How to become a perfect Buddha

 

 

 

Introduction

The name ‘Buddha’ is derived from the nominalization of the past perfect participle of the Sanskrit root verb ‘budh’, meaning: be awake or wakeful, regain consciousness; become aware of or acquainted with; notice, give heed to; possibly, perceive, understand learn, know, and so on. In short, if you’re awake, i.e. not asleep, in a coma or dead, you are a buddha. If you are fully or perfectly (hence absolutely) awake or conscious, then you are a full or perfect buddha, whereby the content, range and degree of your wakefulness or consciousness is not determined. For instance, Gautama Siddartha didn’t just claim to be a Buddha, He claimed to be The Perfect Buddha (Pali: samma-sambudho), i.e. of suffering. 2500 years of hindsight and tinkering with the content of His ‘perfect’ awakening/consciousness of suffering has shown that His grasp of the fundamental function of suffering was pretty basic, indeed incomplete, indeed merely a highly personalised elaboration of the recently emerged (i.e. with the metaphysical speculation of the Upanishads) fashion of melancholy (in fact, self-indulgent Weltschmerz), and the means of its elimination (i.e. as in Samkhya Yoga), invented by wealthy, hence leisured cattle farmers and soldiers.

 

 

Steps

 

·         Wake up, i.e. become conscious (of a particular focus or all foci, e.g. a knower of the known). You are now a Buddha, albeit imperfect.

·         Increase you wakefulness to your limit, thereby making your wakefulness relatively perfect, i.e. done, complete whole and so on. You are now a relatively perfect (i.e. complete) Buddha (i.e. absolutely (i.e. perfectly) wakeful in relation to your particular focus or all foci).

·         Expand your wakefulness limit (i.e. your consciousness bandwidth) to infinity thus eliminating all limits. When your wakefulness happens without limit it has become absolutely perfect, done, full, complete and so on. You are now an absolutely Perfect Buddha (i.e. in relation to a particular focus or all foci).

 

 

 

Tips & Tricks

 

·         Proceed very slowly and discretely to gain a clear and rational grasp of the steps.

·         Read the well hidden small print of the foundational Buddhist sutras very slowly to uncover the glitches

·         Keep your wits about you.

 

 

 

Warnings

 

·        Be wary of ‘Awakening’ (i.e. Buddhist) cult officials who get their kicks from, or make a living at passing off archaic know-how and praxis as cure-all. The stated purpose of Buddhist awakening and praxis, Hinayana, Mahayana and Tantrayana, is to shut down the urge to (i.e. the desire for) life, i.e. of the one you’ve got and any future ones you might get.

·        Becoming a perfect Buddha, i.e. becoming totally aware of everything in your field (or all fields) of consciousness, i.e. from start-up (i.e. birth) to shut down (i.e. death), is a mixed blessing. There are some things you don’t really want to know, i.e. if you want to live out your life in happiness.

 

 

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