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I agree with what Aloka # 5 has told, and I just want to add: Buddhism is much more than a human being teachings. It is a way of "understanding" how things are. Buddha was awakned and took counciousness about suffering, the origin of suffering and the way to overcme it. That is his teaching and that is why he become a Buddha.

A way of understanding keeping it day to day becomes, unavoidably a "way of life", a way of life is about experience that can be supported by studding the guidance that lead to it. An experience gives you, neither faith, nor blind faith, but confidence, that in Soto Zen is called Kung Fu. Inner faith. Faith in your own spiritual path. Failure and success are the way a wise can learn, keeping attention to failure and forgeting your succees gives you the strength of practice called Gyo in Zen.

This is not an statemente... but as far as I can understand now, this is the way of Buddhism and knowing the way you can know the path.