Ananda,
your name is the name of all persons
who have chosen to be open to the Norm:
male and female, of no or either gender,
young and old or of any other age,
from the East and from the West,
from the North and from the South,
or from whatever part of the world.
You have learned in your own language now,
that it is not priesthood or prayer,
nor faith or grace which bring redemption,
but that it is knowledge by which things come true.
You have rejected the mistaken authority of sacred scriptures,
the meaningless rituals, and the sacrifices to deity,
thus boldly breaking with reactionary religion.
You have turned away from the belief in the supreme power
of a god or gods purportedly showing what should.
Or, if not totally repudiating this god or these gods
you have reduced them to the nonimportance*
of what merely is what it is.
You have experienced
that knowledge lies within the reach of the individual,
that no god bestows insight,
but that it is won by yourself,
by the power of your own will and perseverance.
You have removed the barriers of caste or class,
of nationality, and of everything fortuitous or effete;
all attachments to unjust, partial institutions.
You care for all sentient beings,
as the deliverance from suffering is meant for all of them.

( Where redemption lies in realization
  it is understanding which makes real,
  not belief or the mere absence of sins believed in.
  Stay away from all metaphysical speculation,
  which does not advance you along the road to reformation.
  Bar all obscure and unrestrained theorizing,
  which leads to aimless wandering and quarreling,
  and which does not contribute to deliverance.
  It makes you cling to the false or irrelevant,
  wherefrom you must free yourself
  if you are to find the way to excellence.
  Cross the water to the land where all conflict comes to an end
  in a vehicle which is pure and true to the origin.
  And do not make a god of a seer,
  a deity over all other gods,
  an idol over all humans.
  When the silence of the originator has become eternal,
  the doctrine** remains as the** source**
  that will never cease to inform and to inspire.

  The chakra of the new Dharma was set in motion
  not only to direct those who feel moved by it
  but equally to direct those who do not feel moved by it.
  For all of them there is the same means of liberation:
  to surmount naivety and ignorance by knowledge.
  It is the state of vision wherein the whole is seen,
  free from prejudicial distinctions,
  which transforms and liberates.
  It is contemplation which needs no ecstasy,
  and which does not depend on perceptions or feelings
  induced by alcohol or other drugs.
  It is the widening of the stream of experience
  which is brought about by insight,
  exceeding all traditional beliefs in comprehension.
  The knowledge
  that you should be sincere,
  both in your deepest thoughts and feelings,
  and in the actions and words of everyday life;
  that nothing is to lie dormant in the unconscious,
  where it may cause disruption and confusion;
  that you ought to be aware of all you do,
  and not wreak vengeance upon your opponents
  in mere retaliation or out of retribution. )***

The ultimate goal transcends all opposition.
It is the state of neither-nor, the infinite oneness,
wherein is neither earth exclusively,
nor water nor fire nor air,
wherein is neither defeat nor victory,
neither falling nor arising,
wherein is no short or long duration;
the end of both restlessness and boredom,
where there is no evil or bad situation.
It is the complete silence of the final anagnorisis.
This is attained by the enlightenment of the Middle Path,
the way from pain and pleasure for pleasure's sake,
from hate and love for love's sake,
to freedom from all suffering and struggling,
to the realization of what is eternal or nontemporal.
And this is attained by the beneficence of the Middle Path,
the dao of a peaceful doctrine that knows
no recurring climaxes of violence for thousands of years,
no persecution of heretics or ideological trials,
no oppression of unbelievers or holy wars,
no penal practises like sacred stonings.

Ananda,
the penalty of our failure is the everlastingness
of violence, war, oppression, intolerance and negligence,
and the penalty of our failure is the everlastingness
of poverty, fear, obsession, inhibition and ignorance,
whereas
the reward of our success will be nothing
but the nonexistence thereof.
Every single achievement gives satisfaction,
but amid all that is left to do,
and amid all that is left to redo.
If all accomplishment is transient, my sibling,
then, indeed,
we will have to strive ceaselessly,
ceaselessly ...