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Religious Claims
Hubbard compares Bodhi with states he claims for Dianetics and Scientology.
The Dhyana is what the Buddhists talk about and is their background.

We first find this Buddha called actually Bodhi, and a Bodhi is one who has attained intellectual and ethical perfection by human means. This probably would be a Dianetic Release (Dianetic Release: One who in Dianetic auditing has attained good case gains, stability and can enjoy life more. Such a person is "Keyed out" or in other words released from the stimulus-response mechanisms of the reactive mind) or something of this level. Another level has been mentioned to me — Arhat, with which I am not particularly familiar, said to be more comparable to our idea of Theta Clear.

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Now we find, however, some of the things that were written by Gautama, find them very significantly interesting to us, completely aside from Dhyana (which could be literally translated as "Indian for Scientology", if you wished to do that).

—L. Ron Hubbard
The Phoenix Lectures © 1968
 
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