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But Buddhists seek not for Truth, because Truth is always present. Truth must be universal—something which may be applied in all places. Truth must be permanent—something which may be applied at all times. Says Buddhist Tai Hsu: "If Truth be a thing which is universal and permanent there can be no gain in studying it and no loss in neglecting it, since that which can be gained or lost is neither permanent nor universal."
The Buddhist credo is, therefore, that the world neither progresses nor retropresses but revolves endlessly (the wheel-of-life). There is neither evolution nor involution but revolution.
Hope is not denied by this cyclic theory. For any man may eventually become Bodhisattva (a person who in his next reincarnation will be a Buddha). Such a person therefore actually is in a state of evolution. For in his next reincarnation he will no longer be revolving with the wheel-of-life but will attain the rest which is Nirvana and will be through with the tiresome harrying metamorphoses which were his lot on earth.