Can you become Buddha watching YouTube videos?

Lot of people I have come across find it hard to sit in a place quietly without doing anything. They are in frenzy often moving around, doing things. The only time they sit is when they are tired of doing stuff or when they sleep or when they have no choice but to wait somewhere for something. Even then they will be fiddling with their phones.

The reason for this is that you have not seen that person in you who is silent. Life fills you with a variety of things and you are bloated with picking them all the time from small to big. All of them create noise within you, making you to attend to this and that and building a lot of different personalities you carry.

If you have to bring that personality who does ‘nothing’ in you, it sounds silly with all the other personalities crying for attention, looking far more important.

Of course, there is nothing wrong about all of this. If you are someone important for a lot of people around you, you cannot say that I will go and sit silent for the next nine years in a cave staring at a wall like what Bodhidharma is said to have done.

This is where things don’t quite work well for a normal person attending to his affairs of life and trying to become a Buddha watching YouTube videos put out by monks that appear eerily simple.

Living life is very complex and you cannot brush it under the carpet. You cannot pretend to be something altogether different when you have stacked up a mountain to cross. Everyone has to cross their own mountains. But when you do if you are able to pick less and less, you will see the valley of silence one day.

Remember, Rome was not built in a day.

Like how you created painstakingly a ‘CEO’ or a ‘Technocrat’ or a ‘Expert’ or a ‘Researcher’ in you, it is a lot harder than any of it to create something that is not anything within you.