The Buddha is a therapist. He analyses the suffering of humankind and proposes a cure. His Eightfold Path is a prescription for a rewarding life. Its long and patient discipline aims to reach superior awareness and to experience the bliss of salvation as we merge with the cosmos.

Twenty-five hundred year old Buddhism offers a stunningly fresh vision of the world. In many respects, this vision parallels that of Eternism and modern physics:

All things and events are intertwined. The world we tend to separate into material and spiritual realms is constituted by discharges of a single form of energy. Vegetable, animal, and mineral forms are manifestations of this energy. They impress our senses through various types of vibrations: that of light, air, and other substances.

Change comes from the naturally flowing and undulatory nature of the universe.

All creations eventually disintegrate and reach a state of pure energy.

Impermanence is both a basic law among Eternon structures and a pillar of the Buddhist doctrine. Indeed, the last words of the Buddha were to remind that:

Decay is in the essence of all assembled things.

According to Eternism, beings do not reincarnate, Eternons do. The Leading Eternon is the living energy that animates structure after structure. Which brings the Buddhist analogy:

In the round of death and rebirth, beings succeed each other like a flame passing from candle to candle. The being who is born is both the same and another one.

To start a new life, the Leading Eternon has to vitalize the egg after fertilization by the sperm. Buddhism develops precisely the same notion, although in words of its time:

The mother and the father may unite, but if consciousness does not enter, no new life will be created. A new life can only exist when the three elements are combined. Consciousness and Names-and-Bodies are inseparable.

(Consciousness has a wide connotation in Buddhism: it is awareness, but also knowledge, intelligence, information. It applies perfectly to the creative energy of Eternons. Names-and-bodies are the perceptible and tangible elements of the universe, including humans.)

Every human is primarily a Leading Eternon. Admitting this fact is a condition to reach perfect awareness. The Buddhist’s access to Nirvana is the equivalent of the Leading Eternon’s return to the Absolute:

Originally, everyone is a Buddha, an enlightened being. To enter Nirvana, the infinity of space, time, and idea, one must have faith in one’s Buddhahood. Salvation is the liberation from the chain of reincarnations through personal awakening.

Buddhism recognizes that even the smallest speck is a conscious Eternon: