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I wonder if it's a mistranslation and Hanh means it's not complicated to be a Buddha. Many things in life are very simple, and also very hard.

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I'm sure most folks here have seen the talk, but Rich Hickey's Simple Made Easy# is a superb discussion about this in the context of software.

# https://youtu.be/SxdOUGdseq4?si=fbRmd27oY80LZxw6

Found it last month, don’t remember how, but I did share it with the rest of my team. Excellent talk, it does have many "eternal" points to rebound on the essay vocabulary.

I read it as Hanh being sarcastic, making a joke.

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