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Buddha- A State of Ultimate Being

For centuries the teachings of the Buddha have been passed down from one generation to the next in a poetic form known in the East as sutras - the smallest possible number of words packed with the greatest possible meaning. Once the meaning is understood, just reading the words of the sutra can provoke a profound sense of peace and relaxation.
Osho displays a natural affinity to the teachings of the Buddha, and Zen Buddhism in particular and credits Buddha with having contributed a religiousness, non-repressive and non-ideological rather than a religion, and he gently prizes the essence of Buddha's message from the confines of the formal. 
Osho sees in Buddha's teachings a unique and mature message which is uncompromising in its insistence on awareness as the basis of spiritual evolution. Touching the very core of Buddha's teachings, Osho says : "The way of Gautama the Buddha is the way of intelligence, understanding, awareness, meditation. It is not the way of belief; it is the way of seeing the truth itself. Belief simply covers up your ignorance; it does not deliver you from ignorance. Belief is a deception you play upon yourself; it is not transformation." Read on through the words of Osho….

"Buddha is not a person -- mm? it is a state of ultimate being. There have been many buddhas, and everybody is potentially a buddha. The word itself means tremendously awakened, absolutely alert... one whose consciousness has completely disappeared, who is just pure consciousness. You can look through and through and there is no darkness in it... not even lingering somewhere in the comers.
He has no basement to his being. Nothing is repressed; he holds back nothing. His trust with existence is one hundred percent. Doubts have disappeared... darkness has disappeared. He has come home. That is the meaning of buddha.
But by giving you this name, I would like you to beware of a certain danger. I'm not saying to you to become like gautam buddha -- the most famous buddha. Nobody can become like anybody else -- and there is no need to.
Each individual has to become himself. That's how you will become a buddha -- not by following and imitating a buddha. If you imitate a buddha or a christ, you will be an imitation. So this may look paradoxical but it is a very basic point to be understood. If one really wants to be a buddha he has not to follow any buddha, not to imitate anybody -- he has not to become a carbon copy.
If you really want to follow a buddha you have to resist the temptation of becoming a carbon copy, because when you become a buddha, when the flower opens in you -- then only do you follow him. And that will not be an imitation of anything. There has never been anything like that and there will never be anything like that again. Each individual is unique. That's how god pays respect to each individual. He creates only unique individuals. He never makes carbon copies -- he never repeats. Each individual is original."

DARSHAN DIARIES
THE BUDDHA DISEASE
CHAPTER #1 CHAPTER TITLE: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE WAY