The words of Jesus and Buddha compared
parallels between the Gospels and the Buddhist sutra on compassion and wisdom. Today, the Asian culture overlaps with that of Europe and North America, the land is but a tiny globe in the universe and its continents drifting in a way that no geologist would ever have expected. If we read the Buddhist scriptures and Christians more closely, we would have probably figured out long ago how similar the different cultures and different religions.
Or, perhaps, we started to read the famous poem Kipling's verse by stating that "East is East, West and 'the West', the direction in which to announce that these two worlds never meet, to come across a verse that the twentieth century seems to have forgotten, in which the author observes: "There is no ', it' East, nor 'the West, it' Border, it 'Stirpe, I' Birth / When two strong men come face to face, but coming from the ends of the earth. "
COMPASSION
piu'sorprendente The affinity between Jesus and the Buddha On the concept of love: both, in fact, they preach the Golden Rule, according to which every man should treat his neighbor as himself. Many of the most famous statements of Christ, regarding the fact of turning the other cheek, to love their enemies, and 'the idea that he who lives by the sword, dies by the sword, are reflected in the words of the Buddha.
"The moral teaching of the Buddha," says Burnett Hillman Streeter, a distinguished Oxford scholar, "and 'strikingly similar to the evangelical speech." In addition, the words spoken by Jesus on the mountain are his greatest teaching, just as the Dhammapada, conceptually similar to the Sermon, is the most important book of Buddhism, and if it 'the transposition written in Pali language sort of oral tradition among the first initiated Buddhists, evangelical discourse on the Mount and other parts of the four Gospels are in fact attributed to the early followers of Christ.
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'you want others to do to you, do ye even so to them. Luke 6: 31
Those who consider (others) equal to itself does not hurt, not kill. X Dhammapada, 129-130
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What strikes you on the cheek offer the other also. Luke 6, 29
If someone hits you with his hand with a stick, or a knife, you should abandon any desires and utter no evil words. Majjhima Nikaya 21, 6
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Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
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Who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic. Da'a anyone asks you, and who takes your goods do not ask. Luke 6, 27-30
is precisely because of the hostility never calms down the hostility, not only with hostility subsides: This element is immutable.
[...]
With the win quiet anger, overcome evil with good. Win the misery with the donation, with the truth, the lie. The Dhammapada, 5, XVII, 223
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In truth I tell you every time you did it to one of these my brethren, ye did it to me. Matthew 25, 45
If you do not help one another, who will be playing to help you? Whoever helps me, must help the sick. Vinay, MAHAVAGGA 8, 26, 3
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Put your sword, because 'all those who take the sword shall perish by the sword. Matthew 26, 52
Departing by the desire to take life, the ascetic Gautama there, do not take life, without a stick, it 'sword. Digha Nikaya 1, 1, 8
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That 's my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. John 15: 12-13
As a mother would protect with his life for his own son, her only son, so he develop an unlimited mind towards all living beings. Cultivate kindness and unlimited benign mood for the whole world. Sutta Nipata 149-150
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grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. JOHN 1, 17
The body of the Buddha was born from love, patience, the kindness and truth. 2
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So, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents. Luke 15, 10
The bodhisattva loves all living beings, as were all her children. 5
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You know my commandments: "Thou shalt not kill, Do not commit adultery, not steal, Do not false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother. " March 10, 19
Refrain from killing and not taking what is given to you. Refrain from saying impurity and falsehood. Do not accept gold and silver. 2 KHUDDAKAPATHA
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WISDOM
The basis of Christianity, which affects much of the Western world, and Buddhism, which is a driving force of Eastern culture, we find the same wisdom. Both Jesus and Buddha have focused on the individual, stressing that the inner is more important exteriority and that everyone should consider their own lives, instead of criticizing that of others. To describe the use both moral reality, however, the same images: light and darkness, sun and rain, the plant from 'and the interest bearing fruit. Scholars who are interested in Christ as a historical figure now give more importance to its role as a test of the first century, many of the aphorisms mentioning to portray him as such contain the same advice that the Buddha gave to his followers, five centuries before.
"The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds: but when he grew up, is more the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds from the sky and make nests in its branches. Matthew 13: 31-32
Do not assume the good: "I do not reach '." Like pouring water from a jug fills a glass, so the essay is filled with good accumulating gradually. Dhammapada IX, 122
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'look at the speck that is in thy brother, and do not notice the log that is in your own? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck that is in thine own eye, and you do not see the beam that is' in your own? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your eye and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother. Luke 6, 41-42
defects of others are easier to see than on its own, the defects of others are easily seen, because 'they are sifted like chaff, but its difficult to see. It 's like the cheater who hides his dice and shows those of the adversary, drawing attention to the lack of them, constantly planning to indict him. UDANAVARGA 27, 1
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"Teacher, this woman 'was caught in adultery. Now Moses, in the law commanded us to stone such women. What do you think? "
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As they persisted, he straightened up and said to them:" Who among you is without sin cast the first stone at her. " JOHN 8, 4-5, 7
not the bad actions of others is not what others do, or do not, everyone looks to see what he does or does not. Dhammapada IV, 50
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"The lamp of your body is the eye. If your eye is healthy, your body also is full of light, but if you are ill, your body also is in darkness. Take heed therefore that the light in you is not darkness. If your body is full of light, having no part in the darkness, everything will be bright, as when the lamp illumines you with its glow. " Luke 11: 34-36 A man with eyes can see a light that brings all objects, as well as one who has listened to the Moral Law. it makes perfect essay. UDANAVARGA 22, 4
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Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life what you will eat or drink, nor about your body, what you will wear the Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Watch that the birds do not sow, nor 'do they reap, nor' gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they? Matthew 6: 25-26
Who has not provided, who knows well the value of food, free of those feeds on vacation without mental images, the way is difficult to know which of bird in the sky. Of those who have totally exhausted the ASAVA, who is separated from food, free of those feeds on vacation without mental images, the footprint and 'difficult to know which of bird in the sky. Dhammapada VII, 92-93
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Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you; because you may be sons of your heavenly Father, who makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. Matthew 5, 45
The great cloud rains on the whole, that the nature of higher or lower. The light from the sun and the moon illuminates the whole world, is one who does good is he who does evil is the one who stands to be one who falls. 5
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There is no good tree bear bad fruit, nor 'bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree, in fact, is known by its fruit do not gather figs from thorns, I 'do they pick grapes from a bramble bush. The good man brings forth good from the good treasure of his heart and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil, because 'the mouth speaks from the fullness of the heart. Luke 6, 43-45
Anything commits a person to be virtuous or sinful actions, none of them is of little importance, and all have some fruit. UDANAVARGA 9, 8
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"There is nothing outside a man which going into him can defile: are things which come out to the contamination." March 7, 15
"The killing, the massacre, the hurt, the imprisonment of living beings; theft, deceit, deception, fraud, hypocrisy, adultery, this is decay, not the meaty food. " Sutta Nipata 242
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Jesus, however, does not trust himself to them, because 'everyone knew and did not need anyone to give his testimony in another, for he knew what was in man. JOHN 2, 24-25
was expert in knowing the thoughts and actions of living beings. 2
VIMALAKIRTINIRDESHA SUTRA ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ....
guards replied: "Never un uomo ha parlato come parla quest’uomo!”. GIOVANNI 7, 46
“Non ho mai visto prima d’ora - disse il venerabile Sariputto - ne’ ho mai udito riferire da alcuno di un maestro che parli così amabilmente, venuto dal cielo dei Tusita”.
parallels between the Gospels and the Buddhist sutra on compassion and wisdom. Today, the Asian culture overlaps with that of Europe and North America, the land is but a tiny globe in the universe and its continents drifting in a way that no geologist would ever have expected. If we read the Buddhist scriptures and Christians more closely, we would have probably figured out long ago how similar the different cultures and different religions.
Or, perhaps, we started to read the famous poem Kipling's verse by stating that "East is East, West and 'the West', the direction in which to announce that these two worlds never meet, to come across a verse that the twentieth century seems to have forgotten, in which the author observes: "There is no ', it' East, nor 'the West, it' Border, it 'Stirpe, I' Birth / When two strong men come face to face, but coming from the ends of the earth. "
COMPASSION
piu'sorprendente The affinity between Jesus and the Buddha On the concept of love: both, in fact, they preach the Golden Rule, according to which every man should treat his neighbor as himself. Many of the most famous statements of Christ, regarding the fact of turning the other cheek, to love their enemies, and 'the idea that he who lives by the sword, dies by the sword, are reflected in the words of the Buddha.
"The moral teaching of the Buddha," says Burnett Hillman Streeter, a distinguished Oxford scholar, "and 'strikingly similar to the evangelical speech." In addition, the words spoken by Jesus on the mountain are his greatest teaching, just as the Dhammapada, conceptually similar to the Sermon, is the most important book of Buddhism, and if it 'the transposition written in Pali language sort of oral tradition among the first initiated Buddhists, evangelical discourse on the Mount and other parts of the four Gospels are in fact attributed to the early followers of Christ.
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'you want others to do to you, do ye even so to them. Luke 6: 31
Those who consider (others) equal to itself does not hurt, not kill. X Dhammapada, 129-130
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What strikes you on the cheek offer the other also. Luke 6, 29
If someone hits you with his hand with a stick, or a knife, you should abandon any desires and utter no evil words. Majjhima Nikaya 21, 6
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Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
[...]
Who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic. Da'a anyone asks you, and who takes your goods do not ask. Luke 6, 27-30
is precisely because of the hostility never calms down the hostility, not only with hostility subsides: This element is immutable.
[...]
With the win quiet anger, overcome evil with good. Win the misery with the donation, with the truth, the lie. The Dhammapada, 5, XVII, 223
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In truth I tell you every time you did it to one of these my brethren, ye did it to me. Matthew 25, 45
If you do not help one another, who will be playing to help you? Whoever helps me, must help the sick. Vinay, MAHAVAGGA 8, 26, 3
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Put your sword, because 'all those who take the sword shall perish by the sword. Matthew 26, 52
Departing by the desire to take life, the ascetic Gautama there, do not take life, without a stick, it 'sword. Digha Nikaya 1, 1, 8
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That 's my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. John 15: 12-13
As a mother would protect with his life for his own son, her only son, so he develop an unlimited mind towards all living beings. Cultivate kindness and unlimited benign mood for the whole world. Sutta Nipata 149-150
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grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. JOHN 1, 17
The body of the Buddha was born from love, patience, the kindness and truth. 2
VIMALAKIRTINIRDESHA SUTRA ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
So, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents. Luke 15, 10
The bodhisattva loves all living beings, as were all her children. 5
VIMALAKIRTINIRDESHA SUTRA ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ....
You know my commandments: "Thou shalt not kill, Do not commit adultery, not steal, Do not false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother. " March 10, 19
Refrain from killing and not taking what is given to you. Refrain from saying impurity and falsehood. Do not accept gold and silver. 2 KHUDDAKAPATHA
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WISDOM
The basis of Christianity, which affects much of the Western world, and Buddhism, which is a driving force of Eastern culture, we find the same wisdom. Both Jesus and Buddha have focused on the individual, stressing that the inner is more important exteriority and that everyone should consider their own lives, instead of criticizing that of others. To describe the use both moral reality, however, the same images: light and darkness, sun and rain, the plant from 'and the interest bearing fruit. Scholars who are interested in Christ as a historical figure now give more importance to its role as a test of the first century, many of the aphorisms mentioning to portray him as such contain the same advice that the Buddha gave to his followers, five centuries before.
"The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds: but when he grew up, is more the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds from the sky and make nests in its branches. Matthew 13: 31-32
Do not assume the good: "I do not reach '." Like pouring water from a jug fills a glass, so the essay is filled with good accumulating gradually. Dhammapada IX, 122
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'look at the speck that is in thy brother, and do not notice the log that is in your own? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck that is in thine own eye, and you do not see the beam that is' in your own? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your eye and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother. Luke 6, 41-42
defects of others are easier to see than on its own, the defects of others are easily seen, because 'they are sifted like chaff, but its difficult to see. It 's like the cheater who hides his dice and shows those of the adversary, drawing attention to the lack of them, constantly planning to indict him. UDANAVARGA 27, 1
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"Teacher, this woman 'was caught in adultery. Now Moses, in the law commanded us to stone such women. What do you think? "
[...]
As they persisted, he straightened up and said to them:" Who among you is without sin cast the first stone at her. " JOHN 8, 4-5, 7
not the bad actions of others is not what others do, or do not, everyone looks to see what he does or does not. Dhammapada IV, 50
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"The lamp of your body is the eye. If your eye is healthy, your body also is full of light, but if you are ill, your body also is in darkness. Take heed therefore that the light in you is not darkness. If your body is full of light, having no part in the darkness, everything will be bright, as when the lamp illumines you with its glow. " Luke 11: 34-36 A man with eyes can see a light that brings all objects, as well as one who has listened to the Moral Law. it makes perfect essay. UDANAVARGA 22, 4
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Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life what you will eat or drink, nor about your body, what you will wear the Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Watch that the birds do not sow, nor 'do they reap, nor' gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they? Matthew 6: 25-26
Who has not provided, who knows well the value of food, free of those feeds on vacation without mental images, the way is difficult to know which of bird in the sky. Of those who have totally exhausted the ASAVA, who is separated from food, free of those feeds on vacation without mental images, the footprint and 'difficult to know which of bird in the sky. Dhammapada VII, 92-93
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Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you; because you may be sons of your heavenly Father, who makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. Matthew 5, 45
The great cloud rains on the whole, that the nature of higher or lower. The light from the sun and the moon illuminates the whole world, is one who does good is he who does evil is the one who stands to be one who falls. 5
SADHARMAPUNDARIKA SUTRA ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ..
There is no good tree bear bad fruit, nor 'bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree, in fact, is known by its fruit do not gather figs from thorns, I 'do they pick grapes from a bramble bush. The good man brings forth good from the good treasure of his heart and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil, because 'the mouth speaks from the fullness of the heart. Luke 6, 43-45
Anything commits a person to be virtuous or sinful actions, none of them is of little importance, and all have some fruit. UDANAVARGA 9, 8
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"There is nothing outside a man which going into him can defile: are things which come out to the contamination." March 7, 15
"The killing, the massacre, the hurt, the imprisonment of living beings; theft, deceit, deception, fraud, hypocrisy, adultery, this is decay, not the meaty food. " Sutta Nipata 242
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Jesus, however, does not trust himself to them, because 'everyone knew and did not need anyone to give his testimony in another, for he knew what was in man. JOHN 2, 24-25
was expert in knowing the thoughts and actions of living beings. 2
VIMALAKIRTINIRDESHA SUTRA ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ....
guards replied: "Never un uomo ha parlato come parla quest’uomo!”. GIOVANNI 7, 46
“Non ho mai visto prima d’ora - disse il venerabile Sariputto - ne’ ho mai udito riferire da alcuno di un maestro che parli così amabilmente, venuto dal cielo dei Tusita”.
SUTTA NIPATA 955
A cura di MARCUS BORG
“Gli insegnamenti e le parole dei due Maestri a confronto”
Titolo originale dell’opera: Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings
Traduzione di Adria Tissoni Prefazione e introduzione:
Gruppo Editoriale Armenia