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Master mystic and philosopher Manly P. Hall dedicated his life to uncovering ancient truths. Explore his legendary books, lectures, and timeless legacy.
…And in all, it sounds very much as though the bomb had been set off. Is it possible, and here I can't really speak for Buddha, and he might not agree with me, it's always possible. but does this story tell us of what you might call a nuclear fission…
…in the sudden distribution, diversification of the individual, or as we find in the book of the great deceased of Buddhism, where Buddha declares that he will not return again as a person, but will return again in every living thing. This could be the…
…not the possible explanation also of the statement of Paul Christ in you the hope of glory is this Christ in you or the Buddha in us or you actually the infinite diffusion of consciousness Is it possibly the actual vision of the cosmic cell at the root…
…becomes diffused through all living creatures everywhere that this is the final renunciation this is the fulfillment of the ultimate Buddha obligation namely that the power of enlightenment shall pass from the individual to become part of the consciousness of…
…into the personalities which we know? And is there any ultimate salvation for the self-centeredness within us? What is this self? Buddha says it is an aggregate. It is the result of the sensory perceptions and the mental coordinator. The self is therefore…
…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 and ourselves…
…in this hemisphere of darkness, each individual must work out his own salvation with diligence. Those were the last words of the Buddha. We must, each of us, find the light according to our own integrities. To do this, we must have dedication. And this…
…in us is therefore a spirit in us. That may be under various names. The same spirit that we call Christ may be called Buddha by somebody else, or might be called Muhammad. We don't say what these people or these beings can be called, but regardless of…
…We cherish them. Though the time has come when we must do something about them. to create a better condition for the future. Buddha renounced an empire, or a kingdom at least, and went out as a beggar into the world. Confucius left all in order to…
…in the northern Buddhist system uses the concept of the Lord Maitreya to recognize the ever coming reality the word Maitreya or the Buddha to come who is waiting to be born into this material world is a personification of a principle. It is not a man…
…the Chinese sage, as a child found it sitting on the side of a hill overlooking the great mountains of northern China. Buddha found it under a tree. Each one in his own way has to experience this inward personal devotion, dedication. A mystical experience…
…There was no way of trying to solve the great problem. which is summed up in the concept of perhaps put into the words of Buddha, as well as anyone has ever said it, namely, if God cannot prevent evil, he is not God. And if he can prevent it and…
…They are available to everyone. Great integrities have been honored in our human culture. Great teachers have our respect. Buddha and Christ, Muhammad, Zoroaster. All of these great teachers have the admiration of mankind. They have given the instructions…
…living thing in us is Christ in us, the hope of glory. To the Buddhist, it is the presence of the principle of the eternal Buddha. It is the Allah of Islam. It is the Tao of Taoism. It is the one principle which under all names is one thing. For…
…We should be out rolling up our sleeves and doing great heroic deeds. But the scriptures tell us, and Lao Tzu told us, Buddha told us, and Confucius told us, Zoroaster told us, Moses told us, and Jesus told us, that the actual problem is the…
…we are told in the Bible that cause and effect follow each other. We are told that as ye sow, so shall ye reap. Buddha puts it in slightly different words when he says effects follow their causes as the wheel of the cart follows the foot of the…
…without regret if all our hope, all our faith, all our confidence is locked into these things which we must leave. Buddha tells us very definitely that the wise person, the truly factual person, delivers himself from the tragedy of his own possessions.…
…will. If we can begin to get this philosophical concept so magnificently expounded by Plato and Socrates, and also so clearly enunciated by Buddha, we are in a much better condition to face the simple fact of life. and that is that we must all face…
…anymore. This idea that we have of the eternity of time and space and substance, these ideas were foreign to the Buddhist thinker. Buddha never denied that man had a body. but he denies the essential reality of that body. Buddha did not say we did not…
…ideas were foreign to the Buddhist thinker. Buddha never denied that man had a body. but he denies the essential reality of that body. Buddha did not say we did not have a house to live in. He did not believe in the non-reality of matter in the sense…
…of the Bodhisattva in the Northern school, the being that stands practically upon the brink of eternal realization. There is the Buddha, who has attained, not as a single person, but as an order of life, for the ancient Buddhists recognized the existence…
…is the thing that has a beginning but no end. And this kind of atom to which Buddhism refers is actually the Buddha atom. This gradually develops or manifests and according to Buddhism this becomes the secret of how atoms begin. Namely that atoms all…
…in an infinite concatenation of time, through infinite time and space, that all atoms begin by this process of the creating of the Buddha atom, by which, to make it as simple as we can, a new unit of cosmic energy is gradually created by the disciplines…
…To gratify the appetites of the atomic unit. Now we are not sure what these appetites are. and the Greeks, frankly, held with Buddha, that these appetites are not real. It was supposed that most of the atomists were addicted to a cult of pleasure. This…
…I suspect that this is almost the basis of Buddhistic philosophy The concept being that the illumination or the Mahaparanavana of Buddha was the splitting of the atom. That it was the voluntary demolishment of the chain of atomic sequences which had been…
…in the description of the transfiguration of Jesus, or in the description of the crucifixion, or in the case of the illumination of Buddha, and again in the ultimate consuming of Buddha, At the time of the great decease or the end of life as represented…
…or in the description of the crucifixion, or in the case of the illumination of Buddha, and again in the ultimate consuming of Buddha, At the time of the great decease or the end of life as represented and unfolded in the Dhammapada, we have always the…
…The earth opened. Tremendous cataclysms moved the deep. The sky was clouded and a vast light was seen In the case of Buddha, it is said at the moment of the Mahaparanirvana, the blaze of glory from the released consciousness extended beyond the duration…
…the primordial impulse by means of which all notions of knowledge as we know it had its origin. If this being possessed knowing As Buddha points out, he would not have done in that state what man does now. In the first place, our entire motion has been…
…this mountain will be the sanctuary of the deity. At Jakarta in Java, we have also the great Buddhist monument, the Buddha Gurdur. Here we have likewise the basic square structure surmounted by circular terraces climaxed or crested with a devoba or tower…
…structure surmounted by circular terraces climaxed or crested with a devoba or tower which originally contained a relic of Buddha. Up each of the faces ascend the staircases and the ornamentations include serpents and dragons. All these buildings therefore…
…will of the Creator, that who breaks the laws of nature disobeys God. This was the belief of Pythagoras. This was the belief of Buddha. This is the great moral burden of the Institutes of Manu, that these great laws exist and will be obeyed. Now how do…
…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…
…defend the ruler if necessary with my life. Now you tell me I shouldn't do, 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…
…own action. 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…
…the compound of your own nature so that you are not concerned primarily with the gratification of any sensory perception as Buddha points out. Your real purpose depends is to learn to get along peacefully with eternity, with the everlasting rightness of…
…analogies get dim in interpretation, but the roots of them are very important. In India, the planet Mercury is called Buddha. And this is another very interesting situation. Mercury is also associated with the day Wednesday in the Nordic business. associated…
…with Odin or Botan. And Botan again occurs among the Kichis of Central America as their ancient navigating deity. Mercury or Buddha is represented in one of the Indian Buddhistic paintings as seated in the midst of the planets acting as their messenger…
…their messenger or servant. Buddha's power as Mercury therefore ties with the possibility of the philosophy of mind. And we know that Buddha, from the beginning of his ministry to the end, preached the danger of the wrong use of mental energy. Mercury in…
…of the individual and his ability to express himself through the sensory perceptions. Mercury, therefore, rules the five senses, which Buddha calls the five hindrances. Buddha was locked to a struggle to the death, practically, with the problem of those parts…
…to express himself through the sensory perceptions. Mercury, therefore, rules the five senses, which Buddha calls the five hindrances. Buddha was locked to a struggle to the death, practically, with the problem of those parts of man's constitution which…
…restored in due time to the mystery of the constellations, and it comes into another life above the firmament. in life which as Buddha points out because it is positive whereas all our lives all our living is negative is unknowable to us because what we…
…the body, the composition of the blood, and the seven orifices of the heart. And it is in this shaktapana cave, as Buddha pointed out, of the heart, that the great mysteries are revealed. So the heart becomes also part of the alchemical paraphernalia. by…
…the great system of the ancient mysteries. The rites of Alesis and Dionysus, the rites of Horus and Isis, the rites of Buddha in India, China, and Japan, were always arranged in three basic steps. And these three basic steps represent the three great…
…words, as another alchemist said, there are seeds of life in everything. In India and China and Japan, these are called the Buddha seeds. They are the seeds of all essences and substances. All things grow from their own seed, root, or cause. And the…
…to go on to try and find a way to reaffirm our own total unity, the unity of all that lives, that we are what Buddha called a vast commonwealth, that we are a kind of cosmic commune in which all existing things are citizens of one life principle, one…
…again, very definitely, in the Buddhistic triad, where you have the three great principles. You have Amitabha, the great, the supreme Buddha, then you have Allah, He is God, and you have the three, four sacraments. We need to have another command again.…
…quickly upon the three great systems in their own, within its own country, and created a triad of Confucius, Blavsky, and Buddha. Now, these were the three famous mega-testers of the old Chinese families. These three represented the school of the American…
…placed in the laboratory bottle is identical with the wonderful description given in the Eastern Scriptures of the Illuminated Buddha. The magnificent experience which is the complete recapitulation of the spiritual life of man is illumination itself. It is…
…the reason why space and the atom can exist. And the attainment of the Nirvana, as described in Buddhism, or the illumination of Buddha, is to a measure a representation of this. For it is the bursting of this great sun of light. It is the achievement…
…and he humbly says within himself, I desire the good of all more than I desire the good of myself. In that moment, the Buddha atom is born. It is at that moment also, according to the Buddhist, that a seed drops from the lotus-thrown pond at the foot…
…seed drops from the lotus-thrown pond at the foot of the throne of Amitabha into the pool of life. At that moment, The Buddha seed is sown in the paradise of Amitabha. Now it may take millions of years, hundreds of ages and generations before this…
…flowering, gradually unfolding and expanding, comes finally to the fulfillment of its destiny. But this is the planting of the Buddha atom. The atom which will ultimately end in the magnificent burst of cosmic light in which the personal vanishes forever…
…of atoms of perversion, a certain number of atoms of contention, and usually somewhere concealed within it one beautiful radiant little Buddha atom. And they made little pictures out of these. They were very delightful. It looked like a little package of…
…the primordial form of the universe itself. The five heads are again the five Dhyana Buddhas, which blaze forth out of Adi Buddha, the supreme basic consciousness of the world. In the case of Phaenix, from this power, or from Phaenix in turn, was born…
…on a planet can transcend five levels of development without moving from a planetary to a solar focus thus the sixth and seventh Buddha to come are secret vows are uncertain. All is the same symbolism. And in this the ancient Jews, the Sun and Moon, as…