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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style="font-size:12pt;">THE
Buddhists consider being as a stream of consciousness, a ceaseless
flow of sensations. An individual formation, a creature, a human
person has no permanent self-identity. </span><SPAN STYLE="font-size:12pt; font-weight: medium">It</SPAN><B><span style="font-size:12pt;">
</span></B><span style="font-size:12pt;">is like the Heraclitean river where one does not bathe twice in
the same water.</span></P>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">Besides, .what is more interesting, it is not an
uninterrupted continuous flow with no gap or hiatus, but a movement
of disconnected units. </span><SPAN STYLE="font-size:12pt; font-weight: medium">It</SPAN><B><span style="font-size:12pt;">
</span></B><span style="font-size:12pt;">is an unending series of disparate moments of consciousness. The
sense of continuity is a make-believe, an illusion.</span></P>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">We know today, thanks to modern science, of the mystery
of particles. The ultimate constituents of the material world consist
of particles (or wave-particles), that is to say, packets of material
energy strung together or merely juxtaposed, but held together
somehow. Now the Buddhists added that these are particles of energy
no doubt, but the energy is not mere material, i.e., electrical
energy; they are desire-energy. Human being or consciousness is an
aggregate of cells of desire-energy. The task man has before him -
the alchemy or laboratory work man is to do is to empty the cells of
desire and so annihilate &quot;them; desire gone, cells crumble away
- existence becomes Nihil - an inexpressible stillness or
</span><SPAN LANG="en-GB" style="font-size:12pt;">tranquillity.</SPAN></P>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">There is however another solution. The cells can be
emptied -of desire, but a new element can be put in the place of
desire .or desire itself can be transmuted.</span></P>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">Science speaks of the transmutation of material
particles, 'i.e., of material mass into energy-electric, kinetic or
radiant energy. An inert mass thus becomes a light particle. And we
may conceive of a material body becoming a luminous body, the human
form a globe of light.</span></P>
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envisages precisely such a consummation. But the process is somewhat
different. The equation here is not E=mc</span><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">²</span></FONT><span style="font-size:12pt;">

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M=C</span><FONT FACE="Symbol"><span style="font-size:12pt;">?</span></FONT><span style="font-size:12pt;">, M meaning transmuted Matter;
the transformation of Matter not into mere energy but into
Consciousness. Energy of the Spirit, this happens when the material
particle is raised to the potency of infinite Consciousness.</span></P>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">Pursuing the mathematical imagery we may describe the
Buddhist equation as desire raised to the power of zero equals
Nirvana: D</span><FONT FACE="Symbol"><span style="font-size:12pt;">°</span></FONT><span style="font-size:12pt;">=Zero. Buddha thought like
that. He thought annihilation of desire means annihilation of
existence, for he equated desire with existence. But mathematics
tells us that anything raised to the power of zero is not zero but
one, that is, the unit, the pure existence-Sat (or Sachchidananda as
the Vedantists say.</span></P>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">Science and mathematics tell us today of a truth or just
point to a truth which a spiritual </span><SPAN LANG="en-GB" style="font-size:12pt;">realisation</SPAN><span style="font-size:12pt;">
reveals. It is, as I have already said, the mystery of
transformation, or transubstantiation as the Christian faith figures
it.</span></P>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">This world, this material existence is to be
transmuted-the portion of earthly human existence at least, with
which we are most concerned. It is at present made of ignorance and
sorrow and incapacity-composed of the particles of these entities;
poor and sorry as they are, these have to be replaced by entities of
light and joy and love, of peace and strength and wideness. Well, it
is a transmutation or transubstantiation of the kind which Nature has
already attempted as an experiment; I am referring to the alchemy of
</span><SPAN LANG="en-GB" style="font-size:12pt;">fossilisation.</SPAN><span style="font-size:12pt;"> The present human formation
must be dipped and soaked-and held under high pressure in an
environment of the desired material or materials that one has in
view.</span></P>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">Such an environment does exist. It is pressing from
within or from above and is heading towards a resultant material
action. It is an awakened dynamic spiritual reality which awaits and
is working for its supreme and inevitable destiny.</span><BR>
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