Hindu Medicine c7.119

c7.119

The founder of Buddhism, in the fifth century B. C., adopted a parallel procedure. Perceiving that mankind and the universe are steeped, through the very process of life, in suffering without beginning or end, he did not attempt to deal with it by assuming the traditional attitude of the priestly teacher (Guru); instead, he adopted the standpoint of a medical man on the spiritual plane, putting the selfsame four questions and answering them affirmatively. This novel procedure of the Buddha was later followed in the classic system of Hindu yoga.⁵