Studies in the Origins of Buddhism c19.5

c19.5

We have seen that the Dharma to which Gotama awoke has a transcendental as well as an immanent aspect.³ As immanent, it stands for the Law which gives order to phenomena, by which they arise and cease. The Law thus provides a way following which we can obtain knowledge and transcend suffering. The way which leads to the cessation of Duḥkha is naturally the reverse (viloma) of that by which Duḥkha arises. Here we must begin by placing restraint over actions, passions, and contacts (Sparśa), and by meditating over the insubstantiality of the empirical world—physical and psychical—attain to Prajñā, which would remove the veil of Avidyā.