Dalai Lama

If anyone is seen as an Authority in buddhism, then they are instantly not in line with the teachings.

The Buddha left no one in charge, merely referring back to His instructions (The Pali Suttas) were His instructions.

No one is an Authority of The Dhamma, only The Buddha was, and Hes gone… so we have only The Dhamma to refer back to…

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Christ didnt abandoned anything.
In fact Judaïsm as a whole start existing from II to VIe century.

We should put a barrier between religion and its prophet. Religions exist out of a need for unity, whether or not they produce rules which seem insane today are a matter of time and perception.

I didnt quote exactly the right part of your post i think

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Christ was against traditional Judaism.

That is why he got so many enemies in Nazareth that led them to crucify him instead of Barabbas.

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And it’s not ironic that he left Judaism and didn’t have a religion

It’s as if they found some divine knowledge and then taught others a way of life which then got propagated through out the generations… almost as if they were prophets starting a religion.

But who knows

It’s as ironic as observing that people without countries tend to be the one who create new countries.

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Yea. Spiritual enlightenment seems to be some sort of extreme form of emancipation from every source that determines us to be/think/identify/behave in a specific way.

Psychological. Social. Sociological. Biological. Antropological. Cultural. Religious. Astrological. Energetic. Etc

He was not against traditional Judaïsm. There was not “traditional Judaïsm”, rabinic Judaïsm start existing from the 2nd century, for the first part, then there were a lot of différents schools of jewish people.

  • Sadducéens, Esséniens, Pharisiens, Samaritains.

Those who crucify Christ maybe were Pharisian, thats a spéculation.

Also his mission was rooted in Jewish tradition so he was not against Judaïsm.

He predicated against an authoritarian God based on fear and alienation to moralistic interpretations of the Bible, because he realized that most of Jewish predicators had their heads into their own asses.

So, basically he was against the entire root of Judaism. Its God.

He promoted a loving God based on forgiveness and love to the other, pretty much the opposite as the Jewish God based on fear and exclusivity (Jewish people believe they are the only special group of people selected by God).

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If one reads the Gospels, there’s an indication of a secret teaching. The Gnostics claim to know it, and maybe they are right.

Your statements are subject to a modern and derogatory interpretation of the Bible that does not consider all of Christ’s messages.

There, its totally incorrect.
Christ observed Jewish festivals, preached in synagogues (Luke 13:10-16); Jesus descended from David (Matthew 15:22; 20:30); he was referred to as the Son of David by his disciples. No, he was not against the roots of “Judaism”; he came to carry forward his message and transcend it. It’s entirely different.

Then you have a very modern interpretation and comprehension of what is Love or God’s Love.

Which Judaïsm he was against ? Pharisian’s one ? Which is totally different than Samaritain’s faith or Sadducéens or Essenian’s.

The Christians of the first two generations were predominantly Jews. Their goal at the time was not to establish a new religion but to persuade their fellow Jews that their Master, Jesus of Nazareth, was the Messiah foretold by the prophets. Before the year 70, the followers of the Nazarene, also known as Nazarenes, were just a faction within the diverse and pluralistic landscape of Judaism. There were Jewish Nazarenes, just as there were Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes, and others. It was after 70 that the Christian movement, referred to as “the sect of the Nazarenes” (Acts of the Apostles, 24:5), gradually gained complete autonomy from Rabbinic Judaism.

Most of Jewish people and predicators rejected Jesus as their Messiah, his followers did not intend to create a religion but to share his message. He was clearly a rebel against taxes, Roman empire, and a big part of Judaism.

The religion came much later on after a couple of centuries.

Thats debatable. John the Baptist for example, didnt reject Christ, he had his own disciples and baptized Christ.
Pharisian rejected Christ, but not all of them because Paul of Tarse was one of them.

Yes

Rebel is a modern judgment for a past situation, however Christ was not a rebel against Roman Empire, and obviously not against Judaïsm :

Envoys from the Pharisees and the Herodians try to trap Jesus by asking whether or not to pay taxes to the Roman emperor. Jesus calls them “hypocrites” and challenges them to show him a coin used for paying taxes and identify the image on it. They answer that it is Caesar, specifically Tiberius, who bore the title “Caesar” like all Roman emperors. Jesus responds, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.

Of course.

I’ll stop here, i understand your point of view, it was mine too.
Have a nice day

2016 wen I was going back and forth to China to learn qi gong .

Last trip was traveling from China to Tibet with the train and stoping in different places to do practice was called practice in movement for couple weeks.

Lhasa city - it was different world all together .

Potala palace ,- well as I was there walking iin area what is open to the public the corridors was high and narrow but all over was long big shelves from bottom to the top filed with books and just couple monks here and there passing by .
It felt almost half empty this big palace filed with so many different paintings, books , divine statues of many colors and corridor s.

As I was passing by from corridor to other I felt as I m walking in some different dimension It felt as some very powerful knowledge it’s in the deep state of sleep.

Was very different feeling but very alive .

Than we come in room with Lamas tombs well standing there and looking at them the best I can describe it !!

I felt as im standing suddenly in space ship as nothing there felt as human .

Was again very different odd feeling just very powerful but somehow unknown .

All this trip felt as there everything is in some sort different dimensions.

Woman can have many husband and thy all live together.

In one visit of local family house I ask woman how this work and she told me that everyone know wen she is with one of the men as one shoe stay in front of the bedroom doors and wen woman is pregnant nobody ask who is father as is not important .
One of reason its just more men’s than woman’s in that area .

Thy told me it’s more as old style but young generations don’t accept as much but is not completely gone .

Nyingchi district - we did walking tour , after couple hours of walking there are many little places to sitt and rest , in one of them was very old tiny men sitting in suite and smiling .
He was just there sitting and smiling I wondered :thinking: how this very , very old men manage to walk up this high as nothing accept wood was there at least not visible to my eye .

Other thing what stayed in my mind one afternoon I was sitting in front of the hotel and looking at busy street road, little motorcycle with carts passing by traffic was so busy .

Suddenly one men on motorcycle cart crashed , he was driving fruits and all fruit rolled on the road.
As he was just sitting on the road nobody wanted to help him , everyone was just passing by like he don’t exist . Then he call someone and after cca 40 min someone arrived help him collect the fruits and thy left

Later months ahead back home all braces and prayers beeds what I bought exploded .
Not all in the same time .
I wonder way thy all in time exploded , break .