Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00459)

Hi. I have left messages on this subject more than once. The teaching of
Mahayana Buddhism radically differs from the teaching of theosophy as
presented by Madame Blavatsky, as Mahahyana Buddhism does not teach that
there is a primal cause, whereas Madame Blavatsky refers to a primal cause
time and time again. In deed, the whole teaching of Mahayana Buddhism is
designed around the understanding that all causes and conditions are
interconnected to each other and interdependent on each other; therefore
there cannot be a primal cause, and in Mahayana Buddhism, the idea that
there is a primal cause is considered to be ridiculous and is vigorously
disputed by logic in the tenets of the Madyamika School... This is in no way
to imply that the study of theosophy is not valuable or worth pursuing, but
it is more likely that a person would study theosophy first as a doorway to
Mahayana Buddhism than the opposite. I am glad to see that many people on
here are interested in Buddhism and associate theosophy, in some ways, with
it. Sincerely, Wry
----- Original Message -----
From: <dalval14@earthlink.net>
To: "Theosophy Study List" <theos-l@list.vnet.net>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 5:39 PM
Subject: Theos-World RE: Theosophy by way of Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism?


> Dec 13 2002
>
> Dear Steve:
>
> It would help if the page references could be given, as my memory and
> a reference to the Index did not show what you said was there in the
> KEY TO THEOSOPHY (HPB) .
>
> There is no question that the Buddha taught what is today called
> "Theosophy." In his era He passé on to others what He knew of it, and
> we, his successors in time have to depend on the accuracy of documents
> to read what He said then. Wisdom is the same whether Krishna, Buddha,
> Jesus, Pythagoras, H P B, or Lao Tzu enunciated it.
>
> However the best of proofs in the cohesive logic of the philosophy
> which, (in my opinion) in the passage of time, shows no deviation
> from the union of pure logic with ethical actions.
>
> Help, help
>
> Dallas
>
> --------------------------
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Stubbs
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 4:18 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: Theosophy by way of Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism?
>
> There is a statement in THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY that
> northern Buddhism contains all that is Thesosophy.
> There are also allusions in the SD to THE LANKAVATARA
> SUTRA which no one who has not read that book would
> catch, since it is not mentinned by name. So an
> interesting question arises whether the synthetic
> presentation given to the world in the SD is the same
> as the way the matter is taught to insiders.
>
> --- Mauri <mhart@idirect.ca> wrote:
> > To my way of thinking, speculating, if the subject
> > of
> > Theosophy is approached "from the ground up" in the
> > sense
> > that Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism is studied first as
> > an
> > introduction to Theosophy as brought to us in HPB's
> > literature,
> > then a somewhat more sensible perspective might be
> > maintained on various fronts . . .
> >
> > Speculatively,
> > Mauri
> >
> >
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