"because he knew all men" - The Buddha and Christ Jesus Equally

Mt. Fuji and Mt. Tsukuba observed from the Tokyo Suburbs

The Buddha and Christ Jesus Equally

The Buddha was travelling and preaching when he became 80 years old.

In a village he taught truth to a son of a blacksmith, Cunda.  Cunda was so glad as to prepare meals for the Buddha and his followers.  But mushrooms he cooked eventually killed the Buddha.

However, the Buddha knew, before eating the meal, the mushroom was too strong for his aged body.  But he would not reject the food, though he suggested to Cunda that he should not offer the mushrooms to his followers.

Accordingly, the Buddha came to suffer acutely when his band reached a certain river.  So the Buddha laid down and called the highest disciple, saying, "Do not blame Cunda.  I chose his meal as a means with which I leave this world to enter Nirvana (the world for those who conquered all the evil, desire, and karmic laws in the nature, the human world and the spiritual world).  Rather, Cunda should be blessed as he helped me complete my life in this world."

The Buddha continued, "I have taken two excellent meals in my life time: the milk porridge provided by Sujata 45 years ago with which I could reach enlightenment after extreme acetic training and this meal provided by Cunda as my life is approaching the end."
    
We may be allowed to infer that if the Buddha had achieved the great enlightenment without milk porridge Sujata, a decent and pious girl, gave to him, he would not have died from inappropriate foods or specifically some kind of mushrooms (which look like a familiar ingredient for porridge).


Then why did Christ Jesus have to die on a cross?  Had He become the Son of God on a cross long before the fatal incident triggered by the betrayal of Judas?  What relevance was there between His fate and a cross?

Only I can think of is that the worldly father of Christ Jesus was a carpenter.  And, this father on the earth probably made and assembled some crosses for Roman troops to earn money.  And with the money, baby Jesus must have been bred to be a young man who became and worked as a carpenter, too, for some time till He started His holy mission.

So, we may be allowed to believe that we have solved one of enigmas of the Bible with reference to the story of the Buddha.


But who made and assembled the cross on which Jesus provisionally died?  Another secret might lie in it.



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Joh 2:24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,
Joh 2:25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.