Awaken the Buddha You Are Within

Virtually every Buddhist tradition acknowledges that each of us has a Buddha within. What about fully claiming that Buddha? We don't need to awaken the Buddha within; it's already awake. We need to claim it. But many of us think we're not there yet. We have more work to do before fully realizing buddhahood.

We go from teacher to teacher, each telling us we fail to grasp it because it's so easy. But then maybe there's one more book to read or another thousand hours of meditation practice will get us there. I'm not knocking books and meditation. The proverbial god knows I've read shelves of books and meditated for countless hours, but there's no there to get to. Our buddhahood is already here.

We know how to rest in our Buddha nature. We know how to rest in our nature of mind. If that describes you, you have awakened, or you are awakening.

I hesitate to use the phrase…

Fake it to make it.

It’s not faking if it’s true. Maybe what I’m suggesting is faking our level of conviction that it’s true.

What if we stop waiting for a sudden flash of enlightenment and spend at least part of every day fully realizing buddhahood? Of course, you and I are probably not fully realized Buddhas, but we know how to rest in the Buddha within. We know how to rest in our Buddha Nature. We know how to rest in our Nature of Mind.

What if we stopped waiting for a sudden flash of enlightenment and spent at least part of every day fully realizing Buddhahood? Imagine how that would change our world. We'd see a pure land everywhere we look and hear every sound as a mantra.

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