Are there any enlightened persons?
Have you seen one?
Anyway, I haven´t.
And in the Diamond Sutra Buddha express that even himself is not enlightened.
What, you may be ask. Was Buddha not enlightened?
Well that depends if there once was a Buddha walking on this earth.
What, is the Buddha just a fantasy figure in a story?
Yes, maybe....
Here is what what Buddha asks a monk in the Diamond Sutra:
Tell me, Subhuti. Does a monk say to himself 'I have
obtained Perfect Enlightenment´ ?
No, Lord. There are no such thing as Perfect Enlightenment
to obtain. If a Perfectly Enlightened Buddha would say to
himself 'I am Enlightened', he would be admitting that there
are such a thing as an individual person, a separated self
and a personality, and he therefore would not be a Perfect
Enlightened Buddha.
You can hear more from this famous Sutra here:
Anyway, I haven´t.
And in the Diamond Sutra Buddha express that even himself is not enlightened.
What, you may be ask. Was Buddha not enlightened?
Well that depends if there once was a Buddha walking on this earth.
What, is the Buddha just a fantasy figure in a story?
Yes, maybe....
Here is what what Buddha asks a monk in the Diamond Sutra:
Tell me, Subhuti. Does a monk say to himself 'I have
obtained Perfect Enlightenment´ ?
No, Lord. There are no such thing as Perfect Enlightenment
to obtain. If a Perfectly Enlightened Buddha would say to
himself 'I am Enlightened', he would be admitting that there
are such a thing as an individual person, a separated self
and a personality, and he therefore would not be a Perfect
Enlightened Buddha.
You can hear more from this famous Sutra here:
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