The River Of Golden Sand: Being The Narrative Of A Journey Through China And Eastern Tibet To Burma

Seek your liberation with diligence.БЂ«Having given his last advice to his followers, the Buddha fell into a coma. Some of the monks felt able to trace his journey through the higher states of consciousness that he had explored so often in meditation. But he had gone beyond any state known to human beings whose minds are still dominated by sense experience. While the gods rejoiced, the earth shook and those bhikkhus who had not yet achieved enlightenment wept, the Buddha experienced an extinction that was, paradoxically, the supreme state of being and the final goal of humanity: As a flame blown out by the wind Goes to rest and cannot be defined, So the enlightened man freed from selfishness Goes to rest and cannot be defined. Gone beyond all images- Gone beyond the power of words. GLOSSARY Ahimsa: БЂњHarmlessnessБЂ«; the ethic adopted by many of the ascetics of North India to counter the aggression of the new states. Akusala: БЂњUnskillfulБЂ«or БЂњunhelpfulБЂ«states, which will impede the quest for Enlightenment ...»