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Originally Posted by Czymra
I think you're taking this the wrong way Dakini. I know nothing about Parsons but the statement sounds to me as if he's trying to get the idea of Buddhahood across.
As such, it's not about becoming Buddha, but about realising that you already are Buddha. As there is no 'becoming' involved then, and you are already what others tell you to become, it is in fact, most ordinary, just that no one is aware of it.
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He might be trying to get the idea across...that within us is the Buddha/God spark. Not an issue. Simple. All the Masters tell us that the temple of the Divine is within. But he does a disservice to the Mystics and to the true nature of the act of illumination by saying that they are magicians who haven't had the experience.
To him, perhaps no "becoming." If he takes the time to read the accounts of the great Mystics, he will see their accounts, their definitive descriptions of conversion into a more "real" life. "All things," said Heracleitus, "are in a state of flux....Reality is a condition of unrest." (From Fragments, by Heraclitis) Reality is described as something that is dynamic, not static, as becoming rather than being perfect. The flux of things is the very stuff of reality.
If people are going to buy into Parson's stuff, then perhaps explore what his beliefs and experience are, and there may be little foundation there to discuss enlightenment and be taken seriously. Ok to tell us all that we are all Buddhas, but don't discount the real Masters as imposters.