Representations of the world, internalizations. Ideas. Then comes the more encompassing symbols of the greater worlds, consciousness. Then, full fledged experiences. For that’s how we truly are . . . “A being entwined within an interactive field of meaning and knowledge.”

Moving out of the static, separate, mirror image of the world, despite the externalization factors, into our intrinsic nature, active, interconnected, with intent being able to touch upon the myriad elements of the universe. To the more real, alive world, and interacting with greater aspects of meaning and knowledge. There’s that intrinsic connection with the universe; and one can also act within that greater reality. Our enhanced Self.

The word Buddha means simply, “awakened, an awakened one, or the Awakened One.” It is from the Sanskrit verbal root budh, “to fathom a depth, to penetrate to the bottom”; also, “to perceive, to know, to come to one’s senses, to wake.” The Buddha is one awakened to identity not with the body but with the knower of the body, nor with thought but with the knower of thoughts, that is to say, with consciousness; knowing, furthermore, that his value derives from his power to radiate consciousness –
Joseph Campbell, Myths To Live By, (p.95)