A Story of Gotama Siddhattha
Gotama Siddhattha, born in a royal family around the fifth century BCE, started to practice asceticism and mortification when he was 29 years old.
When be became 35 years old or so, he abandoned this way for attaining enlightenment so as to be awakened in the higher sphere of the spiritual universe.
Then Gotama Siddhattha, almost reduced to skin and bones, took rice milk a young girl of a village brought to him. He sat down under a lime tree and got into meditation.
While Gotama Siddhattha was being brought toward spiritual enlightenment, demons and devils launched final attacks on him.
However, on the third day of his meditation, he stretched out the index finger and the middle finger and touched the ground. At the moment, all the demons and devils fled away. Also at the moment, Gotama Siddhattha became Buddha as he reached the highest level of human perception on the universe, the nature, human society, human beings, and death and life.
Yet, Buddha thought that this level of the perception is so high and great that people would not be able to understand if so taught by him.
So, he decided to leave the world and enter the sphere of those who have achieved enlightenment.
But, Brahma, one of the greatest gods, and other gods sensed the mind of Buddha and feared that people would lose a great chance of salvation. So, they persuaded Buddha to teach contents and philosophy of his enlightenment.
As those gods so earnestly recommended him to preach, Buddha changed his mind and began his holy mission.
(Also refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism, if the God or Allah recommends you to.)
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God is almighty, so that He has allowed for salvation of human souls without following a specific series of religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. For this purpose, the God or Allah chose Buddhism.
In this way, salvation of mankind by religion has become complete and perfect in its logical structure: a specific series of religions and an independent one.
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Europeans north of the Alps encountered Christianity without any other significant spiritual training and traditions.
But, South and East Asians encountered Christianity after having experienced significant spiritual training and traditions through Buddhism.
In this context, South and East Asians can understand Christianity more deeply than Europeans, very ironically.
Anyway, you had better believe in Jesus Christ more than you yourself believe in yourself.
(I suppose the wife of Gotama Siddhattha was more attractive than Ms. Paris Hilton. What do you think about Gotama Siddhattha's wife?)
"...The evil people not only prosper but test patience of God by their evil deeds ..."
Gotama Siddhattha, born in a royal family around the fifth century BCE, started to practice asceticism and mortification when he was 29 years old.
When be became 35 years old or so, he abandoned this way for attaining enlightenment so as to be awakened in the higher sphere of the spiritual universe.
Then Gotama Siddhattha, almost reduced to skin and bones, took rice milk a young girl of a village brought to him. He sat down under a lime tree and got into meditation.
While Gotama Siddhattha was being brought toward spiritual enlightenment, demons and devils launched final attacks on him.
However, on the third day of his meditation, he stretched out the index finger and the middle finger and touched the ground. At the moment, all the demons and devils fled away. Also at the moment, Gotama Siddhattha became Buddha as he reached the highest level of human perception on the universe, the nature, human society, human beings, and death and life.
Yet, Buddha thought that this level of the perception is so high and great that people would not be able to understand if so taught by him.
So, he decided to leave the world and enter the sphere of those who have achieved enlightenment.
But, Brahma, one of the greatest gods, and other gods sensed the mind of Buddha and feared that people would lose a great chance of salvation. So, they persuaded Buddha to teach contents and philosophy of his enlightenment.
As those gods so earnestly recommended him to preach, Buddha changed his mind and began his holy mission.
(Also refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism, if the God or Allah recommends you to.)
* * *
God is almighty, so that He has allowed for salvation of human souls without following a specific series of religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. For this purpose, the God or Allah chose Buddhism.
In this way, salvation of mankind by religion has become complete and perfect in its logical structure: a specific series of religions and an independent one.
* * *
Europeans north of the Alps encountered Christianity without any other significant spiritual training and traditions.
But, South and East Asians encountered Christianity after having experienced significant spiritual training and traditions through Buddhism.
In this context, South and East Asians can understand Christianity more deeply than Europeans, very ironically.
Anyway, you had better believe in Jesus Christ more than you yourself believe in yourself.
(I suppose the wife of Gotama Siddhattha was more attractive than Ms. Paris Hilton. What do you think about Gotama Siddhattha's wife?)
"...The evil people not only prosper but test patience of God by their evil deeds ..."