of suffering. Thus, to realize the reality of suffering for what it really is, to know the Noble Truth of Suffering, is indeed one strength of the Enlightened Ones. The realization of the Noble Truth of Suffering has been achieved independently by all the Buddhas and paccekahuddhas. As for the arahants

ons. By sages, he had in mind the churchmen and later the technocrats of various empires, the men who helped birth and then manage the problems of an Enlightened, urban social order: Locke, Bismarck, Disraeli. And by soldiers he had in mind both the great aristocratic warrior classes of Europe and upstart, gen