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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.
…emotions could be led into error perhaps for another example we might pause for a moment and contemplate the effort of Gautama Buddha to restore this situation. Quite many things to say about this. We're not here today or this evening to compare Buddhism…
…in this particular problem, every bodhisattva, every divine being, must face Mara, the principle of the ultimate compound of illusion. Gautama Buddha, seated under the tree of the great determination, from which he resolved never to rise again, unless he had…
…reason to apologize because we are interested in a doctrine that has flourished for thousands of years, was publicly taught by Gautama Buddha, and stoutly defended by Pythagoras, Socrates, and Plato. Nor is it an old belief long outgrown, for in this time…
If I mess this all up, I'll be properly chastised. Of all the great world teachers, I suppose Gautama Buddha came the nearest to being a psychologist in the modern sense of the term. He was deeply involved in the entire phenomenon of mentality, and to…
…that each individual, according to Buddhism, must work out his own salvation with diligence. Those were the last words of Gautama Buddha before he entered the novana. We must all work out our own salvation with diligence. This salvation does not have…
…minds found it easier to eliminate him than grow up to his standard of life on the other side of the world 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…
…we get this first step right, the further inspiration of the achievement will help us a long way to the next step. As Gautama Buddha pointed out, the first step to salvation is the most difficult. It is the first step because we do not know where we…
…the cultural destiny of mankind was to be prodigious. Perhaps the most famous and most universally understood of these men was Gautama Buddha, himself a Hindu of the caste of the warrior, and bound as an initiate into the sacred religious rites of his…
…and spirit vanished, and only the letter of the law remained, and it was against this letter of the law that Gautama Buddha rebelled. The philosophy of Buddhism is therefore not to be regarded as essentially different from that of the older teachings. We…
…human lives. We may say the same in Asia, that it is almost impossible. to estimate the effects of the teachings of Gautama Buddha. These effects continue. It is not likely that during his lifetime Plato ever had more than 200 or 250 followers, probably…
…a time in order to preach to them the blessed doctrine. This is supposed to have happened in an early incarnation of Gautama Buddha, that he became embodied in an animal and then sacrificed his life for another animal so that it could live. These things…
…About the same time that Aesop was telling his stories, and pointing out his little moral lessons to the Grecians, Gautama Buddha was using precisely the same methodology in his so-called Jataka tales. These Jatakas are really stories, presumably, of the…
…60 feet down through the sand to reach water. All of these things indicate some form of wise and protective government. Now Gautama Buddha and many of the orientalists who were much given to the use of fables regarded them more or less as indications of…
…Of course it had a strangely floored complexion. The Taoism of China was far more fanciful than the teachings of Gautama Buddha. But there were these subjective similarities that could not be overlooked. Buddhism of course came from India. It is easy…
…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 illuminated intuition or…
…But as we mentioned on another evening, the concept they upheld by the scripture was not upheld by the example of Gautama Buddha himself. Far from renouncing all association with humanity, he devoted the greater part of his life to the continuous service…
…enriched by the presence of all who have achieved liberation. But in the Northern school it is also said that the Gautama Buddha, though he is believed to have attained the param-avāma, and to have entered the great peace or the great silence, actually,…
…Because he possessed this as a natural birthright, being of princely origin and belonging to the caste of the warriors, Gautama Buddha was naturally instructed in this ancient law. And so were most of those early companions who formed the first cycle…
…terms to achieve, when there is actually a Buddha alive and embodied in the world. Therefore, from the Parinirvana of Gautama Buddha, to the absence of the Maitreya Buddha, the Bodhisattvas cannot in any way alter their courses of action. Abandoned beyond…
…the welcome of the Japanese tourists. They are the wandering saints who never die. They are the ones who were appointed by Gautama Buddha to remain in the world as the teachers of mankind and serve the efforts of the Vajrayana students. Then and there,…
…human lives. We may say the same in Asia, that it is almost impossible to estimate the effects of the teachings of Gautama Buddha. These effects continue. It is not likely that during his lifetime Plato ever had more than 200 or 250 followers, probably…
…plan his own growth that this growth is not something in which he can depend upon constant indoctrination by other people Gautama Buddha of course who was the prime moving principle behind all Buddhism observed on one occasion that I will not believe a…
…achieved serenity, we become tranquil in body, tranquil in mind. The story of Zen begins more than 25 centuries ago, while Gautama Buddha was still preaching to his disciples along the dusty roads of Hindustan. One day the great Indian sage came to a…
…her right side. Now this is quite an interesting account for the reason that in all probabilities we are to understand that Gautama Buddha was born or delivered by a Caesarian delivery. This is the only thing that would account for the details. And also…