Dhammañāṇa Bhikkhu
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Atma thought that some might like to go into such comparative topic.
Just leaving "no should"s but "if, then" as additional teaser.
Buddha vs. Jesus (comparative study)
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Just leaving "no should"s but "if, then" as additional teaser.
OupaPiet
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HHhhhu???
Dhammañāṇa Bhikkhu
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So then, good OupaPiet: Why does one follow Jesus and not the Buddha? (Or vici versa)
OupaPiet
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Without going into the detail, which will be numerous threads on this forum,
He appeared 2 000 years ago in the Jewish environment where there were ancient books saying
He will be born from a virgin,
will teach the will of God,
Will do wonders.
will be killed for claiming He was the Word of God incarnated on Earth,
will remain in the grave for 3 days.
Will ride from the dead to be evidence that He destroyed "Death" and that whoever believes in Him, will also gain immortality in the presence of God.
Now, the above was witnessed by more than 5 00 people, of which His Mother, brothers and apostles.
3 of His disciples wrote their recollections in the 'Gospels" and one apostle had someone writing the 4th gospel down for him.
There are prophecies in the Jewish scriptures detailing Jesus as the God who will come to His people on Earth.
OK, so how can we trust the Jewish TANAKH (Scriptures)?
Easy, there are no nook on Earth that has the history of 4 000 years written down, which was comfirmed in every detail in archaeology.
Places, Names, events... more than 3 000 such instances are confirmed by archaeology.
OK, so what? It can be only a nice historical book!
Yip, but then again, the description given by this God of the Bible on the origins of the Universe resulted in the cosmological sciences we have today.
Even Emmanuel Kant wrote his thesis on the history of the Universe on the principles of Newton in 1775, where he gave the exact Nebular theory, which was confirmed in 1925 by Hubble.
Guess what?
The atheist scientific world hates it when you show them these facts., because they will have to admit that modern scientific understanding of the Origins of the Universe came from Genesis 1!
This is what Kant says in one picture. Note I took the picture from Nigel Hennbest's book who explains the Nebular theory.
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OupaPiet
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OK, With all that said, why do you say we should follow Buddha.
Dhammañāṇa Bhikkhu
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The greedy what it all... No, no, spirituality is about letting go of what's no refuge to be able to take on more sublime, good householder.
Dhammañāṇa Bhikkhu
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Goood householder didn't made any comparison yet.
Faithfulservant
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Simple for me. Jesus is God Almighty. Buddha was not. Jesus is alive Buddha is dead. Imo
Dhammañāṇa Bhikkhu
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Does good householder know them, or better what they told, tell?
Faithfulservant
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I know Jesus. I know Him from His Word and I know Him from prayer. If you have a relationship with Him then you would never doubt He is real and present in your life. IMO
Tony Bristow-Stagg
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A great reason to embrace the One God with many names and many dawnings points. When we do, the Sun that rises in each new day, is the same sun that arose in the "days", centuries and aeons gone before
Regards Tony
Dhammañāṇa Bhikkhu
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Sure? Own perceptions might be different from that of teacher. "Eating" teacher isn't something uncommon.
So what does he teach yours to do and not to do, to gain pleasing in this world and the next.
Dhammañāṇa Bhikkhu
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Oldage, sickness and death either. So what does "the sun" suggest to go beyond the whole mass of suffering, good Tony?
Tony Bristow-Stagg
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I see it asks us to go beyond our own selves Dhammañāṇa Bhikkhu.
Regards Tony
Dhammañāṇa Bhikkhu
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The comparison would be in regard of this, yes, in regard of what to do to fall not into the trap of holding on something, subject to decay, again.
Going beyond of what's not regardable as own, no refuge, a cancer.
Faithfulservant
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The answer to this question would take days. I do not understand "eating" used in this context.
I will say the main points are that Jesus is the only means of salvation. Love God and love your neighbor. Don't shore up rewards on this Earth but shore up rewards in Heaven. Faith is the only thing that pleases God.
Dhammañāṇa Bhikkhu
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"eating" here means to elevate oneself by one's teacher, use reputations for own or different interests, good householder. Not always, but merely seldom, do disciples of teachers with good reputation actualky follow the taught, but simply "eat" their teacher.
Doing for heavens, and able to let go of gross sensual, is already good. Generosity and virtue (not harm) would lead to heavenly existence, at least of lower realms. Yet such existence, if gained, has it's end, isn't for sure.
What about the Brahma realms, those realms without desire for sensuality? An existence there is far longer.
Faithfulservant
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In your belief maybe. For me heaven is eternal and the final reward is to be in the presence of God. Time is is only thing here on earth in heaven there is no time.
Tony Bristow-Stagg
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I see the same principle was offered in a different frame of reference.
The symbol of the bread and the wine, eating of the knowledge of Jesus as the Christ and drinking of the wine and being intoxicated by the Love of God.
In essence we eat and drink of the "Word of God" given by Jesus the Christ, our teacher. By doing this we are immersed in the Love and Knowledge of God.
Regards Tony