Behold The “Little Buddha”

I wouldn’t read anything I write here with too much seriousness, for I am a cynical human being. And, as I reflect and write I question my own wretched existential position and fallen condition, in a drifting nonsensical world.

Self-deprecation apart, I didn’t find anything to compare this individual with Lord Buddha. Maybe I am biased because I have come to credit to his critics that explain that even the military protection around him is an accomplice with allowing food to be snicked in by his family members. Thanks to that tourism have flourished and an economy is created around a religious order in his honor. But I don’t know which is true.

However, it is our end which is more telling since it is then that a mature version of who we are and represent is integrated sufficiently into the subconscious or tolerated by the life force and its demands. In the end, does one self dominate over the ways of the world, no matter how much value human civilization attaches to our accomplishment(s)? Or is one self surreptitiously bulldozed by nature, forgoing the opportunity of another life cycle?

One has to wonder according to the following clips:

And, if that were to be the Buddha then one still needs to ask why is one attracted to that particular manifestation of the enlightened one. In the end aside from the usual generalized sense of mass hysteria of any and all human societies over anything that glimmers or shines, each serious follower has to become about their connection to this individual saint. That is the only thing that would matter. The growing number of followers even beyond the millions like other religious orders is just another instance of human honest endeavor to tend to their existential insecurities.

Due to my personal bias and sense of cynicism, I find it devoid of spiritual values or credit to be a hoard of onlookers instead of endeavoring on the very path they see him on.

We have to be careful to call someone with an earth body, Buddha for the mere reason that Buddha said that there would be no one like him for many thousands of years. Hence if someone is Buddha, now, it contradicts that.

All the same, each ascetic should be evaluated on the basis of his/her austerities and achievement. By achievement I mean inner achievement in relation to the adjuncts. That is not easy to ascertain because it requires mystic vision which most people do not have. One cannot check something which is abstract to one's senses. This makes it near impossible to rate an ascetic.

Unfortunately the Way of the East is to not disclose your inner achievements and experiences and Buddha (Gautam) broke that tradition and did state in no uncertain terms what he experience.

Recently I do the same where I describe in plain terms many of my experiences. In that way people can judge me if they cannot for any reason see what happens in my practice.

But even for me, it is a challenge to divulge all the experiences. Some are too subtle to describe. Others go against the grain of moral positions where if they are described people will cry out for it. All in all, it is the experiences of the ascetic which we need to know of, if we are to form an opinion.

If thousands of followers doing pranams (respectfully bowing) is the signal of a Buddha, then so is he!