A Popular Dictionary of Buddhism
Buddhism rests historically on the fact that Gautama Siddhartha became Buddha, a word meaning (fully) enlightened or awakened.
Both meanings imply freedom from the mind’s limitations, and the expansion of this mind until one with All-Mind and commensurate with the universe. This is the goal of every Bst., to break through the barriers of thought to the Non-duality which lies beyond the One and the Many, and all others of the ‘pairs of opposites’. But ‘rare indeed is a Buddha, rare as the flower of the udumbara tree’, and the Scriptures only attempt to speak of lesser stages of spiritual achievement, such as Samādhi, Prajñā and Satori (q.v.) (See Nirvana, No-Mind.)
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