There Is No Buddha

Following the logic of “the Buddha,” it is a mistake to focus on the person of the historical Buddha, or any other person, and that for multiple reasons.

What we should focus on is consciousness. Full stop, end of discussion. We have discussed how concepts can be useful, but they are ultimately a distraction. Even “consciousness” is a concept. We cannot meaningfully offer any predicate about “consciousness,” even a name, without distracting from the direct experience of it.

But most people are badly distracted from their own “consciousness” as the result of decades…