Proposal, Kindred Souls, Kindred Sayings
Jesus Christ and the Buddha:
240 Astonishing, Original Quotes to Spark Awakening
Introduction:
If there ever was a book to spark a religious war, this is it. Many recently-unearthed authentic quotes, hidden from public view for centuries, reveal vast differences between the teachings of these two great prophets. Raised as a Christian for my first 10 years, I embraced Buddhism at 22 years, and later married D.Thinley, Dharma teacher of 27,000 students. We live in Thimphu, Bhutan. I dare you to read this book. Srijana aka Jane Barthelemy.
Proposal Contents
By Srijana (Jane Barthelemy)
janebar108@live.com
Thimphu, Bhutan
Proposal words 8,168
Manuscript Words 15,000
Website: https://fiveseasonsmedicine.com
Purpose of the Book:
To alter our reality and remove rigidity in human minds worldwide. I hope it will gently break all religious stereotypes.
Marketing possibilities
This is a comprehensive collection of sayings for English speakers, with links to online sources. It could be focused on a particular subject or point of view. Or for adults as bedtime reading to slowly blow your mind away. Or any combination thereof. Or as a cell app.
Parallel Books
12 Chapters, Sayings of Jesus Christ and the Buddha
4 Sample Chapters:
- They Came to Change the World
- Golden Rule
- Impermanence
- Lifestyle: Food, Body, Clothes
Other remaining chapters: - Entitlement, Privilege, Money
- Web of Consciousness, Karma
- Generosity
- True Power of Integrity and Virtue
- Seven Deadly Sins
- Discipline, Inner Strength, Tolerance
- Secret Teachings of Enlightenment
- Last Days, Don’t Wait for Tomorrow
Book Introduction
Two brilliant spiritual leaders helped create the foundations of modern religion. Jesus Christ (Yeshua) and the Buddha were born over 2,000 years ago, within 500 years of each other. We are fortunate to find many of their original words and to explore their true natures. This book is a collection 240 sayings, probably authentic, 120 each, by Yeshua and the Buddha. Many of their words are similar, however others are surprisingly diverse, astonishing, and previously unknown. Here are some of the few fragments available to help us read into the hearts of two great men. This book is not a contest. I hope we can view it with a clear and open mind, to compare and understand the roots of our own beliefs. My goal in offering this collection is to forge a powerful path to world awakening, to unify East and West.
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ, or Yeshua, planted powerful seeds of Christ Consciousness through his actions and words. He lived a very short life, less than 35 years.
Yeshua’s sayings, probably in Aramaic, were written down by his followers in various collections and languages of the time. The sayings of Yeshua in this book are from the Bible New Testament and two lost gospels: The Gospel of Thomas and the Book of Thomas the Contender.
Jesus Many sayings of Jesus were assembled into the Bible New Testament during the four centuries after his crucifixion. The earliest version of the New Testament is believed to be the 4th-Century Codex Sinaiticus in Greek. This New Testament contains several hundred well-known sayings of Yeshua, including “Do Unto Others” and “Do Not Judge”.
Another collection of hidden sayings of Yeshua were discovered at Nag Hammadi in Southern Egypt in 1945. Thirteen leather-bound papyrus texts buried in a sealed jar were found by a local farmer. They are Coptic translations of Greek Gnostic documents. The texts may have come from an Egyptian monastery but were hidden after Gnostic literature was categorically rejected by decree of Christian authorities in 367 CE. It is likely that these quotes are authentic.
From these quotes we can clearly say Yeshua was a revolutionary dedicated to teaching the path to Christ Consciousness, Ascension, and to Destroying the status quo. We can only hope these sayings are authentic, however many things have been altered, and we cannot know for sure.
Gautama Buddha
Gautama Buddha lived in India about 500 years before Christ. He was born to be a King, but refused that role in life, and instead devoted himself to teaching the Path of spiritual liberation to end suffering for all people. Gautama Buddha was part of an ancient tradition of countless other “Buddhas”, meaning “Enlightened Beings”, spanning thousands of years. He saw suffering, misery, and death in the world and gave up everything to discover the answer to end suffering. He achieved enlightenment and taught the secrets for many years until the ripe old age of 80, leaving a vast library of quotes, wisdom teachings. He effectively rebirthed a sort of “religion” that’s not a religion, because it has no God.
The following sayings of the Buddha are from many sources, including the voluminous Tibetan Kangyur, now being translated by a team of experts at 84000.co with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, as well as the huge Pali Canon which was transcribed onto palm leaves several centuries after the Buddha’s passing. Together, these vast volumes comprise the basis of Buddhism, with thousands of his authentic quotes, far more than we can find for Jesus Christ from any source. These words of the Buddha are believed to outline the secrets to Enlightenment.
- They Came to Change the World.
Both Masters used metaphors of fire and light to describe their mission and its lasting impact.
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” Yeshua
John 8:12
“I am the light of the world. I spread the light of knowledge wisdom; I conquer the darkness of ignorance. I hold the torch; I am the bright light.” Buddha
Tibetan Kangyur, ༄༅། །ཤེས་ཕྱིན་ཁྲི་པ། །
Dasasahasrikaprajñaparamita 26.234
Jesus said, “I’ve cast fire on the world, and look, I’m watching over it until it blazes.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas 10,
Jesus said: “I will des[troy this] house, and none shall able to build it [again].”
Gospel of Thomas 71
Jesus saith, “Many of you think that I have come to establish peace upon the earth. I will not bring peace, but dissension, fire, sword, and war. Families will be divided because of me, friends shall cease from one another, nations shall join in battle. Yea, those who would follow me must be willing to forsake all and to stand alone if they would inherit the kingdom of my Father.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas, Saying 8, The Lost Books of The Bible
https://thelostbooks.org/the-sayings-of-jesus/
Jesus said, “He who is near me is near the fire, and he who is far from me is far from the kingdom.”
Gospel of Thomas Saying 82, tr. Mark M. Mattison
Jesus said, “I stood in the middle of the world and appeared to them in the flesh. I found them all drunk; I didn’t find any of them thirsty. My soul ached for the children of humanity, because they were blind in their hearts and couldn’t see. They came into the world empty and plan on leaving the world empty. Meanwhile, they’re drunk. When they shake off their wine, then they’ll change.”
Thomas Saying 28
Jesus said, “I’ll give you what no eye has ever seen, no ear has ever heard, no hand has ever touched, and no human mind has ever thought.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas 14
Jesus said: “I am the light that is over them all. I am the All; the All has come forth from me, and the All has attained unto me. Cleave a (piece of) wood: I am there. Raise up the stone, an ye shall find me there.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas 77
“I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.” Yeshua
John 10:10, The Message Bible
“There is a light within a man of light, and it gives light to the whole world. If it does not give light, there is darkness.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas, Saying 24
“The truth is the light that enlightens all who come into the world.” Yeshua
Nag Hammadi, Gospel of Truth
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.”
Matthew 5:14-16
John answered and said to them all, “As for me, I baptize you with water; but One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to untie the thong of His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”
Luke 3:16, New American Standard Bible
On Separating the wheat from the chaff:
“I baptize you with water to show that your hearts and lives have changed. But there is one coming after me who is greater than I am, whose sandals I am not good enough to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
He will come ready to clean the grain, separating the good grain from the chaff. He will put the good part of the grain into his barn, but he will burn the chaff with a fire that cannot be put out.”
Matthew 3:12-13, New Century Version
How did the Buddha “Turn the Wheel of Dharma”, to Change our Destiny Path Forever?
Ancient legends in India foretold that a great Raja or King would conquer the world, and he would be called the “The Wheel-Turning King” (Rajacakkavattin) and he would be unconquerable. His power to alter human destiny is symbolically expressed by the Wheel (Cakka) which once turned, can never be turned back. The Cakka was a wheel-like weapon used in wars in ancient India. The Dharma Wheel is a metaphor for the teachings or sacred path of Buddhism. The Buddha taught people how to re-train body, mind, and spirit to harmonize with the great trichiliocosm, meaning the vast multiverse of infinite realms, interconnectedness, and perfection in Buddhism.
After the Buddha “Turned the Wheel of Destiny”, all the wrong thinking and evil actions would vanish, and all beings would be able to achieve perfect ascension to Nirvana.
At that time the Blessed One spoke these verses:
- “The wheel of Dharma has been turned,
- Which is profound, hard to behold, and subtle.
- It is not understood by the extremists,
- Nor by the demons.
219 - “The Protector of the World
- Has turned the wheel that is like
- An illusion, a mirage,
- A dream, an echo, or a moon reflected in water.
222 - “It leads beyond conditioned phenomena;
- It is not nihilistic and neither is it permanent,
- But cuts through all views—
- So is the wheel of Dharma described.
223 - “It is free from existence and nonexistence,
- Beyond self and no self,
- A teaching that is naturally unborn—
- That is what we call the wheel of Dharma.
English translation from Tibetan by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee under the supervision of Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, https://84000.co/translation/toh95#UT22084-046-001-chapter-26, From Chapter 26, TURNING THE WHEEL OF DHARMA, The Play in Full (Lalitavistara), རྒྱ་ཆེར་རོལ་པ།, The Play in Full, འཕགས་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་རོལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
The Fire Sermon
I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying in Gaya, at Gaya Head, with 1,000 monks. There he addressed the monks:
“Monks, the All is aflame. What All is aflame? The eye is aflame. Forms are aflame. Consciousness at the eye is aflame. Contact at the eye is aflame. And whatever there is that arises in dependence on contact at the eye — experienced as pleasure, pain or neither-pleasure-nor-pain — that too is aflame. Aflame with what? Aflame with the fire of passion, the fire of aversion, the fire of delusion. Aflame, I tell you, with birth, aging & death, with sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, & despairs.
“The ear is aflame. Sounds are aflame…
“The nose is aflame. Aromas are aflame…
“The tongue is aflame. Flavors are aflame…
“The body is aflame. Tactile sensations are aflame…
“The intellect is aflame. Ideas are aflame. Consciousness at the intellect is aflame. Contact at the intellect is aflame. And whatever there is that arises in dependence on contact at the intellect — experienced as pleasure, pain or neither-pleasure-nor-pain — that too is aflame. Aflame with what? Aflame with the fire of passion, the fire of aversion, the fire of delusion. Aflame, I say, with birth, aging & death, with sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, & despairs.
“Seeing thus, the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones grows disenchanted with the eye, disenchanted with forms, disenchanted with consciousness at the eye, disenchanted with contact at the eye. And whatever there is that arises in dependence on contact at the eye, experienced as pleasure, pain or neither-pleasure-nor-pain: With that, too, he grows disenchanted.
“He grows disenchanted with the ear…
“He grows disenchanted with the nose…
“He grows disenchanted with the tongue…
“He grows disenchanted with the body…
“He grows disenchanted with the intellect, disenchanted with ideas, disenchanted with consciousness at the intellect, disenchanted with contact at the intellect. And whatever there is that arises in dependence on contact at the intellect, experienced as pleasure, pain or neither-pleasure-nor-pain: He grows disenchanted with that too. Disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate. Through dispassion, he is fully released. With full release, there is the knowledge, ‘Fully released.’ He discerns that ‘Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world.’”
SN 35.28, PTS: S iv 19 , CDB ii 1143, Adittapariyaya Sutta: The Fire Sermon
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn35/sn35.028.than.html
Meaning:
When you are no longer fascinated with the physical world, when you no longer cling to it, this is the end of death and rebirth. i.e. Enlightenment.
– **Adittapariyaya Sutta (SN 35.28)**: (https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn35/sn35.028.than.html)
2. Golden Rule
Jesus said, “Love your brother as your own soul. Protect them like the pupil of your eye.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas 25
“The protector who, with thoughts of love
For all these beings, sustains them always
Just as he would his only child-
He will bring you well-being.” The Buddha
The Kangyur | Discourses | General Sütra Section
The Mahāsütra “On Entering the City of Vaisālī”, 1.13
“Those who have cultivated kindness,
Who are learned and honest,
And flawless with respect to the points of training,
Are never far from the transcendence of suffering.” The Buddha
The Application of Mindfulness of the Sacred Dharma, 2.209
Saddharma smrtyupasthana
“This is my commandment: love each other just as I have loved you. No one has greater love than to give up one’s life for one’s friends.” Yeshua
John 15:12-13
“Even as a mother protects with her life her child, her only child, So with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings; Radiating kindness over the entire world: Spreading upwards to the skies, And downwards to the depths; Outwards and unbounded.” The Buddha
Sutta Nipata 1.8 Metta Sutta, tr. Amaravati Sangha
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” Yeshua
John 13:34-35
“It’s easy to see other people’s faults, difficult to see our own.
We love to pinpoint the faults of others, but hide our own flaws.
Like a poker face hides a bad hand.” The Buddha
Khuddaka Nikaya, Dhammapada # 252
“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged.”
Matthew 7:1
“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? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” Yeshua
Matthew 7:3-5, New International Version
“Treat others as you want them to treat you.” Yeshua
Luke 6:31, Living Bible”
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” Yeshua
Matthew 7:12
“We all fear violence, We all fear death.
Treat others as you’d wish, Others treat you. Do not attack or entice harm.” The Buddha
Pali Canon, Khuddaka Nikaya, Dhammapada # 129
“Love is a gateway to the light of the Dharma, for it surpasses all things created by merit based on material things.” The Buddha
Tibetan Kangyur, The Play in Full, 4.11, 84000.co
“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. If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.” Yeshua
Luke 6:27-30
“If you ask what is ‘Great Loving Kindness’ it is an action in which the Tathagatas engage on behalf of all sentient beings, treating enemies and friends identically.
That is called ‘Great Loving Kindness’.” The Buddha
Tibetan Kangyur, ༄༅། །ཤེས་ཕྱིན་ཁྲི་པ། །, Dasasahasrika Prajñaparamita 2.7, Tr 84,000.co (Tathagata is an enlightened person, a Buddha)
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.” Yeshua
Matthew 5:38-40
“Cultivate an all-embracing mind of love for all throughout the universe, in all its height, depth and breadth — Love that is untroubled and beyond hatred or enmity. As you stand, walk, sit or lie, so long as you are awake, pursue this awareness with your might: It is deemed the Divine State here.” The Buddha
Karaniya Metta Sutta, The Hymn of Universal Love, translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/khp/khp.9.budd.html
“Tell us, who are the spiritual teachers? Those who never relinquish loving kindness toward all beings.” The Buddha
The Kangyur | Discourses | General Sütra Section, The Questions of Brahmaviseşacintin, 1.101, 84000.co
“Hatred can never end through revenge
Hatred ends only by loving kindness.
This is the oldest Truth and Law of Nature.” The Buddha
Khuddaka Nikaya, Dhammapada #5
“Those who give up slander, which constantly separates friends, and delight in appreciation – those beings go to the higher realms.” The Buddha
Tibetan Kangyur, The Shorter Data Sutra, 1.8, 84000.co
- Impermanence
“One who understands this body is perishable like suds, who sees form as an illusion, can cut the flower-darts of desire, and be invisible to death.” The Buddha
Pali Canon, Khuddaka Nikaya, Dhammapada # 46“
“As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.” Yeshua
Matthew 24
“What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?” Yeshua
Matthew 16:26
“Wealth is like a rushing river. A home is like a ferry boat. One’s body resembles a flower. Life itself is like a water bubble.” The Buddha
Tibetan Kangyur | Discourses | General Sütra Section, The Four Factors, 1.10, 84000.co
The disciples asked Jesus, “Tell us, what can the kingdom of heaven be compared to?” He said to them, “It can be compared to a mustard seed. Though it’s the smallest of all the seeds, when it falls on tilled soil it makes a plant so large that it shelters the birds of heaven.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas 20
“Do not follow after the past or hope for the future! What is past has ceased to exist; The future has not yet arrived.” The Buddha
Tibetan Kangyur | Discourses | General Sütra Section, Auspicious Night, 1.10, 84000.co
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.” Yeshua
Luke 21:33
“In the night the reflection of the moon appears on clear, undisturbed water, but it is empty of a moon and there is nothing to grasp. Know that all phenomena are like that.” The Buddha
Tibetan Kangyur | Discourses | General Sütra Section, The King of Samadhis Sutra, 9.26, 84000.co
“All things are like foam, Essence less like water bubbles, Neither permanent nor having self. They are similar to magical illusions and mirages.” The Buddha
The Kangyur | Discourses | General Sütra Section, Questions on Selflessness, 1.33, 84000.co
“Universal Mind is like a great ocean, its surface ruffled by waves and surges but its depths remaining forever unmoved. In itself it is devoid of personality and all that belongs to it, but by reason of the defilements upon its face it is like an actor a plays a variety of parts,” The Buddha
Lankavatara Sutra, Chapter 5 The Mind http://www.purifymind.com/LankavataraSutra.htm
Jesus said: “He who has known the world has found a corpse, and he who has found a corpse, the world is not worthy of him.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas 56
“True nature does not diminish, nor does it increase. The realm of reality also does not diminish, nor does it increase. The realm of sentient beings does not diminish, nor does it increase. It is not defined, nor is it purified. Why is this? Because these things do not exist and cannot be apprehended. They are nothing at all, as they amount to nothing more than mere conventions.” The Buddha
Tibetan Kangyur, The Dwelling Place of Mañjuśrī, 1.28, Manjuśri vihara
“Life is uncertain; death is certain.
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with a besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
There are those who do not realize that one day we all must die.
But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.”
Khuddaka Nikaya, Dhammapada # 286
“Some people haven’t yet noticed we’re all here on the verge of dying.
Those who get it end their squabbles.” The Buddha
Khuddaka Nikaya, Dhammapada # 6
Jesus said, “Often you’ve wanted to hear this message that I’m telling you, and you don’t have anyone else from whom to hear it. There will be days when you’ll look for me, but you won’t be able to find me.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas Saying 38
“Form, feeling, perception, intention, and consciousness
Are not bound, are not freed, and are not real.
Therefore, the uncowed ones set out for awakening.
This is the finest armor of the best people.” The Buddha
The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines, 84.21, Astadasasahasrika prajnaparamita
“Phenomena expressed by means of various names are not actually present in those very phenomena. Whatever is not present is empty. That which is empty does not exist. What does not exist cannot be expressed. The inexpressible is awakening.” The Buddha
84000.co, Infinite Jewels,1.32, Ranakoti
The disciples said to Jesus, “Tell us about our end. How will it come?”
Jesus said, “Have you discovered the beginning so that you can look for the end? Because the end will be where the beginning is. Blessed is the one who will stand up in the beginning. They’ll know the end, and won’t taste death.”
Gospel of Thomas 18
“Everything that comes from the mortal will perish, because it came from the perishable. But that which comes from the Eternal never perishes, but becomes indestructible. Many people have become lost because they didn’t know this divergence, and they perished.” Yeshua
Book of Thomas the Contender, #22
https://www.gospelsofjesus.com/2016/03/the-wisdom-of-jesus-anointed-of-god.html
“Since all entities are impermanent,
One should cultivate the clear understanding of non-attachment.
Since the mind is the cause for the arising of wisdom,
Do not look for the Buddha elsewhere.” The Buddha
The Kangyur | Discourses | General Sütra Section, The Strap on Wisdom at the Hour of Death, 1.13&1.14
Thomas replied, “Master, is it good for us to have peace amongst each other?”
The Savior replied, “Yes, it is useful. And it is good for you because material things among humans will dissolve. Because the vessel of the flesh will decompose, when it is broken down it will turn into the other material forms we see around us.”
Book of Thomas the Contender, #25-26
“Do not follow after the past
Or hope for the future!
What is past has ceased to exist;
The future has not yet arrived.” The Buddha
The Kangyur | Discourses | General Sütra Section, Auspicious Night, 1.10
- Lifestyle, Food, Body, Clothes
“So my counsel is: Don’t worry about things—food, drink, and clothes. For you already have life and a body—and they are far more important than what to eat and wear. Look at the birds! They don’t worry about what to eat—they don’t need to sow or reap or store up food—for your heavenly Father feeds them.” Yeshua
Matthew 6:25-26
“A wise one doesn’t accumulate things, Having a higher destination of freedom, Taking food carefully, Traveling a road others can’t see. Like a bird’s tracks vanish into thin air.” The Buddha
Pali Canon, Khuddaka Nikaya, Dhammapada # 92
“Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.” Yeshua
Mark 7:15
“O foolish one! What is the use of wearing matted hair? What is the use of your wearing a garment made of antelope skin? In you, there is a forest (of moral defilements); you clean yourself only externally.” The Buddha
Khuddaka Nikaya, Dhammapada 394
“Going nude with dreadlocks, fasting, sleeping on bare ground,
Smearing your face with mud or twisting the body like a pretzel, Can never purify you if you haven’t faced your own fears.” The Buddha
Khuddaka Nikaya, Dhammapada # 141
“It’s better to eat a red-hot lump of burning metal than to live a life unrestrained in thought, word, and action, eating a monk’s sacred food donated by generous people.” The Buddha
Khuddaka Nikaya, Dhammapada # 308
“Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.” Yeshua
Luke 11:37-41 New International Version
“Many who wear a monk’s saffron robes
Yet hold evil thoughts and disgusting disposition,
Unrestrained in thought word and deed,
Are reborn in Hell
Because of their selfish actions.” The Buddha
Khuddaka Nikaya, Dhammapada # 307
…”When bodhisattva great beings practice the perfection of wisdom, they are fully aware that when they inhale breath mindfully, they are inhaling breath mindfully. They are fully aware that when they exhale breath mindfully, they are exhaling breath mindfully. They are fully aware that when they inhale a long breath, they are inhaling a long breath, and that when they are exhaling a long breath, they are exhaling a long breath.” The Buddha
Tibetan Kangyur, The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines, https://84000.co/translation/toh9#UT22084-026-001-1609
…“When bodhisattva great beings practice the perfection of wisdom, they discern that this same body is full of manifold impurities, from the soles of the feet upward, from the hairs [of the head] and the brain downward, and from the hairs of the body, the nails, and the skin inward.” The Buddha
Tibetan Kangyur, The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines, https://84000.co/translation/toh9#UT22084-026-001-1609
“Accept hunger and thirst at times, And embrace pain and pleasure at other times. Avoid being exploited like a servant for the sake of wealth, And do not let yourself be controlled by anger.” The Buddha
Tibetan Kangyur, Verses of Naga King Drum, 1.66, 84000.co
“I abstain from the night-time meal. As I am abstaining from the night-time meal, I sense next-to-no illness, next-to-no affliction, lightness, strength, & a comfortable abiding. Come now. You too abstain from the night-time meal. As you are abstaining from the night-time meal, you, too, will sense next-to-no illness, next-to-no affliction, lightness, strength, & a comfortable abiding.” The Buddha
Kitagiri Sutta: At Kitagiri, MN 070, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.070.than.html
“And how, friend, is one moderate in eating? In this a monk takes his food properly considering, not for sport, for intoxication, for adornment or beautification, but purely for the maintenance and nourishment of this body, for keeping it unharmed, as an aid to the practice of the holy life, thinking: ‘I shall put an end to the old feeling, and not produce any new feeling. Thus I shall keep going, incur no fault, and live at ease. That, friend, is how one is moderate in eating.” The Buddha
Sutta Nipatta 135.120, Sariputto Sutta: Sariputta, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ati/tipitaka/sn/sn35/sn35.120.wlsh.html
“When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, anoint your head with oil and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Yeshua
Matthew 6:16
On Eating Meat:
The Blessed One said, “I said that meat that is unallowable for three reasons should not be eaten. What are the three? I said that meat that was actually seen by oneself to have been procured for oneself is unallowable meat and should not be eaten; meat about which one has heard from someone reliable, ‘This has been procured for you,’ is unallowable meat and should not be eaten; and meat, about which a conjecture such as ‘This may have been procured for me by some means’ comes to one’s mind, is unallowable meat and should not be eaten.
“Monks, I said meat that is allowable for three reasons can be eaten. What are the three? I said that meat that was not actually seen by oneself to have been procured for oneself is allowable meat and can be eaten; meat, about which one hears from someone reliable, ‘This was not procured for you,’ is allowable meat and can be eaten; and meat, about which a conjecture such as ‘This was procured for me by some means’ does not come to one’s mind, is allowable meat and can be eaten.” The Buddha
Tibetan Kangyur, Chapter on Medicines 10.25,
https://84000.co/translation/toh1-6#UT22084-001-006-6901
(To enter samadhi) “They must sever thoughts of lust, not partake of wine or meat, and eat cooked rather than raw foods. Ananda, if cultivators do not sever lust and killing, it will be impossible for them to transcend the triple realm.” The Buddha
The Sutra of the Foremost Shurangama at the Great Buddha’s Summit
https://sanmore.org/book2pdf/images/pagely8.pdf
Jesus said: “If the flesh has come into being because of the spirit, it is a marvel; but if the spirit (has come into being) because of the body, it is a marvel of marvels. But as for me, I marvel at this, how this great wealth has settled in this poverty.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas 29
“Mindfulness of the body is a gateway to the light of the Dharma, for it leads to physical isolation. Mindfulness of sensations is a gateway to the light of the Dharma, for it leads to the cessation of all sensations. Mindfulness of the mind is a gateway to the light of the Dharma, for it leads to a precise understanding of the mind’s illusory nature. Mindfulness of phenomena is a gateway to the light of the Dharma, for it leads to unimpaired wisdom.” The Buddha
84000.co, The Play in Full 4.21
Jesus said: “Wretched is the body which depends upon a body, and wretched is the soul which depends on these two.”
Gospel of Thomas 87
Jesus said: “Why do you wash the outside of the cup? Do you not understand that he who made the inside is also he who made the outside?”
Gospel of Thomas 89
His disciples asked him: “Is circumcision useful or not?” He replied: “If it were useful then they would be born already circumcised. On the other hand, true circumcision in the spirit is entirely beneficial.”
Gospel of Thomas 52
“If they welcome you when you enter any land and go around in the countryside, heal those who are sick among them and eat whatever they give you, because it’s not what goes into your mouth that will defile you. What comes out of your mouth is what will defile you.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas 14
“Do not worry from morning to evening and from evening to morning about what you will wear.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas 37
It is the law of humanity that, though one acquires hundreds and thousands of worldly goods, one still falls into the power of the lord of death. The end of all that has been hoarded up is to be spent ; the end of what has been lifted up is to be cast down ; the end of meeting is separation ; the end of life is death. The Buddha
https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.283948/2015.283948.Udanavarga-From_djvu.txt, Udanavarga 21-22
“What is giving away material wealth? It is giving away whatever has been accumulated and benefiting others through material things.
“What is not hoarding? It is renouncing material wealth and seeing it as harmful to the maintenance of correct conduct. The Buddha
40.83, ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་མདོ།, The King of Samādhis Sūtra, Samādhirājasutra, https://84000.co/translation/toh127#UT22084-055-001-4548
“Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.” Yeshua
Luke 11:37-41 New International Version
“Not by birth is one an outcast; not by birth is one a brahman. By deed one becomes an outcast, by deed one becomes a brahman.” The Buddha
Vasala Sutta: Discourse on Outcasts, #27, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.07.piya.html
“There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.” Yeshua
Luke 12
Then Sundarika the brahmin went up to the Buddha, and said to him: “Sir, in what caste were you born?”
“Don’t ask about birth, ask about conduct.
For any wood can surely generate fire.
A steadfast sage, even though from a low class family,
is a thoroughbred checked by conscience.” The Buddha
Sundarika Sutta (SN 7.9):
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.” Yeshua
Matthew 13.45
King Pasenadi Kosala asks: “With regard to these four castes: …would there be any distinction or difference among them in that respect?”
“In the same way, great king, in the power that is kindled by persistence and generated by exertion, I say that there is no difference with regard to the release of one and the release of another.” The Buddha
(Release means passage to Nirvana)
Kannakatthala Sutta, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.090.than.html
“Just as sand does not become food simply because a child says so when young children playing on a main road build sand pies and give them names, saying “This one is milk, this one is meat, and this one is curd,” so it is with the four classes [varṇās], as you, the Brahmin, describe them.” The Buddha
śārdūlakarṇāvadānam, https://suttacentral.net/divy33/san/vaidya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_caste
And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.” The Buddha
Luke 3:11, English Standard Version
Jesus said: “Blessed are ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of heaven.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas 54
Jesus said, “The Father’s kingdom can be compared to a merchant with merchandise who found a pearl. The merchant was wise; they sold their merchandise and bought that single pearl for themselves.
“You, too, look for the treasure that doesn’t perish but endures, where no moths come to eat and no worms destroy.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas 76: The Parable of the Pearl
“I rejoice in those who live in solitude, Neither praising themselves nor criticizing others.” The Buddha
The King of Samadhis Sutra, 26.14, 84000.co
“If you have money, do not lend at interest, but give [it] to him from whom you will not receive it back.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas 95
“If one trains in being impartial To all beings without exception, And if the mind is cultivated in that impartiality, One will become an all-surpassing victorious one.” The Buddha
The Kangyur | Discourses | Heap of Jewels, Simha’s Questions, 1.37
“The kingdom is like a person who has a hidden treasure in his field, (of which) he knows nothing. And [after] he had died, he left it to his [son]. (But) the son did not know (about it either). He took over that field (and) sold [it]. And the one who had bought it came, and while he was ploughing [he found] the treasure. He began to lend money at interest to whom he wished.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas 110
“Whoever has become rich should be king. And the one who has power should renounce (it).” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas 82
Jesus said: It is not possible for a man to ride two horses or draw two bows, and it is not possible for a servant to serve two masters; or he will honor one and insult the other. A man does not drink old wine and immediately desire to drink new wine; and they do not pour new wine into old skins, lest they burst, nor do they pour old wine into new skins, lest it spoil. They do not sew an old patch on a new garment, for a rip will occur.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas 48
“The wealth of people, when clutched in tightened fists, is like a drop of quicksilver. Yet, when given to the poor and helpless to fulfill their needs, its glory flourishes.” The Buddha
The Third Well-Spoken Branch: An Exact Account of How All the Victorious One’s Teachings Extant Today in the Land of Snow Mountains Were Put into Print 1.3.12, 84000.co
Jesus said: “There was a rich man who had many possessions. He said: I will use my possessions that I may sow and reap and plant, and fill my barns with fruit, that I may have need of nothing. These were his thoughts in his heart. And in that night he died. He that hath ears, let him hear.” Yeshua
Gospel of Thomas 63
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