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So if, today, scientific and technological development. Man feels that he has come to a Point where his own intellect makes him superior to anybody else or makes him able to solve any Problem that he has, whether physical or ethical or political or whatever, would not the principle that man is the master of himself _ that he has to be responsible to himself because whatever he does he inherits _ become one of the most important ways  of looking at himself?

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So when the Buddha days that each Person is his own Master , he promulgates a principle whose applicabiliy becomes stronger as Man begins to get more and more confidence in the control of himself and the environment.

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What are These Elements that make Buddhismus timeless? Let me take just a few of them. First of 
these would bei the recognition of the responibility of the Individual. The Buddha is One of the most remarkable religious teachers who emancipated man from all bonds - bonds of supernaturl ties. A Godhead, a creation , sin or any other charactereristic that you inherit from anyone else ( other than what ever you yourself have done .)

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The characteristic oftimelessness comes from the fact that it had understood that everything continues, but continues in a flux , in a process of continuing change and evolution.

Thus Buddhism was able to adjust to different times and civilizations. We can therefore without any hesitation  approach any aspect of Buddhism as something relevant and applicable to us today.

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So if Buddhism has an application today and if Buddhism has a place in modern life, it is because of that timeless applicability, emanating from a set of eternal values. To talk of a characteristic of being eternal is a very paredoxical way of presenting or describing a religion which has the principle doctrine of impermanence at the bottom of it.

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Part four
A Timeless Doctrine

I have often wondered how Buddhism came to be called ``Akalika`` which means ``timeless`` - that it exists for all time. The more I see the changes that have taken place in Buddhist culture or religion, the more I see how it keeps on adjusting to the needs of different eras, populations, individuals, the more I see that it has been possible for the Buddha to evolve a message that would remain eternally fresh.