Everything  beyond  these  practical  and  immediate  interests  he
regarded  as  belonging  to  the  realm  of  the  unknown,  about  which
speculation  is  futile.
10.  The  very  fact  that  we  have  no  English  or  Western  equiva-
lent for  the  word  Karma  is  due  largely  to  the  difficulty  of  getting
at  its  real  meaning.  In  Japanese  the  expression  "Ingwa  oho"
is  used  to  express  the  general  Causal-Nexus  law,  while  the  term
"Gyo"  designates  more  specifically  the  ethical  aspect  of  Karma
in  the  life  of  an  individual.
11.  The  Five  Aggregates  (Sk.  Skandhas,  Jap.  Goun)  are  the
following :

a.  Bodiliness  or  Form  (Sk.  Rupa,  Jap.  Shiki).
b.  Sensation  (Sk.  Vedana,  Jap.  Shu).
c.  Perception  (Sk.  Samdjna,  Jap.  So).
d.  Predisposition  or  Action  (Sk.  Karman  or  Samskara,  Jap,
Gyo).
e.  Consciousness  or  Knowledge  (Sk.  Vidjnana,  Jap.  Shiki).
12.  To  say  that  Karma  is  like  Schopenhauer's  "Blind  Will"
or  "W^ill-to-be"  is  really  putting  things  upside  down,  for  Scho-
penhauer was  a  student  of  Buddhism  and  so  it  is  more  correct
to  say  that  his  "  Blind  Will"  is  like  that  mysterious  energy  which
Buddhism  designates  by  this  word  Karma.
13.  The  Middle  Way  is  the  way  midway  between  the  two
extremes  of  a  life  of  sensual  enjoyments  and  a  life  of  asceticism.
