14th Issue (Dec, 2009)

The Buddhist Path of Development and Self-Cultivation

Paramartha

Gotama Buddha admonishes
Be the obedient adherent of Five Precepts and Ten Precepts
Morally restrain yourself and exercise virtues
Protecting yourself and protecting others
Radiate lovingkindness and compassion
Through the your body
Speak truthfully, harmoniously, gently and constructively
Through your speeches
Guard yourself again the cankers of greed, hatred and delusion
Through your mind

Meditate in tranquility to still your mind
Developing the mental concentration
Mindfully contemplate on the Reality
Impermanence, suffering and Non-self
Intuitively penetrate into these Three Universal Characteristics
Examine and discern insightfully the Four Noble Truths
Suffering,  Cause, Cessation  and Path
Strive one diligently on the Noble Eight Fold Path
With adept execution of Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Obliterating the grasping upon the Five Aggregates

Right Mindfulness and clear awareness of the selflessness of
Form, Feelings, Perceptions, Volitions, and Consciousness
Establish clear self awareness non individual proprietorship
This is not I; this is not mine; this is not myself
Annihilate the self-centric ego as the agent of sense activities
The  Unity of process becoming of the Five Aggregates
Governing the six sense activities
Our Lord is the Anattᾱ of the Five Aggregates
Anattᾱ is the process becoming
Process becoming is the dependently co-arisen phenomenon.

Discerning the One in the many and the many in the One
This is wisdom of walking in the Middle Path
Discerning the process Reality of Dependent Co-arisen phenomenon
It is neither individual existence nor non-existence
It is the organic Whole of  Unity of Five Aggregates
Form, Feelings, Perceptions, Volitions and Consciousness
Are systemic parts of contigent conditions of systemic Unity
In the process becoming of human personality
Neither beginning nor ending
Whoever discerns the  Oneness of Being sees the Tathᾱgata

Editor’s Note :

Monotheistically conceived, whoever sees the Oneness of Being or Unity of Existence sees God. Theosophically and esoterically, Buddhism and Monotheism share a common ontological ground of intuitive discernment of the Unity in the multiplicity and the multiplicity in the Unity. Anattᾱ is the doctrinal concept of Unity of Existence or Oneness of Being. Dissimilar linguistic divine  terms are immaterial. What is significantly in the interfaith dialogue and understanding  is the communal Truth of Wisdom which is Anattᾱ. Seeing Anattᾱ is seeing the Absolute Reality. Seeing the Absolute is the summit of human development and self-cultivation.