Recurrence of an Old Ailment

Adam hesitated. Adam was shocked. Adam fell silent.

The cause of it all had been that he saw the words "Tamer of Heroes" written on a plaque in a photo of a Buddhist pagoda taken by a friend. At the time, he thought that temple had a remarkably broad range of services, even including techniques for taming husbands.

Only after asking that friend did he learn that "heroes" here referred to practitioners, and Tamer of Heroes was one of Buddha's titles.

P.S.: Damn it, that friend had really shown him up.

The title meant that Buddha excelled at guiding others' minds, teaching practitioners according to their aptitude and leading them toward nirvana.

So were there any other titles derived from Buddha's various virtues and abilities?

There were, brothers, there were! There were nine more titles like this!

Tathagata, Worthy of Offerings, Perfectly Enlightened One, Perfect in Knowledge and Conduct, Knower of the Worlds, Well-Gone, Teacher of Gods and Humans, Unsurpassed One, Tamer of Heroes, World Honored One.

Together, these ten titles were called the Ten Titles of Buddha. One could say that each of these ten terms was directly synonymous with Buddha.

Or, if Unsurpassed One and Tamer of Heroes were combined into Unsurpassed Tamer of Heroes, and Buddha himself was added, then those ten titles could all be considered synonymous with one another.

Thus, after learning the true names of the ten forms of Tathagata Palm, Adam could clearly grasp the essence of this set of Tathagata Palm techniques.

Oh no. Now he had actually learned the true Tathagata Palm.

The kind where mastering it on the spot turned one into Tathagata.

When he looked at the Vajra Seal Technique again, it was no longer a series of individual hand seals.

The five central hand seals had become five