BUDDHA

BUDDHA: The Wise One and original Enlightened Buddhist Being.

There are budding Buddhas everywhere.

SIDDHARTA or Sid Arthur for short realised the Truth as he sat under a Bho tree. You can either go on tiresomely being reincarnated forever which eventually becomes a real drag, or you can opt out, take the Holy EIGHTFOLD-WAY and float enigmatically around in Bhuddhahood.

As soon as he discovered this, he became BUDDHA, the Enlightened One, leaving the rest of us floundering. Now Big Buddha is watching you — and lots of little Buddhas too — but in a serene and peaceful manner. He is hoping you too will take the Path to Enlightenment.

BUDDHA has been and gone and come more times than we know. Before he was Sid Arthur, he may have been biding his time as the ninth AVATAR of VISHNU and lots of BODHISATTVAs who are Buddhas-Who-Have-Been or MAITREYA, the Buddha-To-Be if he has not already come and gone. But definitely when he comes back as KALKI the Horse that's the End of the Universe. It would be too much otherwise.

Wherever you go his smiling benign features and air of blissful relaxation can only have a beneficial and calming influence. Furthermore he can also be Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese or almost any East Asian nationality. In which case he may not have been SIDDHARTA at all — or maybe only a little bit.