A Lesson in Forgiveness: We Each are Everything--We are All the Same Buddha
We live in a dysfunctional world. A large part of this dysfunction is the desire and drive to be accounted as significant. Boy, does this stick out in the "Me" generation: "Are you talking to me? to ME?" "That is not who I am." "He disregarded me." "HEY! What am I, chopped liver?" You can find hundreds, thousands of these assertions of the significance of ones self.
Some people cannot take contradiction. Some are arrogant. Some are jealous. Many looks down on everyone else, even their seniors and superiors, imagining that he or she is really the superior one. We all think that we are something, something significant, someone to be noticed, respected and paid attention to. And if our significance is not honored, recognized or is slighted, it makes us very, very angry.
We ought not be this way. The world ought not be this way. We are not something or someone significant; it escapes our notice that we each are everything, including the contradictions and slights, because we create the world that we are in. It . . . is an extension . . . of OURSELVES.
Gautama Buddha. We have all heard of him. He got it: our desires, our desiring, creates our worlds. As Col. J. Garnier asked in The Worship of the Dead, how did Gautama know that there was such an enlightenment to be had? From a tradition of an earlier Buddha, Noah. "Noah" is the rest of a man who has "got it." Noah is the rest which rises above the facts of the world and in submission and faith receives a world free of corruption, a creation of THE Buddha, the Ineffable. Gautama came to realize we all are the same Buddha: we are His imagining, except OUR imagining screws up His program.
I know that Buddha's teaching was that there is no "God"; there is nothing but us. But that is the truth: there is no God separate from us: we are Him. We all are the same Buddha. If Christ, who is Buddha, died for all, then all died. We are all Buddha who has died for us. We are all the same Buddha--and Jesus Christ.
We all share the same significance. If we are slighted, disrespected, hey, we are Buddha, Christ, the Ineffable, and have done it to ourselves. Why pride in a dead man? Why vengeance against yourself? Let it go.
Next: Mark was a Buddhist.
Some people cannot take contradiction. Some are arrogant. Some are jealous. Many looks down on everyone else, even their seniors and superiors, imagining that he or she is really the superior one. We all think that we are something, something significant, someone to be noticed, respected and paid attention to. And if our significance is not honored, recognized or is slighted, it makes us very, very angry.
We ought not be this way. The world ought not be this way. We are not something or someone significant; it escapes our notice that we each are everything, including the contradictions and slights, because we create the world that we are in. It . . . is an extension . . . of OURSELVES.
Gautama Buddha. We have all heard of him. He got it: our desires, our desiring, creates our worlds. As Col. J. Garnier asked in The Worship of the Dead, how did Gautama know that there was such an enlightenment to be had? From a tradition of an earlier Buddha, Noah. "Noah" is the rest of a man who has "got it." Noah is the rest which rises above the facts of the world and in submission and faith receives a world free of corruption, a creation of THE Buddha, the Ineffable. Gautama came to realize we all are the same Buddha: we are His imagining, except OUR imagining screws up His program.
I know that Buddha's teaching was that there is no "God"; there is nothing but us. But that is the truth: there is no God separate from us: we are Him. We all are the same Buddha. If Christ, who is Buddha, died for all, then all died. We are all Buddha who has died for us. We are all the same Buddha--and Jesus Christ.
We all share the same significance. If we are slighted, disrespected, hey, we are Buddha, Christ, the Ineffable, and have done it to ourselves. Why pride in a dead man? Why vengeance against yourself? Let it go.
Next: Mark was a Buddhist.
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