Very interesting. I tend to think we are all the Buddha, at different levels of development. Not just Buddha though, Christ, Rama, Krisna, whatever you call it. Same deity, different cosmology. At least to me it seems that only the cosmologies change to fit the culture in which a religion is embedded.

BTW, things have been going much better for relationships lately. I have four young women I hang out with a lot, two would have gone romantic for me if they weren't already attached to someone far away. Two of them go out of their way to talk to me as often as possible, and they act all giggly and so forth. I don't really know how to proceed from here, this is the tricky part for me and I've never even kissed a girl although I'm nearly 30. I don't want to go to my death bed a bachelor.