Отличия тхеравады от махаянских направлений - мотивация Будды

3) В ранних суттах, Готама не имел планов спасти других. Он сам хотел освободиться от страданий и только после того как Индусский Бог умолял Готаму, только тогда Готама согласился.

А во-вторых почему он уходил из дома - всё ради личного спасения или хотел таки помочь людям достичь бессмертия?

В тхераваде считается, что бодхисатта во время предскзания его буддства другим буддой может достичь архатства. Так почему не достигает?

"I, too, monks, before my Awakening, when I was an unawakened bodhisatta, being subject myself to birth, sought what was likewise subject to birth. Being subject myself to aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, I sought [happiness in] what was likewise subject to illness... death... sorrow... defilement. The thought occurred to me, 'Why do I, being subject myself to birth, seek what is likewise subject to birth? Being subject myself to aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, why do I seek what is likewise subject to illness... death... sorrow... defilement? What if I, being subject myself to birth, seeing the drawbacks of birth, were to seek the unborn, unexcelled rest from the yoke: Unbinding? What if I, being subject myself to aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, seeing the drawbacks of aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, were to seek the aging-less, illness-less, deathless, sorrow-less,, unexcelled rest from the yoke: Unbinding?'
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.026.than.html

And if I were to teach the Dhamma and others would not understand me, that would be tiresome for me, troublesome for me.'
...
"As I reflected thus, my mind inclined to dwelling at ease, not to teaching the Dhamma.
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Далее: Будда не хотел учить других так как это было бы тяжело для него...

"Then, having stayed at Uruvela as long as I liked, I set out to wander by stages to Varanasi. Upaka the Ajivaka saw me on the road between Gaya and the (place of) Awakening, and on seeing me said to me, 'Clear, my friend, are your faculties. Pure your complexion, and bright. On whose account have you gone forth? Who is your teacher? In whose Dhamma do you delight?'

"When this was said, I replied to Upaka the Ajivaka in verses:


'All-vanquishing,
all-knowing am I,
with regard to all things,
unadhering.
All-abandoning,
released in the ending of craving:
having fully known on my own,
to whom should I point as my teacher? [4]

I have no teacher,
and one like me can't be found.
In the world with its devas,
I have no counterpart.

For I am an arahant in the world;
I, the unexcelled teacher.
I, alone, am rightly self-awakened.
Cooled am I,             unbound.

To set rolling the wheel of Dhamma
I go to the city of Kasi.
In a world become blind,
I beat the drum of the Deathless.'
"'From your claims, my friend, you must be an infinite conqueror.'


'Conquerors are those like me
who have reached fermentations' end.
I've conquered evil qualities,
and so, Upaka, I'm a conqueror.'
"When this was said, Upaka said, 'May it be so, my friend,' and — shaking his head, taking a side-road — he left.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.026.than.html

Если бы Будду сам Брахма Сахампати не убедил учить, то Будды бы не учил...

Только Будда Готама был такой крутой. Почитайте что он говорил Упаке.

А что по-вашему означает эта:

"And if I were to teach the Dhamma and others would not understand me, that would be tiresome for me, troublesome for me.' ... As I reflected thus, my mind inclined to dwelling at ease, not to teaching the Dhamma."

Я это все читал десять раз.

[Magandiya offers his daughter to the Buddha, who replies:]
On seeing [the daughters of Mara]
— Discontent, Craving, & Passion —
there wasn't even the desire for sex.
So what would I want with this,
filled with urine & excrement?
I wouldn't want to touch it
even with my foot.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.4.09.than.html

On whose account have you gone forth? Who is your teacher? In whose Dhamma do you delight?'