Jesus, Gautama, and all the great masters were very ordinary men…and this is why They are the most beautiful examples of mankind history. But isn't an ordinary man the most "extraordinary" thing on this Earth ?
In the beginning, Jesus, Gautama, Krishna, and all the great masters were ordinary people. The difference between them and the man in the street, is that one day, they stopped identifying themselves with mortals !

They stopped considering themselves as the clouds. They realized the sky was their unchanging, eternal nature. They understood they had to dissolve the veil created by the clouds to make the sky apparent. To enter nirvana is to dissolve the clouds. The illusion created by ego.

This is how Gautama became Bouddha. The clouds dissolved into the sky, he entered nirvana. He returned to his original nature.
This is how Jesus became Christ. He revealed his immortal dimension. The clouds of ego dissolved in his inner sky and He had the revelation He was the immortal and changeless Son.

However, Jesus-Christ and Gautama never stopped being men. On the contrary, they beautifully revealed the mystical, divine dimension which lies within every human being. They unveiled the qualities of our immortal nature.

Their teachings say that we all are potential Christs, Bouddhas. But to live this reality, we have to lift the veil created by our ego. We have to dissolve the clouds which darken our sky. If we identify ourselves with the clouds, we can't discover the sky which is our deep nature. Ego's death consists in reversing the process.

Christ within ourselves, the self, has to take control over our life. He is our real master. The ego must be the servant of our self and not the contrary. We have to achieve it during our lifetime, in full awareness, to reach our ultimate purpose as a human being : the state of Christ or Buddha.

Amedee