…Confucius and Laozi, who were contemporaries, although Laozi was the elder man. During the very lifetime of these men, India received Buddha, another of the great teachers of the world. We have the suspicion that there was a marked renaissance of Persian…

…internal change in the structure of Buddhism We find as a result of the discovery of the mysterious secret books of Buddha in the Iron Tower by the Buddhist patriarch Nagarjuna, that Buddhism moved from a lofty philosophic agnosticism into a very involved,…

…as a doctrine, but among the Kabbalists it arises in a very powerful way. We find also in India The strict teachings of Buddha are enlarged. Buddha passed through two processes after his death. By one of these processes, he was deified. And by the other…

…among the Kabbalists it arises in a very powerful way. We find also in India The strict teachings of Buddha are enlarged. Buddha passed through two processes after his death. By one of these processes, he was deified. And by the other process, he was,…

…rise of the mystical dispensation in Christendom, The Buddhist concept evolved their belief in a deity whom they called Amitabha, the Buddha of boundless light. This Amitabha power was seated like a remote deity in the effulgency of space. But Amitabha was…

…person and steps into the atom. And that is where the Chinese put it. That is where the Hindu put it. And that is where Buddha himself said it was because he actually referred to the atom by name in one of his discourses. Thus we have now a power as…

…birth of error. Again, the inversion of the fact. And in this inversion comes also the perversion of purposes and principles. Buddha said, of course, that the primary perversion was the attempt to achieve externally in this world a degree of security that…

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

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

…this 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…

…philosophical and religious democracy. It approaches things not from the standpoint of authority, but of internal enlightenment. According to Buddha, who was in this phase of the subject, definitely a transcendentalist, the individual must work out his own way…

…rather than moved by the church hierarchy which dominated his physical existence. Therefore, we may say, in a sense at least, that Buddha was correct when he speaks of the universe as a cosmotheism. In other words, he tells us that existence itself is a…

…to be here an individual does not grow because he's already right he is not here because he is perfect here again Buddha pointed out a very important purpose we're not here because we're right we're here because of the unfinished business in ourselves and…

…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…

…the universe, and that these in turn are all aimed at providing a reasonable pattern for the existence of existing things. Buddha declared the universe to be a vast commonwealth. It was a vast integration, a kind of strange socialized cosmos, in which…

…ended in compromise with some current. Either God was not good, or he was not God, to paraphrase a incident in the life of Buddha. In this particular situation, Could not be endured by a people. They could not turn from their God. They had no desire to…

…hope, however, 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…

…being suspended or transfigured by something else, that in the moment of this nirvana, and in this moment only, the Buddha achieving enlightenment becomes fully aware of the nature of enlightenment. Again, perhaps, not knowing the answers to all the…

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

…spiritual life of the race finally touches its material foundation. And all these, like the steps upon a cave of the illumination of Buddha, in the house of seven rings, it is the heart. And in one of the old Egyptian manuscripts, we are told that the…

…mysterious Messiah to come of Islam. It is any and all things that relate to the preservation and salvation of the world through Buddha. Because in love he elevated, raised up to the first place among all things, before all men under him. And in the…

…little difficult to historically date. But we can say this, Within 100 years, there flourished Confucius and Laozi in China, Buddha in India, the last of the Zoroasters in Persia, Pythagoras in Greece, and several lesser luminaries, including the so-called…

…priests of Persia. We are not absolutely sure. It is conceivable that Pythagoras, having visited India, may have come in contact with Buddha or at least met some of his disciples. This we cannot say with certainty. But that these men were contemporaries we…

…was young. At the time of Zoroaster, the last Zoroaster, if he flourished 600 BC, Persian culture was old. At the time of Buddha, we can say that Hinduism was decadent. At the time of Confucius and Laozi in China, we know that Chinese history was…

…be termed man's inhumanity to man. They moved against the tyranny of privileged groups, and the suppression of the rights of individuals. Buddha fought to overcome a caste system in India, that was as strong as any system of slavery of the later world.…

…that it took considerable time for the final disintegration of the direct impetus of these schools. The contribution made by Buddha, beginning in the 6th century and extending through the long years of his own life, continued down with comparatively slight…

…unless it does exist, a very subtle evolutionary process in the life of the individual is frustrated. There is no escape from what Buddha called the machine of the five senses. This machine is a squirrel cage, and no matter how much we use these five…

…us to a large degree the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. In India it is assumed or was believed that Buddha was associated with the planet Mercury, and it is this in turn which primitive Western man always associated with the nervous system.…

…conditioned state. A creature, therefore, with a heart life, may be said to have a condition of consciousness similar to what Buddha describes as Nirvana. It is the extinction of all particular or all attribute functioning. It is merely the state of being.…

…the heart chakra for example which apparently is the chakra that was of the greatest significance in the Pure Land Gospel of Buddha in this chakra we have the concept therefore of the radiant power represented by the Buddha Amitabha seated in the midst of…

…in the Pure Land Gospel of Buddha in this chakra we have the concept therefore of the radiant power represented by the Buddha Amitabha seated in the midst of this great lotus and these deities are always lotus thrones and these lotus thrones are the…

…to us, perhaps it is best to use the Japanese term. The dying person is said to receive a vision in which the Buddha Amida appears upon clouds, accompanied by two bodhisattvas, one on each side. On the left of Amida is the bodhisattva Chinese Quan Yin.…

…of the nymphs in the more platonic system of thought. This is Zoroaster's mysterious cavern and it is the Saptapana cavern of Buddha or the cave of seven rooms in which the initiations into the mysteries of Buddhism were given to the candidates or…

…and eternity remain. But it is this mysterious life that continues unchanged regardless of the changes of form and circumstance that Buddha used as the final symbol of his nirvana. His nirvana was this life itself, this eternal allness to which everything…

…within the field of awareness provided by the nervous system of the physical body. In speaking of consciousness, therefore, Buddha, rather pessimistically, describes what we call consciousness as nothing more nor less than the alchemical product of sensation.…

…new circumstance has been brought to our awareness a circumstance which requires a modification of our previous state of awareness. Buddha carries this a little further and uses the wheel of the doctrine, the Dhamma chakra, to represent this process. And…

…the consciousness, apart from the body, was of supreme symbolic importance. Knowing that such severance must occur, we remember how Buddha in the Dhammapada, or the last great discourse, describes the situation of his own decease. How he achieved the…

…capacity to become more conscious. That this infinite capacity to become more conscious must theoretically end in something. I think Buddha was working upon this same concept when he intimated that the ultimate of consciousness, so to say, is a nirvanic…

…and transforming and ultimately transmitting that degree of conscious energy which we call selfhood, or egoism, or the I am-ness in man. As Buddha pointed out, this is by no means the end, but it is as far as man can normally accomplish. The body which…

…it once it has started. And the first good deed dedicated unselfishly is the beginning of the long road that leads to regeneration. Buddha brings us the same point when he says that the journey to truth begins with a single step. The single step in the…

…in the wonders and mysteries of the mystic life. So it's after a certain period. We do make this effort. It becomes, as Buddha pointed out, after the first step, the second step is a little easier. But of course, through the first steps, and the second…

…precisely the same methodology in his so-called Jataka tales. These Jatakas are really stories, presumably, of the previous incarnations of Buddha. And they go all the way back to his embodiment in various animal forms, and the experiences that happened to…

…the same time. We have not much understanding of contact between Asia and the Greek states at the time of Buddha. We know that the travelers from eastern countries, merchants particularly, did carry various goods along the caravan routes and were…

…with a golden rule or the ten commandments or the sermon on the mount or the wisdom of Confucius the teachings of Buddha the mathematical genius of Pythagoras the mysticism of Christ we have these things we don't even teach them except on rare occasions…

…study the sutras or the sacred books of Buddhism certainly those prior to the last great reformation under Mahayana we find that Buddha is a strict moralist we find that he refuses under any condition to explore the abstractions of cosmogony he refuses to…

…of man other than such concept as relates to the final extinction of negative individuality in the Mahaparanavanic state Thus Buddha becomes a kind of philosophic, idealistic, ethical materialist. He is concerned primarily only with the problem of man and…

…He is concerned primarily only with the problem of man and with man only in the aspect of human suffering, its cause and cure. Buddha took the public attitude that his only problem, and the only problem that the world had to face, and face head on with…

…a result of the discovery of the Gnostic library at Chernobyl in Egypt. But in Buddhism, it was assumed, affirmed, maintained, that Buddha taught his disciples, or his ahas, these certain other things, that to those whom he regarded as ready, He gave a…

…in Asia. And this revival centered largely around what we term today Mahayana Buddhism. By this revival the entire doctrine of Buddha was opened up from within itself as though a great bird of light suddenly expanded. Prior to that time, the external…

…Buddhi, or soul illumination, corresponds not to an individual attainment, but a man reaching out for universal re-identification. Thus, Buddha represents, to a degree, the experience of cosmic consciousness, because in comparison to the planetary bodies, it is…

…you before, no vehicle or no instrument can attain to the full comprehension of that which is superior to itself. Thus, as Buddha represents also a paradisical world, a heavenly sphere beyond the state of mortal man, it is inevitable that mortal man cannot…

…the descent of the Buddhic principle itself through its adepts, ahats, and messiahs. This relationship then means that the search for Buddha as an experience within the life of man is the search for the universal within and behind the particular of human…

…no longer any of the limitations imposed by malice he must achieve to the state of consciousness which is represented by Buddha itself. And this state of consciousness is that of eternal diffusion of soul power. Thus the person, the being, unable naturally…

…and Western, were intended to cleanse the inside of the cup to make the bodies of man suitable to be the channels of Buddha. And just as in the Indian system the avatars, or the embodiments of God, take form and manifest in the world, so Buddha,…

…the primary impulse is the desire to exist, or the desire to be, or the desire to survive. This, then, is to Buddha the greatest of all the illusions. Now, it isn't simply that the principle of intelligence or individuality is merely to discover this…

…subtle awareness of what is to follow. This gives us, then, the introduction to the link between Manus as intellect and Buddha as the principle of pure universal illumination, which is not intellect. but is beyond intellect, and corresponds with the positive…

…of desire, or the karmic sphere, was also identified with the deity Mara, the god of illusion, and the tempter of Buddha. The desire is forever luring the individual to that which is its inevitable correlative, the gratification of the desire. And…

…desire only good things. Others are not so particular. But in any event, desire is the motivation. The desire to live, as Buddha points out, is the basis of the great cycle of necessity or the cycle of rebirth. Desire must consequently be considered the…

…for reunion with God, and his yearning is a desire. He longs to go home to the great and wonderful peace which, according to Buddha, rests at the end of the desert of waiting. These are his dreams, these are his hopes, these are his desires, and these…

…Plotinus and Elis, that could never be shaken by any material pressure of any kind. Yet, neither of these persons achieved what Buddha called the Mahaperinibbana. They did not enter into this union. They were not absorbed into it. They were not forever one…

…needs, out of his earthy experience, striving to know. And had it not been for matter, there could have been no Plato, no Buddha, and no Jesus. These things have to be part of man's plan. We could not recognize solution unless we had the problem. So…

…AD, we also became a great stronghold of Buddhism. And the country was literally covered with monuments of Buddhistic thought, although Buddha himself had never actually journeyed previously. In the early years of the second century AD, as far as we can…

…In the early years of the second century AD, as far as we can learn today, Gandhara produced the first human likeness of Buddha. Prior to that time, no effort had been made to represent this great Indian teacher as a person. He was represented only by…

…top of columns, which has more recently become the official symbol of the Indian Republic. The second symbol associated with Buddha was the teaching chair, where he would be seated discoursing to his disciples, which is a low throne-like structure, sometimes…

…discoursing to his disciples, which is a low throne-like structure, sometimes supported by lions. The third symbol peculiarly associated with Buddha at this period was the footprint, a device resembling the human foot, but usually larger, the sole of the foot…

…of the foot being covered with an intricate pattern of symbolic designs. If it was therefore considered appropriate to represent Buddha, the congregation of the believers might be gathered about the teaching of Buddha. Above the throne would be the chakra…

…side of the palace because he and Confucius never did get along too well. And little things like that do not change that much. Buddha probably would not be there because he would naturally be assumed to go back to the land of his own origin. The great…

…certain similarity that we cannot entirely ignore between this whole story and the mysterious account of the western paradise of Amitabha Buddha. And it looks as though this is the Chinese version of it. Furthermore, the Queen of Heaven actually comes very…

…the goddess Kuan Yin became, in a sense, the representative and the agent, in fact, was the direct descent of the Amida Buddha. for the Amida Buddha was the father of Kuan Yin. Though the elusive mysterious and invisible king of this region might well…

…became, in a sense, the representative and the agent, in fact, was the direct descent of the Amida Buddha. for the Amida Buddha was the father of Kuan Yin. Though the elusive mysterious and invisible king of this region might well be the Amida Buddha.…

…was the father of Kuan Yin. Though the elusive mysterious and invisible king of this region might well be the Amida Buddha. And the visible glorious queen of heaven bestowing immortality as she bestowed mercy could also very likely tie into the concepts…

…And it is true also in the Buddhist belief that these people say if there were no man there would be no Buddha. The Buddha man locked within the instrument of his own interpretation trying to explain beyond the circumference of himself and always forced…

…is true also in the Buddhist belief that these people say if there were no man there would be no Buddha. The Buddha man locked within the instrument of his own interpretation trying to explain beyond the circumference of himself and always forced to fall…

…But there was a sensitivity in this eye which seemed to tie to the concept of the earner or foil on the forehead of Buddha, and for that matter, the foil serpent on the foreheads of the serial believers. The ruler of Ling looked like young Sintri, the…

…of the earth. And upon them rested the responsibility continuance of the doctrine until the coming of the advent of the Buddha Maitreya. It's interesting in these old writings bearing upon this to realize that there is a kind of strange fatality almost…

…recognizable, will be there, for they have the power also be pitiful. But they were told at the time it is said that Buddha ordained them that they should go forth and observe the doctrine for the day when the next teacher should arise. The concept here…

…comes as the warrior of the law, and probably somewhat parallel to the Japanese concept of Hideo Ryo, the flaming, demon-like appearance of Buddha. He comes as the avenger and the defender. He comes to warn the world that no man can break the law and…

…pressures of adversity. Everywhere the hero struggles on only to finally fall And the whole pattern was, of course, established by Buddha in the beginning. He told firmly that the doctrine was gradually banished from the earth, that men would therefore have…

…be expected, are the least embellished. Also in the case of Buddhism, and a good parallel will be found in Christianity, actually Buddha left no written words, what we are able to discover. As a most religious situations. The early perpetuation was by oral…

…the legends at least for a part of the way. In the northern school, the sutras or records of the teachings of Buddha are divided into two groups. The early records belonging to the southern school are acknowledged. They are affirmed to exist, and they…

…that in one way or another, there are descended to them further instructions, arising also in the original words of Buddha, not merely in commentary, but in actual discourses which the great teacher gave. The northern school, therefore, divided the teachings…

…merely in commentary, but in actual discourses which the great teacher gave. The northern school, therefore, divided the teachings of Buddha into a series of periods. They said that Buddha, at different times in his life, revealed different levels or layers…

…the great teacher gave. The northern school, therefore, divided the teachings of Buddha into a series of periods. They said that Buddha, at different times in his life, revealed different levels or layers of his instructions It is said of Jesus that he…

…heart nearly all of the great teachers of the world have been represented by the heart symbol the heart doctrine of the Buddha the heart doctrine of Christianity the heart doctrine of Hinduism these are doctrines based finally upon the heart and love and…

…will prevent us from corrupting whatever virtues we have left. And in time, through the advancement of these improvements, we see our way. Buddha on one occasion said that he could take a person by the hand and he could lead them. But he could lead them…

…of ignorance completely, if he dominates one negative attitude in himself just once, as the result of the teachings of the Buddha if from those teachings he has one little experience of the blessedness of kindness and friendship he has already taken the…

…is a citizen of a universe that is right and the good citizen is the final inhabitant of the divine plan of things what Buddha calls the cosmic scope or the great cosmic system the communal system of the universe is a world in which the citizens are…

…greater resolution, and greater result than those who are simply trying to find out and have no solid foundation in thoughtfulness. Buddha had much the same idea on this matter, because to him also the primary purpose was that the human being should…

…the descendants and followers living them today. We know the peace and brotherhood taught by Christ. We know the compassion taught by Buddha. We know the renunciation of error taught by Lao Tzu. We know obedience to the rules of peace taught by Confucius.…

…are two deities, the Bodhisattva Kannon or Kuan Yin, the goddess of mercy, and the world's savior to come, the Buddha or Bodhisattva Maitreya. Now, these words are very interesting because they're names of something. And Kannon is compassion. This deity…

…which we will have to come to in a few minutes, but because of the infinite magnitude of the situation. The Buddha to come, according to Northern Buddhism, and that includes the Tibetan, Japanese, Korean, and Bhutan groups, is called Maitreya or Meraku.…

…there will be no solution. to the fact that man can become ever more dangerous to himself. The solution has to be, as the Buddha says, in the coming of the Maitreya Buddha, the coming of the spirit of kindness, the spirit of being gentle, the spirit of…

…man can become ever more dangerous to himself. The solution has to be, as the Buddha says, in the coming of the Maitreya Buddha, the coming of the spirit of kindness, the spirit of being gentle, the spirit of protecting life, of finding ways to arbitrate…

…shrine to another wears a broad-brimmed straw or bamboo hat on which are the words that he walks with another, the another being the Buddha. So this another that is stronger than we are and yet is with us and is available to us night and day, anytime,…

…and religions of life as guides and aids to understanding. He seeks to know better and to live according to the teachings of Buddha or Jesus or Confucius or Lao Tzu because he believes these persons have lived well. He tries to draw upon the spiritual…

…except at the cost of survival. But the human being can change its attitude toward the body at any time it wishes to. Buddha makes a very great and definite point out of this entire situation. To Buddha, the great enemy of mankind was the person living…

…toward the body at any time it wishes to. Buddha makes a very great and definite point out of this entire situation. To Buddha, the great enemy of mankind was the person living in a house but abusing it. The poor housekeeper. The housekeeper that allows…

…make mistakes demand these mistakes require the body to accept as natural things that no physical organism can support very long So the Buddha points out very definitely that the tyrant is the mind. It is the mind that does it. It is the mind that is…

…war. In India there was a very interesting fable a Buddhist general in the army of the great teachings of the Mahabharata And he came to Buddha. He said to him, Lord, I want to be a Buddhist, but I am the general of the army of the Raja. I am sworn…

…protect him? so that if war comes, I must fight his enemies. How can I live the life without vice or hurt? And Buddha said to him, it's very simple, my friend, very simple. You have taken an obligation to serve your prince. It's an honorable obligation…

…of themselves become peace Those things desiring to become united with wisdom must achieve this union by becoming themselves wisdom. Buddha points out, of course, the importance of not saying, in this instance, that they shall become wise. Buddha said we…

…by becoming themselves wisdom. Buddha points out, of course, the importance of not saying, in this instance, that they shall become wise. Buddha said we should not say that to approach wisdom we must become wise. he would say with the Neoplatonists that to…

…of a six-fold entity in man. And that is, of course, what we call today the human ego personality. This personality, as Buddha points out, is the aggregate of the six sense machines. In other words, it consists of the five senses and the mental…

…the internal nature actually does possess. The Greeks also had a certain further thinking about this, to the effect that, as Buddha pointed out, this complex of the sixth sense machine, because it is the basic cause of rebirth, constitutes, as the Tibetan…

…as with other peoples, efforts to define the nature of this absolute were considered more or less fruitless. Socrates, Pythagoras, Buddha, Confucius, Plato agreed primarily in the principle that to define the infinite is to defile the infinite These things…

…the mysterious god whose seeing is of an internal nature. like the ancient concept of Amitabha in Tibet, the contemplating Dhyana Buddha, that internalizes to know and externalizes to lose knowledge. This is a peculiar concept but it is common to most…

…and Manus. Atma being, to a degree then, the celestial, Buddhi the spiritual, Manus the mental. Now these conditions differ. Buddha is said, Gautama Buddha, is said to have experienced identity with Buddhi, or with the principle of pure, intuitive, or…

…the therefore the world of desire the world of illusion the world of the bundle of attributes, the world of the stacks, as Buddha calls them, of faculty, actions, and reactions, and their effects upon man. In other words, this is the world of emotion, of…

…seeker. yet she is not evidently lacking in the greatest of all emotions, and that is devotion. And devotion to truth, Buddha says, is the only permissible emotion. Consequently, we begin to see some of these attributes falling into place. Now, out of…

…a kind of unit, or a compound unity. This center was the Sambodha body, the luminous golden body of the Buddha. This represented, therefore, the seat in man of the extraordinary benevolence represented essentially by the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. The Buddha…

…This represented, therefore, the seat in man of the extraordinary benevolence represented essentially by the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. The Buddha himself initiated disciples in what is called the Saptapanna cave, a mysterious place of seven rooms. This place of…

…for a moment and give a little thought to the mind in this situation as we say the Sambuddha or luminous body of the Buddha or Bodhisattva was represented by the heart the physical body of the law was represented by the mind and in this case the mind…

…of an individual can destroy not only himself, but his world. ...to complete... an absolute destruction of the total being. Buddha himself pointed out that this was not true, but Western folks, particularly those of various religious denominations, chose to…

…a deity could at the same time be supreme and be the victim of the conspiracy of an adversary. This question was brought to Buddha on one occasion by the Brahmins who tried to trick him into a commitment much as the Pharisees tried to commit Jesus to…

…him into a commitment much as the Pharisees tried to commit Jesus to a statement on the head on Caesar's penny. The answer that Buddha gave to the question as to whether deity permits good and evil to exist, whether deity is the source of both good and…

…gave to the question as to whether deity permits good and evil to exist, whether deity is the source of both good and evil. Buddha answered very simply, if God does not prevent evil, he is not good. If God cannot prevent evil, he is not God. And the…

…of rebellion. Rebellion which arises from his own sense of maturing intellect, coming in conflict with the real purposes of existence. Buddha therefore tells us that we have taken this tremendous plan, which we do not understand, and we have tried to…

…it immediately. But he doesn't run the universe, so the thing goes on just exactly as it did before. The problem that faced Buddha in his philosophy was therefore not to explain why man was right. Or go into a lengthy and elaborate debate as to which…

…all, the body ceases to exist. Incidentally, the same procedure is described in the Mahaparanavana Sutra relating to the death of Buddha. he is described as passing through these stages to achieve the final liberation. But in the Vedanta system, or in yoga,…

…apart. Therefore, why not find out what the truth of the matter was in the first place? The truth of the matter is exactly as Buddha would have pointed out. This child is not your son. And at the same time, this child is not, not your son. Because it…

…unusual proportions. There are two great stone figures cut into the walls, of a desolate region of Afghanistan, figures of the Buddha. Nearly 200 feet in height, once gilded or polychromed, but now only shadows of their former glory. This tremendous size…

…the cosmic power of the sanctified figure. We still have in the East a number of very large religious images. The great Buddha of Nara, the largest bronze casting ever attempted, with its base nearly 70 feet in height. We also have figures in different…

…70 feet in height. We also have figures in different parts of the world where reclining figures, such as the Nirvana of the Buddha at Pagu, shows the great teacher lying on a jeweled couch. The figure is nearly 200 feet in length. There are images in…

…shows the great teacher lying on a jeweled couch. The figure is nearly 200 feet in length. There are images in Japan of Buddha over 120 feet high. These images and those in other parts of the world, for they once favored other deities besides the…

…like a dream. It is something he senses, but it has no tangibilities. Therefore, in his experience with his present sensory balance, as Buddha tells us, he has inevitably given more sense of reality to earth than he has to heaven. He has found the Great…

…acceptance of meditation. This is the power that was referred to as the eighth step in the Mahaparanirvana. For in it, Buddha, approaching dissolution, finally reached the state where he cast off even the power to cast off. Renounced in himself the power…

…his own non-existence. Thus, even though we go to the very depth of the mystery, we come finally to the point that Buddha made, namely that all experience, human or divine, is possible only because there is something that can experience. And in the…

…this condition. It could not be diffused into space alone. and come back again as a personal experience experienced by a person Buddha probably came as near as anyone to attempting to bring this matter into orientation he held it to be inevitable that the…

…we finally terminate man as a conditioned creature. And then what do we have left? What we appear to have left is, as Buddha tells us, is man himself. It in some mysterious way eludes all of these conditioned interpretations of his own nature. We can…

…end, in every case, to the experience of the void, whether it be the small experience or the vaster one. Once, as Buddha points out, once the individual has stepped across between these two conditions, he cannot return. he cannot come back from the void…

…into the flower, another self, our sattva, is revealed. This is perhaps even more than the bodhisattva. This is the perfect Buddha. This is that which has finally transcended this condition and come into an entirely new dimension of life. Somewhere in this…