In support of the 2,500-year-old techniques originally taught by the Buddha
Lost Links of Buddhism in Europe
When Western scholars of the 20th century changed the traditional date of the Buddha’s birth from 624 BC to 563 BC history was distorted. If the Buddha’s system of meditation reached Europe in the 6th century BC, the philosopher Pythagoras may have been a follower of the Buddha and the Greek “Four Elements” an essential meditation technique. Did people in Europe meditate for up to 1,700 years until the 12th century, only 800 years ago?
Were the many mysterious objects found in Europe that cannot be explained by scholars related to the system of meditation originally taught by the Buddha?
Were the four elements and metempsychosis of the Greek philosophers based on the Four Great Elements and Dependent Origination meditation techniques described in the Pali texts?
The links between thousands of mysterious objects discovered in Europe and the meditation techniques that are still taught, unchanged after 2,500 years, are revealed in a series of illustrated texts.
Accidental discovery of “the mystic numbers”
Traveling to Asia on a journey to paint watercolours of trees had an unexpected outcome when it turned into an exploration of what the 6th sense can do after meeting a monk in Myanmar who was able to teach the original meditation system of the Buddha as described in Pali texts, unchanged after 2,500 years. The drawings made in a sketchbook while meditating became the visual key that unlocked the mystery of the lost knowledge of the 6th sense in Europe.
Sketches of personal experiences made during meditation – recognisable objects that appeared as pictures of light in the mind’s eye, called a “nimitta” in Pali – were recognisable on Celtic coins minted 500 years after the lifetime of the Buddha. The horse surrounded by abstract symbols that represent meditation concepts was the an-iconic symbol for the Buddha most used in Europe: they followed the example of the teacher who left his palace on his horse in pursuit of liberation as an ascetic.
Were the Celts in Europe aware of the meditation system
and 6th sense as taught by the Buddha in the 6th century BC?
Sketch of eye: personal meditation experience of images that appear as light in the “mind’s eye”
Treveri horse & eye coins c, 50 BC: symbols are coded meditation concepts
Treveri: eye with 8-spoked wheel, winged horse as teacher to attain Victory
The numbers on objects in Europe:
knowledge of the 6th sense
Many different objects were investigated. It turned out that the same series of numbers were used for up to 1,700 years to design famous objects such as the 6th-century BC Vix crater, the Pantheon in Rome in 125 AD, the 5th-century Golden Collars of Sweden, the 10th-century Rök rune stone in Sweden.
Vix Crater France c. 510 BC: diagram 16 horses (x2=32), 4 chariots (x2=8), 11 & 12 parts
Golden Collars Sweden 5th century: 3, 5 & 7 layers divided into 16 & 12 zones
Pantheon Rome 125 AD: 3-D eye divisions into 16, 12, 6; dome 5 rings with 28 recesses
Rök runes Sweden c.10th century: 16, 10 & 2 rune lines, 28 in total (28 named Buddhas)
Phaistos Disk, Crete: the key to decipher mystic numbers of Pythagoras?
Are images on the Phaistos Disk with 12 fields on each side and the Linear A & B scripts with freehand scribbles drawn into soft clay recognisable as step-by-step meditation instructions to explain the working of the 6th sense, rather than phonetic sounds? Are these clay objects that were discovered in Crete evidence of the “mystic numbers” of Pythagoras, thought to be lost to the world?
Were the “mystic numbers of Pythagoras” used for 1,800 years as the foundation of scripts to explain the meditation system in Europe?
The 47 symbols of the Phaistos Disk, with 32 fields on side A and 30 fields on side B, was a master key to illustrate, step-by-step, the meditation instructions to explain the working of the 6th sense as taught by the Buddha. The “mystic numbers of Pythagoras”, thought to be lost to the world, can still be recognised and translated as coded scripts used until the 13th century.
Phaistos Disk Master Key:
a tool to teach meditation
An overview of the meaning of the images on the Phaistos Disk: a complex meditation diagram with multiple layers of knowledge – a tool to teach students not limited by language barriers. Was the Phaistos Disk made by mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras in teh 6th century BC, “the first to introduce the teachings into Greece”? Animated text clip, no sound.
Evidence in Arabia and America of runestones
Symbols of the Phaistos Disk were used until the 14th century as the foundation of a mnemonic used to tech meditation to students.
Ogham Hand Signs Scandinavian Runes: key to the Phaistos Disk and Numbers of Pythagoras
Dante’s comment in a letter to his patron Cangrande about Plato’s knowledge:
“For we see many things with our mind for which vocal signs are lacking, as Plato tells us well in his books by taking on metaphors, for he saw many things with the light of his mind which he was not able to express in his own words.”
1,800 years of meditation in Europe was expressed by various “secret scripts” developed from hand signs used in the 6th century BC, first expressed as drawings on Linear A and Linear B clay tablets used on in Greece until finally expressed by simplified abstract shapes as the Ogham in Ireland, Wales, Scotland and on Islands of Orkney. The same system was expressed by the Elder Futhark Runes alphabet in Scandinavia.
The development of the “secret scripts” is seen at the mounds of the Brú na Bóinne in Ireland: Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth. The master key to translate inscriptions in the Phaistos Disk of Crete, possibly designed by Pythagoras.
List of illustrated texts:
Lost Links of Buddhism in Europe
Exploring objects made during 1,700 years of history resulted in the surprising discovery that there was only one fixed set of numbers that was used repeatedly. The greatest discovery was that Western scholars changed the Buddha’s date of birth, once the date was adjusted the lost history of meditation as practiced in Europe for up to 1,800 years appeared, consistent with historical facts.
From Linear A and B clay tablets in Crete made in the 6th century BC to 10-12th century rune stones in Scandinavia – the lost history of meditation practices in Europe are linked up to reveal the thread of one main system of numbers that was repeatedly used for up to 1,700 years on the mysterious treasures of Europe – not yet noticed nor explained by scholars. During the life of Pythagoras symbols were initially drawings made on clay to explain through using gestures how to meditate, this sign language developed into the refined symbols of the rune alphabet when practices were under threat from the 4th century.
The key to understanding the series of numbers was written down by Plutarch in Delphi in his essay “On the ‘E’ at Delphi” as 21 paragraphs – the order corresponds exactly with runes of the Elder Futhark alphabet – but also with the concepts and techniques originally taught by the Buddha.
Were the Greek and Roman philosophers actually meditators who knew that the “mystic numbers” of Pythagoras were related to the teachings of the Buddha in India, who was very famous at the time?
Finally, after 1,900 years, Dante used the same system of numbers to write a Commentary to promote Christian beliefs. The Divine Comedy is written evidence of how the numbers were assimilated into Christianity, but with a new meaning. The original definitions were eventually forgotten, after people stopped meditating.
Plato Unwritten Doctrines
The mystic numbers of Pythagoras were used as a mnemonic to describe complex meditation techniques centuries before written texts were common. Plato wrote his dialogues as Dhamma Talks for local Greeks with codes that describe the meditation system, strictly following the system of numbers illustrated on the Phaistos Disk of Crete, a meditation diagram possibly designed by Pythagoras to explain the meditation system taught by the Buddha in India.
Plato philosopher Dante Divine Comedy
1,700 years after Plato wrote his dialogues, Dante followed the exact same system of numbers to write a Commentary to promote Christianity. References to Plato and philosophy was a thread winding through the text, mentioned in the last 13 lines to formulate the final conclusion. Dante replaced the methods of philosophy – to find wisdom through concentration – with Christian beliefs based on the Triune God: salvation granted based on divine grace. Philosophy was named “the grandchild of God”, concentration practices was replaced by text, written by poets.
Etruscan symbols:
universal language of the heart
Etruscan Magliano disk: ideograms were used from the 6th century BC to illustrate the 6th sense, the “mind’s eye”. The perplexing and often surreal qualities of famous 6th-century objects of Europe represent the meditation system, they were meditation practitioners with knowledge of the “eye of the mind”.
Rök rune stone
Sweden
Rune lines of the Rök rune stone of Sweden c. 950 AD was designed with the same series of numbers used to design the Pantheon in Rome, based on “the mystic numbers of Pythagoras”. The designers had advanced knowledge of essential concepts used in Buddhism: total 28 lines (list of “named Buddhas”), 16 (Vipassanā Insight Knowledges, 10 (parami & Ten Dhammas).
Did Pythagoras make
the Phaistos Disk?
Was Pythagoras (c. 580-500 BC) a follower of the Buddha (624-544 BC), was the Phaistos Disk a meditation diagram? Pythagoras was visited by important rulers from abroad, described by Roman Porphyry in Life of Pythagoras 800 years later. He taught metempsychosis – investigation of past lives to obtain wisdom – equivalent to Dependent Origination taught by the Buddha described in Pali texts, his legacy was still visible used centuries later on Pict stones in Scotland and rune stones in Scandinavia.
Mystery of Maeshowe
Orkney
Use of light to measure the time in Maeshowe, Orkney, influenced the design under Roman Emperor Hadrian of the Pantheon & Mysteries of Mithras in the 2nd century. The thread of knowledge can be traced via Delphi where priest and historian Plutarch described the history of meditation and the link with India in popular texts, later corrupted. Over 30 complex rune inscriptions made by Vikings are evidence of the forgotten history that ended after 1,700 years when people stopped meditating.
Eggja rune stone Norway
Eggja: the axe-shape horse’s face was already found as images on Linear A tablets of Crete. The famous “hanging man” of Scandinavian mythology was used to illustrate rebirth and that a meditator will inherit the fruit of their own kamma – the repetitive series of lives were expressed as the seeds that resulted in the man symbolically hanging from a tree as the fruit of kamma, illustrated on the Eggja stone as the upside-down runes of the middle rune above the horse. The meditator who investigates past lives will see the truth of existence, with the “knife of wisdom” the roots of the tree of life will be cut.
Plougastel-Daoulas stone France
As the first text written about research of meditation in Europe it triggered questions, expressed better in later texts. Latin letters & runes were engraved on a stone on a beach at “Land’s End” – “to cross the ocean of samsara”. The ᛖ rune, used repeatedly, was named “horse” in rune poems. On Celtic horse coins the so-called “severed heads on ropes of victims” were illustrations of advanced meditation techniques, the “mind’s eye” described by Plato in dialogues: the 6th sense can move about like a bird to investigate meditation objects unhindered by time or distance.
Animated texts:
video clips that give a quick overview
Short video clips were prepared to illustrate how mysterious objects discovered in Europe can be linked to the meditation techniques that were described in Pali texts – the same techniques are still taught, unchanged after 2,500 years. Animated texts (no sound) give a brief overview of the relationships between different objects to expose the lost links of this forgotten history of concentration practices in Europe that lasted up to 1,700 years.
All contents is the personal view of the author.