Allan Bennett References

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1 “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.

2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,

4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—

5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.

6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,

7 always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.

8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth--men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.

9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.”

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6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

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Know your enemy and know yourself;

in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated.

When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself,

your chances of winning or losing are equal.

If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself,

you are sure to be defeated in every battle.

-- Sun Tzu, The Art of War, c. 500bc

There are two ends not to be served by a wanderer. What are these two? The pursuit of desires and of the pleasure which springs from desire, which is base, common, leading to rebirth, ignoble, and unprofitable; and the pursuit of pain and hardship, which is grievous, ignoble, and unprofitable.

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Allan Bennett (1872 - 1923)

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Brunton, Paul (1898-1981)

http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/b/brunton_paul.html

Allan Bennett

http://home.earthlink.net/~xristos/GoldenDawn/biobennett.htm

Banner of The Arahants. Chapter VIII - Westerners in The Sangha

http://www.abhidhamma.org/arahants15.htm

New Chan Forum

http://westernchanfellowship.org/ncf/ncf14.txt

Ananda Maitriya (ed.); Buddhism. The International Buddhist Society (ed.)

http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/CBS-bin/each_record.pl/CBSBOOK1054531372:102075

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Brunton, Paul (1898-1981)

http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/b/brunton_paul.html

As a boy he was extremely interested in Spiritualism. He developed mediumistic abilities himself, notably clairvoyance and clairaudience, and was able to verify the existence of psychic powers from first-hand experience.

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He contacted other occult groups to compare their teachings. During this time Brunton became a close friend of Bikku Ananda Mettya (Allan Bennett), who initiated him into Buddhist meditation.

Brunton assisted Bennett with the publishing of The Buddhist Review. Brunton observed during their friendship that Bennett had developed a breath control technique

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His debilitating asthma made it difficult for Bennett to earn a living and required him to resort to regular ministrations of morphine, cocaine and other drugs, which weakened his body but not his resolve; perhaps this also gave him the time to work with Mathers in research and textual editing, one of the few tasks which a near-invalid is capable of.

(Reference: Allan Bennett.)

that enabled him at times to alter the specific gravity of his body, so that when sitting in a yoga posture he was able to rise a foot or two in the air, and the float gently down to the floor again a short distance from the spot where he had originally sat. According to Brunton that around the time of Bennett's death Bennett had "sacrificed his body in order to extricate me from a dangerous position."

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Brunton's initial concern was primarily with miracle-working holy men, but his interest broadened to include the deepest metaphysical aspects of yoga and mysticism.

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In 1956, Brunton retired to Switzerland where he devoted himself almost exclusively to meditation until he died on July 27, 1981.

He left a series of notebooks containing some 7,000 pages on which he recorded his thoughts and insights on the spiritual life. These notes, which contain an exposition of the synthesis of Eastern mysticism and Western rational thought were published posthumously as The Notebooks of Paul Brunton; Perspectives (Lawson Publications, New York, 1984). A.G.H.

(Reference: Brunton, Paul (1898-1981))

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Allan Bennett

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Bhikku Ananda Mettya (Allan Bennett) (1872 - 1923)

…he lived alone in a small flat in a poor district of London with few personal possessions. This natural asceticism no doubt led him in the direction of Buddhism, and the first Buddhist-related text he studied was Sir Edwin Arnold's The Light of Asia, one of the few books about the Buddha then available in the West.

In 1900, with the Golden Dawn in shambles, and disillusioned by Mathers' antagonism toward "Orientalism," Bennett took ship for Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) where he studied Pali in a monastery and became a pupil of a well-known yogi, Sri Parananda, who taught him Hatha Yoga (physical postures or asanas) as well as Pranayama (breathing techniques for meditation.) He also welcomed Crowley while in Kanday, and shared a house there, teaching "The Great Beast" yoga.

Bennett later travelled to Burma (Myanmar) and became a bhikku (Theravedin monk), living with no possessions and maintaining other strict vows in regards to diet, sleep, and celibacy in the company of his fellow monks. He officially joined the sangha (community of Buddhists) and took the name Ananda Matteya ("Bliss of Matteya," a future incarnation of Buddha). Crowley came to visit him in Burma, and writes about his experience in the Confessions; his meeting with Bennett was the catalyst to his own further spiritual work which resulted in a powerful samadhi experience on the China/Burma border in 1905. Crowley admired Bennett all his life both for his intellect and his spiritual force, and wrote a short poem in his honor. Bennett was one of the first modern Westerners to actually convert to Buddhism and become a Buddhist monk; this is an event of some significance in the two-thousand year history of Buddhism, and Bennett's name is frequently found in modern books about the history of Buddhism. (He also created the first society for the promotion of Buddhism in England -- the welcome and refreshing inaugurationn of "reverse missionary" work!)

(Reference: Allan Bennett.)

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Banner of The Arahants. Chapter VIII - Westerners in The Sangha

http://www.abhidhamma.org/arahants15.htm

In order of ordination Allan Bennet was the first (though not the first Englishman in robes). His interest in Dhamma was awakened by reading “The Light of Asia”, Sir Edwin Arnold’s famous poem on the Buddha. So moved was he by this that he went to Sri Lanka in 1901 where he became a samanera with the name Ananda Metteyya. The next year he went to Burma where it appears he was accepted as a Bhikkhu. While studying and practising in Burma he founded “Buddhism”, an illustrated magazine of very high standard, which could hardly be matched in the Buddhist world today. In this organ, which had a worldwide circulation, plans were published for a Buddhist Mission to the West partly financed by generous Burmese lay-supporters, partly by the newly established Buddhist Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya arrived in Britain in April 1908 and began his work propagating the Dhamma. He experienced great difficulties as at that time Buddhism, even as a word was hardly known to many people. Progress of the mission was not so rapid as had been expected. In the autumn of the same year, he returned to Rangoon and stayed there until 1914, but the Bhikkhu’s health deteriorated due to severe asthma, so he disrobed, returned to Britain and led a more retired life until 1923, the year of his death from that disease. His dying wish was to give his last few pence to a beggar he heard passing beneath his window. He was the author of “The Wisdom of the Aryas” and “An Outline of Buddhism”, besides many articles on the Dhamma.

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New Chan Forum

http://westernchanfellowship.org/ncf/ncf14.txt

Huxley even described his view as "the agnostic faith," thus giving it the kind of seriousness that one might otherwise expect only amongst religious people. And within fifteen years of Huxley coining the term, "agnosticism" was already being linked with Buddhism. It was first applied by a man called Allan Bennett who became a bhikkhu in Burma in 1901 with the name Ananda Metteyya. Bennett was the first Englishman to be ordained as a Buddhist and the first European who tried to articulate his understanding of the Dharma as a practising Buddhist rather than merely a scholar of Buddhism. In a magazine he issued in Rangoon in 1905, he spoke of Buddhism as "exactly coincidental in its fundamental ideas with the modern agnostic philosophy of the West."

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Elizabeth J. Harris. (1998) Ananda Metteyya: The First British Emissary of Buddhism. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society.

http://www.beyondthenet.net/bps/wheel.pdf

…his broken body could no longer keep pace with his soaring mind.

The friendship with Pereira was based on a more solid foundation, that of commitment to Buddhism. They met on Bennett’s first visit to Sri Lanka in 1900 and the relationship continued when Bennett went to Burma. Alec Robertson5 told me that Ven. Kassapa had told him he had had such a close rapport with Bennett that the two could communicate by telepathy. Each knew the other’s thoughts, even at a distance.

Nineteenth century developments in science gripped him, particularly in the areas of chemistry and electricity, and scientific metaphors permeate his writing. Science meant far more to him than technical knowledge. He linked it with the search for truth about the human being and human consciousness.

Both Cassius Pereira and Aleister Crowley refer to him practising yogic forms of breath control and

meditation at this time, a practice closer to Hinduism than to Buddhism. Pereira thought these exercises might have exacerbated his asthma. Crowley refers to him experiencing, at eighteen, Shivadarshana, which Crowley describes as an extraordinarily high state of yogic attainment. “It is a marvel that Allan survived and kept his reason,” Crowley remarked, but he also claimed that Bennett had told him that he wanted to get back to that state.10

Spiritualism entered Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, based on the conviction that there was a spirit world which could be contacted by clairvoyants. It became linked with interest in alchemy,

magical invocations, and esoteric or secret knowledge. Helena Blavatsky, one of the founders of Theosophy, for instance, claimed she was in contact with mahatmas, masters in the spirit world.

Significant for Bennett was the creation of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1889 by William Wynn Westcott and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers.11 At first its members were little more than spiritual philosophers, interested in such things as astrology, alchemy, mysticism, and the kabbalah—esoteric practices connected with Judaism. Later, magical rituals were developed and practised. Bennett joined in 1894. He took the name Iehi Aour , Hebrew for “let there be light,” and rapidly became an important member, respected for his psychic powers.

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Ananda Maitriya (ed.); Buddhism. The International Buddhist Society (ed.)

http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/CBS-bin/each_record.pl/CBSBOOK1054531372:102075

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序號: 102075

題名: Buddhism

作者: Ananda Maitriya (ed.); The International Buddhist Society (ed.)

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日期: 1903-1908

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出版者: Hanthawaddy Printing Works

出版地: Rangoon, Myanmar [Burma]

資料類型: 連續性出版品=Serial

使用語文: 英文=English

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編修日期: 2002.03.27

附註項: 520; Frequency: Quarterly (every 3 months) (irregular). Issue: Vol. 1, no. 1: Sept. 1903 -- v. 2, no. 2: Mar. 1908; 2 v.

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“Thou belongest to That Which Is Undying, and not merely to time alone,” murmured the Sphinx, breaking its muteness at last. “Thou art eternal, and not merely of the vanishing flesh. The soul in man cannot be killed, cannot die. It waits, shroud-wrapped, in thy heart, as I waited, sand-wrapped, in thy world. Know thyself, O mortal! For there is One within thee, as in all men, that comes and stands at the bar and bears witness that there IS a God!”

(Reference: Brunton, Paul. (1962) A Search in Secret Egypt. (17^th Impression) London, UK: Rider & Company. Page: 35.)

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