God is not an illusion,but a symbol pointing beyond itself to the realization of the mystery of at-one-ment.

The Buddha touching the earth is the exact equivalent of the crucified .

With that act of the Buddha crucifies (as it were cut out the nature impulse) The Buddha absolutely immobile dispelled him by touching earth when the lord of the dead and lost ,when he approached the Buddha.

Christ gives his body with its nature impulse and goes through that Central point of cross to the father.

Buddha like wise goes to but is not the father in the Buddhist tradition he goes to eternal consciousness.

The goal of the hero’s journey is finding yourself, finding yourself.