The Buddha, you know, was deeply shocked by the impermanence of things - the impermanence of the whole creation, that there was nothing permanent anywhere. That was the starting point of his quest, when he saw that nothing was permanent - constant and permanent - hence there was nothing one could call "forever." That's what shocked him, and he felt he had to find something permanent, and in his quest for the Permanent he came upon Nothingness. So his conclusion ran something like this: "Only one thing is permanent - Nothingness. As soon as there's creation, it's impermanent."

Why did he object to impermanence? That, I don't know - a question of temperament, I suppose. But as far as he was concerned, that's what Nothingness is good for: it's permanent.

It's permanent, the one thing that's permanent.

page 396 , Mother's Agenda , volume 3 , 30th Oct. 1962

Buddha wanted Permanence....


page 100 , Mother's Agenda , volume 4 , 27th March 1963

It was Buddha's wisdom when he said, "The middle path": not too much on this side, not too much on that side, don't fall on this side, don't fall on that side - a bit of everything, and a balanced ... but PURE path.

Purity and sincerity are the same thing.

page 196 , Mother's Agenda , volume 5 , 16th Sep - 1964

But if the stories as we are told them are more or less true, I mean if they have any truth, there isn't ONE Avatar who stayed - they all left. Or else they're hiding well, because ... No one has ever met any of them, you see. There are people who go looking for them, but no one has ever met them. And their deaths have even been much talked about and often seem to have played a rather important role.

How do you mean no one has ever met them?
Physically.

You see, it is said that Shiva lived on earth, that Krishna lived on earth. As for Buddha and Christ, we know they lived on earth - it raised enough rumpus! People even made more fuss about Christ's death than about his life. As for Buddha, he professed himself in favor of going away for good (although he didn't actually). But the others ...? They have of course told the story of Krishna's death - but they have told many stories.

page 248 - Mother's Agenda , volume 5 , 17th Oct 1964

I looked at the problem when I tried to understand the position of Buddha, who reproached the Manifestation for its impermanence; to him, perfection and permanence were one and the same thing. In his contact with the manifested universe, he had observed a perpetual change, and so his conclusion was that the manifested world was imperfect and had to disappear. And the change (the impermanence) does not exist in the Nonmanifest, therefore the Nonmanifest is the true Divine. When I looked and concentrated on this point, I saw that his observation was indeed correct: the Manifestation is absolutely impermanent, it's a perpetual transformation.

page 96 , Mother's Agenda , volume 6 , 19th May - 1965