Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.126

c8.126

He trusted himself during this period of seven years at first to the guidance of two successive spiritual teachers, to find what the language of that time termed "the highest state of sublime repose," the "unoriginated, the Nirvâna, the eternal state." The path, in which these teachers directed him, must have been grounded on the production of pathological conditions of self-concentration, such as have in later Buddhism played a not unimportant part: conditions in which, by a long-continued observance of certain bodily discipline, the spirit seeks to divest itself of all concrete subject-matter, of every entity, of every conception, and, as is added, even of conceptionlessness.