A Note to Manny

I took my wife and granddaughter to our local Mexican restaurant and had a very cordial waiter. I believe he said his name was Manny (still a bit of an accent). I noticed a tribal tattoo on his arm which appeared to be more Navajo or Hopi in design than Mexican, and began to inquire if I assessed correctly that it might be American Indian. He said he had just liked it, and went on to explain about the tattoos above it hidden by his shirtsleeve.

Above the visible tattoo a thin line ascended into a tree root and the tree above the root. Above the tree was a Daoist Yin-Yang symbol. He explained that while his family was Catholic, he preferred Eastern philosophies such as Daoism, and in fact more identified with Buddhism.

I wanted to encourage Manny's Buddist leanings by explaining how the author of the Book of Mark was probably an Indian Buddhist missionary, but it was not the right time or place for that. I will send him a link to this note, instead.

Manny, I hope you will visit my blog, "The Becoming God," at https://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-note-to-manny.html

I discuss in several posts how Jesus in the Gospel of Mark may actually have been Buddha. My theory is that Mark was an Indian Buddhist Theraputta who learned the true meaning and purpose of Judaism from like mystics and philosophers at Alexandria, Egypt. This would have been during the end years of the "Season of Grace," the 490 years of anointing Daniel wrote of between the destructions of the first and second Temples in Jerusalem. During these last years the Anointing (Christ) of YHWH upon man was to become apparent. Mark saw this and put two and two together: "Oh. God's action upon man is what happened to Gautama." So Mark created a representation of what God had done among the Jews using what he knew about Buddha. Voila! "Christianity," a Buddhism refined Judaism. Or is that a Judaism refined Buddhism? Hmmm.

https://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2015/07/mark-was-buddhist-and-his-jesus-was.html

https://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-bit-more-of-references-for-cynthia.html

https://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2016/06/forgiveness-christianity-as-jewish.html

https://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2017/05/regarding-marks-being-one-of-theraputta.html