[ Now I am Whole ]

At the moment of awakening, the Buddha exclaimed, "When I disappeared, I saw stars within me, sun rising, sunset, full-moon nights - everything within me, not without me. It was my boundary that had been keeping them out. Now the boundary is no more; everything has fallen in. Now I am the whole."

Buddha looked around at the rest of nature and other humans, and He was amazed at what He saw. He saw Himself in everything - in every human, in every animal, in every tree, in the water, in the rain, in the clouds, in the earth. And in that moment he comprehended everything.

Buddha was very excited, and His heard was filled with peace. He could hardly wait to tell His people what He had discovered. But there were no words to explain it. He knew that even if He tried to tell the others, they could not understand. He could understand everyone very well, but no one could understand Him.

[Bruce's remark: Everything in existence is just a manifestation of the Whole.]

 

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