A. The true Buddha, the true-Self is formless, boundless and changeless and accommodates the whole lot. Not solely the historic Buddha but additionally all persons are a part of it. This is the reason it’s mentioned that the whole lot is the Buddha. The historic Buddha tried to show individuals find out how to see the Buddha that’s free from start and dying and tried to point out it to sentient beings by means of his bodily physique. That’s the reason he mentioned, “He who seeks to see me by means of voices and varieties can not see me.”
By this he didn’t imply that his physique is just not the true-Buddha however that we will’t see the true-Buddha if we confine his being solely to his physique, pondering that his physique is totally different and separated from the remaining, that isn’t his physique. His bodily physique is to the true Buddha as a wave is to the ocean. The true Buddha that the historic Buddha tried to point out is earlier than us on a regular basis. In truth, it’s extra right to say that we’re additionally a part of it moderately than simply that which is earlier than us. This is the reason an historic grasp answered, “You’ll be able to’t escape from it” when he was requested what the Buddha is.
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