ABSTRACT
The Buddhist Eightfold Path is long and extremely tough going, as all who have seriously tried it will agree. Yet it is complete, from its beginning here and now to its end, Samadhi. Thence the way is comparatively short, to Nirvana, the conscious awareness of no-distinction, no-separation, nodifference between any two 'things' conceivable. All who tread it can measure their own and others' place upon it by tests of which there is no secret, tests of character, motive, spiritual development. But in making these tests we must allow for the vast length of time implicit in the doctrine of rebirth. A child in body may be old in wisdom; a venerable old man but a child in spiritual worth.
