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Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers By Thich Nhat Hanh

Exiled from Vietnam over thirty years ago, Thich Nhat Hanh has become known as a healer of the heart, a monk who shows us how the everyday world can both enrich and endanger our spiritual lives. In Going Home he shows us

The Lords Prayer

I shared earlier that I would give more detail about what the Lord’s Prayer teaches about breathing prayer. I did find a good website that indirectly supports what I wanted to share:

www.thenazareneway.com/lords_prayer.htm

The site has a translation directly from the Aramaic and includes some alternate translations. One challenge with translating from the Aramaic is that a passage can several simultaneous meanings that are different from each other and are not only equally valid, but all are meant to be understood helping each other give a larger sense of meaning. English usually has only one meaning at a time. Thus, when Jesus says, “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you, among you, and in your midst.” All these meanings are meant at the same time. In this sense, all the different translations complement each other and help each other to bring out the deeper meaning of the prayer.

The Cross and the Lotus
Lau Hua Teck

INTRODUCTION
Judging from the Nestorian Documents in Chinese, the first Christians in
T’ang China saw themselves as bearers of a religious message they claimed
to be universal. At the same time, they realized it carries with it the
vocabulary and symbolism, which are in many respects alien to the
Chinese. They proceeded therefore to explain and communicate their
message to the people they found on the Eastern end of the Silk Route by
making bold attempts in using the common currency of the T’ang society.
The synthetic feature of the T’ang Nestorianism had been the studies of
scholars for many years1. Some condemned Nestorianism outright as a
syncretism that deviated from the Catholic doctrine and treated the
Nestorians with contempt2. However, there were others who heralded
their efforts in inter-faiths exchanges and held it as a model for modern
inter-religious dialogues3.

In Buddhism and Christianity The Seven Spirits:
Loving kindness, Righteousness, Justice, Wisdom, Peace, Truth and Freedom

In the Buddhist gospels.. we see that.. after obtaining enlightenment..

To quote.. “The Buddha went in search of a better system…”

Also.. we find the same idea is central to the Bible’s teachings.. that the words of Jesus will.. in the future.. bring the ideas of the rulers of this existing system to nothing.. and will establish a new.. better system.. in its place.

The first point to consider is that both religious masters.. Buddha and Christ had an agenda to change the way the world thinks in the future.. and to establish a superior system to the one we presently have. This is the goal that drives both of their teachings.. yet.. to date.. their wisdom is still being rejected by the mainstream elements of the world we live in. This is the reason that our system remains corrupted and bad.