How to be’come a Buddha

Basic (early) Buddhism About nirvana About enlightenment Buddhist pilgrimage Gautama’s pilgrimage How to get realized? What is ‘being’? How to be perfect How to be a perfect bhikku The 3 foundational suttas of Pali Buddhsim

Buddhism, i.e. the path to becoming a buddha, comes in two versions, with several hundred sectarian and countless personal elaborations of each of the two versions. The 1^st version (attempting to realize Truth 1) is explained to and practiced by those who have actually ‘gone forth’ (i.e. by joining the sangha). Those are the fully dedicated, i.e. purist professional Buddhist pilgrims, i.e. the (Pali:) bhikku (i.e. the ‘gone forth’) and bhikkuni (i.e. the ‘gone forth’). They have ‘gone forth’ to attain samma-sambodhi, to wit: knowledge of perfect (hence permanent) sameness, intending thereby to reach the unchanging ‘deathless’ (i.e. atta) and nibbana (i.e. absolute rest). The 2^nd version (attempting to realize Truth 2) is taught to and practiced by those who have ‘gone forth’ a bit, but do not want to stray too far from home, well, not just yet. Those are the householders (Pali: puttajana) and who attempt to understand and practice one of the several watered down versions of the 1^st version. They follow the Middle Way, and which is found somewhere near the middle between the extremes of total immersion in home life and no home life. They try to keep a low profile so as to avoid unnecessary friction (and heat, i.e. sorrow, Pali: dukka). This website has been compiled for the fully dedicated few who attempt to emulate Gautama, the Buddha, in the hope of experiencing the supreme knowledge (Pali: samma-sambodhi) of the Buddha, and also the after-affects of that experience, namely enlightenment, and its total decay into/as nirvana. It describes directly and in the most modern, therefore troublesome (for traditionalists) terms the means used to achieve Buddha knowledge and the physiological, indeed physical, bases of both enlightenment and nirvana (Pali: nibbana).