>>125082
>figuring out how to ask the universe for favors and becoming enlighten seem like two different things.
Yet no one asks the Universe for enlightenment because they are under the false impression that they don't need it.
It depends on what path the individual decides to take in order to go to the places it needs to go. One can start out with Buddhism, dive into AMORC, shuffle the masonry, learn esoteric schools and come out the other end just as well as those before.
I'll have to reference something I wrote in the post you quoted in order to answer something that was already answered:
>Don't get caught up in semantics when the methods all point to the same system.
Don't get caught up in WORDS and LABELS when the methods REGARDLESS of LABEL, point to the SAME system. Buddha and Jesus were both lit on understanding the same fundamental truth as anyone else can do, only difference being: culture, language, time and past religious knowledge.
Would Jesus be Jesus if he had no references to OT scripture? Would Buddha be Buddha if he didn't use Hinduism as basis for his understanding?
Study one system. Study many systems. Truth comes to those that want it.