2007-03-13 16:54:12 · 12 answers · asked by Avice 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Buddha's and Jesus' teachings coincide with each other. They both teach right and wrong action, love, peace, and forgiveness.
Buddha: Hatred does 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.
Jesus: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. From anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt. Give to everyone who begs from you; and if anyone takes away your goods, do not ask for them again.
2007-03-13 16:57:52 · answer #1 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Jesus and Buddha are perfect examples of the two religions, hoever, I tend to see more unrelated issues:
The view of Buddhism as a mystical religion far removed from the realities of the workaday world has been a major part of the faith's appeal in the West. Yet whether this picture of Buddhism-as-esoteric-religion is seen in a negative or positive light, it is still a flawed and one-dimensional portrait.
2007-03-14 00:01:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't. Buddhism might have some good precepts, but the two have nothing in common. Why? Because Jesus was the son of God who died on a cross to pay for our sins. Buddha has nothing whatsoever to do with salvation of any kind. Jesus claimed that He was the only way to the Father.
Yes Jesus taught mercy, love, patience, kindness and compassion. He also taught there is a heaven and a hell, and without forgiveness of sin, a person will go to hell when they die. Whether you agree with these statements or not, it's important to know that Buddhism is in no way compatible with Christianity.
2007-03-14 00:21:26 · answer #3 · answered by Esther 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Buddhism relate to Christianity through their beliefs of god's existence and their faith.
Just to know. Buddhism and Hinduism have allot to relate to, for example, the Buddha is actually a carnation of one of the Hindu gods Lord Vishnu.
2007-03-14 00:16:25 · answer #4 · answered by Sita 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Buddah was a man who claimed to understand the spiritual laws...how things on Earth work. He never claimed to be God. The Buddah founded a philosophy, not a religion.
Jesus claimed to be God. He came to announce the forgiveness of sin. Jesus revealed Truth, and made religion obsolete.
2007-03-14 00:23:10 · answer #5 · answered by "Ski" 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't.
The teachings of ' The Awakened One ' centres on finding the ' middle way '.....not like the Christians one-sided philosophy.
Any fool ( except a devout Christian ) knows that NOTHING exists in a pure state of good or evil......and if they try to tell you that ' God ' is the pinnacle of good....just remember that according to their teachings ' God ' created the Universe and everything in it (...and yes folks, that means he also created evil ).
2007-03-14 00:26:28 · answer #6 · answered by G.reaper 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Buddhism and Christianity are two totally different religions. Buddhism consists of idol worship, worshipping a false god called Buddha. Christianity worships God in heaven - no other God than the one who dwells in heaven. Buddhism also does not ahere to the teachings in the bible.
2007-03-14 00:05:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
It has ALOT in common with Gnosticism, and with the original teachings of Jesus Christ...
i.e.
Egoism bad
Don't judge people
Moderation
Desire is not good
Charity
Enlighten yourself before enlightening others
ect.
2007-03-14 00:01:25 · answer #8 · answered by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Siddhartha Gautama (who acquired the title "Buddha" which means "the awakened one") lived several hundred years before Jesus, and so far as we know, Jesus never heard of the Buddha's teachings. There is some speculation that Jesus might have traveled to the East and encountered Buddhist cultures, or that Buddhist monks came West and had some influence on cultures around the Mediterranean, but this is all speculation. No real historical evidence exists for any significant contact between Buddhism and the culture in which Jesus lived. And of course there are major differences in the Christian and Buddhist world views. Christians generally accept a "substance ontology" – they think the world consists of independent objects created by a transcendent God. Each object has its own essence and simply is what it is independently of everything else. God could have made a world composed of just mice, for example, if that is what he wanted to do. Buddha refused to answer metaphysical questions related to the nature of God, etc., because he was only interested in finding some practical method for alleviating suffering. He neither denied nor affirmed the existence of God. He also denied being a god.
When someone asked "Are you God?" he said "no". When they asked "Are you an angel?" Buddha said "no". When they asked "Are you a saint?", he said "no". But he was so vastly different than any sort of being that they had ever encountered, they just couldn't believe he was an ordinary man, so they finally asked "So what are you?" And his answer was "I am awake." He "woke up" and encountered the truth of human existence (The Four Nobel Truths, which includes the truth that unenlightened human life is suffering), and he saw the path to free ourselves from suffering (The Nobel Eight-Fold Path leading to enlightenment). Unlike Western cultures, the Buddha rejected substance ontology – he said that everything is impermanent and empty of enduring, independent substance. Everything is interconnected. Because of this radically different ontology, he was able to give reasonable arguments for why compassion is the key to ending suffering. We suffer because we have selfish desires; we have selfish desires because we believe that we are independent, substantial selves living in a world full of separate things, so we want to grasp these things and hold on to them. Once we fully realize that we are not independent substances, etc., we see the futility of trying to hold on to things in our ordinary, selfish way. We become self-less, so all of our desire become self-less. Notice we still have desires, but they are no longer selfish desires. We are compassionate because we have not sense of needing to promote our own self-interests above others.
What does this have to do with Jesus? Actually, a lot. Jesus also taught us to be selfless, but he had a different approach. Christians become self-less through their devotion to God. Where Buddha's method involved awakening to the ultimate truth of impermanence, Jesus' method involved awakening to our total dependence up a divine Other, namely, God. So long as the ultimate result is COMPASSION, I suspect it does not really matter too much in the long run which path you choose. The basic point of both paths is to get beyond an ego-centered view of life. In giving up your commitment to your personal ego, you transform your selfish desires into compassion for all beings. Buddha didn't really care so much about the details of exactly how you achieved this state of total compassion, he just knew that you had to achieve this state if you wanted to put an end to suffering. He offered a detailed plan we can follow, but he did not insist that we follow his exact teaching. His only concern is that we give up our egos and become compassionate. So Jesus and Buddha has two different plans, but the same goal in the long run. Now some Christians will complain at this point because Jesus said some specific things about needing to believe in God, but I am willing to bet my "immortal soul" that if an enlightened Buddhist could sit down today and discuss these point in detail with Jesus, then Jesus would NOT try to convert the Buddhist to Christianity. Why not? Because he would agree that compassion is the key, and that what the Buddhist experiences as enlightenment is just as good, in the grand scale of things, as what the Christians called Salvation, or acceptance of God's divine grace. Fundamentalist Christians won't like this idea because they want to interpret Jesus' statement "I am the way" literally as "you MUST believe specifically in me as your savior", etc., but I doubt that this is really what he meant. He knew that people needed to escape the prison of ego-centered desires, and at the time this was probably the only path he knew about, but this doesn't mean he would expect Buddhists to suffer in hell for eternity just because they never acknowledge the specific need to worship Christ as savior. Narrow-mindedness of this sort is part of the ego-centered prison that both Jesus and Buddha want to help us escape. It is specifically the ego's pride that insists that everyone must follow the path that I am on. The ego desires that everyone should accept my beliefs because the ego is unable to comprehend that its perspective on reality is not the only valid perspective. Compassion is NOT leading everyone down your own path because you think your path is the best for everyone. Compassion is helping each person find his or her own path – the path that leads each person to understand why each unique perspective exists in the first place. The ego wants to bend everyone to its own will; compassion wants to free everyone from the delusion of ego-centric existence. I'm fairly certain that Jesus and Buddha were both compassionate in this way, despite what certain fundamentalists might argue.
2007-03-14 13:03:13 · answer #9 · answered by eroticohio 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would just like to thankyou all for helping my friend and I out on our religion homework. We greatly appreciate it very much. And I am saying thanks to all of you since she can not cuz you can not answer your own question. = (
2007-03-14 00:10:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋