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Inspired by the Buddha’s flower sermon May 25, 2021, 8:28 PM IST By Narayani Ganesh The monks assembled at Vulture Peak in Rajghir, Bihar, waited eagerly for Gautama Buddha to begin his sermon. The master did not utter a single word. Instead, he held up a white flower. All sangha members were puzzled except one, the monk Mahakashyapa, who smiled knowingly. He had received the essence of the Buddha’s sermon. This direct transmission of Sakyamuni’s teaching is believed to have inspired the Zen school of Buddhism that promotes silent communication and brief koans. What was the Buddha trying to convey in his wordless sermon? The flower is thought to be representative of the ‘suchness’ of nature, of the cycle of birth and death, of the interconnectedness of all beings and of the aesthetics of the entire process. As mythologist Joseph Campbell put it, “One in all and all in one.” That we, in the broadest sense, are all inseparable from one another, that

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