Buddha Rilke: «We – are the bees of the Invisible». Poet’s dialogues with Gautama Buddha

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Mysteries Adorned with Love. A Few Words About The Buddha-Rilke Booklet Series

Author’s Notes on the Booklet

We Are the Bees of the Invisable

́Isn’t it your dream to be invisible?́

• The Invisible

• Man Who Participates in the Invisible

• ́Angelś

THE TRUTH IS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN. Dialogues Between the Poet and Gautama Buddha

● On True Understanding

● On Universal Unity

● On Salvation After Death

● On the Source of Higher Consciousness

● On ́The Ocean of Truth́

● About a World Full of Love

● On the Connection with the Source of Peace

● On a State of Being Beyond All Perception

● About a World That Is Not ́Somewheré

● On How Experience and Wisdom Keep Living On

● On Abiding in the Non-Transitory

● On Being Transformed into the Eternal (p. I)

● On the Complicity of Us and Things

● On Being Transformed into the Eternal (p. II)

● About the Immortal Way of Compassion

● About Acquiring Great Treasures

● On the Blessing That Never Ends

● About Crops from Noble Seeds

● About How There’s No Other Way Out…

● On the Transformative Power of the Heart

● About a Thorough Understanding

● About the Truth Not Being Told Right Away

● About Omnipresent Creatures (p. I)

● About Omnipresent Creatures (p. II)

● About Refuge in the Omnipresent

● About the Tempter’s Snare

● On How, with So Many Forms, There Is Only One Reality

● On How All Our Lives Are a Blessing

Reference Section

Letter from Rilke to Witold von Hulewicz. 13 November 1925, excerpts in German

Concise Buddhist Glossary. Quoted from Paul Carus’ The Gospel of Buddha

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The proposed small book continues my series of booklets in English, under the general title Buddha-Rilke. One of my miniatures, The Gatha of the Idiot Who Plays Ball, has already been published.

Despite the much-vaunted title of the series, in which I have attempted to present some of Rilke’s views in the context of Buddha’s teachings (including in the form of speculative dialogues between the poet and the Blessed One or his successor, an unnamed Patriarch of the Chan School), these extraordinary historical figures, while expressing their judgements, in no way comment on, interpret or assert anything for the edification or ́development́ of each other. In other words, they don’t try to follow a predetermined plot, lest they find themselves

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Truth is everywhere, but it cannot be caught in the net of words. For its abode is beyond the boundaries of meaning, for it lurks beneath the cloak of Mystery. The only thing the reader can do is to try to peer into this mysterious ́beyond́ for himself, to lift the veil that the great artist leads him to, and finally, like a true artist, to come to the obvious conclusion: a clue does not lie in the glitter of noble names or in the sublime pathos of meanings. The best way to have an epiphany is to leave the Mystery intact.

That’s why, according to Rilke,

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