R&I – TxPAT ***
Father = Advaita
aka “the ground of being”
Jesus and Siddhartha Meditate
Like Gautama, Yeshua becomes aware of <i>advaita</i>, a natural state, where Ego no longer mediates our view on common, everyday reality.
(perhaps, in the desert for Yeshua; and at the foot of the bodhi-tree for Gautama)
Yeshua, like Gautama then lives from this perceived reality.
What Truth Lies Under Gospel Fantasy?
The gospels are a palimpsest, with a truth written underneath…
…yet clouded by the primates* who struggled after to make sense of how Yeshua expressed that-which-he-has-perceived.
Just as those who followed Gautama struggled to put into words the Buddha’s deep insight.
Church officials and committees working to force-fit the gospels to their own understanding, and missing entirely the truth in Yeshua’s teachings…while welding retroactively the N.T. to the O.T.
With Paul running a cable from Original Sin to Yeshua’s supposed dying for humanity’s sins…the conjoining of narratives in O.T. and N.T…by Paul, as he recounts in his Letters.
Virgin Birth A Fiction
And the fabrication of a woman conceiving as a virgin, the Holy Spirit i.e. the deification of an aspect of mammalian biology.
Promise of Eternal Life Rests On A Dreamed Resurrection
Anonymous authors of the gospels layer-in a fantasy around Yeshua’s dead body coming back to life. The story enhanced along the way by tales from the wheel of the rumor-mill.
Would it not be neat, though, to seek to perceive the Moon as Yeshua and Siddhartha may have perceived it?
Questions:
- Do you wonder at both Yeshua spending time in the desert alone, tempted by Satan…and Siddartha Gautama sitting alone under the bodhi-tree, tempted by Mara?
- In your mind, are both Satan and Mara representations of the desires our bodies and minds present us with?
- For you…how important to Christianity is the promise of eternal life for an imagined soul? Is it foundational?
- What is represented to you by the word “soul”?
* both meanings: i} Church officials e g. bishops, anonymous authors, committees etc. ii} And also Humans more broadly, passing stories along to others.
Verisimilitude