Buddha~A Documentary on the Teachings and His Life

One of his students asked Buddha,

"Are you the messiah?"

"No", answered Buddha.

"Then are you a healer?"

"No", Buddha replied.

"Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted.

"No, I am not a teacher."

"Then what are you?" asked the student, exasperated.

"I am awake," Buddha replied

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Well, "Buddha" means "the awakened one"--that is, someone who has woken up from the dream of being a separate ego in a material universe.

Gautama Siddhartha taught for forty-five years. In all those years, and in the hundreds of thousands of teaching words that he uttered, his message was simply this:

"You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes."

The goal of Buddhism, like any self-respecting spiritual path, is not to have titles or to make distinctions between degrees of holiness; it is to wake up.

Dalai Lama

Fear is faith that it won’t work out.

Unknown

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

Thich Nhat Hanh