The Aryan Path May 1950

THE PATH OF THE INNER LIFE [ An English Buddhist monk who has been living in India for several years Sramanera Sangharakshita contributes here a perspicuous and inspiring study of the One Goal of human life and of the means by which the spiritual aspirant progresses on the Inner Path the Middle Way which as he shows is at once the Way of Emptiness and the Way of Compassion for all sentient be [...] The indeed exist but they all belong to Goal of the Path the Ultimate Ethe Exoteric Path to the domain of perience in which the whole long Head-learning and are of little value series of experiences eventually cuin the spiritual life. [...] " of the Heart the true Master is not Many unfortunately think that to be found in any book or indeed the secret teaching consists of sonic anywhere at all in the outside world piece of information about the evolbut in the heart-depths of the spirtion of the universe or the constittual experience of the individual tion of man which has not been devotee. [...] " latter ; but the goal is the same for The Path of the Inner Life is both and the eradication of the egspoken of as a Way of Emptiness sense is indispensably necessary in because it consists in the progressive either path. [...] To follow the Middle of the Arahant and the Path of the Path means to cultivate the practice Bodhisattva are also one which of solving the conflicts of life and is the One Way ( Ekayana ) the the contradictions of experience by Way of the Buddha ( Buddhayana ). rising above the level at which they Finally since the Path of the Inner are possible.