Chapter VIII: Northern Buddhism in Its Doctrinal Evolutions

"To the millions of China, Corea, and Japan, creator and
creation are new and strange terms,"--J.H. De Forest.

"The Law of our Lord, the Buddha, is not a natural science or a
religion, but a doctrine of enlightenment; and the object of it
is to give rest to the restless, to point out the Master (the
Inmost Man) to those that are blind and do not perceive their
Original State."

"The Saddharma Pundarika Sutra teaches us how to obtain that
desirable knowledge of the mind as it is in itself [universal
wisdom] ... Mind is the One Reality, and all Scriptures are the
micrographic photographs of its images. He that fully grasps the
Divine Body of Sakyamuni, holds ever, even without the written
Sutra, the inner Saddharma Pundarika in his hand. He ever reads
it mentally, even though he would never read it orally. He is
unified with it though he has no thought about it. He is the
true keeper of the Sutra."--Zitsuzen Ashitsu of the Tendai sect.

"It [Buddhism] is idealistic. Everything is as we think it. The
world is my idea.... Beyond our faith is naught. Hold the
Buddhist to his creed and insist that such logic destroys
itself, and he triumphs smilingly, 'Self-destructive! Of course
it is. All logic is. That is the centre of my philosophy.'"

"It [Buddhism] denounces all desire and offers salvation as the
reward of the murder of our affections, hopes, and aspirations.
It is possible where conscious existence is believed to be the
chief of evils."--George William Knox.

"Swallowing the device of the priests, the people well
satisfied, dance their prayers."--Japanese Proverb.

"The wisdom that is from above is ... without variance, without
hypocrisy."--James.

"The mystery of God, even Christ in whom are all the treasures
of wisdom and knowledge."--Paul.