Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00675)

> Pedro
> 
>I am sorry for another long posting. It is the
> last one! 


I certainly hope not! Pedro, I think you started one of the most 
interesting discussions we've had in this group in a long time. 

The Mahatmas seem to be talking about an esoteric science that is 
about Budhi, something that is lower than Atman. Meanwhile, Buddhism 
is the most scientific religion talks of anatman. Perhaps Buddhism is 
talking of a higher state? Maybe it's the Ain Soph of the Kabbalists 
and Atman is correspondant to Kether? 

I found Koshek's posts about history quite fascinating, especially 
about Buddhism in connection to Brahmanism, yet we also find HPB 
talking about a pre-Vedic Buddhism. This would suggest that Buddhism 
did not start with the Buddha. So for any question of what Buddhism 
was like at the time of the Buddha, a Theosophist would have to ask 
the added question- what was Buddhism like before the Buddha?

Daniel has given many interesting links and I find it interesting 
that there are so many schools of Buddhism and trying to unravel 
which school was the one of our Theosophical Masters seem to be a 
heavy task. I certainly hope we find the Stanzas of Dyzan in it's 
purity. 

Ariel