ABSTRACT
This chapter considers a feature in Sakya which was there from the first. Both in Sakyan Jhana and in Yoga the process of concentration sets out with the individual, the man, the solitary aspirant. Dr. Heiler sees in Buddhism "not philosophy nor metaphysic nor ethic, but a mystical religion of deliverance", the way to which was the way of rapt musing or absorption known as Dhyana or Jhana. Dhyana in the Upanisads is a specialized musing only when it had become the vogue in Brahmanism to recognize and adopt Yoga ideals and outlook. The values placed in the muser and imputed to the musing are in each cult very different. A certain vantage-point in musing in a vast vacuous vagueness is the utmost that can be claimed, unless the Jhana was ever seriously held to promote a man's prospects of rebirth in a world believed to be arupa, or incorporeal.
