Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c11.s3.t2.3

c11.s3.t2.3

The cessation of the individual being, the attainment of the everlasting goal presents itself as well to the Brahman as to the Buddhist method of thought and speech as the cessation of “name and form.” He who has attained the highest wisdom, unites with the universal spirit, “delivered from name and form, as the streams, the flowing streams, enter into rest in the sea, leaving name‡ and form behind;” thus we read in the “Mundakopanishad.”§ And in the “Suttanipâta”|| it is said: “What thou hast asked after, Ajita, that will I tell thee; where name and form cease without a residuum: by the cessation of consciousness,** there that ceases.”