Don’t know what the Buddha would say. Probably to find yourself and look for enlightenment…
]]>The Dalai Lama once told a story of a fellow buddhist monk who after many years of daily practice was suprised to discover that their is no God in Buddhism. A BUDDHIST MONK!
A sister of the Brahma Kumaris (a profoundly good person) Once told me that she had been a Buddhist but changed to devote herself to Raja Yoga and the Brahma Kumaris because she needed a religeon that included God. At the end of the day that’s how it seems to work. We take the best and leave the rest according to our own genetic pre-disposition and emotional needs.
Finally,I am not sure that Jesus ever claimed divinity over and above that which is in us all. It is a shame that no contemporaneous accounts of Jesus’ life exist. What we have is blind faith based on a mixture of hearsay and manipulation by interested parties to meet political ambitions. Commenting of such a documents seems to me to be an utterly pointless exercise.
]]>“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’
That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell.
You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God.
But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, The MacMillan Company, 1960, pp. 40-41.)
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