Was Jesus A Buddhist?

to me jesus' teachings are not those of the christian faith. his teachings are more along the lines of buddhism and hinduism to me. this is my own personal opinion so please do not judge me for that. i feel the whole story of jesus is misconstrued and i dont think anyone really knows who or what he was... where he came from.. or what faith he believed in... all i know is what i believe in my own opinions.

christianity has many flaws.. as do other religions. no one has it completely right. if anyone did... well then we would know all of lifes mysteries and secrets and where is the fun in that?

[edit on 31-8-2009 by calihan_12]

Oh boy ... I only gave you rope, but you did the rest to yourself.

reply to post by Nohup

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Interesting points. Thank you.

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I second that. Any religion who claims to hold the absolute truth is suspect to me. Short of his second coming we'll never know who Yeshua really was.

Jesus if he existed probably never traveled outside of Israel during his adult life. I don't believe he was a Buddhist.

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thank you i concurr lovely point accept that he did travel the world and so did his apostles to teach the world the knowledge and love of christ to teach about god and and his peace he will comeback with the sword of mouth in other words he will conquer the world with preaching, you dont here much bhuddists preach do you? nope you wont they are so selfish they withdraw themselves from the world and play part in hardly anyones life that they appear selfless surely thats not was intended look at how outgoing jesus was compared to how a bhudda was big difference.

Jesus never left Israel, because it didn't exist at that time. He lived in a place called Palestine. Israel was founded on May 14, 1948.

Can you tell me how many years Jesus travelled and preached? Then compare that number to Gautama, the historical Buddha. You would be surprised.

I'm trying to tell you as gently as I can: Buddhism is not your enemy and I'm sure you would benefit from studying the basic concepts. They are in accordance with Jesus' teachings.

Hi Nichiren--

I can hardly think that R. Yehoshua bar Yosef the Galilean Nazir, executed for armed sedition against Rome (in breach of Lex Maiestatis) by arming his disciples with swords on the hill (Lukre 22:40-50) and who preached End of Days Apocalyptic Panic ('The Times of the Amorites are fulfilled-repent now and believe the good news of the (coming) Kingdom of [David, ordained by Heaven]' had anything whatsoever to do with Gautama Buddha who never in his whole life armed his disciples with swords and told them 'fear not man who can merely destroy your bodies [in Battle], but cannot destroy your 'Nephesh' (something like 'breath-of-life-essence' cf: Nophesh, meaning 'esophagus' or 'breathing apparatus' etc.) ) : only fear Him who CAN destroy both your body and your Nephesh in the Eternal Fires of Hinnom !'

I don't pick up any Apocalyptic 'Hate the filthy gentile dogs' (see Matt Chapter 15:12-22 where Syrophonecian gentiles are called DOGS) rhetoric coming out of Gautama Buddha (or at least from any words placed into his mouth according to the later traditions...), but there is plenty of this vomit coming out of the (alleged) mouth of R. Yehoshua in the 4 Greek gospels in the socalled New Testament -- and those were the ones that were APPROVED !!!! (can you imagine the vitriol of the original oral Aramaic preaching ?! Must have been worse than the racist-zionism of the Dead Sea Scroll fragments !)

Maybe you need to take a Greek and Aramaic class sometime to brush up on your Yehusan sayings a little? You might be not a little shocked by what you discover if you only dig a little deeper !!!!!!!

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Sigismundus,

Look, it's easy to trash one "guru" and idolize another: The historical Buddha taught for almost 40 years that women cannot reach enlightenment. WTF!

I believe that Jesus was an enlightened being. Did he write down the accounts of the NT. I don't think so. Do we get a distorted picture of the man when we believe in all the accounts in the NT. I have my suspicions, but I let you be the judge.

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in response to your original post, yes jesus was a buddhist, and one that had attained elightenment.

I honestly didnt wade through all 14? pages of this post, but what i did read a couple of people mentioned the buddhist saint, who name was essa.

Essa of Naz arrived in the hindu-kush with a returing caravan, when he was 14-15 years old.
He ended up in a monastery in the area and began to study the teachings of the buddha. After several years of study he became a wandering "preacher", travelling from villiage to villiage spreading his message of peace and harmony with ones neighbor. He preached against the innequities of the indian caste system.
He made such a name for himself, that he is mentiuoned by name in texts of the day as he passed through indian cities.
He ended up in a monastery in nepal, one that reportedly still has his original writings.
It was at this point in his studies it is said that he attained elightenment.
he left the monastery in his twenties and returned to his home.
He returned many years later with a story of surviving being crucified, and continued to preach his ministry for many years before his death.
He is currently buried in a tomb in the hindu-kush.
His tomb like, several other sites in the hindu-kush and himalya, are revered by hindu, buddhist,muslim and christian alike.
There is a buddhist sect that still reveres him to this day.

After 6 years of studying, meditating, and having direct experiences of God and spiritual realities including the same kind that Jesus had ....as an outcom of following in Jesus' footsteps ...

....I can say yes, definitely.

The big secret revealed to me is that the Gospel of Thomas is factually the words of Jesus. Everything there didn't mak sense to me until I experienced what is being said. Basically Jesus says that what's in Thomas is secret teachings..... then goes on to say things in non-dual forms and self inquiry, such as "Know thyself, and you will know God"

Also, in Buddhism there is a Baptismal ceremony to cleanse one of past Karma.

Imagine a guy truing to explain Buddhist concepts to a bunch of Hard headed pagan Jews who were hell bent on sacrificing innocent animals for their own wrong doings and anything that went wrong was God's punishment.

So in turn he had to use 'parables" to talk about ego death and spiritual awakening.

Jesus probably never traveled outside of Israel so no.

Jesus was humble. So I do not believe Jesus spoke for or against any one certain people. Jesus would of taught his parables in many places if it was possible, for he loved everyone, even asked forgiveness for the ones that took his Earthly life.

There are too many stories of a wise teacher baring a name similar to Jesus in other lands. The word Israel is a word that is Spiritual and needs understanding. Its not about a special land or people. It was the 'thoughts' that were in twined with Israel that Jesus called them out on many times...which is why many didnt follow his way, for it was not the way they believed in.

He probably spent more time learning in the other lands and then brought the light to the land that needed it most.

So many just dont seem to care that the Holy Word of God in the Bible leaves out much about Jesus and his growing up. But yet we were passed on the thought that he was teaching at such a young age in other texts.

I believe with all my heart Jesus was against the blood sacrifices. I believe with all my heart that this is what angered Jesus at the Temple, for the people were selling life (animals) so the animals could be killed (sacrificed).

If you realize you are a part of Spirit and that Spirit needs nothing of Earthly value, like blood, the taking of life, the taking of Spirit.....then it is the worst thing against the Divine to take life and shed blood.

Hi LeoVirgo--

You claim that R. Yehoshua bar Yosef the Galilean Nazir was 'humble' but 'humble' people don't generally get themselves crucified for armed sedition against Rome during 100-year anniversaries of Roman Invasions (BC 63 to 36 CE)

e.g. 'Do you dare to come out against the Son of Man (Aram, Bar-Enasha) with your clubs and your swords and torches, as if apprehending a common thief in night?'

Doesn't sound too 'humble' to me, especially in the Koine 1st Century Greek placed into his mouth in the 'nicene council' approved canonical Greek gospels...

Jesus was not his name originally. It was Emmanuel. And for the record he and his followers were Communists... as in commune

What name exactly was in the record Calihan? Jesus? Yeshua?