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Thus aspects of the spiritual life are living in harmony with nature as it already is, without the emphasis upon material progressive improvement. A prevailing theme in the Buddhist philosophy seems to be a search for the Buddha. This of course may mean for the individual to discover and adopt the consciousness of Buddha or the Buddha state. The question ultimately must arise as to who is the authority for what this state is and consists of, as either someone or something outside the individual, such as officials, teachers and gurus, or the individual self. One of the polarities of Progressive Materialism is the difference between the authority for human activity and behavior, as outside and other than the individual such as the credentials of God, priests, experts, scholars and academicians or masters, law, creed or doctrine of every sort, and the personal self. One of the more quoted Buddhist sayings is, "If you find the Buddha slay him". This may be taken to mean that finding the Buddha when finding an authority other than the self should be rejected. Thus if this interpretation is correct, aspects of the true Buddha consciousness are that only the individual is the authority for what and what is not the Buddha state or spirituality. No authority but the self.
A problem with Buddhism, at least for those in those in the west, may be
that its end is to reach a non-progressive state. Because the Buddha state or Enlightenment is a goal or
Metaphysical Ideal,
and because objects and goals are generally thought of in terms of progression and may be considered as an advanced state to be achieved by progressive development, these persons often become more progressive instead of less, and may be worse off, in terms of the object of Buddhism, than if they had never heard of it. Thus Buddhism may be Progressive as the one elite Buddha and state.
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