Follow the Path Written by Michael A Gomez May 23rd, 2026

Follow the path that the Buddha had first walked, being the first to enlightenment and the one who points you to the path of your own enlightenment. He doesn't do it for you, but he was the one who laid the foundation. He was the first — Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha.

Yes, I bow to the path.

The path that has led me to freedom, has led me to transformation, has led me to layers of liberation one by one, and layers of transformation one by one.

It is said, "Everything is impermanent. Therefore, be diligent.

Do the work yourself.”

I believe this is considered to be a Buddhist quote, and it's 100% true.

Now, this isn't salvation in the Christian sense. In that sense, Buddha's not saving you, and you're not saving yourself. You're liberating yourself of habits and patterns, freeing yourself.

I don't worship Buddha.

I don't praise Buddha.

Even Buddha himself says not to do this.

But I am so grateful for the path that he has pointed me to — the path of cessation of suffering.

And yes, I find mercy, I find grace, I find forgiveness in Christ. I find reconciliation through Christ with God. Buddha does not do that for me. Buddha frees me in my mind of the things that used to enslave me on a psychological and mental-emotional level — from the things that my eyes would see and how I interpret it all, that within my body, how I felt with seeing certain things, experiencing certain things, becoming attached to certain things.

Attachment itself — whether to an idea or something — it leads to suffering, a state within yourself that disrupts the possibility of inner peace.

And I do have the peace of Christ that surpasses all understanding.

I don't find this to be contradictory.

I find when there is a regulated, healthy performance of the functioning of the mind, that is, so clarity comes, and you won't have this type of monkey mind that just jumps all over the place from one thing to another. But there will be a rhythm you will find that works — a train of thought, allowing thoughts to rise and fall, noticing the ones that are harmful.

Then it says in the Bible about having the mind of Christ.

I don't think necessarily because Buddha says things that help, and the teachings and philosophy helped me, that somehow I don't have the mind of Christ.

If you went to a psychologist, and a psychologist helped you, and you're still a Christian, you're still going to believe that you have the mind of Christ because it's in your scripture.

So if I look at Buddhist philosophy, which has also been proven scientific in many situations about the workings of the mind and the body within the person, then why should it be any different with Buddhist philosophy compared to a psychologist who will help me?

I don't see the difference.

And I'm not worshiping either one — Buddha or the psychologist — but they helped me.

The philosophy helped me.

They both have a philosophy.

They both have a way of retraining you and rewiring you and your mind.

So if you're not going to Christ, am I to believe just because you go to a psychologist you are now guilty for betraying your faith?

These are just my thoughts right now about some things that seem too extreme within particular religious thought — where somebody could be helped by some philosophy that has science to prove that it works, and that it helps, and it actually helps people change — then why label it a certain way out of fear?

This is the same thing about division.

Division between people who have different beliefs, different cultures.

This is an area that needs maturity and growth within every living being.

All are in need of compassion.

Every sentient being is in need of compassion and loving-kindness.

And Jesus teaches us how to love others, ourselves and others.

Jesus does not only talk about loving others — and why does he talk about us having to love ourselves? Why does he think this is important?

How could we think of anybody else being of any value if we don't think we are of any value?

So at the cross, God takes care of the whole issue:

“Look at how much I value you — that I went to the cross to die for you, for your sins. This is the crossroads, and I'm meeting you at your place of imperfection because I love you. I want you to see that I count you worthy, even if others don't. When everybody holds you in low regard, I died on the cross for you. And I want you to have that same love and reflect that same love to others — whether or not they want to accept you or what you are professing.”

And why?

Because I did that for the whole world.

Yes, I went to the cross to die for you — but not only you.

Even the one that would reject me.

And that is how I want my followers to walk in faith — not just thinking that they could save the ones they love, or bring this message to the ones they love, or be compassionate to the ones they love — but even to the ones that they don't.

That says, if God was speaking right now, I could just imagine God saying those words, seeing the state of how people treat one another based on differences — different religions having differences between each other, holding grudges, creating an enemy where there really is none but the one inside yourself.

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