Teaching of Bodhidharma

Interesting, I'll look into this Bodhidharma.  It looks like two words; Bodhi and Dharma.

Bodhi.  (Sanskrit)  This word comes from the root budh, meaning "to awaken."  It is the state when man has so emptied his mind that it is filled only with the self itself, with the selfless selfhood of the eternal.  Then he realizes the ineffable visions of reality, of pure truth.  The man who reaches this state is called a buddha, and the organ in and by which it is manifested, is termed buddhi (q.v.).

Dharma.  (Sanskrit)  A noun derived from the verbal root dhri.  The meaning is right religion, right philosophy, right science, and the right union of these three; hence the Law per se.  It also means equity, justice, conduct, duty, and similar things.  It has also a secondary meaning of an essential or characteristic quality or peculiarity; and here its significance approaches closely to that of svabhava (q.v.).  The duty of a man, for instance, is his dharma, that which is set or prescribed or natural to him to do.

Pratyeka Buddha.  (Sanskrit)  Pratyeka is a compound of two words: prati, prepositional prefix meaning "towards" or "for"; eka, the numeral "one"; thus we can translate the compound by the paraphrase "each one for himself."
     The Pratyeka Buddha, he who achieves buddhahood for himself, instead of feeling the call of almighty love to return and help those who have gone less far, goes ahead into the supernal light -- passes onwards and enters the unspeakable bliss of nirvana -- and leaves mankind behind.  Though exalted, nevertheless he does not rank with the unutterable sublimity of the Buddha of Compassion (q.v.).
     The Pratyeka Buddha concentrates his energies on the one objective -- spiritual self-advancement: he raises himself to the spiritual realm of his own inner being, enwraps himself therein and, so to speak, goes to sleep.  The Buddha of Compassion raises himself, as does the Pratyeka Buddha, to the spiritual realms of his own inner being, but does not stop there, because he expands continuously, becomes one with All, or tries to, and in fact does so in time.  When the Pratyeka Buddha in due course emerges from the nirvanic state in order to take up his evolutionary journey again, he will find himself far in the rear of the Buddha of Compassion.

I happened across the above while looking through the "Occult Glossary" by G. de Purucker. 

The definition for Buddha of Compassion had a powerful sentence in it.  "... and this is done by letting the light imprisoned within, the light of the inner god, pour forth and manifest itself through the humanity of the man, through the human soul of the man..."

He advocates being analytical and observant during meditation rather than quietude.  But there are some scholarly disagreement about this character.  There a minority of scholars who said none of his teachings were original and he never actually existed historically.  Another interesting thing is his world view is dualistic.  Modern day Buddhism is atheistic, especially Western Buddhism.
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Modern day Buddhism is atheistic, especially Western Buddhism.  Yes, one of the reasons was the way the word, Nirvana was translated.  I believe Buddhism has an extremely esoteric quality to it.  Whenever I think about how atheistic America has become in so many parts of it, there is a name that comes to mind.  I don't really want to mention him with only a few words, but I don't know if I will ever get the energy up to talk of him in depth.  If you read page seventy five, second paragraph, through to about page eighty one, in "Isis Unveiled" vol. one.  - I don't seem to be able to print numerals for some reason, so I have to spell them - I must have hit some key locking out numeric entry -.  Oh well.  But back to subject, this person is Auguste Comte, and H P Blavatsky gives a very good insight as to what he did, trying to be a reformer.  You will find that many present day practicers in the field of psychology have a very high esteem for this man.  These same sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, are also atheist, or if they do possess some type of spirituality, it will be some new age "You Create Your Own Reality" modern invention. 

Just thinking about this man, Auguste Comte, gets me fired up.  I'll dissipate it some later time.  In meditation, something I am only doing on rare occasions, I try to be a vessel removed of self, filling with Oneness, but I do not remain passive, I start with a question with intent to not bifurcate or have collateral thoughts.  It doesn't last, because as soon as an answer comes to me, more questions sprout up.  But it has a good feel to it.