“We have not the least need of the Buddha in order to see that. We
have long since recognized the mutual dependence of mind and body as a
necessity.”
Very good! But if you have really recognized that, you must also draw
the conclusions unavoidably consequent upon the same, and these consist
in the intellectual necessity of individual beginninglessness. If you
have not understood that, then you have understood neither the Buddha,
nor actuality, nor yourselves. You have not understood the truth; you
only meet it, as two cross-roads meet one another and then pass on in
opposite directions. Individual beginninglessness is the key-word, the
guiding clue to the Buddha-thought.
And with this we come to that most important of all problems, the
problem of heredity.