Lotus & Limestone

Buddha was born a Hindu. Period.

A Buddhist practice does not require believing that Jesus is nothing more than a concept or an illusion. Buddhism can't say anything categorical about a potential transcendent existence. What investigation of your own experience can describe is how Jesus manifests in your mind/the object world, and how that manifestation is interconnected and open to interpretation (empty). Christianity doesn't preclude emptiness! The multivalence of the Gospels is a basic foundation of any serious Christian theological study. A scholar named Keiji Nishitani, who was a direct pupil of Martin Heidegger, has already done the philosophical heavy lifting here. In his book Religion and Nothingness, he specifically elucidates the limits of Buddhism epistemology. The quote is something like Zen is a religion of the near side, and Christianity is a religion of the far side. They can be reconciled without paradox. I understand that many interpretations of Christianity preclude any kind of Buddhist practice, and there is no shortage of Buddhists who believe that Christianity is just an illusory phenomenon. Neither one of these religions is monolithic. But I think if you love both of these faiths and look into it for yourself, you won't find any essential incompatibility. You can practice both. Many people already do.

Yes, the Buddha was against sexual misconduct, meaning harm, abuse, and exploitation. Not two consenting adults. If you think ‘rainbow people’ are the problem, it’s not Buddhism you’re practicing it’s just your prejudice in saffron cosplay.

The teachings of Buddha have reached Japan, which is why the Japanese worship an Indian