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Buddha means one who is enlightened, and prem means love – love for the enlightened one, or love
for enlightenment.
Buddha is not a person – mm? it is a state of ultimate being. There have been many buddhas,
and everybody is potentially a buddha. The word itself means tremendously awakened, absolutely
alert… one whose consciousness has completely disappeared, who is just pure consciousness. You
can look through and through and there is no darkness in it… not even lingering somewhere in the
comers.
He has no basement to his being. Nothing is repressed; he holds back nothing. His trust with
existence is one hundred percent. Doubts have disappeared… darkness has disappeared. He has
come home. That is the meaning of buddha.
But by giving you this name, I would like you to beware of a certain danger. I’m not saying to you to
become like gautam buddha – the most famous buddha. Nobody can become like anybody else –
and there is no need to.
Each individual has to become himself. That’s how you will become a buddha – not by following and
imitating a buddha. If you imitate a buddha or a christ, you will be an imitation. So this may look
paradoxical but it is a very basic point to be understood. If one really wants to be a buddha he has
not to follow any buddha, not to imitate anybody – he has not to become a carbon copy.
If you really want to follow a buddha you have to resist the temptation of becoming a carbon copy,
because when you become a buddha, when the flower opens in you – then only do you follow him.