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I studied Buddhism with intensity for about three years, spending most of my weekends and no few weeks in retreat (at various Buddhist temples). However, it has been a couple decades since my time studying Buddhism, and at least that long since I have read Buddhist specific teachings or the Eightfold Path, etc.. So, no, I can't tell you that he said those words, but I can tell you why I said he said those words.
Buddhism is all about an appreciation of our connection to Source. It is about realizing that the world of the physical is just an illusion, an emergent property of something more fundamental. Insight meditation, a central core practice of Buddhism is about learning how to listen to the Source and appreciating our connection to it. Everything in the teachings of the Buddha center around that connection. In the teachings of the Buddha, you are Source. Your soul cycles (rebirth) through Samsara (the illusionary planes of existence) until you reach a fundamental understanding of your connection to Source (Nirvana), that you, the fundamental you, your soul is Source.
"Thou art God" is actually a quote from Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein, but it is fundamental to the teachings of the Buddha, if you replace the Christian concept of "God" (a separate Ruling entity) with the idea of "The Source of all Things."
So you can't show me. Buddhist enlightenment is nothing more than a natural process in the amglydia which can be reproduced electro acoustically.
Not too much of a reader are ya? I DID show you, you just didn't listen to what I actually said.