Spiritual Forum

The One Two Punch of

Buddhism and Christianity.

I will feebly try to describe how Buddhism

and Christianity are an interlocked message

of escape from illusion. Perhaps you can 

overlook the simple way I express thoughts. 

When Buddha said He was awake, it meant he saw he

was the maker of the whole world. He became one with

the thought form that made the universe. This oneness

can be likened to the first step out of time and space.

Yet this is a oneness with all things. The soul's

eye has intuited multiplicity as formed by one universal

foundational thought. Understand that the soul's eye is

still looking at a universe that is self generated by the

soul's attention toward it.

In this oversimplified analogy of Buddhism, God is not addressed. Things

pop in and out of existence because they just do. They rise and fall back

again as the dance of Lila. Changing shapes and thought forms and times.

A very beautiful illusion of one single thought appearing in billions of ways.

Then, 500 years later, Jesus appears. Surely His timing is no accident.

It would be difficult to think otherwise. He arrives to augment Buddha's 

message. Unlike (generally speaking) Buddha, He speaks of God and forgiveness.

Here it is in an imperfect nutshell-

Ok says Jesus. You've had 500 years to chew on the fact that one big

thought made the universe of duality. It is a grand notion to awaken to, 

is it not? You see there is no birth and death but an eternal illusion of 

living and dying. Yet what does eternity (God) have to do with things 

that only seem to live and die in time? You are still psychologically

bound to a self generated universe. 

Understand forgiveness brother. Now that you know you are the maker

of the space time conundrum, forgive yourself for making it up.

You project a world of time and space to hide in, yet still ascribe it to

some compelling mystery. Forgive yourself for forgiveness is the only 

activity that can neutralize the unconscious guilt and fear that began

and maintains your dream.You must forgive the dance of Lila. Forgive 

yourself and you brother for all your self made perceptions. (Is there

another kind?) Projection makes perception. You are not only the

whole audience; you are the movie projector.

The universe is not your home. It's your hiding place.

If one finds any truth in the story, it can be made better

by thinking of Jesus and Buddha as equal brothers.

Consider Buddha had 500 years to further unfold before

Jesus appeared. 

The beauty to me of the story is I can practice both messages

at the same time. I can become intimate with and join the one

thought that made the world.  And, i can at the same time forgive

the thought's purpose..  and maybe one day discover I was

home all along.