SECRECY AND PUBLICITY

  THE Buddha said: "Three things, O disciples, are characterized by

secrecy: love affairs, priestly wisdom, and all aberrations from the

path of truth. Women who are in love, O disciples seek secrecy and

shun publicity; priests who claim to be in possession of special

revelation, O disciples, seek secrecy and shun publicity; all those

who stray from the path of truth, O disciples, seek secrecy and shun

publicity.

  "Three things, O disciples, shine before the world and cannot be

hidden. What are the three? The moon, O disciples, illumines the world

and cannot be hidden; the sun, O disciples, illumines the world and

cannot be hidden; and the truth proclaimed by the Tathagata

illumines the world and cannot be hidden. These three things, O

disciples, illumine the world and cannot be hidden. There is no

secrecy about them."