Great many ills healing & life-extension, gerontology.

NOT INSTEAD Doctors, etc. BUT ADDITIVE & EFFECTIVE.

Ed.

I have encountered statements such as these literally hundreds of
times, such as this reply I came across just yesterday: "Of course I'm
an atheist! Buddhism does not depend on idiotic Hindu
superstitions." Confirming yet again among so many other reasons why
it has been said "were you to leave dung upon your doorstep would you
expect aught but flies to appear before you?" Buddhism
today is in name only, it attracts extremely miserable and depressed
Atheists, and, in the West and Europe, Christian & Jewish malcontents/
rejects. As one Indian philosopher and metaphysician had said:
"Buddhism (modern) is an extremely sick religion inhabited by
atheists, agnostics, and at best pantheists. They congregate together
at 'dharma-centers', which are little more than outpatient mental
wards for
depressed materialists, and engage in idle chatter about attainment
of oblivion and the denial of all things spiritual."
It would be intelligent for some to read works such as: "The
Rise and Decline of Buddhism in India" (Hazra), and other titles as to
the manner in which Buddhism became a magnet for materialists and
moralists/Humanists in medieval India. In Gotama's time, the
principle Upanishads were already nearly as old as present-day is to ...

1. Citta is the only thing which is said to obtain the state of "non-
clinging" (anupada) "This is immortality, that being the liberated
mind (citta) which does not cling (anupada) after anything" [MN
2.265].

2. Citta is the only thing which is said to obtain the state of being
"taintless" (anasava) [DN 2.35, MN 1.501, MN 3.20, SN 3.45...etc etc].

3. Citta is the only thing which is said to obtain/is gathered in
"the realm of immortality": "he gathers his mind within the realm of
Immortality (amataya dhatuya). This is tranquility; this is that which
is most excellent!" [MN 1.436].

"This is immortality, that being the liberated citta" [MN 2.265]. [AN
1.282] "He gathers the mind inside the immortal realm".

4. Citta is the only thing which is said to be the basis (arammana)
for Parinibbana. Said immediately after Gotama's physical death: [DN
2.157] "No longer with (subsists by) in-breath nor out-breath,...

un-supported thought (a-prati.s.thita.m cittam), ---------TANG

THITA is "fixed" ........citta is not THOUGHT, thats MANO, you idiot
gook bastard.

lets look at THITA:
"Steadfast-in-the-Soul (thitattoti) means one is supremely-fixed
within the mind/will (citta)"[Silakkhandhavagga-Att. 1.168]

how important is citta?
"The purification of one's own mind/will (citta); this is the Doctrine
of the Buddha" [DN 2.49]
"How is it that one is called a 'Buddha'?...gnosis that the mind/will
(citta) is purified (visuddham)...such is how one is deemed a
'Buddha'." [MN 2.144]

"the light (joti) within one's mind/will (citta) is the very Soul
(attano)" [DN2-Att. 2.479]

go back to slurping rice you slanty-eyed little chink. Leave
metaphysics to the aryans with intelligence.

The Citta is the ontological will, or metaphorically in the scriptural
context of Buddhist doctrine (as well as the Upanishads too for that
matter, which translates citta as "Pure-Consciousness"), is the
"Light" which is
unmanifest. "The light (joti) within one's mind/will (citta) is the
very Soul (attano)" [DN2-Att. 2.479]. The metaphysical nexus of
purification in Buddhism is the non-empirical and pre-corporeal citta.
As per Buddhism, the inchoate
(self-nescient) will (citta) is manifest as an attribution and self-
sublimated, as the empirical consciousness (vinnana), the finest
attribute of samsaric and empirical existence. In short, this 'white-
light' Will (citta), when manifest upon
'blue' form is blue-vinnana (consciousness), or when manifest upon
'red' form, is red-vinnana (consciousness). The sati (recollection)
and samadhi (assimilation) methodology of Buddhism is to make this
primordially pure but
inchoate Will (citta), choate (self-Knowing) such that further
identification with its phenomenal attributes has been forever cut
(bhavanirodha nibbanam).
Just as there is no Light (citta) in what is merely illumined ...

Peter Terpstra wrote:

Bad translation, even from the Chinese translation
of the Diamond scripture.

The Diamond scripture says: "the bodhi-sattva
(a being devoted to awakening) maha-sattva (a
great being) ought to give rise to an un-supported
thought (a-prati.s.thita.m cittam), to a thought
unsupported by anything (na kvacit-prati.s.thita.m
cittam), to a thought unsupported by form, sound,
scent, flavour, tangible, object-of-mind."