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.
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