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| If you had enlightenment in you, you were said to be “with Christ.” Those who were “filled with the spirit” were the ones who became the prophets. (145) The prophets we must remember, had to have finances and resources to write all this down and preserve it on parchment. Honestly, it makes me wonder if our use of the word “profit” in society derives from this very use of the word “prophet.” What is the highest goal of materialism and business? To make a “profit,” right? The church has made more profit off of Jesus than anything I can think of. The following is a list of comparisons between Gautama Buddha and Jesus Christ and we will see that Jesus teachings were nothing new from a spiritual perspective. A.) Buddha – “O foolish one! What is the use of wearing matted hair? What is the use of your wearing a garment made of antelope skin? In you, there is a forest (of moral defilements); you clean yourself only externally.” – (Dhammapada 394) A.) Christ – “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.” – (Matthew, XXIII 27-28) A.) Christ – “Then the Lord said to him, “Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also?” – (Luke, XI: 39-40) B.) Buddha – “Indeed we live very happily, not hating anyone among those who hate; among men who hate we live without hating anyone.” – (Dhammapada, V: 197) “Conquer the angry one by not getting angry (i.e., by loving-kindness); conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.” – (Dhammapada, V: 223) B.) Christ – “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.” – (Matthew, v: 43-45) C.) Buddha – “Kassapabuddha: Destroying living beings, killing, cutting, binding, stealing, speaking falsehood, fraud and deception, worthless reading, intercourse with another's wife; --this is Amagandha, but not the eating of flesh.” – (SUTTA-NIPATA 2.2.4) C.) Christ – “For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.” – (Matthew XV, 19-20) |
D.) Buddha – “All are afraid of violence, all hold their lives dear. Putting oneself in another's place, one should not beat or kill others.” – (Dhammapada, 130) D.) Christ – “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” – (Luke, vi: 31) D.) Vedic - “Listen to the sum total of the law; and having listened conform to it. Do not do to others what you do not like for yourself.” – (Mahabharata) E.) Buddha – “The fault of others is easily perceived, but of ourselves is difficult to perceive. A man winnows his neighbor’s fault like chaff, but his own faults he hides as a cheat hides the bad die from the gambler.” - Dhammapada E.) Christ – “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” – (Matthew, vii: 3) E.) Vedic – “A wicked man sees another’s faults even if they are so small as a mustard seed. But he is willfully blind to his own (faults), though they are as big as a Bel fruit.” – (Chanakyaniti) Jesus Christ is the Bread and Water of Life (Manna) Paintings of the “Manna from Heaven” exist from the Christian era, tucked away in manuscripts or hidden in plain view on church cathedral stained glass windows. In the Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves, there is a scene showing the collecting of the manna from heaven c. 1440 AD (66g). The “Miraculous Rain of Manna,” is depicted in a German Evangelical Church of St. John the Baptist, c. 1300 AD (64h), and the Great Malvern Priory in England, c. 1300-1400 AD, hosts a stained glass window with the manna colored in red and blue, colors of both A. muscaria and psilocybin (64i).  (64h) Miraculous Rain of Manna, German, Meldorf Evangelical Church Of St. John the Baptist C. 1300 AD (145) Cult of the Mother Goddess, p. 196 |
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