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Page 1 of 11903 · PDF PAGE 11
…ve lived and not died. So that a mere accident saved the remnants of the already besmirched reputation of the Hebrew tribal Fetich. When Buddha was asked how things came to be, he took refuge in silence, which his disciples very conveniently interpreted as meaning that the question tended not to edification. I take it that the Buddha (ignorant, doubtless, of algebra) had sufficiently studied philosophy and pos- sessed enough worldly wisdom to be well aware that any system he might promulgate would be instantly attacked and annihilated by the ac…
1903 · PDF PAGE 22
…n mature consideration, therefore, I confidently and deliberately take my refuge in the Triple Gem. Namo tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammasambuddhasa| Let there be hereafter no discussion of the classical problems of philosophy and religion! In the light of this exposition the antitheses of noumenon and pheno- menon, unity and multiplicity, and their kind, are all reconciled, and the only question that remains is that of finding the most satisfactory means of attaining Nirvana —extinction of all that exists, knows, or feels; extinction final and co…
1903 · PDF PAGE 25
… world of pain, where he must remain until the ancient causes, those which have already germinated, are utterly worked out (for even the Buddha himself could not swing back the Wheel of the
1903 · PDF PAGE 16
…d all the illusions’; of the Advaitists, just as real as they practi- cally are to our normal consciousness. ‘As Schopenhauer, following Buddha, points out, suffering is a necessary condition of this existence. The war of the contending forces as they grind themselves down to the final resultant must cause endless agony. We may be able to transform the categories of emotion as certainly and easily as we now transform the categories of force, so that in a few years Chicago may be importing suffering in the raw state and turning it into tinned sa…
1903 · PDF PAGE 18
… to break down the walls, and find that freedom which an inconsiderate Inversion has denied. ‘The mystical precepts of pseudo-Zoroaster, Buddha, Gankaracharya, Pseudo-Christ and the rest, are for advanced students only, for direct attack on the problem. Our servants, the soldiers, lawyers, all forms of government, make this our nobler work possible, and it is the gravest possible mistake to sneer at these humble but faithful followers of the great minds of the world. What, then, are the best, easiest, directest_ methods to attain our result? An…
1903 · PDF PAGE 19
…ne in reality, the process is illusory, yet itis useful in the early stages—as far at any rate, as the fourth stage of Dhyana, where the Buddha places it, though the Yogis claim to attain to Nirvikalpa- Samadhi, and that Moksha is identical with Nirvana; the former claim I see no reason to deny them the latter statement I must decline at present to accept. The task of the Buddhist recluse is roughly as follows; He must plunge every particle of his being into one idea: right views, aspirations, word, deed, life, will- power, meditation, rapture,…