WHY IS YOUR WAY CALLED 'THE WAY OF THE
WHITE CLOUDS'?
Just before Buddha died somebody asked him:
When a buddha dies where does he go?

... Does he survive or simply disappear into
nothingness? This is not a new question, it is one
of the oldest, many times repeated and asked.
Buddha is reported to have said: Just like a white
cloud disappearing....

This very morning there were white clouds in the
sky. Now they are there no more. Where have
they gone? From where do they come? How do
they evolve, and how do they dissolve again? A
white cloud is a mystery, the coming, the going,
the very being of it. That's the first reason why I
call my way The Way of the White Clouds.

But there are many reasons, and it is good to
ponder, to meditate upon them. A white cloud
exists without any roots. It is an unrooted
phenomenon, grounded nowhere or grounded in
the nowhere. But still it exists. The whole of
existence is like a white cloud: without any roots,
without any causality, without any ultimate cause,
it exists. It exists as a mystery...