When we look at the teachings of the Masters, such as the Buddha, how do we translate those teachings into our world? Most every thought we have, and every act we have seen, is seen through the eyes of our comparative nature. Thus our exploration of the acts of spirit are often dissected by the rational mind, and battered about by those who cling to their life-jacket of beliefs, seeing clearly that the boat which they have depended on may, in its course, sink.
The follow excerpt comes from the book “Buddha” by Hermann Oldenberg:
“Imagination, which in the service of inquiring thought seeks for types and symbols of formless ideas in the form-world of nature, has at all times when its object was to represent a being, the characteristic of which is movement, chosen with decided preference two images: the flowing stream of water and the self-consuming flame. “
“In the dark sayings of Buddha’s great contemporary, Heraklitos, who in his theory of the being of beings more nearly approaches Buddha than does any other Greek thinker, both comparisons are consistently recurring in the foreground: ‘Everything flows on’; the universe is ‘an ever-living fire’. The figurative language of Buddhism also employs both the stream and the flame as symbols of the restless movement involved in every state of being But in this the Buddhist figure differs from that of the Ephesian, that Buddhism, ignoring every metaphysical interest which has not its root in an ethical interest, does not in its view of the water and the flame contemplate the mere movement, the bare becoming only, but above all the to-human-life-so-momentous and destructive power of this movement, this becoming.”
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“There are four great currents which break in with destructive force upon the human world: the stream of desire, the stream of being, the stream of error, the stream of ignorance. ‘The sea, the sea: thus, O disciples, saith a child of this world, who hath not received the Doctrine. But this, O disciples, is not that which is called the sea in the Doctrine of the Holy One; this is only a great mass of water, a great flood of water. The eye of man, O disciples, is the sea; things visible are the foam of this sea. He who hath overcome the foaming billows of visible things, of him, O disciples, it is said: That is a Brahman who hath in his inner man out-ridden the sea of the eye, with its waves and whirlpools, with its depths profound and its prodigies; he hath reached the shore; he stands on firm earth.’ The same follow regarding the sea of hearing and the others senses. ‘Thus spoke the Exalted One; when the Perfect One has thus spoken, the Master went on to say: ‘”
‘ “If thou this seas with its abyss of waters,
full of waves, full of deeps, full of monsters,
Hast crossed, wisdom and holiness are the portion;
The land hast thou,the goal of the universe
hast thou reached.” ‘
Hermann Oldenberg, Hermann, Buddha, London, Arther L. Humphreys, 1904, pg 278-280
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