The fourth Bodhisatva Vow.

The fourth Bodhisattva Vow; The Buddha's Way is Unsurpassable (Impeccable?), I will attain it!
To become an Enlighten Being, one who has transcended this Mayavic (illusive) realm of cyclic existence of birth life and death, is next to impossible. In the Buddhist sense it would take many life times and evolution through incarnations to arrive at being able to achieve this status of the so called Buddhahood -'The Perfect Man.' (or Woman). That is why it is said by the Buddha that it is this lifetime while in the human form as a human being one must not waste time, for it is only in this form that man is able to enter 'Complete Enlightenment' of the Buddhas. How often does one think of this in a life time the fact that we are here for more than just the reason of  having a fancy car and a beautiful girlfriend and a large home and for which most would sell their souls to the devil if need be, the fact that we are here to do more and become a whole lot more if we only learn to understand our True Nature, our Divine Self.

 "Buddhas are human, they are not Deva's, they are not gods. They are enlightened men and women. But the point is that they are not afraid to be human, they are not afraid to let themselves participate in the pains, difficulties and struggles that naturally go with human existence. The only difference is--and it's almost an undetectable difference--it takes one to know one. As a Zen poem says, 'when two Zen masters meet each other on the street, they need no introduction. When friends meet, they recognize one another instantly.' So a person who is a real cool Zen understands that, does not go around 'Oh, I understand Zen, I have satori, I have this attainment, I have that attainment, I have the other attainment,' because if he said that, he wouldn't understand the first thing about it ."
                                                      Alan Watts

As it would take a very long and committed amount of time and perseverance to understand the Truth of Islam, so would it take the same amount of dedicated and committed amount of effort to understand Buddhism. To come to understand both in a singular lifetime would take more than just time but a mind that is not afraid to ask and confront all issues right of wrong for the sake of discovering the Truth. If done in the privacy of one's own mind it is not as dangerous as when it is done openly like blogging in the Internet where one's thoughts and experiences are exposed to  the whole world and thus open to reticule and chastisement, or support and encouragement. This has been my original intention in setting about keeping an artist journal initially and continuing into this blogging till this date. Call it comparative religious study if you may or a spiritual self discovery or whatever, it is an on going project intended to discover what Is.
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Buddhahood is thus taught to be the timeless, virtue-filled Real (although as yet unrecognised as such by the deluded being), present inside the mind of every sentient being from the beginningless beginning. Its disclosure to direct perception, however, depends on inner spiritual purification and purgation of the superficial obscurations which conceal it from view.In this day and age most of us have no or little interest in these matters except when it does serves our self interest for one reason or another. We have to have a sort of wake up call and hopefully not of the dramatic kind that would shatter all our hopes and make us run for the mountains to save ourselves. A death in the family has no more as dramatic an effect nor even deaths of a few thousand in one tragedy like the Tsunami in Japan or Acceh. We have been desensitized from feeling any sense of awe or of the sacredness of our being, we have become like toy soldiers in the hands of demonic puppeteers to fulfill their hidden agendas, we have become fodders for the butchers who are out to harness the fall of religions. Wake up! Stand up! as Bob Marley sang....Stand up for you Right.It is not only for your right that you have to stand up in this case, it is for the salvation of your souls, of who you truly are that you have to wake up to. When you loose, God looses.

"If you will know yourselves, then you will be known and you will know that you are the sons of the living father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty and you are poverty."
Jesus.

• So make the effort and lay your journey ahead, this journey of 'self discovery', this journey of the straight and narrow leading towards the All Mighty, your Home, fulfill your covenant made with Him before you were even conceived by your parents.
  It is the enlightened mind that can conceive such a legacy that is rightfully belonging to Man, a mind that is free from all attachments and a mind that is free from its own being. For this mind to manifest 'the journey of one thousand steps has to proceed from where you are' not tomorrow but now! To discover your Buddha nature, your true being, your Perfect man you have to attain to Buddha hood, become a Buddha, become the Perfect Man.