Gautama Buddha

### Occupation

Wandering Abstinent | Philosopher | Formerly a wealthy Prince | Founder of Buddhism

## Biographical Information

### Place of Birth

India

**Siddhārtha Gautama**, also known as **Shaka**, the **Awakened One**, or simply **Buddha**, was a wandering abstinent and philosopher, originally a wealthy prince who abandoned all his glories in order to achieve enlightenment, who founded the practice of Buddhism.

## Overview

Siddhartha Gautama was a philosopher who lived from 564-483 BC, born as a prince who, after adulthood, abandoned all his riches and abundance in search of happiness, decided to live like a wandering man on earth. After years of living alone with nature, Siddhartha opened his eyes to awakening, becoming Buddha, touching the finger of God, becoming part of the Creator and one of its many aspects.

## Personality

Buddha is believed to be a very kind and compassionate individual, A very courageous and benevolent leader. He might have attained his calm and benevolent nature after being enlightened and facing multiple hardships that redeemed him from human sins, He is *The Awakened One.*

## Powers and Abilities

**Absolute Reincarnation:** Gautama can reincarnate infinitely and perfectly reincarnate/reborn instantly after their death, obliteration, demise, coma, etc, into a completely new life with a much newer or permanent version of themselves while retaining all previous memories and capabilities in all their lifetimes. Gautama could also reincarnate even if they haven't died or got obliterated.

**Cycle Manipulation:** Gautama can manipulate cosmic cycles meaning that Gautama can manipulate and control the beginning (Alpha) and end (Omega) of every existing universe.

**Freedom Deity:** Gautama with this ability either is or can transform into a freedom deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with Freedom, Liberty, Autonomy, Liberation, Choice and Independence. They are usually revered by those who pray for freedom or liberation or attributed as being the ones responsible for said freedom. Freedom deities were not common in mythology but were important among ancient and current civilizations.

**Knowledge Deity:** Gautama with this ability either is or can transform into a knowledge deity, a god or goddess in mythology associated with knowledge, intelligence, education, wisdom or science. They are a common feature of polytheistic religions.

**Path Manipulation:** Gautama can create, shape and manipulate different kinds of pathways, including trails, roads, streets, highways, railways, sidewalks, passages, etc. They can alter the path's direction, change its destination, or make surface changes to them.

**Self-Deification:** This power grants Gautama the power to transform beings that were not deities into deities with divine powers. To be able to bestow divine powers and a title to another non-deity who would suggest that Gautama is a divine being themselves. Gautama may possess unlimited power, can bestow Divine Power existing or what they have created for the transcendent being.

**Savior Deity:** As an archetype, a savior deity is a god/goddess who represents or is associated with heroism, courage, and virtue. Savior deities are fairly common in mythology and were important among ancient civilizations.

## History

### Human Life

When he was still a young prince, Siddhartha had as a friend one of the richest men in India. His friend knew that his time was coming and he was going to leave, and the Buddha believed that if the path he took was a happy one, then he could die in peace. But his friend told him he wasn't happy, because despite having a lot of money, the simple things in life money can't buy. He had everything, but he felt he had nothing.

Then the day came and Siddhartha's friend left, and Siddhartha knew that he didn't leave happy, for he didn't live as he wanted. Siddhartha then meditated and realized that having everything did not bring happiness, and then decided to follow the opposite path, that is, Siddhartha decided to have nothing and abandoned his riches and his money to live in the wandering world without food and without money, surviving only with that he has.

He then followed his path, learning to be happy with the least and with the little he had, being grateful for small blessings without coveting more. Along the way, he was also helping people, without expecting or receiving anything in return. In this way, Siddhartha eventually awakened to Enlightenment.

### Journey to the West

After Sun Wukong, the monkey king was causing trouble to the heavens and the gods of various mythologies, the Emperor of China called for Buddha's help as he was the only man who could defeat Wukong. Buddha then teleported Wukong to his Heaven, where Buddha manifested to the Monkey King as a giant man with bronze-like skin and told Sun Wukong to try to escape his hand.

Sun Wukong then decided to show Buddha that he was stronger than him too and took a great leap, crossing the stars and galaxies of the heavens, going beyond the borders of the multiverse and megaverse and reaching the End of Infinity. At the end of Infinity there were only the five pillars of creation where Sun Wukong wrote his name as proof that he had arrived there. Wukong then jumped back to Buddha, believing he is the better.

Buddha didn't answer anything and just raised his hand to Wukong, who in shock looked at the Buddha's hand seeing in his finger his own signature that he had made on the pillar of creation. Buddha mentioned that Wukong was very foolish because everything was him, he was one with the whole universe and fighting him was like fighting the universe itself. Buddha then, to teach Wukong a lesson, placed a heavy mountain on him so that he could not escape.

## Myths and Legends

Siddhārtha Gautama (563-483 BCE) was a prince from a region in the south of present-day Nepal who, having renounced the throne, dedicated himself to the search for the eradication of the causes of human suffering and of all beings. He founded Buddhism, claiming to have found Enlightenment, reaching the heights of happiness and satisfaction by getting rid of the ego and overcoming the sense of "I". Despite being a Buddhist, he is also known and worshiped in several other religions, such as the Bahai Faith, which considers him one of the manifestations of God.

## Quotes

*"I can die happily. I have not kept a single teaching hidden in a closed hand. Everything that is useful for you, I have already given. Be your own guiding light." - Gautama Buddha.*

*"Drahma is the final realization that Self and other, natural and supernatural, profane and divine, are but arbitrary divisions. The sage stands at the centre. Listening to Meru’s song, he is like the first mountain itself, the centre of a lotus from which the cosmos unfolds. Meru is the symbol for the Absolute, the Buddha nature and the eternal principle of Drahma that underlies the world of illusion. Their patron, Tiger, smashes down barriers and illuminates the universe of possibilities, while tearing away the 'truths' that hide an even more profound vision of the Absolute." - Gautama Buddha.*

*"The Life of a human being is a blink of God's eye." - Gautama Buddha.*

*"Even if they consider me someone close to God... I need to recognize that God has something I don't have. Compassion for the weak! But dealing fatal blows and avoiding the agony of others is not compassion?" - Gautama Buddha.*

*"Try to escape my hand." - Gautama Buddha to Sun Wukong.*

*"You are very silly. Everything is me. Fighting with me is like fighting the universe." - Gautama Buddha to Sun Wukong.*

*"The only one that can move me, on heaven or Earth, is **me**." - Gautama Buddha.*

*"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. In Him all things were created and that is how everything happened. There is no love greater than Yours, you understand every heart that beats on Earth, from the most selfish to the purest." - Gautama Buddha.*

*"I am the man who was born to carry with him all the perplexity of a race... I am condemned to suffer the martyrdom of being mortal and being so close to a Godhead that I will never reach... I am the man who is sacred from Heaven to Hell and from Hell to Heaven." - Gautama Buddha.*

*"Your arrogance is due to the fact that you can't handle their critical gazes. In the end, I see you're just a child looking for attention. You worry too much about every look. Yaldabaoth, you must learn to love yourself." - Buddha to Yaldabaoth.*

*"Love never fails because it is love without end, without beginning, with no means of being interrupted, it also renews itself as it originates and acts in time and space of all dimensions that exist in the expanding universe." - Gautama Buddha.*

*"When the power of humans... Overwhelms the power of divine beings... Who do the gods have the right to forgive, and who do they have the right to punish?" - Gautama Buddha.*

*"No one creates life and not even me." - Gautama Buddha.*

*"Happiness is not something you can buy or give to others. Do you want to be happy? For then carry the cross made from the weight of your own sins, and when you've finished the journey, there you will find happiness." - Gautama Buddha.*

## Trivia

* Theologians have equated Gautama with Jesus Christ, Krishna, Amenominakanushi, Muhammad, and Maitreya.
* The kanji used for Buddha (全能, Zen'nō) means **Almighty**, **Omnipotent**, **Supreme Creator**, **Divine Creator** or **King of All**.
* While trying to achieve enlightenment, Buddha was tormented by the demon Hajun.