(October 14, 2016 at 5:49 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:Quote:188. Driven only by fear, do men go for refuge to many places — to hills, woods, groves, trees and shrines.
189. Such, indeed, is no safe refuge; such is not the refuge supreme. Not by resorting to such a refuge is one released from all suffering.
190-191. He who has gone for refuge to the Buddha, the Teaching and his Order, penetrates with transcendental wisdom the Four Noble Truths — suffering, the cause of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the Noble Eightfold Path leading to the cessation of suffering.
192. This indeed is the safe refuge, this the refuge supreme. Having gone to such a refuge, one is released from all suffering.
The Dhammapada
Got that? The Buddha is the refuge supreme. Not God. The Buddha. In the Buddha's own words.
Once the Buddha did merge in the ocean of cosmic consciousness and become one with the all then Buddha become God.
Buddha just did that.
By practicing yoga meditation and yoga practices he reached and merge into God so when it is said.....take refuge in or to the Buddha it means take refuge in God because Buddha was no longer MR Prasad or whatever he was called at birth but by reaching the supreme nirvana he become God.
You never thought about that yog, did you?
