I AM BUDDHA

An old friend, my roommate from prep school just emailed me and joked, "are you being worshipped as the Buddha yet?"

Strange as it might seem, I’d been waiting for the perfect time to say it out loud—I AM the Buddha.

We are all the Buddha. We are all the Christ, Krishna, Mohammed and Our Higher Power. My process of self-discovery always leads me back to this Truth: I am my own God. Whenever I look outside myself, I see the beautiful universe and world around me. But what is the Universe and the Earth but a part of me? More of me. The universe, the world, our villages, our families, even the internet, are all part of us. They are part of Buddha’s body. But our Spirit is the heart and soul of Buddha.

We ARE the Buddha. I am the Buddha as you are the Buddha. I am me and you are me and we are we, together.

It is time to take on all that we are. If not now, when? We all need to be the Buddha. So let’s start acting like it. (You too, David, if you are reading this. You’re Buddha too.)