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The New York Sanctuary

THE DOCTRINE OF THE BUDDHA

May 8, 1957 

I am come this morning to bring to the planet Earth and its evolutions that feeling and substance of God-Peace which is developed through the control and mastery of energies that have been allowed to run rampant through lack of understanding and self-discipline.

The "Silver Cords" of energy which connect the individualized "I AM" Selves with the personalities of the entire human race belonging here, are held within the Cosmic radiation of my feeling of peace this morning. Thus are those energies already qualified with my feeling of peace before they enter into the emotional, mental, etheric and physical vehicles of those embodied; as well as into the emotional, mental and etheric vehicles of those presently not in embodiment, but yet belonging to Earth's evolutions still unascended. That peace cannot be qualified by the human!

Beloved ones, peace comes not through a feeling of lethargy but through the conscious mastery of energy in balanced action! I, too, once walked the ways of Earth and experienced for myself all of the "pull" of the physical senses; all of the interests which humankind find temporarily enjoyable and through my own self-conscious endeavor, I chose to discover the Path to ultimate and undisturbed peace. That path took me on a long journey ¾ not an outward journey but an inward one — into the very heart-center of my Being; into that to which the Orientals refer as "The Jewel in the Heart of the Lotus".

There abides that part of a man which is immortal, uncontaminated by anything human, sustaining his original pattern of Divinity until that hour when the personal self consciously chooses to walk fearlessly into the heart of that Flame. Then he finds the shell of the outer personality dropping away and experiences the joy of bathing in that Flame of Immortality — which is refreshing indeed!

Thus you have the way of the Buddha— the "Bud" — the closed-in Flame, waiting patiently for release century after century within the heart of personality after personality as the lifestream chooses physical embodiment and creates it various karmas. Then comes the time when circumstances created by karma, good or otherwise; when pressures — depressing or exalting — make the individual (through self-conscious decision) desire to proceed along the pathway of light into the heart of his or her own God-being, and there discover that Immortal Flame.

That Flame, then expanding through the lifestream, becomes the "Open Lotus" of perfection for that one and its virtues, perfumes, gifts and manifestations become an impersonal benediction to the race, as well as to all life which is evolving upon the Earth.

In the recognition of that Flame, humanity can become impersonal enough to choose to release all selfhood in its favor; humankind can walk upon the Divine Path and explore the magnificent aspects of Deity, willingly allowing them to flow forth emotionally, mentally, etherically and physically through him to the just and the unjust alike — with no thought of favor or any particular person, place, condition or thing.

When such a man is found, that one is on the road to becoming a living Buddha. As the suns shines, as the waters that cover the sea serve life impersonally; so do all who become applicants for and who finally attain Buddhahood, serve impersonally ¾ magnetizing certain God-radiations and directing those radiations forth at Inner Levels to bless those disembodied members of the human race who yet require assistance in sublimating karma; as well as to embodied humanity and the Elemental Kingdom, imprisoned Angel and the four-footed creature in embodiment here.

Concentration is one of the aspects of the follower of the true Buddhist teaching... concentration determined by selflessness of motive. In the cause of the one who walks upon the Spiritual Path into the Heart of Light, the concentration must be motivated by a desire to bless life impersonally; to remain in physical embodiment here upon this earth plane remaining in physical embodiment, if necessary, as did the Beloved Mary, the Holy Mother of Jesus, until there is more light and more God-virtue here; to enter into the Inner Spheres of Light (if it is so directed) and there be a SUN of Righteousness.

The doctrine of the Buddha as I found it to be for myself and presented it to humanity, is one of renouncing self and selfish interests and this renouncing goes way back into the causes and cores which motivate even spiritual exercises. When that motivating power behind all asceticism, all spiritual exercises and self-denials is for the magnification of God's Presence, such an one is a disciple worthy to wear the garment of a neophyte in the Temples of the Buddha.

When these disciplines, asceticism’s and various spiritual exercises are practiced for personal enlightenment and for the ultimate freedom of the individual alone, such an one will receive a result wherein and whereby that individual eventually comes to the point of being ready for the Ascension.

However, such an one has not become an expression of the impersonal Buddha, who joyously, willingly lives and serves on any plane — wheresoever his light may be desired; his protection required; his understanding essential and his healing, raising, illumining, uplifting presence a necessity.

The Buddha becomes a "Cup" into which, without any obstruction whatsoever, there flows the Gifts, Light and Virtues of the Godhead. That "Cup" is just as impersonal in the outpouring of its gifts as is any "Cup" or Grail filled with fresh water which is available to those who are athirst.