What is the true Buddha (nature)?

The religion of Buddhism as practiced today is not the true Buddha of Supreme Light. It is the practice of personality and identity. Over time the truth has been diluted by the cultural proclivities of differing peoples and the systematising of those in authority. The Buddha of pure liberation is without system or practice. It is the direct realization of the true self. It involves simplicity of action and awareness that is without discrimination. One must be totally free of all attachment to symbols, systemic practice, and authoritarian personalities. To realize the truth starts within. One cannot realize truth through external practice, which is the result of a mind that is seeking spiritual gratification.

To realize through awareness is meditation, the start of inner discovery. To begin with one, must be totally free, which is the pre-requisite to understanding. The mind is conditioned and as such, it tends to simply replace one type of conditioning with another. To be truly free is a very difficult thing, because our thinking is so institutionalized. We are constantly bombarded with information that directs our thinking and our actions. We are brainwashed and hypnotized by organizations of every description and motivation. To be truly free is a very rare and beautiful thing.

Mind is ever seeking to become. You are this and want to be that. One is constantly embroiled in the activity of acquisition. The ego/self wants to expand and maintain its continuity through the activity of identification with that which it possess'. But this activity is also why the self is in conflict and fear. One must have the realization that the acceptance of what you 'actually' are has nothing to do with accumulations, either the spiritual or the material. As difficult as it may be, one will find it necessary to negate inner and outer authority, in order to realize freedom that is not the result of motivation or opinion. As long as there is authority there will be opposition.

Opposition is the harbinger of deceit, exploitation and disintegration. When in the moment, one sees directly the truth of the destructive relationship that exist between authority and opposition, then that perception is its dissipation. With the dissipation of this destructive process, mind has greater capacity for understanding. Understanding that is not the result of motivational aspirations.


Buddha (nature) is not annihilation of the ego/self, it is not the meditation of emptiness. It is first of all 'Freedom' from the tyranny of a mind that is caught in the illusion of self inflicted conflict and fear. Buddha nature is 'liberation' from all precepts and concepts that the mind has created as a method or path toward the 'enlightened'. To cling to the 'idea' of 'Buddha Nature' and 'Buddhism' its self is to be lost in a sea of dogmatic authority.

Amida said:
"Tell me sir, When is a Buddhist not a Buddhist?" I replied, when one has reached enlightenment. Amida answered, "There is no such thing as enlightenment." "If you truly understood the "Supreme Light" you would realize that you were never a 'Buddhist' to begin with."