The Terms Buddha & Christ - Explained.

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The Terms Buddha & Christ - Explained.

 

 

Buddha is NOT a name, it is a descriptive title and means " The

Awakened; Anointed or Enlightened One " , which is exactly the same

meaning as the word " Messiah " has in Hebrew - " Christos " in Greek -

" Christ " in English, which are also NOT names but are, like the word

Buddha, descriptive titles, as is the word Jesus, which simply means

Saviour.

Prince Sedata [siddharta] (who, on achieving enlightenment, became

known as the Buddha) rejected his former life of luxury to seek

enlightenment. He went first to the opposite extreme and became an

ascetic, which made him physically ill; then found The middle

(straight and equal) Way of God (Deut. 30:15-16*), and thereby

restored his body to health.

* Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and

good, and death and evil;

30:16 In that I command thee this day to love the " I AM " thy God, to

walk in His Ways, and to keep His Commandments and His Statutes and

His Judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the " I AM " thy

God shall bless thee in the land where thou goest to possess it.

7:15 And the " I AM " will take away from thee all sickness, and will

put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee;

but will lay them upon all [them] that hate thee.

Sedata was then tempted by the five (seven really) deceptively

innocent looking daughters of Marah/Lucifer/Iblis the lord of

darkness:- Pride (Arrogance); Greed (Avarice); Fear (or Hate or

Anger); Ignorance (of the real truth about your " Self " ) and Desire

(Lust or Covetousness) (the other two are Sloth and Gluttony) - " The

Seven Deadly Sins " . The lord of darkness (Marah - Lucifer - Iblis -

Satan) had sent them to tempt Sedata away from his search, but Sedata

overcame* them.

* Revelation 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit

saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of

the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

Matthew 4:8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high

mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory

of them;

4:9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou

wilt fall down and worship me.

4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is

written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him ONLY shalt thou

serve.

4:11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and

ministered unto him.

" Darkness " had tried to tempt Sedata, in the cleverest of ways, by

disguising the temptations of life in the simplest forms but Sedata

was looking beyond form, beyond the present. Now " Darkness " was

enraged, and sent an army of demons to try to attack Sedata, but he

stayed calm and at peace with God and was defended by God because of

his total (blind) Faith (The Shield - Ephesians 6:16; Genesis 15:1)

and the consequent lack of fear that such Faith (Trust) gives.

His human body then said to him (his Being), " You who go where no-one

else will dare. Will you be my god? "

Sedata said, " Architect. Finally I have met you. You will not rebuild

your house (my human prison - my " Self " ) again. "

His human body replied, deviously, " But I am your house and you live

in me. "

Sedata said to lord Darkness (Lucifer the Devil), " Oh lord of my own

ego ( " Self " ), you are pure illusion (deceit and lies - the word devil

means liar), you do not exist (you will no longer deceive my " Self "

with your lies because my " Self " is crucified and it no longer

exists). The earth (from which the human " Self " was created) is my

witness. "

The teaching of Buddha, not that of the Buddhist religion, in relation

to the body and the soul (Being) and crucifixion of " Self " is

identical to the teaching of Christ, not the teaching of the Christian

religion.

Prince Sedata won the battle against an army of demons (in the " cave "

or " cavern of the mind " *), just through " The Force " of His Love and

the great compassion he had found. He achieved the great calm that

follows detachment from emotions (which are all human and destructive

of good and belong to the " Self " ). He had reached beyond his " Self " ,

he was beyond happiness or pain, separate from judgement, able to see

beyond the human universe. Sedata had seen the ultimate reality of all

things, he had understood that every movement in the Universe is an

effect, provoked by a cause. He knew that there was no salvation

without compassion for every other living thing; from that moment on

Sedata was called " the Buddha " - " the Awakened or Enlightened One " .

JAH - The Enlightened One.

* Genesis 6:5 And " I AM " saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in

the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart

[was] only evil continually.

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