佛是神吗？佛不是神。佛是什么？是究竟的智慧。我们皈依佛，佛是引导我们的导师，教我们解脱的方法。佛讲了，自己的命运掌握在自己的手里，自己才是自己的主宰。快乐是自己创造的，痛苦也是自己创造的。
为什么说佛教不是宗教？二者的主要差别就在这里。这些普通宗教都安立有万能的神，一切都由神来造作。外器世界和内情众生由他来创造，快乐或痛苦也是由他来创造。众生的命运掌握在他的手中，他高兴了就可以让人快乐，他不高兴了就可以让人痛苦。
佛教的观点与之不同。
佛成道以后说：我已经解脱了，已经圆满了，现在若是有人想跟我学习解脱和圆满的方法，我可以教给你。这是佛发的愿。接着佛又说：能否解脱、圆满，还是取决于你自己，我只能教给你方法。
佛已经解脱烦恼和痛苦了。再也不烦恼，永远不痛苦了，这是佛，这是解脱。“解脱”这个词语只是一种表达方式，所谓“此岸”“彼岸”“从此岸到达彼岸”，好像有个地方似的，其实不是。你永远地解脱烦恼，解脱痛苦，这就是解脱地，也就是所谓的“彼岸”。
什么是成佛？你的福德圆满了，智慧圆满了，就成佛了。其实人人都可以成佛。
为什么说人人都有佛性？功德是学来的，福报是积累的。每个人都有这个本能，都可以学功德，都可以积累福德。只要你坚持不断地学功德，最后能达到圆满了，这就是功德圆满；只要你坚持不懈地积累福德，最后能达到圆满了，这就叫福德圆满。功德圆满了，福德圆满了，这个时候你就成佛了。
Is Buddha a deity?
Is Buddha a deity?No. So what is Buddha? It is the ultimate wisdom. We take refuge of Buddha forhe is our spiritual teacher who teaches us the methods to get relief. Buddhasaid that the destiny is in your own hands and you are the one who controls it.You can create happiness and sadness all by yourself.
Why is Buddhismnot a religion? The main difference is that there is analmighty deitywho creates everything in commonreligions. The physical world and the sentient beings are created by him, aswell as happiness and sadness. He controls beings’destinies, makingpeople joyful or painful depending on he is pleased or not.
The view ofBuddhism is different.
“I have relieved and achieve completement. Ican give you the teaching if someone wants to follow me to learn how to relieveand to be complete”, said Buddha after he fully enlightened and this was his vow.Then Buddha said that whether you can relieve or reach completement or notdepend on yourself, all he can do is teaching the methods.
Buddha has alreadyfreed from annoys and sufferings, he would never worry and be vexed again. Thisis Buddha, this is relief. “relief” is one way to describe, so called “thisshore”, “the other shore” and “from this shore to the other shore” sound likethere is a place to go, Actually not. So called” the other shore” means yourelieve from worries and pains forever, and arrive at the land of relief.
What is becoming aBuddha? It is a state that you fulfill the accumulation of blessing and wisdom.In fact, everyone can be a Buddha.
