Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c14.s9.8

v1.c14.s9.8

Buddha explained the successive stages by which the highest spiritual culture could be reached through this life of meditation and discipline. The other discourse explained that Buddha came out as a preacher not from any selfish motive but for the spiritual uplift of men who had by previous karma an innate aspiration for the attainment of deliverance from the worldly miseries and required some assistance and guidance for the achievement of their object.¹