A Popular Dictionary of Buddhism
An awareness of the essential Oneness of the universe and all in it, achieved by a faculty beyond the intellect.
There is mysticism in the Theravāda, but in the Mahāyāna it appears in many forms, and great mystical works are freely used in the monasteries. In a sense Zen Bsm. is itself a school of mysticism, for its first and final precept is: ‘Look within; thou art Buddha’.
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