Yet, when I ask why people who have listened to divine guidence disagree, if I get any reply, it has to do with believing that the other person isn't listening to God, but at best that they are deluding themselves, and at worst that the devil is misleading them. Why the emphasis on the historical facts? Why so little exploration of the words and their meanings? Why the need to prove themselves right?
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I've always felt that it wouldn't matter one bit to me if Jesus had never actually lived. The words - the truth - would be what is important. Many fundamentalists would say that if Jesus never lived, their faith would be shattered. Yet, there are folks who are looking critically at the evidence of the existance of Jesus the man. CNN.com - Books - Raising a holy ruckus These are not crack pots hoping to upset folks or destroy - but looking for the deeper meanings, with or without the literal man behind the words. |
As a Buddhist, it's is only the personal understanding of unity that is real - *being* that unity. Jesus said "I am the Way", and I agree - the Way is the eternal Tao, the inter-being, the flow of the universe, that which transcends the pairs of opposites. To me, that is what being awake is - *being* that which we can only speak of obliquely - which can only be experienced.
Jesus was very clear that the relationship between God and man had changed with his awakening - that we are brothers and sisters to God. That is very powerful! To me, the implication is very clear, and very in alignment with Buddhism. That we all have the capacity to be that "way", that unity. The Christ consciousness, Buddha mind, Logos, Tao - is the reality. All we have to do is awaken to it.
I am the Way.
