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THE SECRET ORAL TEACHINGS IN

 TIBETAN BUDDHIST SECTS

ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEL AND LAMA YONGDEN

Translated by Capt. H.N.M. Hardy

Foreword by Alan Watts

FOREWORD

For several years I have referred to this, hitherto, rare and inaccessible work as the ‘I-told-you-so-book”, because it has often been implied that I have invented my explanations of Buddhism out of thin air, thus falsifying its authentic teachings. Mme. Alexandra David-Neel is a Frenchwoman now (in 1967) one hundred years old who has travelled and studied extensively in Tibet, who adopted the lately deceased Lama Yongden as her son, and who has recorded her experiences in such romantically entitled works as Initiations and Initiates In Tibet and Mystics and Magicians in Tibet, both of which first appeared in English translation in 1931. the present volume has similarly “esoteric” title, reminiscent of the fantasies of H.P Blavatsky, Taibot Mundy, James Hilton, and “Lobsang Rampa” who – with a very superficial knowledge of Tibetan Buddhism – have given us an image of Tibet as the secret stronghold of the most mysterious and adept masters of the occult and magical sciences, depicting the high-ranking Buddhist monks or lamas, as super – technicians in the exercise of psychic powers far beyond the reach of ordinary mortals.

It is especially important for Westerners to understand that high lamas Zen masters and Hindu gurus in the discipline of yoga are human beings, not supermen. We must not put them, as we have put Jesus Christ, on pedestals of reverence so high that we automatically exclude ourselves from their states of consciousness. Man may have potentialities of all kinds for the psycho-technology of clairvoyance, telekinesis, precognition, and telepathy (not to mention epipathy, cataparthy: apopathy, and peripathy). Power-games of this kind are not, however, the main concern of Tibetan Buddhism. On the contrary, the point is to realize that by virtue of what you always are, have been, and will be, there is no need whatsoever to defend yourself or prove yourself.

                                                           Sausalito California

                                                                 August 1967

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