VML-4/15/02

[Guest guest]

The discussion about substance and qualities is very old, and you

will sometimes find that the old superstition lives even at the

present day. Most of you have read how, during the Middle Ages, and,

I am sorry to say, even much later, this was one of the subjects of

discussion, whether qualities adhered to substance, whether length,

breadth, and thickness adhered to the substance which we call dead

matter, whether, the substance remaining, the qualities are there or

not. To this our Buddhist says, " You have no ground for maintaining

the existence of such a substance; the qualities are all that exist;

you do not see beyond them. "