Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.