[22] Suvarna-Prabhâ Sûtra. ([return])
[23] Suvarna-Prabhâ Sûtra, Chap. 26 ([return])
[24] Padmapani Sûtra, Fas. 8. ([return])
[25] The Avatamsaka Sutra. ([return])
[26] This means that the heart of the Bodhisattva which is pure and eternal in its essential nature has nothing added externally to it by studying the Dharma; for the Dharma is nothing else than the expression of his own heart. ([return])
[27] The Avatamsaka, fas. IX, p. 48. This pantheistic thought of the One-All is generally considered to be Buddhistic; but the truth is that every genuine religious sentiment inevitably leads us to this final conviction. Even in the so-called transcendental monotheistic Christianity, we find the pantheistic thought boldly proclaimed and put in contrast to the idea of “our Father which art in Heaven.” For instance, read the following passage from Thomas à Kempis: “He to whom all things are one, he who reduceth all things to one, and seeth all things in one, may enjoy a quiet mind, and remain at peace in God.” (Chap. III.) The passage in the Gospel of John declaring that “the Father is in me and I in him,” when logically carried out, comes to echo the same sentiment entertained by Buddhists, who recognise a manifestation of the Dharmakâya in all beings, animate as well as inanimate. The Christianity of to-day is that of Paul as expounded in his letters, but the future one will advance a few steps more and will be that of John. ([return])
[28] From the Avatamsaka Sutra. ([return])
[29] From the Avatamsaka Sutra. ([return])
INDEX.
Abhimukî (sixth stage of Bodhisattvahood), [318].