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The Meditations of Allan Bennett

A collection of writing by and about Allan Bennett, Frater Iehi Aour, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya, Ananda Maitriya

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)

“‘evil’ for the Buddhist is that which brings suffering in its train; and how the world we live in, and the destiny we bear,—its meed of pleasure and of pain,—is made in the greater part of the mental Doing we inherit; just as the world a man inhabits in his dreaming is component in the main of the thoughts and actions of his daily life.” [via]

“Each one of these prohibitions is the application in our human lives of some great Law of nature,-of some Law that governs in the Mental World as surely as does gravitation in the physical universe; and the whole might be described as a system of mental hygiene”

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)

“Each one of these prohibitions is the application in our human lives of some great Law of nature,—of some Law that governs in the Mental World as surely as does gravitation in the physical universe; and the whole might be described as a system of mental hygiene” [via]

“as might be expecteced in a Religion where Theology and Pneumatology play no part, Ethics takes in it the foremost place”

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)

“as might be expecteced in a Religion where Theology and Pneumatology play no part, Ethics takes in it the foremost place” [via]

“It is the darkest hour in all the evolution of a man, this realisation that the Self that he has striven to perfect and work for is no more than a delusion;-but it is also the darkest hour which goes before the dawn;-for soon that darkness passes, giving way to the light of a deeper and surer Wisdom”

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)

“It is the darkest hour in all the evolution of a man, this realisation that the Self that he has striven to perfect and work for is no more than a delusion;—but it is also the darkest hour which goes before the dawn;—for soon that darkness passes, giving way to the light of a deeper and surer Wisdom” [via]

“But when this Impermanence is realised and known, Craving itself dies out,-for all this thirst after possessions depends on the illusion that these may be held and kept for ever”

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)

“But when this Impermanence is realised and known, Craving itself dies out,—for all this thirst after possessions depends on the illusion that these may be held and kept for ever” [via]

“When we have learned that Noble Truth of Sorrow, learned in deep meditation on the world about us how all must come to death and are doomed to Woe, Hatred is surely vanquished, giving place to Love:-for who should hate, once he has understood and known?”

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)

“When we have learned that Noble Truth of Sorrow, learned in deep meditation on the world about us how all must come to death and are doomed to Woe, Hatred is surely vanquished, giving place to Love:—for who should hate, once he has understood and known?” [via]

“And so we learn at last the secret of Anatta, seeing the Self thus transitory and ever-changing; wrought but of thoughts that rise and pass in swift succession; component of the very stuff that dreams are made of; and, learning this, we cease to serve and worship that offspring of our Ignorance.”

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)

“And so we learn at last the secret of Anatta, seeing the Self thus transitory and ever-changing; wrought but of thoughts that rise and pass in swift succession; component of the very stuff that dreams are made of; and, learning this, we cease to serve and worship that offspring of our Ignorance.” [via]

“How many of our hopes, our aspirations or our proud ideals remain as we had hoped and dreamed but yesterday; or which of all our great desires or high ambitions shall endure even for the little span of our poor human lives?”

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)

“How many of our hopes, our aspirations or our proud ideals remain as we had hoped and dreamed but yesterday; or which of all our great desires or high ambitions shall endure even for the little span of our poor human lives?” [via]

“If in mans’ heart of hearts there reigned this Self, come from eternity and but a pilgrim on its changeless way, could there be in his nature aught of folly or of evil, or any limit to his wisdom and his love?”

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)

“If in mans’ heart of hearts there reigned this Self, come from eternity and but a pilgrim on its changeless way, could there be in his nature aught of folly or of evil, or any limit to his wisdom and his love?” [via]