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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ex-muslim Ahmed" data-source="post: 6280441" data-attributes="member: 179431">44. The Ancient Path[FONT=&quot] 44. The Ancient Path[/FONT]  [FONT=&quot][/FONT]  “It was said by the Blessed One, ‘The Tathāgata is the discoverer of a way  [FONT=&quot]that was unknown.’[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Yet he also said, ‘Now I perceived, O monks, the ancient[/FONT]  [FONT=&quot]path along which the previous Buddhas walked.’[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]This too is a paradox.”[/FONT]                [FONT=&quot]“It was because the path shown by previous Buddhas had long since disappeared[/FONT] and was not known by anyone, man or god, that the Buddha said, ‘The Tathāgata is[FONT=&quot] the discoverer of a way that was unknown.’ Though that way had disintegrated,[/FONT] become impassable and lost to view — the Tathāgata, having gained a thorough[FONT=&quot] knowledge of it, saw by his eye of wisdom that it was the path used by previous Buddhas. Therefore he said; ‘Now I perceived, O monks, the ancient path along which the previous Buddhas walked.’ It is as when a man clears the jungle and sets free a piece of land it is called his land though he did not make the land.”[/FONT]</blockquote>

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