Meaning of Buddahood | Babel Free

Definitions

The state of being a buddha, enlightenment or nirvana.

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Examples

“But yet Gautama did all this, and this was the means he adopted to attain Buddahood.”

“Unless he enters Buddahood, he will fall into the hells and suffer.”

“Whatever the contingent and occasional purpose of a ritual, its primary concern is always the attainment of Buddahood in the body by an immediate perception of the unobstructed interpenetration of all dharmas.”

“The Buddhist who bows before an image of the Buddha understands himself not as honoring an individual, but expressing his respect for Buddahood, a potentiality of all humans (or in some cases all beings) and devoting himself to the cultivaton of his own "enlightenment."”

“The eternity and omnipresence of the True Nature is equivalent to the omnipresence of the Mean; Buddahood or the dharma-nature is, crypto-pantheistically, present everywhere and in everything.”

“[They explain] that if there is no need to say that understanding things in this way is necessary for the attainment of buddahood, how much more so that it be a sine qua non for liberation from samsāra.”

“Likewise, since sentient beings possess a buddha nature, the pursuit of buddahood is meaningful.”

“When I was born she named me Bodhi from the Buddhist idea of the Bodhisattva – a wise and compassionate being who delays his entrance into buddahood for the benefit of enlightenment for all.”

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