Rather than a theologian or a systems thinker, the Buddha was a liberator, a spiritually attained practitioner and teacher of the path to Nirvana -- freedom from hate, delusion, and fear.
His goal was to help as many beings as possible live in equanimity, harmony, and loving-kindness. He was against all belief systems -- a position that confounded many of his contemporaries, and that still puzzles people today who want to understand what “ism,” what philosophy, he propounded.
Many people still yearn to find in his words some “Buddhist fundamentalism” by which they can anchor ideological convictions and security against the turmoil of life.
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