I would say that in the East we have a tendency toward greater self-mortification and in the West we have a tendency toward greater self-indulgence. We do need the Middle Way. Gautama taught that this Middle Way leads to six conditions of consciousness. They are insight, wisdom, calmness, higher knowledge, enlightenment and nirvana.
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198. He who wishes to plow must have his plow. He who wishes to attain must understand his weapon. The people of the West have overshadowed their consciousness with the weightiest thoughts, but the joy of knowledge has become something almost indecent. Joy of realization must become the prerogative of the new world.
243. After general school education the people of the West usually forsake knowledge, or else they draw out from knowledge a tenuous thread of specialization instead of weaving the whole network of the catch. -M: Community 1926
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74. The will of the brain has become the citadel of the West, whereas the East has maintained its stronghold in the heart….Maitreya's is the age of the heart! Only with the heart can one evaluate the treasures of Maitreya! Only with the heart can one understand how greatly all acquisitions, all straight-knowledge are needed for the future.
(by Schmiechen, 1882)
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132.. It must be understood that the time has come to clarify the facts by discarding the husks. It is time to acknowledge that many superstitions are still growing in the backyards of isolation. -M: Fiery World 1933
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70. For example it is written that the warriors of Shambhala are innumerable and invincible, and their leader defeats all evil and affirms the kingdom of Good. Such is the belief in the East which cherishes in its heart the legend about the victory of light. -M: Supermundane 1, 1938
near Srinagar, Kashmir
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