Mahayana exalts itself and condemns a scarecrow stick figure of its own creation, the Hinayana, no school of which remains, the last being the Sarvastivada
Save oneself or save everyone else? Buddhism's most dangerous question
(Buddha's Wisdom) May 6, 2026: ⚡ FOR 2,000 YEARS BUDDHISM HAS BEEN FIGHTING ITSELF...AND NO SIDE HAS WON YET. Is personal enlightenment (arahantship) selfish?
Buddhism's two greatest paths ideals, that of the Arhat and that of the Bodhisattva, have been locked in the most consequential debate in Buddhist history since the first century CE.
What began as a philosophical disagreement between Mahāyāna and [Hinayana schools until they were all destroyed and] Theravāda Buddhism [arose]. It became something far more dangerous: a 2,000-year argument about what "liberation" (vimutti, moksha) actually means, who it's for, and whether saving oneself first is an act of wisdom or an act of cowardice.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 The [apocryphal] trial of Śāriputra [where Ven. Sariputra, male disciple "foremost in wisdom," comparable to Ven. Khema, female disciple "foremost in wisdom" used as a stick figure to represent first the Hinayana ("Lesser Vehicle"), a pejorative epithet, and later the Theravada ("Teaching of the Elder Enlightened Disciples of the Historical Buddha") to attack them with Brahminical and Hindu residues on what the Buddha Taught]
02:01 The debate we've been building to
04:19 The prosecution — Mahāyāna's real case
08:10 The defense — the sentence that stops everything
13:19 The trap — who is taking this infinite vow?
18:26 The real wound — self-view in spiritual clothing
24:01 The dissolution — each path guards the other
29:19 The same mountain
🔍 DISCOVER
Why the [apocryphal Mahayana invented discourse] Vimalakīrti Sūtra placed the arhat (Pali arahant) ideal on trial
How the Lotus Sūtra reframed personal liberation through the One Vehicle (Ekayana) teaching
Why Theravāda’s strongest defense begins with one simple fact: the Buddha called himself an was called an arahant
How the Diamond Sūtra complicates the bodhisattva vow through no-self (anatta) and emptiness (shunyata)
Why Vajrayāna Buddhism refuses to take sides in this debate...and what that refusal reveals about both paths simultaneously
📚 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: (with affiliate links)
Primary [Mahayana] Buddhist texts: Vimalakīrti Sūtra (Vimalakīrtinirdeśa Sūtra) — Robert Thurman translation recommended https://amzn.to/3QTtGSD
Diamond Sūtra (Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra) — Red Pine translation recommended https://amzn.to/3OP9Mro
Primary [Theravada] texts: Majjhima Nikāya (Collection of "Middle Length Discourses" from the Pali canon) — Ariyapariyesanā Sutta (MN 26) — Bhikkhu Bodhi translation https://amzn.to/4dcS2y9
Pāli canon — Nikāya (collection of) discourses on the brahma-vihārās ("Four Divine Abidings" of loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity or dispassionate looking on)
Scholarly and Modern Resources
Paul Williams — Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations https://amzn.to/4evxKCq
Bhikkhu Bodhi (translator) — The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha https://amzn.to/3OMwqkd
Étienne Lamotte — The Teaching of Vimalakīrti
Peter Harvey — An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics https://amzn.to/42e1RH9
Rupert Gethin, The Foundations of Buddhism https://amzn.to/4d5IG7h
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THE HEART SUTRA is a classic. It is the most read, most chanted, and certainly the least understood of all the apocryphal Mahayana Buddhist texts. Here is a new translation by Wisdom Quarterly.
The Heart Sutra
Who looks down and hears cries of the world?
Amen (aum'n). All honor to the [personification of the] Perfection of Wisdom, lovely and holy!
He looked down from on high and beheld only FIVEHEAPS, seeing that in and of themselves they were impersonal, utterly empty.
The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara
Herein [within this Dharma], O Śāriputra, form is emptiness, and the very emptiness is form;
emptiness does not differ from form, and form does not differ from emptiness: Whatever is emptiness, that is form.
Herein, O Sariputra, all things (dhammas) are marked with emptiness; they are [non-dual] neither produced nor stopped [neither originated nor annihilated], neither defiled nor immaculate, neither deficient nor complete.
Therefore, O Sariputra,
in emptiness [in that they are impersonal and not the thing themselves but what they depend on] there is neither form nor feeling, nor perception, nor formation, nor consciousness;
no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind;
no forms, sounds, scents, tastes, tangibles, nor objects of mind;
no sight-organ element, no sound-organ element, no scent-organ element, no taste-organ element, no touch-organ element, no mind-consciousness element.
There is neither ignorance nor extinction of ignorance...there is neither decay and death nor extinction of decay and death.
There is no suffering, no origination, no cessation, no path.
There is no cognition, no attainment and no non-attainment.
The Heart Sutra is brief in Sanskrit, the cul- mination of 100,000 lines of explanation
In the absence of thought-coverings, one no longer trembles; one has overcome what can upset, and in the end one nirvanas [nirvana as a verb].
All of those who appear as supremely awakened ones in the three periods of time [past, present, future] fully awake to the utmost, right and perfect enlightenment because they have brought about the Perfection of Wisdom.
Therefore, one should know the perfection of wisdom as the great mantra ["thought instrument"], the mantra of great knowledge, the utmost mantra, the unequalled mantra, allayer of all suffering, in truth, for what could go wrong?
Heart as in emotions, love, eros? - No
By the perfection of wisdom has this mantra been delivered. It runs: gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.
("Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, O what an awakening, so it is!)
This completes the heart [pithy telling, summary, conclusion, culmination] of perfect wisdom.
When is "self" (I, me, mine, soul, myself) not-self? When wisdom is perfected to see that all things (but particularly the Five Aggregates clung to as self) are not only impermanent, not only unsatisfactory, but are also impersonal (anatta), which is to say "empty" (shunyata), devoid of self, essence, ego, thingness.
Well, then, if this is the perfection of wisdom, wouldn't "I" rather be ignorant? Why? Well, that way I could exist forever and ever, right? Ignorance is bliss, and if it gives you eternal life or, in any case, endless wandering in this impermanent, miserable, impersonal illusion, stay as you are. Well, but, isn't it better than not existing? The other choice isn't not existing; it is waking up. I think I'd rather dream on and on, I mean, if it weren't such a nightmare sometimes. Can I go to heaven? Yes, the Buddha pointed the way to heaven (sagga), many heavens of extreme longevity, very blissful. They all still bear these Three Marks of Existence, but they are good respites.
Background
Ven. Sariputra, monk foremost in wisdom
The Buddha did not utter this "sutra," but Mahayana Buddhism is not too concerned with what the historical Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) taught. Its interests are in Cosmic Amitabha and Kwan Yin (Avalokita, Avalokiteshvara).
This figure is transformed in some cultures into a female figure, a feminine icon, called Kwan Yin (Kwun Yum, Guanyin, Kuanyin, Kannon, Kanzeon, Chenrezig, Lokanat, Lokabyuharnat, Lokesvara, Gwaneum, Quan Am, Nātha...).
And instead of the historical Buddha and his teachings, focus is turned to new "Cosmic Buddhas" like Amitābha and Medicine Buddha and Great Bodhisattvas like Ksitigarbha and other Vedic and Hindu syncretistic figures. Gone are countless Vedic gods, now reborn as Buddhist figures.
Who was the deva (god, godling, deity, lit. "shining one") Avalokiteśvara, this tenth-level bodhisattva?
Originally, it was a male deity who looked down and heard the cries of the world with boundless compassion. And this is the central figure in this, the Heart of Perfect Wisdom Sutra.
Buddhism may be described as the marriage of wisdom and compassion. One represents compassion, so who represents wisdom?
It is the other figure in this work, the overly intellectual disciple Śāriputra, whom the Buddha declared "foremost in wisdom" among monks but viewed dimly in Mahayana Buddhism, just as in Theravada, where everyone loves easy-to-love Ānanda and Sariputta gets short shrift.
Mahayana turns him into a stick figure here, a scarecrow representing dunderheaded thinkers who lack compassion and direct knowledge. It is said by professors of Buddhist studies that poor Sariputra is often put in this light in Mahayana texts. Of course, this is a very unfair representation, but then whom to attribute it to?
Who is the author here, a Vedic Brahmin, an ancient Central Asian scholar writing in Gandhari, a Chinese compiler of Hindu and Buddhist texts brought to China by the Monkey King in the Journey to the West? We would like to know.
Translated and edited by Dhr. Seven for Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal based on the original rendition of the ancient text by Edward Conze, The Heart Sutra (buddhism.org)
It will happen this weekend -- as it has happened every year Coachella has convened for a weekend of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll in the desert -- that two friends will grow weary of the worldly life and seek something more spiritual and meaningful to make an end of all further suffering.
Getting high, one can distract and delude oneself that one is being "spiritual," or that one's friends are on the right track and on the verge of a breakthrough in insight or understanding. But continued asinine behavior when they return to the suburbs and the big city proves that was just a "pipe dream," of the sort for which Alice in Wonderland was famous.
One parties, one explores hedonism with great zeal, one claims to be a "seeker," an atheist or agnostic, but something eats away at one, and it can't just be what parents and society inculcated.
Humans have an innate drive to make sense of things: Who am I? What am I? What is my purpose? WTF is the meaning of it all? Inquiring minds want to know.
Another year, another giant West Coast Woodstock festival
As has been pointed out in the past, we are neither Faith Quarterly nor Easy Answers Digest. We are on a quest, as many readers must be, to know things directly: What's the meaning of all this? Why do things happen? What's really going on in the human world? We know the mainstream media has been lying and filling our heads full of BS, and it's been going on our whole lives.
As members of The Empire, we have a far better chance of figuring things out than the victims of our American imperialism and its hegemony. It, therefore, behooves us to speak out, to protest, to speak truth to power, to stand up for the powerless, to point out our own U.S. hypocrisy and not just comfort ourselves at others' expense. That reminds us to say, the emperor has no clothes. He's totally naked and no one has said anything about it. The nominal left (our side) is little better than the nominal right (their side). We prefer Purple in the Red vs. Blue, Bloods vs. Crips Battle that is our sorry excuse for a political system. We oppose the wars of our endless war economy. ("Fight war, not wars.")
What d'you like most? The beat, the beat, the beat
So, living in luxury, we get to go to music festivals and enjoy a lot of leisure time, eat well and exercise, do yoga and meditate. We're spoiled. And this kind of privilege leads to a kind of pre-awakening the motivated Siddhartha to leave the palace and find reality. It's not just psychonauts who are searching and seeking, questioning and questing.
We're on a quest. Who else was on an ancient quest? Two friends who became the Buddha's chief male disciples foremost in wisdom and psychic powers, respectively. This "sutra," more a portion of their life stories than a discourse, speaks of what happened when two young guys and all their friends went to ancient multiday music festival to see performers, enjoy art, meet new people, date, eat, and above all be entertained!
Nevertheless, what in the Avici does Coachella have to do with Buddhism?
What if we could go back to the Hill Festival?
By a strange synchronicity, I was traveling through Buddhist India, on the circuit, in search of a teacher or temple really following the Buddha's ancient path.
I came to the royal city of Rajgir, thinking this ancient citadel more important than world-famous "Enlightenment Grove" (Bodh Gaya, Bihar) because so many things had happened here. Not the least of which, this is the site of Vulture's Peak and Pipphali Cave and even the Squirrel's Feeding Ground at Bamboo Grove (Veluvana). It's unclear that this is the exact location of the squirrels, but there is a large pond (tank).
I stayed at a monastery run by an Asian Buddhist monk (Japanese, Korean, it's unclear), who seemed devoid of any spiritual motivations and was just running a hostel in the pre-season. It was nice except for the noise. What was that noise? Day and night, I could not sleep. Finally, upset and wanting to get to the bottom of it, I set out in the direction of the racket. Imagine my surprise that the 24-hour disturbance was The Hill Festival!
It still happens. I was offered a couch, but I recoiled. Who would waste time on such worldly distractions in the most spiritual place on the face of the planet? There really are seven big hills ringing this ancient capital on the Gangetic plains.
I sat atop Vulture's Peak. There's a redstone deck for viewing, just as the Buddha once looked upon the forested valley below. One can see Isigili Hill (Eater of Seers, Swallower of Sages), where the Buddha questioned Jains (Niganthas) about severe asceticism (Isigili Sutra), where Maha Moggallana was killed, where many pacceka buddhas gathered. There have never been any vultures here. The peak gets its name from the shape of the stones, which resemble eagles and vultures (like we have in LA, where California condors and bald velociraptors share the skies) in the morning and evening. To the side of the platform Tibetan Buddhists place or discard hundreds of white scarves. Under the platform is a small cave in which to meditate, as someone famously did at the time of the Buddha. It is even the setting of a very famous apocryphal Mahayana discourse (the Heart Sutra).
Vulture's peak platform looking at Isigili Hill
I entered the small cave where the First Buddhist Council was held. (There's no way 500 could ever have fit in it, but "500" only means "a large number" in the ancient Pali vernacular).
There's a gondola to a peak where a Japanese Buddhist temple sits. This was off season, so there were no crowds. But one could see where the crowds must be. There's another Japanese temple with "Zen" drawings of the great disciples down in the valley by the river (which has leeches).
Sacred Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Rajgir, India
There are in Rajgir natural hot springs and mini ghats to walk down and bathe in them. I must have wandered here in past lives. It's just a sense. What proof could one evince of that being the case other than testifying about resonating with the place so powerfully that nothing else makes sense to explain why, as an American, I would gravitate to the Dharmic traditions and recognize Buddhism as the ultimate?
Some of the nicer ancient temples are set high near the entrance of the city next to the Bamboo Grove. I could not help but admire the meticulous of the ancient Buddhist artisans who built them, carving beautiful sculptures of the naked Buddha, only to find those were Jain buildings and sculptures of Mahavira, the founding Jina, a great spiritual contemporary of the Buddha.
Showing up at the Hill Festival is not so different than taking a trip to Coachella, which was originally billed as a "Woodstock" for California.
Coachella is seductive. Coachella is an ordeal. Coachella is a vacuum that often sucks: walking around on lawns (polo grounds) and dirt in the heat, dust blowing, a mad crush all around the stage, a dusty, sweaty, unruly mosh pit and, worst of all, an early curfew. It's an expensive disappointment, but the people-watching and all the circus tents with different shows going on, providing little darkness for midday EDM in the desert. It's a mixed bag, and it's overkill.
That time at the ancient art and music festival
Hellmuth Hecker and Ven. Nyanaponika Thera, edited and updated by Wisdom Quarterly
Those old legends and folk comedies will make great fodder for art festival entertainments.
Upatissa (the future Ven. Sariputta) was a pioneer type, daring and enterprising, while Kolita (the future Ven. Maha Moggallana) had a different way, which was to preserve, cultivate, and enrich what he had gained.
Their places within their rich and privileged families were different. Kolita was an only child, but Upatissa had three brothers and three sisters.
For both, their friendship meant so much that it filled their daily lives. It filled it to such an extent that as young males, they had little interest in girls compared to other boys. They were not quite free from the indulgences of their youthful age and its lightheartedness.
Each led a group of friends with whom they undertook many kinds of sport and play in high spirits.
Lifestyles of the rich and famous Brahmins
When they visited the river, Kolita's companions galloped in on horseback and those of Upatissa arrived in rich, fancy vehicles like celebrity royals.
It was similar with Francis of Assisi (the future San Francisco): He, too, had been the leader of a group of playboys, and like him, both friends, too, had been enamored by the intoxications of youth, health and life.
In Rajagaha (now Rajgir, India, a royal city encircled by seven hills where "Buddhism" was born with the First Council), the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Magadha, there was a great festival with popular entertainments and amusements called "the Hill Festival."
Partying for days at the Hill Festival
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Dance like there's no tomorrow because one day...
The rich and privileged friends, living in luxury, went to enjoy it. They had great seats reserved, where they could easily see the entertainments. [When the music was good, one imagines they must have tapped their feet, sang along, danced, and enjoyed the sight of provocatively dressed dancing girls]. When there was something to laugh at, they joined in the laughter. When there was something fascinating, they got excited.
They enjoyed the entertainments so much, they returned for a second day. They were keen to watch the dramatic performances, a mixture of folk comedies and great legends. However, attend as much as they did, the heightening of their mood that they expected failed to come.
Kolita (Ven. Maha Moggallana) had very dark skin
However, they reserved a third day, too, with a new program of entertainers announced in glowing terms. They slept poorly at night as the impressions of the day haunted their minds.
Suffering insomnia, Kolita thought: "What's the use of all this for us? Is any of this really worthwhile? What benefit does it give? After a few years, these glamorous performers will be old, frail, and feeble; they will leave the stage of life and carry on their wanderings through samsara existence after existence, driven by their cravings. It's the same with us. These actors cannot help themselves to solve the problem of existence. How, then, can they help us? We're just wasting our time here instead of working out our spiritual liberation!"
Upatissa also had a restless night, and similar thoughts occurred to him. He reflected on how the ancient legends and myths dramatized in these performances actually concerned the reality of rebirth. The jokes and frolicking that overlay the ideas in the plays pretended that there was only this present life one needed be concerned with. Was this not an artificial suppression and habitual repression of the truth with vain illusions?
When, on the morning of the third day, they got to the festival, Kolita asked his friend Upatissa, "What's the matter with you? You are not as merry as you have been. What depresses you?"
His friend Upatissa replied, "Tell me, what is the use to us of all these pleasures of eye and ear? It is absolutely useless and worthless! I would rather seek a way to escape from the devastating law of impermanence, a way to find liberation from the fleeting illusions of life that are alluringly and haunting and just leave us empty. That is what went through my mind and made me think.
Hey, c'mon, why don't you enjoy the party?
"You, friend Kolita, look anything but cheerful!"
Kolita replied: "I have felt the same as you. Why should we stay any longer in this vanity show? We ought to seek a way to real freedom!"
When Upatissa heard his friend had the same wish, he happily exclaimed: "That is a good thought that came to us independent from one another! We've wasted our lives and time long enough with all these unprofitable things. But if one earnestly seeks a teaching of freedom, one has to give up one's home and possessions and go forth into the left-home life as a seeker, free of worldly and sensual bonds, rising above them like a feathered bird."
What got into them as they grew disillusioned and dispassionate towards these frivolous sensual pursuits? A "sense of urgency" called samvega
The two friends decided to adopt the life of yogis and wandering ascetics who at that time, like now, wander in large numbers along the roads of Asia in search of a spiritual teacher, a guru or guide, who can show them the path to freedom.
When they announced their decision to their friends, the other young men were so impressed that most of them joined in this spiritual quest. All of them gave up home life, removed the sacred Brahmin's thread, cut their hair and beard and put on the pale earth-colored garments of religious wanderers. Discarding all distinguishing marks and privileges of their caste, they entered the classless society of ascetics. More: The Life of Maha-Moggallana
From birth to attainment of enlightenment
Ven. Sariputta became "foremost in wisdom"
The story begins at two ancient Brahmin villages in Magadha, near Rajagaha, where Upatissa and Kolita were born. Before the Buddha appeared in the world, a wealthy Brahmin lady named Sari, living in Upatissa Village [1] conceived. On the same day, in Kolita Village, another rich Brahmin lady named Moggalli did, too.
The two families were connected, friends with one another for seven generations. From the first day of their pregnancies, the families gave due care to the mothers-to-be. After ten [lunar] months, the women gave birth to boys on the very same day.
On the name-giving day, Sari's son (Sari-putta or -putra meaning "Sari's son") received the name Upatissa, as he was a son of the foremost family of the village. For the same reason, Moggalli's son (Moggallana) was named Kolita.
When the boys grew up, they were educated and mastered their lessons. Each had a large following of Brahmin youths. And when they went to a park or to the river for sports and recreation, Upatissa used to be carried their on fancy palanquins (vehicles), whereas Kolita arrived on horse-drawn carriages.
One day Rajagaha was having its annual Hilltop Festival [an ancient version of the Coachella Festival]. Entrance was arranged for the youths who sat together with all their friends.
When there was something funny, they laughed. When the spectacles were exciting, they became excited. They liked it so much that they paid the fees for extra shows.
In this way they enjoyed the festival for a second day. But by the third day, their understanding was awakened, and they could no longer laugh nor get very excited. They didn't feel inclined to pay for extra shows as they had at the beginning of the festival.
They will be my chief male disciples.
Each had the same thought: "What is there to see here? Before any of these people reach a 100-years, they'll all be dead. What we ought to do is to seek for a teaching of liberation [from this Wheel of Birth and Death]."
With such thoughts in mind, they took their seats at the festival. Then Kolita said to Upatissa: "How are you doing, friend Upatissa? You seem not as happy and joyous as on previous days. Your mood seems discontented. What's on your mind?"
"Friend Kolita, to look at these things here is of no benefit at all. Watching this is utterly worthless! I ought to seek a doctrine of deliverance for myself. That, Kolita, is what I was thinking seated here. But you, Kolita, seem to be discontented, too."
Kolita replied: "It is just as you have said. I feel the same way."
When he heard that his friend had the same inclination, Upatissa said: "That was a good thought of ours. For those who seek a teaching for their spiritual liberation, there is only one thing to do: leave home and become wandering ascetics. But under whom shall we live the ascetic life?" More: The Life of Sariputta (accesstoinsight.org)
How the Buddha awakened beautiful Khema
It would be a while before they met the Buddha. They all went and ordained under the Yogi Sañjaya, who taught them all he could. They were not satisfied with his doctrine or dhamma. They scoured the countryside, each promising the other that if he found a real enlightened teacher, he would tell the other. The story of how the Buddha's two extremely beautiful chief female disciples, Ven. Khema and Ven. Uppalavanna, is equally interesting. It was no accident that these four were chosen to help the Buddha awaken a great many hearers.
Edward Conze (trans.) edited by Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly
The personification of Wisdom: Prajna Paramita (Indonesia)
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Thanks to Edward Conze we have the Heart Sutra in poetic English. It's not a perfect translation, but it was better than anyone could do to put it into modern English we could understand. The short version runs like this with minor updates by Dhr. Seven):
Here, O Sariputra, all things (dharmas) are marked with emptiness; they are not produced nor stopped, not defiled nor immaculate, not deficient nor complete.
Therefore, O Sariputra, in emptiness there is no form, nor feeling, nor perception, nor impulse, nor consciousness.
There is no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind; there is no form, sound, scent, savor, sensation, nor object of mind; no sight-organ element, and so forth, until we come to: There is no mind-consciousness element.
There is no ignorance, no extinction of ignorance, and so forth, until we come to: There is no decay and death, no extinction of decay and death.
There is no suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path. There is no cognition, no attainment, and no non-attainment.
Therefore, O Sariputra, it is because of his non-attainmentness that a bodhisattva, through having relied on the Perfection of Wisdom, dwells without thought-coverings.
In the absence of thought-coverings, one has not been made to tremble.
One has overcome what can upset, and in the end, one attains to nirvana.
All those who appear as buddhas in the three periods of time fully awake to the utmost, right and perfect enlightenment, because they have relied on the Perfection of Wisdom.
Therefore, one should know the prajna-paramita as the great mantra, the mantra of great knowledge, the utmost mantra, the unequalled mantra, allayer of all suffering. In truth -- for what could go wrong?
By the prajna-paramita has this mantra been delivered. It runs like this:
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