Sprinkled within Buddhist scripture is Gautama Buddha’s teaching that all beings have within them the Buddha-nature—the essence, or seed, of Buddhahood. We have the seed of Buddhahood right inside of us. And because we have it, we have the potential to become a Buddha. One way to define Buddhism is “the igniting of the internal being of God.” Isn’t this what we are all seeking?

As we study and ponder the mystical paths of the world's religions, we see that these seemingly different paths do in fact converge. It is almost as though, when we hear a teaching from one of them, we wonder whether it is from the mystical path of Buddhism or Christianity or Hinduism, or is it from Judaism, Islam or Taoism, because we are hearing the very same things from each of them. Confirmation of the same inner spiritual path comes from many different peoples in different ages, from different languages and cultures, from different prophets and teachers. The mystical paths all come to this one and single conclusion: that the ultimate goal of the path is union with God, with Reality, with the Absolute.