The central practice, as I suggest it, is meditation. And just in your overall understanding, you keep hearing me say buddhism is yoga, yoga is buddhism; buddhism is not a singular way. It's a compilation of ways and it's organic, it changes. It's a science of self-discovery.

 

Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when, a long time ago, when the first person learned that they could still their thoughts and experience eternity and access the higher planes of mind and the spheres of perfection that exist in the mind of the universe, in the central nexxus of nirvana.

 

Buddhism does not have a start and an ending. It was not 'started' by any historical figure. It's a body of ways and beliefs and traditions which will enable a person, when practiced correctly, to experience enlightened states of mind. Occasionally in each age and in different lands, a buddha is born, that is to say an enlightened person, who simply recodifies in a new land, they recodify the ways, the practices. They make changes that are just intelligent changes that adapt to a new century, a new culture.  But buddhism doesn't come from anybody. It exists by itself. It's the practice of becoming completely conscious, overcoming depression, fear, anxiety, jealousy and the things that cause pain, attachment, and learning to exist in beautiful states of mind. 

 

- "Buddhism", The Enlightenment Cycle