…that is adding all this up? What is the instrument by means of which the record of the unfoldment of our faculties is preserved? Buddha would say that it is the sattva or the felt. It is this thing which though not an essential reality is a continuing…

…has no reference frame, no security in time of trouble, and nowhere to go except in this strange, bad race to his own extinction. Buddha was of the simple opinion that you sometimes have to help nature in these kinds of problems. So he created a set of…

…pressures, then you have to gradually remove the temptations from your life which make you a victim of selfishness. Therefore Buddha pointed out the importance of the individual gradually relaxing away from the sense of possession. Not that he was to…

…it receives and not too much can be expected of it at any given time or under any given group of circumstances. Buddha went to work on this problem in connection with his idea of the aggregates, the various experiences which pouring into them provide…

…this experience to meet his own preconceptions. That which goes into the coordinator is already morally and ethically and rationally dishonest. Buddha tells us, therefore, that one of the first things we have to do in trying to help this mental process to…

…more immediately than they need to know Latin verbs? What are we going to do with these factors in our own natures. Buddha recommended very strongly that the human machine, this coordinate, is able to take over a common, reasonable task and perform it in…

…bad. So everything that the coordinator does leads to something. leads to an application which in turn has implication. Thus Buddha tells us that the individual must use the coordinator itself to slowly organize his material relationships with existence. Now…

…this and that was to stop the inflow of it. To gradually reduce the intensities of the things which bombard the calculator. Buddha holds out for fact, but not for the exaggeration and the distortion of fact. He points out, for example, that there is…

…infallible. The Buddhist system, therefore, perhaps offers as clear a picture as we can find of the concept of selfness. First, Buddha did not originate the notion. He merely borrowed from certain of the earlier Brahmanic and Hiddic teachings, and these in…

…can experience or interpret experience must leave this individual in a vacuum. Therefore, that actually time of honor is extinction. Buddha says no, it is not. but admits frankly that the consideration of its essential nature is not only impractical but…

…is this psychic life, therefore, that presents the individual with a stratified pattern of illusion. Now, in the initiations of Buddha, in the sattva-pana-cadam, the seven rooms of initiation in the Indian story, and in the various chambers of initiation in…

…the ancient fable that we find in India, the beautiful painting that's in one of the temples over there, called Buddha Overcoming the Seven Planets. Here we have realization, the internal contemplation of the individual, gradually conquering the excesses of…

…less fortunate than himself, and he does so, this is an experience symbolically. Because by the action, which is a form of Buddha, by the action of giving, he has faded giving within himself. He had released something of the intensity of his own soul,…

…beyond us. Therefore we are not going to define totality. We are merely going to reason about it. Perfectly aware, as Buddha pointed out, that our reasoning probably will be higher foolishness. But at the same time may contribute something to a perspective.…

…old garment along the road somewhere. Perhaps this is one of the reasons for a peculiar symbolism that we find in the teachings of Buddha. Because when the time came for the young prince to go forth and take on the work as a mendicant, he is said, at…

…experience a universal illumination that is forever present. There is an Indian story which I rather like to follow up, namely that Buddha was sitting under the tree and he perceived the illumination. And we would say, and as the story says, the heavens…

…is the always clumsy always inconsistent element in the human compound it is said that The disciple once asked the Chinese saint, what is Buddha? And the old master replied, it is a man seeking a bull or an ox while he is riding on it. And this, to…

…a relationship, a kinship has been built between the consciousness in man and the body which must fulfill the works of consciousness. Buddha very directly in his own teachings explains that it is not the purpose of the doctrine to make the personality a…

…of Buddhism, the tree plays a tremendously important part. It was under a tree, the gardens, of the palace of Kapilavastu, the Buddha was born. It was under a tree at Bodhagaya, near Madras, that the Buddha was illuminated. And it was under a group…

…the gardens, of the palace of Kapilavastu, the Buddha was born. It was under a tree at Bodhagaya, near Madras, that the Buddha was illuminated. And it was under a group of trees on the Indian roadside that Buddha entered the Parinirvana. All through his…

…Bodhagaya, near Madras, that the Buddha was illuminated. And it was under a group of trees on the Indian roadside that Buddha entered the Parinirvana. All through his life, the symbol of the tree went wicked. that in ancient Buddhist art, particularly in…

…But they certainly arise when he transcends the common processes of the mind. The new Platonists were perfectly in harmony with Buddha in realizing that the mind is a wonderful servant but a heartless taskmaster. But in some mysterious way it was the…

…may have a profound effect upon the entire psychic life of the individual. Could we go so far as to agree with Buddha that the five senses make the person? And that if anything happened to these five senses so that they carry different testimony…

…Indians proved this. Among your early Christian listeners, this was clearly indicated. Their demonial great teachers, Jesus, Noah, the Buddha, all of these leaders were known as ascetics, but they departed from worldliness and in most instances engaged in…

…most likely and most able to penetrate through the pressures which normally restrict, limit, and even hypnotize his sensory perception. Buddha takes the position very firmly that what we would term man's apperception of divine things is prevented so by his…

…from the world of phenomena to which it belongs, by which it was generated, and concerning which it is completely absorbed and dedicated. Buddha points this out very clearly, for he makes the mind to be a production of sensory reflex. That it is not the…

…exercise. And we use the mind that we do have, mostly to find excuses for the gratification of our prejudices and attitudes. Buddha points out that we usually exercise this intellect to defend the validity of our own mistakes. In other words, once having…

…allow his mind to be honest. And each person can do this to some degree. I'd rather like some of the ideas of Buddha on this point also. He called attention to his disciples that it was not assumed that the average householder, the average student of…

…come finally to the total suspension of everything that is not real, including that part of ourselves which is not real, which Buddha says is the sense of selfless, what remains? How shall we define what is left? How shall we explain immortality? How…

…a solutional energy an energy which saws, or completes, or apperceives these things which are otherwise merely intellectual and emotional forces. Buddha held this to be inevitable. That what we know as consciousness is not, and what we aspire to conceive of…

…all things are filled and therefore becomes a positive energy by which all forms of life can be directed Consciousness apparently, as Buddha and the Vedantas and Taoists of all ascents, is total life in total and eternal suspension. Therefore it has to be…

…tremendous sea of life, merges itself with it, and vanishes like a drop of water retaining to the great sea. What then follows? Buddha does not tell us in his discourses, but he implies and intervenes certain things. He said to his disciples that he did…

…to the well and die there, in order that those at the bottom of the well should know about this other world. And this Buddha to a measure did this. Because I think he was one of those who was able to have the awareness of consciousness by seeing…

…us some dimension above awareness, beyond anything that we can conceive of with our present faculties and our present knowledge. Buddha took the position that true consciousness was not only incomprehensible to us, but different from anything that we have…

…being used to think by the eye the mind is its own master and is imposing its own requirements upon the self Therefore, as Buddha points out, the individual says, I want. This is a lie except in one particular. Buddha says that man can say, I want,…

…its own requirements upon the self Therefore, as Buddha points out, the individual says, I want. This is a lie except in one particular. Buddha says that man can say, I want, only in one way and make it honest. And that is that I want liberation. that…

…except complete spiritual emancipation is not a desire of the I. Therefore, the I does not want. The individual says, I like. Buddha says this is a lie. It is only applicable under one condition, when the individual declares a fondness or likeness for…

…by the words of the prophets of ancient Israel, by the wonderful discourse of Muhammad at Mecca, also by the first sermon of Buddha seated at Sarnath along the side of the Indian Road, and in the wonderful works of Confucius and Laozi, that these have…

…a kind of concrete jungle, filled with advantages and inventions and ingenuities, but incapable of preventing man's inhumanity to man. Now, Buddha, in one of his discourses, asked the disciple whether or not he would consider if man could come to a…

…the individual was not burdened by suffering in any of its attributes. Would not such a situation be miraculous? The disciple ascended, and Buddha pointed out that this occurs to man every time he goes to sleep. when he is asleep, he is not afraid. When…

…asleep, he is not overambitious. When he is asleep, he is not aware of tragedy or darkness. He is aware, apparently, of nothing. So, Buddha pointed out this point, or this fact, that sleep, in some way, wraps up all this tangle of light and gives it a…

…makes it possible for him to continue, and gives him that blessed recipe from all these things which he calls important. Yet, Buddha also was enough of a psychologist to realize there was a difference between sleep and death, and the analysis of this…

…day, but he does not remember the period of sleep. Many very wise and worthwhile observations can be based upon this. Buddha therefore recommended the concept. that in sleep man moves from a fragmentary state into a total state, that therefore he is…

…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…

…It is part of the Sermon on the Mount. It is found in the dialogues of Plato and in the mystic writings of Buddha. Laozi, the great Chinese sage, was a mystic. And all mystics are involved in the love mystery. Love mysteries which transcend all…

…planets badly and get away with it any more than you can treat your neighbor. All of these things are part of what Buddha called a great commonwealth. A common source of good for all. And the exploitation of any of these values ultimately will result in…

…the great period of revelation is not now. The great period of revelation gave the world Pythagoras and Akhenaten and Moses Zoroaster, Buddha, Krishna, all the great scholars and wisdom teachers of the past. Now, why was that the way it is? Why were those…

…of thinking. Perhaps, however, what Omar is really thinking about is much the same that we find in the philosophy of Buddha. To Buddha, this world was a strangely pessimistic sphere. Yet out of Buddhism came a great idealistic philosophy. The same happened,…

…Perhaps, however, what Omar is really thinking about is much the same that we find in the philosophy of Buddha. To Buddha, this world was a strangely pessimistic sphere. Yet out of Buddhism came a great idealistic philosophy. The same happened, essentially,…

…of Buddhism came a great idealistic philosophy. The same happened, essentially, in Arabia. The pessimism of Omar, like the pessimism of Buddha, is based upon an insight into the differences between reality and the conditions of illusion in which we live. To…

…was a revulsion in him against the materialism and rather sensuous background of Arabian life. He sensed the futility of everything. Buddha also sensed this universal futility, but in some way He was able to leave a more positive attitude among those who…

…Infinite, has always, this type of thing has always been close to the Eastern souls, whether it was the soul of Laozi or Buddha or the Vedantic saints or Patanjali, Whoever wrote of these things in the East writes of this strange experience in which the…

…course, the human heart. And it is here that the peace and silence and transmutation takes place. It was there, according to Buddha, that through the quiet contemplation of life, the individual came as near to the spiritual truth as it is possible to do…

…narcotics. We have all kinds of potential help for anything that we need. But the individual must make the first step himself. As Buddha said, the long journey, which is evolution, begins with a single step. And each of us must make the first step or…

…to me that perhaps Buddhist philosophy comes the nearest of any philosophical structure that could have a bearing on the subject. Buddha was the one who first psychologically emphasized the importance that that which comes out of the individual in most cases…

…key to his own salvation. We find it in the Ten Commandments. We find it in the teachings of Jesus, in the Buddha, Zoroaster, Hermes, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Pythagoras. All of these great people who were the real teachers of mankind pointed out this…

…All of this makes a very interesting and illuminating series of discoveries, which we have to make as we can, little by little. Buddha said on one occasion that the longest journey begins with a single step and this is more or less the problem that we…

…the transmutation of the base elements until perfection is achieved and in the human being in the East this is called Bodhi or Buddha the sign of achievement the sign of the complete renunciation of error or of illusion and in the West it is carried by…

…over life when man was fashioned the soul potential as a seed according to Bengali was planted in his heart These are also the Buddha seeds referred to in Buddhism. The soul is a seed originally but if it is nursed and cared for it grows into a…

…is as real as the other but in every fuse of energy among ourselves among other peoples among other creatures we must recognize as Buddha tells us that in every area of life effect follows cause as the wheel of the car follows the foot of the oxen…

…the universal laws were administered by dedicated human beings. who have become worthy to receive instruction. The Lotus Sutra of Buddha, the great apocalyptic sutra, describes this procedure in which the divine beings from ten galaxies assemble to hear the…

…or contemplative inner life, and that nothing can touch it. This is the thought that we have, of course, in the illumination of Buddha under the body tree of Ādāyāya. So when he is sitting, the hosts of illusion rise from the earth before him. Māyā…

…very interesting that in the old Buddhist writings we have an almost exact parallel between the temptation of Jesus and the temptation of Buddha. Satan says to Jesus, bow down before me and I will give you the mountains and the cities and the cities of…

…and the cities and the cities of the plains. And more arising up in the underworld, in the presence of the meditating Buddha, says, acknowledge my authority, and I will make you king of the whole earth. The saints are empowered, but the saints remain…

…also points out, a relief. From any previous obligation, in the process of discipleship, every obligation must be met. And as Buddha pointed out at the time of the last sermon, as reported and recorded in the Mahāpārāṇā-vāṇakṣita, Buddha pointed out that…

…obligation must be met. And as Buddha pointed out at the time of the last sermon, as reported and recorded in the Mahāpārāṇā-vāṇakṣita, Buddha pointed out that almost on the day of his death, or he was not honored. He paid his last debt. And if he…

…those around him any knowledge, consolation, insight, or understanding which could contribute to their enlightenment. Therefore, the life of the Buddha cannot be regarded as an example of the dicta of the Southern school. In the particular book we are working…

…far as the average person is concerned, is that the Southern school clings more definitely to the imagery of the historical Buddha Gautama. Nearly all imagery in the Southern school is that of the historical Buddha. Buddha and his apostles or disciples may…

…definitely to the imagery of the historical Buddha Gautama. Nearly all imagery in the Southern school is that of the historical Buddha. Buddha and his apostles or disciples may sometimes also receive some imagery. But the only benefit they recognize in the…

…to the imagery of the historical Buddha Gautama. Nearly all imagery in the Southern school is that of the historical Buddha. Buddha and his apostles or disciples may sometimes also receive some imagery. But the only benefit they recognize in the seven…

…one particular. The Orthodox Moharonist regards the Bodhisattvas as essentially symbolic extensions of the powers of the historical Buddha. In other words, all the metaphysical buddhas and bodhisattvas are personifications of principles. They are not regarded as…

…time of our day was the Lama Temple in Peking, which also had the honor of being the residence of the only reincarnate Buddha outside of Tibet at the time of the freedom of China before the present Communist Party took over. The Lama temple in Peking…

…other abodes of the deities. Over this great Tibetan sanctuary in Peking, there is the tower which houses the colossal image of the Buddha Maitreya, the Lord to Come. a figure over 70 feet in height carved from a cedar tree. This figure was so massive…

…it be simply accepted? The Tibetan looking for an appropriate symbol or emblem for this energy creates the figure of a great seated Buddha in meditation. A being crowned with the attributes of rulership. a lord of the wheel, a king of the cycle. A being,…

…become adjusted to them simply because we are also cosmic mind. And the great problem that we all face, as Buddha himself pointed out, was to annihilate the distance between individual mind and cosmic mind. Therefore, good actually represents readjustment…

…must decide what the values are, he must make up his mind, and then he must proceed according to his intent. As Buddha pointed out, the beginning of this process is the gradual disenfranchisement of the mind from the hypnosis of objectivity. The individual…

…other system of thinking to which Martin Blavatsky was most predicted, and that was Mahayana Buddhism. We know definitely that Buddha himself had available to him these great universal concepts of Hinduism. Because he possessed this as a natural birthright,…

…is suddenly transformed to the Buddhist level, to become a great Buddhist system. Here all the gods of Hinduism become Buddha, Bodhisattva, or guardian deities of the Buddhist doctrine. Now, one of the interesting points that Buddhism pointed out in the…

…as we've said to you in many of the ancient pardons, of the deities Brahma and Indra seated at the feet of Buddha, receiving instruction. Why? Not because the historical Buddha instructed them, but because like all other beings, and all other beings, they…

…the ancient pardons, of the deities Brahma and Indra seated at the feet of Buddha, receiving instruction. Why? Not because the historical Buddha instructed them, but because like all other beings, and all other beings, they had to firmly sit at the feet of…

…separate beings they could not completely understand. Buddhism consequently suddenly populated the firmament with a new kind of being called a Buddha. And never at any time did he believe God. They were all simple adders, simply part of the great creation,…

…And further than this, it has the secret, which was perpetuated from the original, apostolic descent of the immediate ahas of Buddha himself. This was the period, therefore, described in the great logistic prophecy as the beginning of the age of the great…

…within him, the rudiments which were to become sensory perceptions, rudiments which were also to become emotion and mind, what Buddha calls this machine of the six senses the aggregates of which become involved in the creation of the objective personality…

…of education as it was known in ancient times we did not get these thoughts from Plato or Aristotle We did not get them from Buddha or Christ. We did not get them from any of the real patrons of progress that we know. We have always been taught to…

…be a bit sketchy we're not going to start in by being stupendously enlightened but we are going to gradually begin to recognize as Buddha did that the first step is difficult but if you take it wisely it justifies all the other steps the first step is…

…it is necessary to clarify values. And this clarification is not, in the case of the Jains, so different from Buddhism. Buddha and the first great sages of the Jains probably were contemporaries. Jainism has probably the same antiquity as Buddhism, founded…

…patterns very similar to Buddhism. The only difficulty or difference, you may say, is the attitude of the Jain sword warrior in it. Buddha gives us the same concept. But the Jain applies it in his daily life. Applies it every day to the advancement of…

…books, it shows some indebtedness to earlier or contemporary thought. This must also be said of the Bible, or of the teachings of Buddha, or of the writings of Confucius. Thus we may say that the vision not only gives us a firm insight into the hermetic…

…It becomes the mysterious axis tree upon which turns the entire wheel of his existence. And it is this same wheel which, as Buddha taught, he clings to so desperately in the cycle of transmigratory existence. So there is an eye, a column set up in the…

…and contemplated have their intervals removed. This man cannot achieve by his own reason. So Hermes, following the Eastern mystics, Buddha and others, realized that at the last step Human reason simply ceases. And something else goes on. And this thing…

…with the results of illusion in his own character comes under pain, suffering, misery and loss. As in the philosophy of Buddha, man passes under the keeping of suffering. He must pass through all causations and consequences due to his own ineptitudes.…

…history as did exist. Mysticism could not disprove Plato, It could not disprove Aristotle. Buddhistic mysticism could not disprove Buddha. Nor Taoistic mysticism disproved Lao Tzu. Nor could these mysticisms rise in violent antagonism against the whole common…

…a female deity in China, Japan, and Korea. Thus the Mother of Mercy came to take precedence over the silent figure of Buddha seated in meditation. Buddha remained as the great teacher, but men did not approach him directly. They sought rather the source…

…Japan, and Korea. Thus the Mother of Mercy came to take precedence over the silent figure of Buddha seated in meditation. Buddha remained as the great teacher, but men did not approach him directly. They sought rather the source of the understanding heart,…

…The same was true 600 years earlier. When those persons living approximately in the 6th century BC, Confucius, Laozi, Buddha, Zoroastros Betama, and Pythagoras, they formed the great challenging notes for their own people. and gradually these doctrines also…

…difficult to historically date. But we can say this. Within 100 years, there are flurries. 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 Great…

…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. Produce simultaneously a type of instructor who usually is called forth by emergency.…

…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…

…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 a strong flavor of the later world. Leltsin was completely…

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

…we have to work with now another interesting phase of this problem was presented to us in the dialogues and discourses of Buddha among these discourses is the story of the great general who was converted to Buddhism and of course Buddhism was a philosophy…

…converted to Buddhism and of course Buddhism was a philosophy of the harmless life and one day this great general came and asked Buddha the great questions he said master I am the generalissimo of the armies of the kingdom. I have sworn to support the…

…me there should be no war. Yet I am sworn to protect my country if an enemy invades it. What should I do? And Buddha talked very quietly. He said, defend your country. But he said, Master, this is different from what you said. Buddha said, no, it…

…should I do? And Buddha talked very quietly. He said, defend your country. But he said, Master, this is different from what you said. Buddha said, no, it isn't. You haven't asked me what it's going to cost you to keep your word. If you are prepared as…

…into ourselves and see if we're worthy of it. And when we do, we're apt to be a little disappointed. We also have Buddha, the light of Asia, who gave the message of purifying the mind. performing the good and serving truth. We know these people were…

…has created their likenesses and bestowed upon them his own frailties and limitations. but actually in the concept as it is Buddha summarized the statement by saying that creation itself is a great commune it is a commonwealth it is a tremendous diversity…

…Bacon points out that the greatest handicap to the advancement of learning is the human mind Now here he comes very close to Buddha. He points out that as long as the individual is in captivity to the tyranny of mind, mind will hold him to the…

…Buddhism very clearly set forth, namely the idea that the individual and space each one is a commonwealth, a commune of life. Buddha pointed out very definitely that the inner structure of the human body is a political system. It is just as political as…

…asked, what? or who was Adolf Hitler, and they'd never heard of him. He's gone. But no one says they had never heard of Buddha or Confucius or Jesus in the countries where these things occur. There is a great wisdom, a wisdom of compassion, a wisdom of…

…emphasis upon action, or we might say a cultivated inaction. The whole principle of Zen is based upon the four hindrances described by Buddha, and the hindrances are the four lessons that every human being must learn in order to grow, And as one of these…

…of the world. The only thing he can ever rule well and efficiently is himself. Now, in the hindrances as set forth by Buddha, there are four principal causes of trouble. These causes of trouble are not new. They have been with us since the dawn of…

…of every part of man's instruments of knowledge and growth. The mind must be considered therefore as a kind of machine. And Buddha called it the machine of the six sensory perceptions. Now, at his time, machinery must have been pretty primitive, but he…

…probably the soul is the most powerful atom that we know it is said on some occasions or believed that the illumination of Buddha when the universe opened and all the deities of all the worlds flowed down to form a vast galaxy of radiance that's…

…or any teaching that has been more successful in this search and in this process than the great hot doctrine of Amida Buddhism the Buddha Amida is the central figure of a very large group of Buddhists both in Japan and China and in other parts of the…

…understand. Therefore, Amedism is called the heart doctrine. it is the individual growing up heart first and recognizing what are called the Buddha seeds that are planted by eternal life in the heart of man he must help these seeds of truth realization and…

…demigods or deities are agencies by means of which the purposes of infinite enlightenment are being advanced. According to this doctrine Buddha tells his disciples the story of the Buddha Amida, that once upon a time, aeons, millions of years ago, there was…

…which the purposes of infinite enlightenment are being advanced. According to this doctrine Buddha tells his disciples the story of the Buddha Amida, that once upon a time, aeons, millions of years ago, there was a mendicant, just like himself, a wanderer…

…small that I will go into perfection without taking it with me. And as a reward for this vow, he was made the Lord Buddha of the Western Paradise, the Paradise of Amitabha, which is nothing but his own heart. And in this heart is the radiance of…

…not troubled by the tempest, and in each of us is a region of peace where self abides forever in blessedness. Buddha said of the enlightened self, it is deep, immeasurable, unfathomable, like the great ocean. To most students of Oriental philosophy, Zen…

…taught in riddles and enigmas. Actually, it is the simple and direct path that leads to the end of suffering. Of this Buddha wrote, Having achieved serenity, we become tranquil in body, tranquil in mind. The story of Zen begins more than 25 centuries ago,…

…the mystery of the great peace. As he was speaking, a stranger stepped forward to make an offering. and bowing before the Buddha, placed in his hands a glorious lotus blossom of golden color. The sage remained silent for a long time, gazing serenely at…

…Day I thought it might be interesting to explore one of the world's most unusual religious examples of motherhood, the birth of Buddha. In order to understand this we have to depart, it seems to me, from most of the historical traditions and realize that…

…that true religion is an internal experience. And without this internal experience, nearly everything else is inadequate. The term Buddha, of course, it comes from an ancient Sanskrit term, which means enlightened. Therefore, Buddha is not primarily a person,…

…nearly everything else is inadequate. The term Buddha, of course, it comes from an ancient Sanskrit term, which means enlightened. Therefore, Buddha is not primarily a person, but a state of enlightenment, a conditioned state, Now the same might be true also…

…Christ, but a Christian has to live the philosophy, live that religion. Christ is perfected in the Christian. And in the East, Buddha is embodied in the person who keeps the rules. Now the rules are very, very simple basically because enlightenment is a…

…the right thing and how to find ways of understanding it. And to meet this we have the story of the birth of Buddha in which a certain number of very interesting factors not generally considered enter. According to one of the fables and there are many…

…God. Something had to explain the condition of the world without blaming it on mysterious factors and forces abiding in space. Buddha, as he became more generally known, had the concept that it was necessary for the human being to reorganize his concepts…

…his own salvation with diligence. Because of this attitude, many people of Asia and also many missionaries from the West assumed that Buddha was an atheist because he did not follow the traditional form of casting the burdens upon the Lord. he felt that…

…meant and there is still only a few who sense the magnitude of the conviction that he gave the world to begin with then Buddha advanced what he called the four great truths and these four truths or four realities or four facts are the problem of the…

…of the cause of suffering the nature of suffering the end of suffering and the way to find the end of suffering to Buddha the great burden of the world was pain not necessarily just physical pain but spiritual pain moral pain mental pain emotional pain…

…moment of success, failure is near. Why must man face suffering of some kind through the entire period of his life? I think Buddha would have answered that in this way, that the human being has never been educated to prevent suffering. He has been given…

…many wonderful wonderful things within the pattern of law but it must be in a lawful pattern in the story of Buddha perhaps one of the most interesting and important incidents of course is the great enlightenment the illumination of Buddha under the…

…of Buddha perhaps one of the most interesting and important incidents of course is the great enlightenment the illumination of Buddha under the bow tree is described in the sacred scriptures as an almost inconceivable vision but nearly all great religions…

…as an almost inconceivable vision but nearly all great religions have such visions in connection with their great spiritual leaders with Buddha the earth opened beings arose from the deep from the sky descended hordes of divine beings from the ten regions…