become a Buddha, and other things.

114. Q. _Have we a way of classifying B[=o]dhisattvas? If so,
explain it._

A. B[=o]dhisattvas--the future Buddhas--are divided into three classes.

115. Q. _Proceed. How are these three kinds of B[=o]dhisats named?_

A. Pann[=a]dhika, or Udghatitajna--"he who attains least quickly";
Saddh[=a]dhika, or Vipachitajna--"he who attains less quickly"; and
Viry[=a]dhika, or Gneyya--"he who attains quickly". The Pann[=a]dhika
B[=o]dhisats take the course of Intelligence; the Saddh[=a]dhika take
the course of Faith; the Virya[=a]hika take the course of energetic
Action. The first is guided by Intelligence and does not hasten; the
second is full of Faith, and does not care to take the guidance of
Wisdom; and the third never delays to do what is good. Regardless of
the consequences to himself, he does it when he sees that it is best
that it should be done.

116. Q. _When our B[=o]dhisattva became Buddha, what did he see was
the cause of human misery? Tell me in one word._

A. Ignorance (Avidy[=a]).

117. Q. _Can you tell me the remedy?_

A. To dispel Ignorance and become wise (Pr[=a]jna).

118. Q. _Why does ignorance cause suffering?_

A. Because it makes us prize what is not worth prizing, grieve when we
should not grieve, consider real what is not real but only illusionary,
and pass our lives in the pursuit of worthless objects, neglecting what
is in reality most valuable.

119. Q. _And what is that which is most valuable?_

A. To know the whole secret of man's existence and destiny, so that we
may estimate at no more than their actual value this life and its
relations; and so that we may live in a way to ensure the greatest
happiness and the least suffering for our fellow-men and ourselves.

120. Q. _What is the light that can dispel this ignorance of ours and
remove all sorrows?_

A. The knowledge of the "Four Noble Truths," as the Buddha called them.

121. Q. _Name these Four Noble Truths?_

A. 1. The miseries of evolutionary existence resulting in births and
deaths, life after life.

2. The cause productive of misery, which is the selfish desire, ever
renewed, of satisfying one's self, without being able ever to secure
that end.

3. The destruction of that desire, or the estranging of one's self
from it.

4. The means of obtaining this destruction of desire.

122. Q. _Tell me some things that cause sorrow?_

A. Birth, decay,