The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-03-29
THE ESSENCE or BUDDHISM.
Meditation - Self-eNamination - Union
with Buddha- Enlightenment.

Meditation Self-eNaminaIion Union
with Buddha- Enlightenment.
The Law of our Lord, the Buddha,
is not a natural science or a religion,
but doctrine of enlightenment; and
the object of it is to give rest to the
restless; to point out the master the
Utmost Nam to those that are blind
and do not perceive their original
state.
Without deep meditation and a
full understanding of the doctrine
of enlightment, no one can attain
to onement with the Master with
in. He that would know the spirit
of the Good Law should not idle
away his time in reading books and
Scriptures, nor fatten upon the
thoughts of others, but should medi-
tate upon his own state of life and
conduct; closely guard his mind and
senses, and learn who, i'll himself,
it is that thinks and feels: this be-
ing the key that opens the gate
which leads into the Path of Budd-
ha. For ne does not suffer his
mind to wander, but closely and
necessarily watches himself, can as
it were, discover the great Path in
his own right hand. He can fathom
the true peace of mind, and the very
inmost spirit of the Buddhas teach
ing.
1t is, then, the first duty of him
who would become Buddhist to
know and preceive the root of the
daily phenomena of the senses, and
then compare his knowledge and
perception with the teachings of the
Sacred Scriptures, the mirrors
which reflect his thoughts, so as to
learn the right and wrong. The
Scriptures will indicate whether the
thoughts and phenomena are right
and wrong.
We should not say that the objects
about us, be they small or large,
are within or without our mind
All living beings about us are
equal from eternity, let them differ
ever so much in sex, station, and
knowledge. No one should be loved
or hated above another, and no dis
tinction should be made between
self and neighbor. To grasp the
fact that the Six Roots (the five
organs of sense and the thought
are at onement with the One Mind,
and are, therefore, naught but the
One Self-conscious Mind, is the
surest way to attain unto the state
of Buddhahood.
The actions apparent in the Six
Roots are the various lights from
the One Mind, and the objects o
the Six Roots are Its images. He
who is free from every outside state
and bond, such as superstition
priest, church, savior, and god, ant
who, therefore, enjoys real freedom
of mind, is a Great Man, for he
has attained unto the wisdom anc
perception of Buddahood; he has,
to use the words of the Swedish
mystic, Swedenborg, 'inwardly in
himself seen his Divine Being,
which is the Buddha in man. And
he that aims at the attainment OF
this onement with that Utmost Mind
is called a disciple of the Buddha.
But he whose thoughts are not cen
tired for this aim is ignorant The
chief end i'll view Of the Buddha
teaching is the dispersion of the
darkness of ignorance and the at
tainment of light.
TO know the Mind as it is in
itself is to know and understand
the secrets Of Nature. Ignorance
of what the Mind is in itself causes
confusion, so that the objects OF
sense seem to be independent of the
Mind; and in this way is the under
standing of their real nature frus-
trated. And the attainment OF
enlightenment, through the disper-
sion of the darkness of ignorance,
is at the same time the knowledge
and perception of the Mind as it is;
the attainment of universal wisdom.
Our true Master, the Lord Budd-
ha, who appeared in this world as
venerable monk, who lived and
preached for eighty years, who con
sumed the dross of this earthly life,
and who entered Nirvana, has no