Similarities

[sky]

Identical Teachings of Buddha and Christ

1."Do to others as you would have them do to you." (Luke 6:31)"Consider others as yourI do not judge either,

I do not judge either,

self." (Dhammapada 10:1)2."If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also." (Luke 6:29)

"If anyone should give you a blow with his hand, with a stick, or with a knife, you should abandon any desires and utter no evil words." (Majjhima Nikaya 21:6)

3.

"But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you." (Luke 6:27-28)

"Hatreds do not ever cease in this world by hating, but by love: this is an eternal truth. Overcome anger by love, overcome evil by good ... Overcome the miser by giving, overcome the liar by truth." (Dhammapada 1.5*&*17.3)

4.

"He will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’" (Matthew 25:45)

"If you do not tend one another, then who is there to tend to you? Whoever would tend me, he should tend the sick." (Vinaya, Mahavagga 8:26:3)

5.

"Put your sword back in its place,”*Jesus said to him,*“for all who draw the sword will die by the sword." (Matthew 26:52)

"Abandoning the taking of life, the ascetic Gautama dwells refraining from taking life, without stick or sword." (Digha Nikaya 1:1:8)

6.

"My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends." (John 15:12-13)

"Just as a mother would protect her only child at the risk of her own life, even so, cultivate a boundless heart towards all beings. Let your thoughts of boundless love pervade the whole world." (Sutta Nipata 149-150)

7."For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." (John 1:17)

"The body of the Buddha is born of love, patience, gentleness and truth."*(Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra 2)

8.

"He told them another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches." (Matthew 13:31-32)

"Do not underestimate good, thinking it will not affect you. Dripping water can fill a pitcher, drop by drop; one who is wise is filled with good, even if one accumulates it little by little." (Dhammapada 9:7)

9.

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye." (Luke 6:41-42)

"The faults of others are easier to see than one's own; the faults of others are easily seen, for they are sifted like chaff, but one's own faults are hard to see. This is like the cheat who hides his dice and shows the dice of his opponent, calling attention to the other's shortcomings, continually thinking of accusing him." (Udanavarga 27:1)

10.

"They said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" He said to them, "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." (John 8:4-7)

"Do not look at the faults of others, or what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done and have not done." (Dhammapada 4:7)

11.

"Your eye is the lamp of your body. If your eye is healthy your whole body is full of light; but if it is not healthy, your body is full of darkness. Therefore consider whether the light in you is full of darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be as full of light as when a lamp gives you light with its rays." (Luke 11:34-36)

"As a man with eyes who carries a lamp sees all objects, so too with one who has heard the Moral Law. He will become perfectly wise." (Udanavarga 22:4)

12.

"Your father in heaven makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous." (Matthew 5:45)

"That great cloud rains down on all whether their nature is superior or inferior. The light of the sun and the moon illuminates the whole world, both him who does well and him who does ill, both him who stands high and him who stands low." (Saddharma Pundarika Sutra 5)

13."Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God." (Luke 6:20)

"Let us live most happily, possessing nothing; let us feed on joy, like the radiant gods." (Dhammapada 15:4)

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"If you wish to be perfect, go sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven." (Matthew 19:21)

"The avaricious do not go to heaven, the foolish do not extol charity. The wise one, however, rejoicing in charity, becomes thereby happy in the beyond." (Dhammapada 13:11)

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"He looked up and saw rich people putting their gifts into the treasury; he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them; for all of them have contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on." (Luke 21:1-4)

"Giving is the noble expression of the benevolence of the mighty. Even dust, given in childish innocence, is a good gift. No gift that is given in good faith to a worthy recipient can be called small; it effects us so great." (Jatakamala 3:23)

16."Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die." (John 11:26)

"Those who have sufficient faith in me, sufficient love for me, are all headed for heaven or beyond." (Majjhima Nikaya 22:47)

17.

"Those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it." (Mark 8:35)

"With the relinquishing of all thought and egotism, the enlightened one is liberated through not clinging." (Majjhima Nikaya 72:15)

18.

"Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head." (Matthew 8:20)

"The thoughtful exert themselves; they do not delight in an abode. Like swans who have left their lake they leave their house and home." (Majjhima Nikaya)

19.

"When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him until an opportune time." (Luke 4:13)

"During the six years that the Bodhisattva practiced austerities, the demon followed behind him step by step, seeking an opportunity to harm him. But he found no opportunity whatsoever and went away discouraged and discontent." (Lalitavistara Sutra 18)

20."Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." (Matthew 5:8)

"Anyone who enters into meditation on compassion can see Brahma with his own eyes, talk to him face to face and consult with him." (Digha Nikaya 19:43)

21."Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them." (John 20:26)"He goes unhindered through a wall." (Anguttara Nikaya 3:60)22.

"And after six days Jesus takes with him Peter, and James, and John, and leads them up into a high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them. And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on Earth can white them." (Mark 9:2-3)

"Ananda, having arranged one set of golden robes on the body of the Lord, observed that against the Lord's body it appeared dulled. And he said, "It is wonderful, Lord, it is marvelous how clear and bright the Lord's skin appears! It looks even brighter than the golden robes in which it is clothed." (Digha Nikaya 16:4:37)

[sky]

http://www.near-death.com/reincarnat...us/buddha.html



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Above is the link for those interested.

[knightofalbion]

Truth is Truth. A world teacher will present the same Truth, albeit in their own personal interpretation and manner. So, great similarity across all the great teachers of the Light.
And similarities also in the lives and preparation of the great teachers.

[Miss Hepburn]

I thought it was great...and I love that NDE site.

[theophilus]

Buddha and Christ may have taught the same things but none of us can fully live up to their teachings and when we realize that fact we discover the difference between them.

Buddha showed us how we should live but provides no help for those who fail to live up to his teaching.

Christ showed us how we should live but through his death and resurrection he provides forgiveness for out failure to fully obey his teachings. Here is a link to a site that will show you how you can experience this forgiveness.

https://carm.org/answers-for-seekers

[Serrao]

It reminds me of a saying:
All rivers flow towards the same ocean.

[SeaZen]

Very cool Sky! It just goes to show the commonality of all spiritual teachings and how they transcend religion.

It's too bad that mankind (i usually use the term humankind but in this case it is the men that are responsible) has attempted to put these teachings in exclusive boxes called religion and claim their box as truth and everyone else false.

[Amilius777]

The only way you can fail to live up to their teachings is if you choose NOT to do what they say.

I don't believe that Jesus had to die because people can't be good naturally. That line of thinking kinda makes everything pointless.

Jesus and Buddha were two enlightened beings along with several others who incarnated on this Earth. They didn't just stumble upon their Enlightenment. They were destined from a long journey of spiritual evolution.

They both spoke and thought from a higher-vibrational awareness. Their energy-field was full of Light when they walked in human flesh.

The difference between Christ and Buddha is this.

Among his peers and followers, Jesus was seen as someone without "sin". Sin in the sense that he didn't allow his ego at any time in his life to take hold over him and block out the Spirit. I think Siddhartha lived half of his life in luxury and material happiness and dense thinking. It was suffering of others that propelled him to want to reach a higher consciousness. But he wouldn't have become the awakened one if he wasn't an advanced soul to begin with.

Jesus was so innocent and pure of heart that I feel from a "psychic sense" (Now I am not a professional psychic, just my own intuition) that Jesus took on incarnation for the sake of humanity and not for anything of himself.

He was so passionate about the "kingdom of God" that he taught in healing the sick, eating with prostitutes, befriending the marginalized, enjoying a feast with all types of people,- that he was willing to suffer at the hands of ignorant and violent humanity to align himself with the Universal laws (ancient thinking called it "obedience to God the Father")

The last thing he conquered was his enemies and he did it through forgiveness as he taught. He expressed God's Laws and way of being even in his sacrificial death.
In a symbolic sense "he took on the sins of the world". The fact that he had a choice to flee or fight back at his enemies and instead chose to hand himself over, to hand over his Earthly ego for the sake of alignment and at-one-ment with the Law of Love and God; always brings tears to my eyes. Because I can see that if such oneness with the Universal Laws and love for enemies was evident in one Man, it can be evident in all of us.

But Jesus and the Buddha were both high-consciousness persons. Through their teachings you can find the Truths of life.

I find myself quoting Buddha more in my head. My favorite of his was to question everything you heard no matter who said it. You must experience it first for yourself if it is True. Whereas Jesus was more radical and in your face about the Truth he experienced. He would say "I Am the Way! No one else comes to the Father but by me!" Remember he lived during a time when other people were claiming to be the Christ. Jesus was also a very innocent and childlike individual. A lot of people misunderstood his passion, naivety and zeal for arrogance and blasphemy. It just shows in my opinion how foreign his soul was to the Earth since he only came here for the benefit of the world.