Who/What is a Buddha?

No individuality,
no relativity,
no duality,
no personal self,
no individual me,
no selfish mine,
no thoughts,
no mind,
no I.

Those who are free of all notions are called Buddhas.

Ocean of Energy

From the perspective of science, quantum physics, vibrational frequencies, resonance, entrainment, electromagnetic fields, and energy oscillations, we become what we surround ourselves with. Or from a spiritual point of view, it's called "karma", "your reap what you sow", the law of attraction", and so on.

Everything is energy and everything is affecting everything else in various positive and negative ways. Physical life unfolds according to energy, or "karma". It's why reading highly advanced spiritual teachings like the Buddha's is so powerfully uplifting and life changing, and it's why Gandhi was able to ward off the entire British empire by simply being peaceful.

If you simply change yourself, and what's going on inside your own mind and heart, you'll be absolutely amazed at just how radically your "outside" life changes automatically as a result. If you don't ever put it to practice for yourself, then you'll never be able to see the profound truth of this. All of these words being written right now are absolutely worthless unless the information is put to practice in one's own life. Life is not about merely obtaining external "proof". It's about firsthand verification. Believe nothing blindly, no matter who it comes from. Come to know it yourself, by being that truth yourself.

The basic elemental teaching of every Enlightened teacher throughout history is to let go of negatives, and to adopt positives. Personally, I gave up listening to heavy metal because it's aggressive, violent, and negative in nature. It has nothing at all to do with Peace, which is identical to the condition of Enlightenment. And the television was given up for basically the same reason. It's entertainment for the mind, when the individual personhood of the mind is now seen as the thing to be transcended and left behind.

Objectivity vs. Subjectivity

Thinking vs. silence.
Doer vs. observer.
Experiencer vs. watcher.
Time vs. timlessness.
Order vs. syncronicity.
Ordinary vs. miraculous.
Linear vs. non-linear.
Force vs. power.
Effort vs. effortlessness.
Struggle vs. ease.
Conflict vs. flow.
Fighting vs. harmony.
Violence vs. peace.
Strife vs. grace.
Dominate vs. benign.
Competition vs. co-operation.
Mine vs. ours.
Getting vs. giving.
Get vs. are.
Desire vs. desirelessness.
Neediness vs. non-attachment.
Controlling vs. allowing.
Pushing vs. pulled.
Individual karma vs. universal karma.
Me vs. All.
Mind vs. No-Mind
Duality vs. non-duality.
Thing vs. No-Thing.
Form vs. formlessness.
Individuality vs. Infinity.
Relativity vs. Absolute.
Irrelevancies vs. Reality.
Details vs. Essence.
Part vs. whole.

Life is a reflection of one's level of consciousness/awareness/truth/love.
So, how would you like to experience life?

Peace is the Path

Unless you are in this very moment, and every other fleeting moment, at least striving to be, loving, compassionate, peaceful, happy, content, joyful, accepting, forgiving, respectful, conscientious, kind, calm, serene, tolerant, patient, benign, neutral, unattached, responsible, honest, sincere, truthful, trustworthy, generous, grateful, modest, humble, egoless, selfless, courageous, optimistic, hopeful, and positive, you aren't solving any of your problems, nor the problems of the rest of the world.

Only those who give up and let go of stressful, negative, resentful, selfish, egotistical, righteous thoughts and emotions have a peaceful mind, and only those who have a peaceful mind are contributing to world peace.

"There is no path to peace. Peace is the path." - Ghandi
"For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love. This is an unalterable law." - Buddha

Enlightenment is Not...

Enlightenment is NOT the development of psychic abilities, is not astral travelling, is not channeling entities, is not a temporary trance state, is not an artificially induced altered state of consciousness, it has nothing to do with "new age" anything, it doesn't involve the past or the future, it doesn't belong to any one specific religion, it doesn't involve conspiracy theories, it has nothing to do with UFO's or aliens, it doesn't involve so-called "ascended masters", it doesn't involve playing with the law of attraction (karma), it doesn't involve visualization, it has nothing to do with vibrations or energy, it has nothing to do with science, it doesn't involve sex (tantra), it has nothing to do with crystals, colors, or vortexes, and it certainly doesn't involve codes, mysteries, or "secrets" of ANY kind. The surreal is not real. There's a reason that Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Ghandi, Mother Teresa, Plotinus, Lao Tzu, Muhammad, Ramana Maharshi, Nisargardatta Maharaj, Meister Eckhart, and many Zen Masters never taught any of these things. Some of these things are outright false and harmful, others are just simply irrelevant to personal growth, and some of these are quite beneficial to the average person, but when it comes down to Enlightenment, every last bit of everything needs to be un-learned and let go of.

Reality (Awareness) with a captial "R" has no shape or form whatsoever, and is beyond ALL intellectual concepts. The real Truth is eternal and changeless. It has always been relevant, and it always will be. Real spirituality involves bettering ONSESELF by ways of selflessness/Love and higher levels of awareness/truth that help us LET GO of concepts and thoughts because it's concepts and thoughts that obstruct peace (of mind). Spirituality is not the introduction of even more concepts, unless those concepts help us let go of concepts. Peace of mind is silence of mind. Which means that thoughts, thinking, perceptions, views, attitudes, emotions, concepts, opinions, beliefs, and attachments are the source of suffering. Many people say "I wouldn't want to live life without my emotions or thinking" (and that's okay if it's okay with them), but they don't realize that's the ego/mind talking, and if one were even for a brief moment to personally experience exquisite, ineffable, and profound Peace/Silence, one would certainly no longer hold that point of view.

"The less one thinks the more delightful life becomes." - David Hawkins