"all thy house shall be saved" - Buddhism & the Underlying Theory of the Bible

 

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo

Buddhism & the Underlying Theory of the Bible

According to a Buddhist Sutra, everything is empty and emptiness is everything in this world, so that we have to learn true and sacred words to enlighten ourselves to come across to nirvana or the Buddhist heaven allowing for deliverance from earthly bondage.

This Buddhism notion of emptiness must lead to discovery and development of zero in India around the 5th century, although the Sutra at issue was written around the 7th century.

With G, the God or infinity, and M, the mankind,

(1) M + G = G, since the God never changes because of existence or addition of the mankind, since God is infinity and the mankind is finite, based on the most reliable presumption that the God exists at a higher level than the mankind.

The formula (1) can be converted to:

(2) M = G - G, which means the mankind is zero from the God's standpoint; however it is unknown what "G - G" means but formally possible as zero, since existence subtracted from existence can be non-existence which is zero.

Yet, this must be the definition of the mankind: a result of the operation of subtracting the God, the source of existence, or infinity from itself.

G means existence, while zero means non-existence.  But the mankind really exists, which means the mankind is not non-existence from the mankind's standpoint.  Therefore, the mankind must comprehend G, the source of existence, or the mankind should be expressed in the formula (2) where G is included rather than simple zero.

However, if we deny the God, the sole source of existence of everything, the mankind should be expressed as simply "zero" but not mysterious "G - G." 

The formula (1) can be converted to:

(3) M/G + G/G = G/G, which can be converted as follows:

(4) M/G = G/G - G/G = 0, which is formally possible, although the meaning of G/G is not known but formally possible.  Therefore, we can confirm that we are nothing or of non-existence compared to the God.

(5) M/G = 0, which can be converted formally as follows:

(6) M = G x 0, where G is the sole source of existence of everything, and 0 means nothing or non-existence.  Anyway, we can be formally directly linked to the God, which means that our existence is assured although with 0, nothing or non-existence, as an inevitable factor.

This analysis explains the meaning of a passage in the Bible: The God created a man to the semblance of Him, however, using non-existence or zero.  Therefore the mankind must face death, which realizes non-existence, while the God lives and exists forever.

Or rather, we should think that although we were born with sacred features like the God, as time goes by, the power of zero erodes such features to nullify them to finally nothing through the operation of multiplying with zero.

Therefore, there is no denying that the Buddhist Sutra says that everything is empty, since anything finite (which means everything (E) in this world) can be expressed as follows:

E + G = G

E = G - G , and thus 

E/G = G/G - G/G = "1 - 1" = 0

"E/G = 0" or "0 = E/G"

Therefore, there is no denying that the Buddhist Sutra says that everything is emptiness (zero), and emptiness (zero) is everything, although E is expressed as E/G  in this case, while "1 - 1 = 0" is mathematically correct.

Based on the most reliable presumption that the God exists,

everything (E) is empty (0), and empty (0) is everything (E).     

Now, we have to accept Buddhism as it is related to the underlying theory of the Bible. 

Anyway, zero can be expressed as "0 = N - N" where N is any number or anything.

Zero (emptiness or non-existence) can be expressed with everything that exists in the form of "E - E" or E/G.

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Acts 11 King James Version
13 And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter;
14 Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.
15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
17 Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?

"Then said Jesus unto them plainly" - Everything is Empty but the God Exists

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Everything is Empty but the God Exists

One of Buddhist scriptures most well-read by Japanese people is the Heart Sutra that can be translated as "The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra)

The most well-known phrases in the Sutra are as follows:

Everything is empty and emptiness is everything.

It is said that this Sutra denies everything in this world, but it recommends to learn true and sacred words, leave this world, and reach nirvana, the space of paramount peace of souls.

However, this teaching is paradoxical.  If everything is empty, how can true and sacred words exist?  So, it is said that due to this antilogy or inconsistency, Buddhism launched by the Buddha or Siddhattha Gotama around the 5th century BC was absorbed into Brahmanism or ancient Hinduism as time went by to be part of Hinduism, and Buddhism disappeared from India till the end of the 19th century.

It is also interesting to know that the concept zero was first developed in India: 

The concept of zero as a written digit in the decimal place value notation was developed in India, presumably as early as during the Gupta period (c. 5th century), with the oldest unambiguous evidence dating to the 7th century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0).

   

Indeed in India in the 5th century, Buddhism still prevailed.  So, the emptiness in the Sutra might lead to discovery of the concept of zero.  However, "the earliest extant dated text of the Heart Sutra is a stone stele dated to 661 CE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra)," so that it can be thought that the discovery of zero led to establishment of the Heart Sutra.  Otherwise, it can be estimated that Buddhism allowed for discovery of zero, and zero allowed for the Heart Sutra.  Anyway, Buddha must have seen zero at the core of everything in this world, which caused pain in human minds, so that Buddha advised to give up everything in this world and try to come to nirvana, the space of paramount peace of souls, which became the underlying theory of Buddhism.

However, if the Buddha is correct in his ideology, it does not necessarily deny existence of the God who created everything including zero and who is the sole source of existence of everything including zero.

Because there is a law that anything that can exist can exist, this world including zero, the spiritual world, and even the Buddha and his theory can exist.  It must mean that the God exists and therefore everything that can exist exists.  Without the God or His intention to give existence to everything that can exist, this world including us must not exist.

Japanese people do not like to think of the one God, but they like the phrases in the Heart Sutra: Everything is empty and emptiness is everything.  It must be related to the Japanese view of life and death.  Indeed, if one dies, only emptiness remains.  However, this emptiness is only in the minds of people who are left behind.  Dead men might still live vividly in Heaven or ghostly in the hell.   

 

Everything is empty but the God exists. 

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John 11  King James Version

14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
16 Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
17 Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
18 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
19 And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.

"the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence" - Pity on a Man without Money

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Pity on a Man without Money

According to Hajime Nakamura, a deceased Japanese professor on Buddhism, wrote that love likes what is beautiful and does not like what is ugly but pity does not matter whether a target is beautiful or ugly.

He appreciated pity higher than love since pity means to have compassion for a man who is sad and to feel sadness together with the regretful man.

Men ordinarily love money, but they rarely love unhappy men without money.  And, without being told to love such men by their superior or master such as Christ Jesus, they most probably would not love unhappy men without money.  But a generous and merciful person with pity should spontaneously feel sorry and have the same sadness as that of unhappy men without money, without being told to do so by their superior or master such as Christ Jesus.

Love becomes stronger when it is directed to a close target than when directed to a distant target.  Anybody loves his own children more than children of other men.  Only when one is ordered by his or her superior or master such as Christ Jesus, he or she would really love unhappy persons who are distant or strange for or unfamiliar to him or her.  But a generous and merciful person with pity should spontaneously feel sorry and have the same sadness as that of the unhappy persons.

In this context, the love Christ Jesus encourages or orders Christians to have is not simple pity.  the love required by Christ Jesus should be more profound than natural pity.  

However, through religious training, education and practice, a man may come to have pity the Buddha focused on.  Through training, education and practice, he may come to become a generous and merciful man to be able to show spontaneously pity on any unhappy man.  This must be the main aim for religious training.  

But, Christ Jesus did not tell to train oneself to be able to have pity on unhappy men but simply ordered people to love their neighbors.  The love Christ Jesus encouraged or ordered people to have must be realized by anybody, even if he or she does not have any natural pity, compassion or mercy, as long as he or she believes Him and His divine authority.

Although a man who is following the teaching of Christ Jesus might think that he is not loving a neighbor, an unhappy man or a man without money he is showing compassion to but he loves Christ Jesus, the Son of God, the effect must be almost similar to natural pity, compassion or mercy of a trained Buddhist or a natural kind man.

It is because what the God concerns must be a fact that a neighbor, an unhappy man or a man without money is loved or pitied, but be not what the man loving or pitying such a man thinks even if so secretly in the bottom of his mind.

If a scholar who has discovered this kind of truth or builds a theory of this sort but does not like the truth or the theory, only if he practices the teaching of Christ Jesus because of his fear on wrath of the God, Christ Jesus should appraise him more than those who would not love or pity a neighbor, an unhappy man or a man without money for any reason, such as love to somebody who happens to be an enemy of such a man, by suppressing their natural pity, compassion or mercy.

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Matthew 11    King James Version
11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

"And Jesus entered into Jerusalem" - The So-Called Sinful is Sacred, or The So-Called Good is Bad

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo

The So-Called Sinful is Sacred, or The So-Called Good is Bad

Christ Jesus once said that He had come to the human world to call and invite sinners but not the so-called righteous men.

A certain past leader of a Japanese Buddhist school said that it went without saying that bad men were saved by the Buddha since even the so-called good men were saved.

There is a turnover of worldly value judgment or philosophy.  The most symbolic word of Christ Jesus in this sense is that rich men could not enter Heaven but poor men could.

It is easy for a rich or blessed man to look pious and good.  As long as he lives observing laws, conventions or rules of the society, or  tradition, he can live rich without taking blame, since he has enough money and right position in the society to save him from disgrace.

But most of poor men have to do something adventurous or risky to live, so that they are often regarded as persons without credibility.  They might be even regraded as sinners or bad men.  However, they must feel guilty or have a sense of sin when they make dubious actions.  If they have no money when they are hungry, they might steal bread from a shop, which rich and pious men never do.

The past leader of a Japanese Buddhist school must have thought that feeling guilty and suffering a sense of sin lead a man to understanding of truth of the human nature and human society, which rich and good men could not understand.  Therefore, the so-called bad men are closer to the paradise.  Therefore, there is no reason that bad men are not saved if good men are saved.  In other words, bad men are surely saved because even the so-called good men are saved by mercy of the Buddha.

Likewise, Christ Jesus loved poor people who were forced to break rules of the society to live.  If such poor men lived in the society under Judaism, they would be blamed as sinners.  So, it is natural for Christ Jesus to have said that he had come to the human world to call sinners but not rich or righteous men.  

Christ Jesus also said that healthy and sound men did not need medical doctors but sick men needed.  However, it might imply that it was due to rich and heathy men that caused sickness in poor men, according the Japanese leader of a Buddhist school.

This turnover of worldly value judgment or philosophy must be understood even today by those who know tragedies of being poor and immorality of rich men.  They must see that what is high in terms of wealth and positions is low in terms of justice and love or those having wealth and positions are mean in terms of humanity. 

In Buddhism, it is said that a beautiful lotus bloom blossoms in mud water.  The lotus bloom is the spirit of a poor man or a so-called bad man, and the mud water is the society built by so-called rich and good men.

 So, to the eyes of Angels sent by the God who can see the true state of men, shining must be the spirits of poor men and suffering sinners but not those of rich and so-called righteous men.  However, we must be cautious to declare that high is low, sinful is sacred, or good is bad, although we must accept the teaching of Christ Jesus that rich men cannot enter Heaven but poor men can.  

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Mar 11:10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.

Mar 11:11 And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.

Mar 11:12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:

Mar 11:13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.

Mar 11:14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.

"will he for a fish give him a serpent?" - Ask Forgiveness from Christ Jesus

 

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo

Ask Forgiveness from Christ Jesus

When a young Jewish tried to enter a school for higher education for Jewish people, he was asked in interview examination why he wanted to be enrolled at the school.

The young Jewish man answered that he wanted to learn more about Judaism.  Then, the interviewer said that he did not have to be a student of the school to learn Judaism.  So, the young Jewish man asked for what reason he should be accepted into the school.  The interviewer said, "You can learn Judaism for yourself.  But you have to enter the school to see and study under Jewish persons of character." 

The Jewish young man understood that it was not knowledge but personalities or integrity of excellent Jewish scholars that he had to learn in the school.   

In this context, without seniors having excellent personalities or integrity and without learning from them, you cannot be a model Jewish man.

However, according to Christ Jesus, there is nobody good except the God.  You only have to learn words of the God and practice them by yourself.   

For example, the Buddha said to his disciples to live like moving of rhino's horn and not to depend on anybody except the law of the universe.

A certain past founder of a Japanese Buddhist sect taught people to just call a Buddhist chant "Namu Amida Buddha" and fully rely on the Buddha and Buddhist saints even if they did not know any theories and contents of Buddhism, so that their souls would be saved.  

So, Jewish people believe that there are good men among themselves with personalities or integrity worthy of learning.  This belief binds them as an ethnic group and gives them pride over other groups or races.

However, it is unknown that a man can be admitted into Heaven only if he is a member of the Jewish group of the mankind.  Rather, it seems that a bad Jewish man is as bad as a bad Christian, a bad Muslim, a bad Japanese or a bad Buddhist.  It is so, since the betrayer of Christ Jesus was a Jewish man.

If your are a Jewish man like Judas Iscariot, you only have to ask forgiveness from Christ Jesus to be saved.  It must be useless if you learn Judaism more for yourself.

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Luke 11    King James Version

9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?