very heavy burden on him. As Buddha so well pointed out, wealth is the heaviest burden that the flesh must bear. And while most people would be very willing to…

…and using it as it should be used. The question is why? The answer is the tremendous imposition of self-interest. As Buddha pointed out 25 centuries ago, the individual who is primarily concerned with himself is lost from the beginnings. and no amount…

…and that this inferior part is centered in self-will, selfishness, arrogance, ambition, and greed. But all of these are unreasonable. As Buddha points out, these together are the causes of suffering. While they continue, there can be no end to suffering. The…

…and no place to lay his head. But all of the rulers of the earth at one time or another have bowed down to him. Buddha sacrificed an empire, a country, gave up all his worldly goods to become a wandering mendicant. And as a result of that, he has…

…this we will assume that each person is born with these seeds, which are referred to in Buddhism as the seeds in the Buddha fields, where are planted all the virtues and integrities of mankind. In any event, we have within us the seed of happiness. It…

…feelings, attitudes or ambitions. We want the mind to help us to do what we want to do, whether it is right or wrong. Buddha was one of the first to point out, therefore, that the mind is the slayer of the real. Not of its natural accord. The…

…individual has been so completely undermined that the value of life to that person is infinitely reduced. Now, of course, in Buddhism, Buddha pointed out in his day that where a situation of this kind pertains, and it pertained in his day, always has,…

…so, having worked at this as hard as we have, Lots of people just decide they're not going to do anything with the job. Buddha pointed out that the answer to that is they will have the glorious privilege of going through it all over again. And if they…

…through a constructive religious relationship with life. The individual who follows the Sermon on the Mount or one of the dialogues of Buddha and lives according to these rules will be a good person. And this good person is not only more secure in this…

…have the great leaders who have sought to bring to mankind a higher level of life. We know the great world teachers. We know Buddha and Moses and Confucius and Lao Tzu and Jesus, Muhammad, all the great teachers that have come to serve us. We know that…

…the life of profit, each individual trying to gain from the others, each putting his own success above the common good and ending, as Buddha pointed out, with chaos. All these things we do know, and memory can refresh them for us. And we are in a much…

…The use of this environment, the protection of its necessities, the willingness to share it, to recognize a communal existence. Buddha said that the space system, the great galaxy system, is a cosmic communalism in which all things laboring together can…

…in the words of the teachers we revere. To the Christian it is in the words of Christ. To the Buddhist in the words of Buddha. And strangely as it may seem, love is one of the primary words of Mohammed. but with all this why do we ignore it…

…of sufficient importance to cause the universe to be stirred by our personal delinquencies. So what does it all add up to? Well, Buddha and some of the older teachers, in fact, some today are thinking in the same way, that this memory factor is part of…

…individual who finally attains the complete release from the cycle of mistakes gradually impersonalized himself. The Bodhisattva, or the highest Buddha, attainment of man as an individual, the human being as an individual, is one in whom all of the mistakes…

…to existence? And in Buddhism, That single thread is love. And that love has as its major expression compassion. The Maitreya Buddha, the Buddha to come, or the Buddhist state in man to come, is called compassion. Infinite tenderness toward all that lives.…

…And in Buddhism, That single thread is love. And that love has as its major expression compassion. The Maitreya Buddha, the Buddha to come, or the Buddhist state in man to come, is called compassion. Infinite tenderness toward all that lives. So the…

…nature so it really is a tremendous instrument in its own right To use this instrument, perhaps it is best, again, to see how Buddha summed the matter up. He points out that the mind itself has six essential functions. It is a machine. It is not the…

…honesties that would not otherwise be possible. Therefore, the mind is a very happy and healthy part of our economy. Now, Buddha tells us that the five sensory perceptions that we all know, sight, hearing, taste, feeling, and the general structure of the…

…that is sharp or could injure us. So all of these faculties have their own particular power to help us in living. Now Buddha points this out without question and he says these things are all true. But what happens? What happens when these five senses…

…tries to cater to all five of them this could be a rather complicated situation so nature has also given us what Buddha calls the most important of all the sensory perceptions a sixth sense which is called the mental coordinator now a coordinator in…

…into himself the five sensory machine can bring him a great deal of present testimony and former testimony he will learn as Buddha points out that the problems all began within himself and then because they began within himself he moved about into the…

…to find the answer to the problem that we ourselves face. There's a story in Buddhism about the general of the armies who went to Buddha. And he said, Master, you teach peace. I am the sworn ruler of the armies of my king. I have sworn that I will…

…people. I will defend the ruler if necessary with my life. Now you tell me I should be a man of peace. And Buddha said, well, not necessarily. The dedications that you have, you have made voluntarily. and you believe they are right and you believe they…

…own actions. So all the way along you'll find little fragments in the teachings of Confucius, in the teachings of Lazi, of Buddha, of Muhammad, of all these teachers. There have been moralists among them, mystics in most of these groups, who have tried to…

…in the doctrine of Buddhism but it may also be that we need confusion to mend that wound But in any event, as Buddha pointed out, karma as punishment brings back the being into a condition similar to that which it caused for other people. The tyrant,…

…respects him, no one admires him, men fear him, and are often jealous of his possessions and attempt to rob him of them. Buddha was very clear on discussing this particular subject. He said the great problem of poverty is that men sigh because they are…

…competition. it must also lose or help the mind to lose the idea that the more it has the happier it'll be but in reality as Buddha pointed out the more we have the more sleep we lose trying to take care of it all kinds of things by a very gentle…

…without accepting the fallacy of accumulation. What are we going to accumulate? If we accumulate enough, we become the victims of crime. Buddha pointed up this very, very clearly. And I suppose no one has really given very much thought to what he said.…

…pointed up this very, very clearly. And I suppose no one has really given very much thought to what he said. But Buddha was perfectly convinced that as long as the individual believed that wealth was power and security, and that wealth and power in…

…was power and security, and that wealth and power in the way we use it is security for anything, he's in trouble. Buddha pointed out definitely that there was no peace, no contentment from the accumulation of worldly goods. The individual is entitled to…

…an easy question to answer. For the most part, this thing that we call I is an ego which is an accumulation of pressures. Buddha probably came nearer than anyone else to giving a proper estimation of the nature of I. I being a summary of the reflexes…

…the talk of this morning we want to call attention to an old Buddhist philosophy which perhaps isn't as well known in the West. Buddha told his followers very definitely that this world is a school it is not a playground also we come to school to learn…

…one of the basic philosophers of the world, Immanuel Kant, or perhaps one of the greater oriental philosophers like Confucius or Buddha, the great experience is the unfurlment of the continuity, because step by step they should lead you from what is obvious…

…There must be an anti-God. There must be an enemy of God. And this enemy is continually conspiring to thwart the purposes of deity. Buddha, I think, had as good an answer to this as anybody, because he was also confronted by the learned of his day with…

…also confronted by the learned of his day with a difficult problem to solve, like the problem of Caesar's penny. So when they asked Buddha about the place of evil in the plan of things, he said very simply, If God permits evil, he is not God. If he…

…very much more happy when we give something than when we gain it. We should recognize ourselves as citizens in what Buddha called the great community, the great universal mystery of life, that we are magnificent creatures, incredibly skilled, that we are…

…that arise in spite of the fact that apparently we have not immediately caused them, that these emergencies are remote things? Buddha would have called them, of course, the gradual gathering up of the loose ends of karma. And in this gathering of…

…that come to face us. If we face these problems as we previously did, we will set a new cycle of causation in action. Buddha tells us this. If, when the emergency arises, we become as rattled as we have always been, as unfair as we previously were,…

…you want to call it that, does have a tendency to simplify and direct living. In Eastern philosophy, in Buddhism for example, Buddha himself made a strong point of the importance of watching pressures that arise within us. At the first sign of some…

…We don't treat ailments. That is a bad disposition. We treat people. And when we start treating people, we find out what Buddha taught. Namely, that whenever we start to treat people, we treat only one thing which they all have in common. Ignorance. Now,…

…have come into focus within the subconscious life of the person. we come back to our original concept as taught in the East by Buddha and in the West by Plotinus. Namely, that mysticism has to be an effect, the cause of which must be equal to the…

…no use trying to be what you ain't because you is what you am. and never was greater word spoken by Plato, Aristotle, or Buddha. And our entire life in terms of personal growth depends upon the solid recognition of this fact. We are what we are. In…

…the sun to strike things and reveal them. The seventh and eighth century Buddhist artists frequently represented the figure of the Buddha Amida as a sunrise coming over the mountains. This great haloed head arising between the great peaks of hills and the…

…incapable of providing us with any basic integration, but simply animating a mass of complexes. The oriental mind knew this, recognized it. Buddha realized it 2,600 years ago. He knew there was only one answer to this, And that is that the individual must…

…is nothing that we can ask for that we cannot earn, that is not available to us if we live right. Therefore, the Buddha simply makes some little statement like the Nembutsu, adoration to Amida Buddha, and that is his prayer. He may repeat it several…

…available to us if we live right. Therefore, the Buddha simply makes some little statement like the Nembutsu, adoration to Amida Buddha, and that is his prayer. He may repeat it several times. deeply concentrating upon the blessedness of the life he has…

…It is his own foolishness and his own selfishness that has made trouble. That alone he can cure. Before the Ravana, Buddha called his disciples together and he said, My brethren, I leave you with this admonition. Work out your salvations with diligence.…

…its own consciousness not only the salvation of man but the salvation of every blade of grass that not only is the illumined Buddha of mortals but is also the perfection of the Lotus and the star the perfection of the bird the perfection of everything.…

…the least of all living things, each grain of sand, each mole floating in the sunbeam, has become in its turn a fully enlightened Buddha. This being is not a god. It is merely the goodness in man himself. It is the thing that man would want. It is…

…personality and the great psychic strength which is within himself. And as this unfolds, he becomes increasingly aware of the Buddha power in himself. And so finally, in the concept of the Western Paradise, man suddenly beholds inwardly the entire radiance…

…there descend chains of valuable experiences. And about things we gain an understanding of the bondage of possession, which Buddha very clearly pointed out. No man possesses anything. Every man is possessed by his own possessions. Consequently, we want…

…to have good quality and the best possible materials in what he owns. But he now becomes more or less the servant of these. Buddha tells the story of the man who assembled a great fortune and then was unable to sleep for fear that he would lose it.…

…then, that in the idea of Buddhism or in Zen, that we do not have the complete rejection of all things? In a sense, Buddha does give us this complete rejection, but his faith never accepted it. It never accepted the loss of beauty as a factor in…

…no way out of this net of mental overemphasis or specialization. Considering the facts as they are then, we know that Buddha developed the concept of the mental coordinator. The mental coordinator had no infallibility, no divine sanction, and was in many…

…desire for wealth and power so we have to begin to think of this in terms of the great structure of life fortunately as Buddha pointed out we're going to have plenty of time to make the decisions if we don't make them this time we'll make them because…

…have settled in and not knowing what to do goes to a physician and says what shall I do I'm in a desperate condition the Buddha had a fable relating to this it was very very good very valuable in which he was the physician and he came to them the…

…was bitter lived and recovered and those who did not take the medicine died or remained as they were and the only attitude Buddha said is discipline the mind redeem and regenerate conduct and dedicate life to service these are the things that go on and…

…the family. The problem of the tribe was solved in only one way. The members had to work together. Out of this, Buddha brought his concept of world communalism, in which the world was recognized as one great community. a community which could not be…

…ways of developing the realities of life. Well, if we want to borrow a little something from Mencius or an idea or two from Buddha or perhaps something from Akhenaten to help us find out what we ought to do in order to meet this new century, then we…

…the world. In China, Confucius restored the ancient faith. Laozi restored the ancient mystical tradition of the Far East. Buddha reformed Brahmanism. Muhammad attempted a reformation of both Christian and the Jewish beliefs and doctrines. Zoroaster restored the…

…present policies. He would tell us simply and directly what would happen if we kept on doing the things we are doing now. Buddha would have done the same. Muhammad would have done the same. Each one would have brought to us the reminder that when we…

…of the rich. He realized that they were not enjoying what they had. Instead of enjoying it, they were servants to it. And Buddha points this out very, very clearly. Namely, that those who do not have much live miserably because they do not have more.…

…relax there is no common penalty to do good is to achieve good to do anything else is to achieve that other thing while Buddha was preaching in India in the state where he was born Kapilavastu The general of the armies came to him and said, Master, I…

…must lead armies. must take all the responsibilities for protecting the obligations I have taken what is the answer master what should I do Buddha said you should do that which is to be done if you are the leader of the army then you yourself must be…

…comes. And the moment we get the power over greater things, we proceed to forget our principles and abuse that power. Then, as Buddha says, who came and walked as a king will come back as a beggar for things done and things undone. Therefore, there is…

…beyond the grave. And the grave is some kind of an attitude or a situation that becomes a test of life. If anything, as the Buddha tells us, that we can't take with us when we go should never cause us great trouble while we live. If we can't take it…

…or less come down to us as family truisms. They're available to everyone. And so are the teachings of Christ, the teachings of Buddha, the teachings of Pythagoras, of Plato, of Lao Tzu. All of these teachings are basic. There is not one of them that…

…we have Gautama Buddha one of the very few of the great teachers who was not penalized in some major way for his teachings Buddha was penalized a little but not much he was not a martyr he died surrounded by his disciples and honored but in a strange…

…of poison not because it was intentional but because of circumstances which he knew himself would come and the last words of Buddha were to his disciples work out your own salvation with diligence there is no other way his teachings have probably had…

…and yet we cannot say that we've outgrown it we can only say that we have not yet been able to live up to it Buddha was honored And the schools which he founded in parts of Asia are being revived now in this time of bitter conflict. And the hope…

…the great reformer arose. In Persia the great reformer was Zarathustra. In India the first great reformer probably of great importance was Buddha. In China the great reformer was Confucius. Each one of these and many others tried to call people to cling to…

…found many answers but not the answer to the major issues of existence. Sir Edwin Arnold in his poem The Light of Asia makes the Buddha to say Veil upon veil we lift, but find veil upon veil behind. And this is more or less the situation as it is.…

…very much good. antiquity was nice while you were in antiquity but now we've outgrown it we've outgrown Socrates we've outgrown Buddha we've outgrown all of these we have even outgrown our own Christianity these things were for little people growing up but…

…In Buddhism, the heart is called the Saptapana, the house or temple with seven rooms. It is within this temple, as Buddha points out, that the great initiation against the hindrances has to be performed. The individual has to be initiated in his…

…a result of hypnotic research, is consciousness diffused through every cell of structure? Is therefore consciousness a diffusion as Buddha thought it was. Is consciousness something that's like salt and pepper scattered everywhere in the structure, seasoning it…

…the common symbolism that we know in the Christian church? In the Buddhist temples, there may or may not be images of the Buddha, Bodhisattva, Arhat saints and sages. If they are there, they are enshrined or altered very much as in the case of the…

…time, the Fujiwara princes were converts to the doctrine of the Amida. for the adoption of the intercession of the Amida Buddha for the redemption of mankind. This perhaps to that stage of Buddhism mirrors the Christianity and its essential meaning. So in…

…essentially different from that of the older teachings. We know also that in his earnest desire To be of benefit to mankind, Buddha taught more publicly and perhaps more clearly than most of those who had preceded him. On the other hand, either because of…

…hand, either because of his own ethical conviction or in respect for the obligations which he had previously assumed, Buddha, throughout his entire ministry, carefully avoided infringing any of the secrets or any of the esoteric doctrines essentially associated…

…the people. Therefore, it was not necessary to comment upon them or to make public utterance concerning their meaning. In any event, Buddha obviously refused to discuss the creation of the world, the origin of the gods, or any of those peculiar yogic and…

…the gods, or any of those peculiar yogic and Vedantic practices with which the Hindu system was so richly encrusted. Rather, to Buddha, the entire body of philosophy and wisdom were summarized in a simple formula to assist the average person to escape from…

…life and to establish based upon intelligence, dedication, discipline, and truth. Thus, we can definitely assume that it is not proven that Buddha was, as some have affirmed, an atheist. Had he been an atheist, he could not have been an initiated Hindu. It…

…of death and the possibility of rebirth. We know that Pythagoras believed in the Pempsichosis. We know that he was a contemporary of Buddha who taught the doctrine in India at about the same time. We know that Pythagoras was in India. We know that Hindus…

…the underworld and returns forever to the realm of life. This foreverness back to life perhaps is suggested by the carnavana of the Buddha or the samadhi of Vedanta. It is the final emancipation of the soul from the tyranny of the kingdom of Hades. So…

…of its own divinity may and does know man. And it's the power of the superior to know the inferior, which as Buddha points out, causes the superior always to assume a full paternity. an attitude of greater understanding and greater love and patience. So…

…more rarefied strata of higher Buddhism, where it seems to come very close to the Mahaparanirvanic state. This state, as Buddha himself tells us, is a continuance with non-existence, as we know non-existence, non-beingness. It might almost be called a kind…

…in the general reverence of Buddhists, it is law. For them, law is that which God is to the followers of theistic faiths. Buddha made a great point of the complete and total obedience to law. In this he broke from Brahmanism. the worship of the Indic…

…made satisfied. Therefore, man adds to the glory of God by obeying the law. This would be very similar to the Kabbalistic position. Buddha now also goes on to explain that involvement in law is existence as we know it, and that the soon as the being…

…law only by its own disintegration. The moment the pattern is no longer present, the law ceases to be manifested. And as Buddha points out, when all laws cease to manifest, then the nirvana is achieved. All conflict between a structure and principle has…