 89. Jesus or Christ |
Allegedly, the shroud of burial cloth in which Jesus was buried is now preserved in Turin, Italy. The shroud bears the "negative" image of a man's body. Apparently imprinted on the cloth by a combination of intense body heat and related chemical activity. The negative displays of "positive" likeness when reversed by photography) certain kinds of evidence on the shroud appear to support the theory that Jesus was not dead when placed in the tomb.
-Franklin Jones
To connect with the supreme transcendental spirit, consciousness, (God) outside. You must connect with it "inside" first. This is what Jesus meant (as Christ) when he said "I am the way," i.e., attaining my/this condition will connect you to God.
Most individuals look OUTWARDLY for what is right and wrong. Thus arguments are established among intellectuals and differences in ideology are incessantly produced. Although they perceive a distinction between right and wrong in their thoughts. There is truly no end to the expedition or the relative sphere unless one works to understand the function of the conceptual mind. He fails to know that all differences and opposites share the same origin, and all voices come from the same silent source. This is how the ancient Taoists set the direction of self-cultivation in attaining spiritual development.
-Chuang Tzu
Few people are aware that after having imparted the teachings of the Tao Teh Ching, as he traveled Lao Tzu continued to share his teachings with those who sincerely sought the high guidance of life from him. His essential teaching instruction was to live according to the "universal integral way" of balance and harmony. "The way,". Only one known compilation of those later teachings survived and even it was finally destroyed. It has come to be known as the "HUA HU CHING."
Hua ching Ni (Teacher) states:
When Manichaeism, the religion created by the Strian religious leader "Mani" (215-274 C.E.) knocked on the door of China, it's source was identified as Lao Tzu's "HUA HU CHING." Several versions of the "HUA HU CHING" may have appeared. After the Mongolian invasion, the Yuan Dynasty was established. The refined culture of the inland was devastated by the "horse people." Emperor Shuen-Ti (1333 C.E. – 1367 C.E.) was persuaded by jealous and prejudiced religious leaders of his own tribe of the border to ban the "Hua Hu Ching" and ordered all copies of it to be burned. Certain Buddhists in China felt that their spiritual leader, Sakyamuni, was degraded by the "Hua Hu Ching," because people often associated him with the prince who is Lao Tzu's student in the book. This association is inaccurate. In ancient times there were so many kingdoms that kings and queens, princes and princesses were as numerous as grains of sand on a beach. The prince referred to in their "HUA HU CHING" could have been any learned noble. The influence of the "HUA HU CHING" can certainly be seen in the teachings of "Mahayana" Buddhism, although it is inaccurately interpreted as "Prajna" (wisdom, which is the doctrine of emptiness.) The influence of the "HUA HU CHING" is also seen in the teachings of Sufism. However, the I Ching elevated the new teachings of Buddhism as "Mahayana" when more translations of these works from the influence of northern culture moved west and south. After being re-edited it went back to China. In the same period, "Ch'an" (Zen) Buddhism in China produced several important Buddhist books said to be Sakyamuni's teaching. Such as the "Lani Sutra," the sutra of full awakening.
And a particular philosophical discussion called the "Introduction to Mahayana," etc. These three were the most influential in making Buddhism part of the Chinese culture. Thus Ch'an Buddhism is actually an ancient Taoist teaching cloaked in Buddhist garments which afterwards spread to Japan and Korea. Manichaeism was absorbed by Tibetan Buddhism and "folktaoism." Some teachings of Zoroaster and Mani can be found in a re-edited form as the "pure land school of Mahayana Buddhism" which was widely practiced in China. One can find the influences of Lao Tzu and the "Book of Changes" in these teachings.
