Was Jesus Christ An Enlightened Being?

[Salty Booger]

Was Christ enlightened much like Buddha, the only difference being time and place?


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[Secret Chief]

Thich Nhat Hanh has written a couple of books that you may be interested in:

Living Buddha, Living Christ

and

Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers

 

[stvdv]

Was Christ enlightened much like Buddha, the only difference being time and place?

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According to my Master, Jesus became one with God
First Jesus was a Messenger of God, later realized He was the Son of God, and finally He declared "I and my Father are One"

So, your question "was Jesus Christ an enligtened Being?" I can't tell you for sure; just hearsay
I can only tell you "I believe Jesus Christ was an enlightened Being", who even reached the highest

 

[syo]

No. Jesus is God the Son. The Buddha is something else.

 

[WalterTrull]

I would think someone proficient in calculus could be considered "enlightened" vis a vis (don't you love that phrase - goosebumps) mathematics.

 

[Rival]

Nothing special.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

The label "Jesus Christ" is pregnant with bias.

 

[Windwalker]

Was Christ enlightened much like Buddha, the only difference being time and place?

That is what I believe. The stories about him by his followers, were the language of myth in order to communicate the higher, deeper, and more subtle truths about Awakening, or being "born again" and seeing God.

 

[Eddi]

Was Christ enlightened much like Buddha

Yes

the only difference being time and place?

No

The difference being he is God

 

[Windwalker]

Yes


No

The difference being he is God

But from the perspective of Enlightenment, we all are God.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Was Christ enlightened much like Buddha, the only difference being time and place?

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No. I wouldn't say so. Unless enlightened meaning spiritual teachers in the general sense of the terms not how they are defined in their specific faith or Dharma.

 

[metis]

Was Christ enlightened much like Buddha, the only difference being time and place?

I think anyone can become "enlightened", thus I don't see it as an either/or thingy.

 

[SigurdReginson]

All religions seem to begin as cults it seems unless they stretch back to pre-history (they might have even began as cults then). I don't really see christianity deviating from that pattern, and instead it seems to embody it wholly.

Jesus seems like a cult leader to me.

 

[dybmh]

Based on what's written in the NT? I vote: no.

Ignoring the NT, there's no way to tell who or what he was.

 

[Thief]

Was Christ enlightened much like Buddha, the only difference being time and place?

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enlightened?.....of course

the parables are really.....pointy

 

[sun rise]

From the perspective I hold, Zoroaster, Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Muhammad and Jesus are the One Avatar who takes birth again and again with different names in different times and places to propel the universe and especially humanity forward.

 

[Estro Felino]

Was Christ enlightened much like Buddha, the only difference being time and place?

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I love this mosaic. It is in the Duomo of Monreale, in Sicily.
Many historians who analyze facts scientiphically believe in the historical Jesus.
Even atheists recognize he might have been a spiritual guide and a healer.
Not that different than Buddha, imho.

 

[ajay0]

Was Christ enlightened much like Buddha, the only difference being time and place?

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The Prajapita Brahmakumaris consider Jesus to be a great prophet, messenger and son of God, but not God Himself.

I consider Jesus as a great saint with mystical powers similar to that of the yogis like Lahiri Mahasaya, Trailanga Swami in recent times.