2007-03-28 08:57:05 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
those of you who gave negative ratings, do you have anything you'd like to add, or is passive agressiveness good enough for you?
2007-03-28 09:13:23 · update #1
Man the christians aren't going to be happy about this..
Jesus- Known as the 'Christ' - the perfect being
Siddharta Gautama- Known as the 'Buddha' - the perfect being
There are so many parallels that I think if Jesus saw the state of religion these days he would become a buddhist. After all buddhists only focus on peace, forgiveness, compassion, humility and helping others regardless of what they think and feel. They are also for thinking things through for yourself, and questioning everything as opposed to just accepting everything you read as fact.
Selfless buddhists near enlightenment (called Bodhisattvas), swear an oath to spend all of their existance doing nothing but helping others selflessly. Sounds like Jesus took that vow too if you ask me..
2007-03-28 09:00:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The Dhammapadda? I am going to see if I can find out more about that and come back later. Oh! Dahrma! Buddha!
I have always had the feeling that he travelled around the Middle East and into India! I see a relationship to certain aspects of Hinduism as well! Wow! Makes sense.
I wouldn't see influence as plagirism...but I get your point. Besides the Bible itself was not written down in the moment...three hundred years went by!!!!!!So add that to your five hundred. Hmmm. Get'n up there!
The Bible, scribes and the whole nine yards! So it is plausible and people involved in the text of the evolution of the Bible (Oh I just have such a smile using the word evolution in this context, LOL!) would or may have been aware of this teaching, especially in educated quarters. There is always the facter of universality!Don't foreget that !
Jesus spent all that time in the desert. He 'went within' and did the work. He was a seeker!!!!!
Love Jesus, love Buddha. All is well... except with religion.
Thanks for this question!
Peace!
2007-03-28 09:54:38 · answer #2 · answered by Jamie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was curious when I first heard this, so I checked it out to see...Jesus did not repeat word for word, but the ideas are basically the same.
In the words of the alien in the movie "Enemy Mine" (if you haven't seen it, you should) "Truth is Truth".....
Certainly you are not going to tell me that the Beatitudes are not truth? Or that Jesus must not be Who He says He is because He told the truth?
After all, how many people have heard of the dhammapadda, as opposed to how many people know the Sermon on the Mount??
2007-03-28 09:18:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not borrowing or plagiarizing -- The world's religions simply draw on the same source of inspiration in the same way that wells draw from one source of ground water. Think of "god" as the water and religions as the well.
Also is not inconceivable that two religious leaders could have the same ideas independent of one another in much the same way that two or more scientists often discover the same scientific principle independently of one another.
2007-03-28 09:57:49 · answer #4 · answered by Cacaoatl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who's to say Jesus didn't do the same thing Siddhartha did and come to the same conclusions? There is a period of time where the man's life was NOT documented... so say he saw the suffering of his (Jesus') own people, like Siddhartha did as a Prince, and went and plunked down and meditated on it and came up with the same conclusions?
*w* Food for thought.
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2007-03-28 09:08:07 · answer #5 · answered by vinslave 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Does that particular manuscript yet exist? If not, just how do you know it ever did? That would have to be 2500 years old, or so. It's hard to find any manuscript over 1500 years old. Mostly just pieces of some. Even the Dead Sea Scrolls are not quite 2000 years old.
2007-03-28 09:18:27 · answer #6 · answered by hillbilly 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most spiritual leaders say the same thing. But sometimes, people need to be smacked upside the head with those very same teachings again.
2007-03-28 09:01:25 · answer #7 · answered by mamasquirrel 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Jesus was born Jewish but chose Buddhism............A comment such as mine is ment to shake the so called tree and wake the victim's up. To depend upon another for ones own salvation goes against the true teachings.
2007-03-28 09:01:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I totally agree with you 100%
2007-03-28 09:05:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus knew the people He was talking to knew the Old Testament. Jesus often quoted from the Old Testament to make His point more valid to those who knew the Old Testament best, (Scribes, Pharissees, and Sadducees, and Publicans).
2007-03-28 09:03:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋