The Buddha doesn't even ask us to believe in God. He asks us to cross the river of life and find the peace called nirvana. He doesn't ask us to take anything on faith but proposes a grand experiment: step-by-step research into the depths of our consciousness. Because of this approach, the Buddha has been called an atheist, an agnostic, a nihilist. He was none of these; he was a supreme spiritual scientist. Ask him, "Is there a God?" and he will reply, "Why don't you enter the depths of your consciousness and see for yourself. The answer is right within you."
---Eknath Easwaran, in the Introduction to "Essence of the Dhammapada"---
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