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concentrates, and in a way represents the reality of world-tero. It is true that the function
of these media remains in the piano field, and that experimentation takes place in the very
heart of consciousness. But in India, work on the awareness is not isolated from reality,
or lost in dreams or hallucinations; sig -
instead, make direct contact with life, dabbling in the concrete. Meditate, is raised to
levels of reality that are inaccessible to an outsider.
In the early centuries of our era, all the "tamas contact" with Buddha ci are approved,
whether the assimilation of the Awakened mensajc, ie its "body of theory" (the dharma),
or its " physical body, "presented at the stupa, or its" body architec-tural "symbolized in
the temples, or its" oral body "ac-conceptualize by certain formulas: each of these paths is
valid, since each one leads to piano overrun profane. The "edge" philosophers "who
have" relativized "and overcome the" reality "of the world immediately, as the" mystics
"who strove to make his transcendence through a paradox alia jump time and experience.
have contributed equally to approve the hard way (gnosis, asceticism, yoga) to methods
more sen-Cilla (pilgrimages, prayers, mantra): in this world "composite" and conditioned,
everything has value: Jo unconditioned, it Absolute Nirvana is so far from the perfect
wisdom and the strictest asceticism, as far is the repetition of the name of Bienaven-tured
or a tribute to their relics, or the pronunciation of a mantra. All these acts, and many
others are nothing more than means to approach the unapproachable, the transcendent, to
inexpre-saber.
Strictly speaking, this evolution of Buddhist thought does not reveal too much the
message of the Awakened. The Buddha had refused to discuss the Absolute, merely
highlights the way to get on, and this way necessarily meant death to the profane
condition, the unconditioned alia was more experience, ie ultimately , unregenerate life.
The "road" was equivalent to an initiation: my death and resurrection-tica, rebirth to
another mode of being. It could then try to die to the profane world based on any "sector"
of that world do: he who, visiting a temple, he imagined a universe that penetrated
transfisico, sanctified by the symbolism of the Buddha, look-ing to the experience
profane with the same success that the monk who "retiraba_dentro of himself" through
the jhana and Samapatti, or a philosopher to be logically proved the unreality of the
world. In all these cases, renounced this world, after-Cendio secular experience and
already involved in a form
It was not even of Nirvana, but it was a spiritual exercise effective way to learn to "leave
the world," was a step forward in the long process of initia-tion Buddhist, who, like any
initiation, the neophyte to kill to resurrect it in a new way of being.
However, over time, methods to transcend worldly-condition multiply and tend to
become 'easier', ie accessible to everyone. This explains the explosive success of
Tantrism. But this success was prepared in turn by the pressure of the laity within the
Buddhist community and the invasion of popular spiritualities, both in Hinduism and
Buddhism. All this was already provided in the Buddhist traditions, which, moreover,
prolonged the Brahmanic tradition. Buddhism know that "degenerate" that the world
would become increasingly thicker, darker, stained, and that the "path of the Buddha"
would become unworkable, it was the pan-Hindu doctrine of cosmic cycles and decay
accelerated in the last yuga. That's why Tantric term for the message itself as excel-ence
of kali-yuga.