The Buddha also teaches this. Both have at their core sympathy for the whole world, the welfare of the whole of humanity, and promoting of a spirit of unity and mutual love. Jesus is far from anti-Buddhist. Would Jesus embrace Gandhi? So how can he judge him? And would a Buddhist judge any person?
Yes he did, he learnt of the promise to come which was from the beginning and was part of the religion of his collapsing and corrupted empire. He was contemporary to the empires that would fulfill the prophecies of Isaiah, he was ancestor to those who were prompted by the prophecies of that day to follow the astrological signs that led them to the promise, the infant child of promise.
Yes a buddhist would and does judge all person according to his kind of religion. Do you know anyone steeped in religion, any religion, that does not judge and is not racist or is not superior? A minority religion may bung on false humility, but only till it establishes itself. NO religion is for peace. Even islam is submissive where it is a minority, which religion is peaceful in reality.
Its futile and argumentative to push an ungodly belief in any religion, every religion is exactly the same in essence. Can Buddah provide you with eternal life? How many profecies did he fulfilled?
Did he raised from the dead like Jesus? Did his disciples died for his teaching like the Christian disciples of the first century? Does Buddah provide love, joy, peace, patience…? If Buddah was a mere man, there is nothing he can do for other man spiritually talking.
Just meditating make you better than other people, really??? Meditation does indeed mellow you out…for real. If you practice Buddhism you will experience and give more love, more joy, more peace, more patience…that is true. Buddhism and Christianity arose independently of each other, separated as they were by almost 3, miles and at least years.
In terms of religious belief systems they are even farther apart. Many Buddhists, for instance, don't believe in a supreme being. Christianity is based on such a belief. The Buddha was careful to reject any efforts to label him a deity.
Christ claimed to be one with God. The Buddha taught his followers to find the Middle Way between poles of opposites such as good and evil.
Christ encouraged his disciples to choose the good and reject the evil. But despite the differences there exists an uncanny similarity in how an underlying mythology shaped the stories of the founders of these two world religions. We can't help but wonder if writers shaped their origin story to fit a mythological pattern of some kind.
The principle texts of both religions were written down only after decades, and in some cases centuries, had passed since the founder's death, leaving plenty of time to organize oral tradition into familiar and acceptable frameworks. How else can we explain such an uncanny similarity? Both Siddhartha Gautama, who was to become the Buddha, and Jesus of Nazareth, who was to become the Christ, are said to have left their homes in the prime of their lives, seeking truths that exist beyond the scope of most people's interest.
Both were eventually led into a wilderness where, alone, they faced the devil and his traditional three temptations. Scene of the Buddha's Great Departure from palatial life. Gandahara nd century. Guimet Museum. Personal photograph This scene depicts the "Great Departure" predestined being, he appears here surrounded by a halo, and accompanied by numerous guards, mithuna loving couples, and devata, come to pay homage. Siddhartha sat beneath the Bo tree where Mara, an old Hindu god and devil figure, confronted him.
Public Domain. Both emerged from that experience with a new teaching and immediately proclaimed their insights. The Buddha's first order of business was to deliver the famous Deer Park Discourse. The Buddha teaching the Four Noble Truths. Sanskrit manuscript.
Jesus preached what has come to be known as the Sermon on the Mount , wherein he outlined, in the Beatitudes , a model for Christian life. Both sermons detailed, in systematic fashion, how followers were to live out the precepts of the founders. Both then selected a group of twelve disciples—one of whom was to later become a betrayer. Although the Buddha lived on into old life, both men eventually died at the hands of another man, who they each forgave before succumbing to death.
The Buddha said, "Be ye lamps unto yourselves. The Buddha declared all matter in this world to be transitory. Jesus said: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. The Buddha's last words are said to be, "Work out your own salvation with diligence. The traditions that followed both men are equally interesting.
Both developed a system of priesthood, complete with rules and regulations for men who ascended to positions of leadership. Buddhism soon split into two different factions. The oldest, Theravada, venerated the living Buddha with statues traditionally cast in one of three different positions. The well-known lotus, or seated position, represents the founder in his enlightenment, the position of meditation.
The standing position represents Buddha the teacher. Buddha insisted that he was not divine, and that his problem with life was suffering of people and even animals. Some time after one would reach a state of happiness and bliss known as Nirvana where you will no longer be reborn into a life of suffering.
Jesus, on the other hand, claimed to be equal with God, and his mission was to come and save his people by getting them to repent of their sins, and to turn to him as the only means of salvation.
A major aspect of his ministry was on the emphasis of evil. The Buddha rejected the existence of God, and said that that was irrelevant to the notion of suffering 2. The Buddha made no claim to special inspiration or revelation from any divine source.
On the other hand Jesus was a monotheist he believed in one God , and accepted the Old Testament understanding as authoritative. He also claimed equal status with the one true God, and convinced many via his miracle working, his authority via his teachings, and most noticeably in his resurrection from the dead. To this end the Buddha and Jesus are quite different. Jesus was known to be a miracle worker by followers, foes and the surrounding people in villages.
This leads me to suggest that on historical grounds particularly due to their extreme earliness of reporting, and multiple attestation that Jesus really was a miracle worker. The only possible negation is that Jesus was some fraud of immense genius to fool thousands of people, his critics, and his followers whom suffered and died for him. However, such a possibility of Jesus being a fraud can be dismissed, for the reasons above, and because he went to his gory, bloody, and excruciating painful death by crucifixion as a result of his self-proclamation and ministry.
Jesus, with great historical certainty, really did perform wonders of healing and exorcisms. That is indisputable on historical grounds and is widely supported by modern scholarship. How does the Buddha fare with regards to miracles?
When he was a baby anywhere he placed his feet a lotus flower blossomed 7. At another time he allegedly performed the twin miracle whereby he produced flames from the upper part of his body and streams of water from the lower part of his body.
After this he took three giant steps and arrived in Tavatimsa. When he was there the Buddha preached the Abhidharma to his mother who had been reborn there as a Deva named Santussita. Contact Us. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy.
Jesus and Buddha Friday, December 8, Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM. Interfaith Friendship Jesus and Buddha Friday, December 8, In his book Jesus and Buddha , New Testament theologian Marcus Borg highlights numerous sayings in the teachings of Jesus that are strikingly similar, if not identical, to the teachings of the Buddha who lived some six centuries earlier.
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