Category Archives: The Meditations of Allan Bennett

The Meditations of Allan Bennett

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

“he is the Builder of a future which no illusion of himself can inherit, and the one Law of all his being is uttermost Compassion, his life lived only for love’s sake, lived only to alleviate the sorrows of the world”

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

“he is the Builder of a future which no illusion of himself can inherit, and the one Law of all his being is uttermost Compassion, his life lived only for love’s sake, lived only to alleviate the sorrows of the world” [via]

“this is in Buddhism accounted the true beginning of all righteousness,-unselfishness that gives all, whilst knowing yet that it shall never reap the gain”

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

“this is in Buddhism accounted the true beginning of all righteousness,—unselfishness that gives all, whilst knowing yet that it shall never reap the gain” [via]

“the dark belief that cruelty abhorrent to the mind of man might be acceptable in the sight of God; that sword and stake and rack might win for murderer and torturer a glorious place in Heaven hereafter”

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

“the dark belief that cruelty abhorrent to the mind of man might be acceptable in the sight of God; that sword and stake and rack might win for murderer and torturer a glorious place in Heaven hereafter” [via]

“what evil or what cruelty of man but has sprung only from that chiefest of illusions, Self, from that sad separateness of thought”

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

“what evil or what cruelty of man but has sprung only from that chiefest of illusions, Self, from that sad separateness of thought” [via]

“‘Sin,’-a something tending to taint men’s actions for the worse, a principle of evil,-is wholly absent; and the words which we have above translated ‘Good’ and ‘Evil’ really mean ‘Skilful’ and ‘Unskilful’ respectively.”

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

“‘Sin,’—a something tending to taint men’s actions for the worse, a principle of evil,—is wholly absent; and the words which we have above translated ‘Good’ and ‘Evil’ really mean ‘Skilful’ and ‘Unskilful’ respectively.” [via]

“Good and Evil, then, if they are to find a place at all in the Universe as regarded from the Buddhist point of view, must be regarded as particular modifications of the States of Consciousness”

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

“Good and Evil, then, if they are to find a place at all in the Universe as regarded from the Buddhist point of view, must be regarded as particular modifications of the States of Consciousness” [via]

“it is an obvious fact that what we name the Universe is only the sum-total of our collective States of Consciousness, the total of our percepts and concepts; and in all our ideas about the existence of the Universe we are dealing, and dealing only, with the modifications of our own sensuous and mental modes”

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

“it is an obvious fact that what we name the Universe is only the sum-total of our collective States of Consciousness, the total of our percepts and concepts; and in all our ideas about the existence of the Universe we are dealing, and dealing only, with the modifications of our own sensuous and mental modes” [via]