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(1). THE two schools of Buddha's doctrine, the esoteric and the exoteric, are respectively called the "Heart" and the "Eye" Doctrine. Bodhidharma called them in China - from whence the names reached Tibet - theTsung-men (esoteric) and Kiau-men (exoteric school). It is so named, because it is the teaching which emanated from Gautama Buddha's heart , whereas the "Eye" Doctrine was the work of his head or brain. The "Heart Doctrine" is also called "the seal of truth" or the "true seal," a symbol found on the heading of almost all esoteric works.

(2). The "tree of knowledge" is a title given by the followers of the Bodhidharma (Wisdom religion) to those who have attained the height of mystic knowledge - adepts. Nâgârjuna the founder of the Madhyamika School was called the "Dragon Tree," Dragon standing as a symbol of Wisdom and Knowledge. The tree is honoured because it is under the Bodhi (wisdom) Tree that Buddha received his birth and enlightenment, preached his first sermon and died.

[83] (3). "Secret Heart" is the esoteric doctrine.

(4). "Diamond Soul" "Vajrasattva," a title of the supreme Buddha, the "Lord of all Mysteries," called Vajradhara and Adi-Buddha.

(5). SAT, the one eternal and Absolute Reality and Truth, all the rest being illusion.

(6). From Shin Sien's Doctrine, who teaches that the human mind is like a mirror which attracts and reflects every atom of dust, and has to be, like that mirror, watched over and dusted every day. Shin-Sien was the sixth Patriarch of North China who taught the esoteric doctrine of Bodhidharma.

(7). The reincarnating EGO is called by the Northern Buddhists the "true man," who becomes in union with his Higher-Self - a Buddha.

(8). "Buddha" means "Enlightened."

(9). See No. 1. The exoteric Buddhism of the masses.

(10). The usual formula that precedes the Buddhist Scriptures, meaning, that that which follows is what has been recorded by direct oral tradition from Buddha and the Arhats.

(11). Rathapâla the great Arhat thus addresses his father in the legend called Rathapâla Sûtrasanne . But as all such legends are allegorical (e.g. Rathapâla's father [84] has a mansion with seven doors ) hence the reproof, to those who accept them literally .

(12). The "Higher Self" the "seventh" principle.

(13). Our physical bodies are called "Shadows" in the mystic schools.

(14). A hermit who retires to the jungles and lives in a forest, when becoming a Yogi.

(15). Julaï the Chinese name for Tathâgata, a title applied to every Buddha.

(16). All the Northern and Southern traditions agree in showing Buddha quitting his solitude as soon as he had resolved the problem of life - i.e. , received the inner enlightenment - and teaching mankind publicly.

(17). Every spiritual EGO is a ray of a "Planetary Spirit" according to esoteric teaching.

(18). "Personalities" or physical bodies called "shadows" are evanescent.

(19). Mind (Manas ) the thinking Principle or EGO in man, is referred to "Knowledge" itself, because the human Egos are called Manasa-putras the sons of (universal) Mind.

(20). Vide Part III. Glossary, paragraph 34 et seq .

(21). Ibid.

(22). The Shangna robe, from Shangnavesu of Rajagriha the third great Arhat or "Patriarch" as the Orientalists [85] call the hierarchy of the 33 Arhats who spread Buddhism. "Shangna robe" means metaphorically, the acquirement of Wisdom with which the Nirvâna of destruction (of personality ) is entered. Literally, the "initiation robe" of the Neophytes. Edkins states that this "grass cloth" was brought to China from Tibet in the Tong Dynasty. "When an Arhan is born this plant is found growing in a clean spot" says the Chinese as also the Tibetan legend.

(23). To "practise the Paramita Path" means to become a Yogi with a view of becoming an ascetic.

(24). "To-morrow" means the following rebirth or reincarnation.

(25). "Great Journey" or the whole complete cycle of existences, in one "Round."

(26). Nyima , the Sun in Tibetan Astrology. Migmar or Mars is symbolized by an "Eye," and Shagpa or Mercury by a "Hand."

(27). Strôtâpatti or "he who enters in the stream" of Nirvâna, unless he reaches the goal owing to some exceptional reasons, can rarely attain Nirvâna in one birth. Usually a Chela is said to begin the ascending effort in one life and end or reach it only in his seventh succeeding birth.

(28). Meaning the personal lower "Self."

(29). Tirthikas are Brahmanical Sectarians [86] "beyond" the Himalayas called "infidels" by the Buddhists in the sacred land , Tibet, and vice versa .

(30). Boundless Vision or psychic, superhuman sight. An Arhan is credited with "seeing" and knowing all at a distance as well as on the spot.

(31). Vide supra 22: Shangna plant.

(32). The "living" is the immortal Higher Ego, and the "dead" - the lower personal Ego.

(33). Vide infra Part III. par.34.

(34). The "Secret Life" is life as a Nirmânakaya.

(35). The "Open" and the "Secret Path" - or the one taught to the layman, the exoteric and the generally accepted, and the other the Secret Path - the nature of which is explained at initiation.

(36). Men ignorant of the Esoteric truths and Wisdom are called "the living Dead."

(37). Vide infra , Part III. 34.

(38). Pratyêka Buddhas are those Bôdhisattvas who strive after and often reach the Dharmakâya robe after a series of lives. Caring nothing for the woes of mankind or to help it, but only for their own bliss , they enter Nirvâna and - disappear from the sight and the hearts of men. In Northern Buddhism a "Pratyêka Buddha" is a synonym of spiritual Selfishness.