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**ticskebasse** · 04-11-2010, 08:00 AM

Replying to Pink_trike:
from post #28

What is a Buddha? Someone who has awaken... About what she/he has awaken... about her/his suffering, the origin of suffering and has realized the cessation of suffering through the Right View of the Eightfold Noble Path... About this, there is any kind of mystery.

Yes, it's this simple and this profound. The multilayered conceptual map known as "Buddha" mirrors the nature and patterns of reality. Therefore, the nature and patterns of reality (including us) are the multilayered conceptual map known as "Buddha". We have a hard time grasping this in Western culture.

When we internalize and experience this map, dissolving our blinders, we recognize our integral Buddha nature...we see that we are Buddha.

04-11-2010, 08:00 AM	#28
ticskebasse Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 482 Senior Member	Replying to Pink_trike: from post #28 What is a Buddha? Someone who has awaken... About what she/he has awaken... about her/his suffering, the origin of suffering and has realized the cessation of suffering through the Right View of the Eightfold Noble Path... About this, there is any kind of mystery. Yes, it's this simple and this profound. The multilayered conceptual map known as "Buddha" mirrors the nature and patterns of reality. Therefore, the nature and patterns of reality (including us) are the multilayered conceptual map known as "Buddha". We have a hard time grasping this in Western culture. When we internalize and experience this map, dissolving our blinders, we recognize our integral Buddha nature...we see that we are Buddha.
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