Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00623)

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The same question I have too what kind of Mahatma belongs Mr LI 
HONGZHI by the way he makes a lot clear to the nonsense of Zen and 
other wrong kinds of Qigong teachings.
He said that the Buddha Sakyamuni 
was of the lower kind of tathagata and that there are much more 
higher buddha's in the etheric and higher levels.
The teacher of FALUN DAFA explained in several readings(totally 9).

www.falundafa.org
www.clearwisdom.net

www.stanford/edu/group/falun.
www.falundafa.org/bul/lectures/index.htm for downloading the video 
for seeing the 5 exercises.
Greetings Christina
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-- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Pedro Oliveira <prmoliveira@y...> 
wrote:
> One of the puzzles in theosophical history and
> literature is that HPB's Teachers, the Mahatmas,
> declared themselves to be Buddhists, as in this
> well-known passage from the Mahatma Letters:
> 
> "Therefore, we deny God both as philosophers and as
> Buddhists." (ML 88, chronological)
> 
> And yet, the system they taught, sometimes called
> "Aryan-Arhat Esoteric Doctrine", includes as one of
> its pivotal points Atma, or the seventh principle, the
> One Self, as well as Soul.
> 
> Apparently, there are no known school in Buddhism that
> accepts Atma as a fundamental reality. The denial of
> Atma is one of the cardinal principles in Buddhist
> philosophy. Two well-known scholars explain why:
> 
> "Buddhism stands unique in the history of human
> thought in denying the existence of such a Soul , Self
> or Atman. According to the teaching of the Buddha, 
> the idea of self is an imaginary, false belief which
> has no corresponding reality." (Walpola Rahula, "What
> the Buddha Taught")
> 
> "Sakkayaditthi (Substance-view) is avidya (ignorance)
> par excellence, and from it proceed all passions.
> Denial of Satkaya (atman or Substance) is the very
> pivot of the Buddhist metaphysics and doctrine of
> salvation." (T.R.V. Murti, "The Central Philosophy of
> Buddhism - A Study of the Madhyamika System") 
> 
> Can someone explain which Buddhism the Mahatmas
> subscribed to?
> 
> Pedro
> 
> 
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