The Lotus in the Cross and the Cross in the Lotus Topic: Dalai Lama's Seven Steps to Individual Fulfillment

Article #137
Subject: Dalai Lama's Seven Steps to Individual Fulfillment
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 4/26/2012 08:08:57 AM

Dalai Lama's
Seven steps for individual fullfillment
from Piers Morgan CNN interview 4/25/2012:
compared to Christianity

1)do not harm others
same

2) individual can conquer own existence

you cannot conquer own existence withour conquering death
individual needs God's help to conquer death

3) patience is essential

same
4) meaning of life is individual's own human purpose

meaning of life is first of all the glory of God inside
of us as individuals

5) it is possible to overcome obstacles
same

6) each individual is responsible for own virtue
same, with caveat that God's help is needed for success

7) love, compassion are real souces of happiness
same

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Article #138
Subject: A human Buddha is more than just a man in Jesus Christ
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 4/27/2012 08:34:44 AM

He who says he is "just a man" has forgetten that God exists knowing,
that "In all this world there is no such a thing as 'just a man''".

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Article #187
Subject: Fools deride me when I descend in the human form
Author: Jon
Posted: 9/6/2012 02:41:28 AM

"I know where I came from and where I am going. You do not know where I came from or where
I am going, for you make judgements in a purely human way."
- Jesus; Book of John

"Many, many births both you and I have passed; I can remember all of them, but you cannot.
Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am Lord
of all the living entities, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form."
- Sri Krishna; Bhagavad Gita 4:5,6

"The Savior said, "He who is ineffable, No principle knew Him, No authority, no subjection, nor
any creature from the foundation of the world until now, except He alone; And anyone to whom
He wants to make revelation through Him, who is from the First Light... For He has a semblance
of His own - Not like what you have seen and received, but a strange semblance that surpasses
all things and is beter than the Universe."
- Jesus; Sophia of Jesus Christ

"11.31.11
You should understand that the Supreme Lord's appearance and disappearance, which
resemble those of embodied conditioned souls, are actually a show enacted by His illusory
energy; Just like the performance of an actor. After creating this universe, He enters into it, plays
within it for sometime, and at last winds it up. Then the Lord remains situated in His own
transcendental glory, having ceased from the functions of cosmic manifestation.
11.31.13
Although Lord Krishna, being the possessor of infinite powers, is the only cause of the creation,
maintenance and destruction of innumerable living beings, He simply did not desire to keep His
body in this world any longer. Thus He revealed the destination of those fixed in the Self, and
demonstrated that this mortal world is of no intrinsic value"
- Srimad-Bhagavatam

"This is my blood, God's new covenant, poured out for many people. I will not be drinking wine
again until the new day, when I drink it in the Kingdom of God."
- Jesus Christ; Mark 14:23-25

"There are many other things that Jesus the Christ did, and if they were all written down one by
one, I suppose that the whole world could not hold the books that would be written."
- John the Baptist; Book of John 21:25

"11.31.28
The all-auspicious exploits of the all-attractive incarnations of Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, and also the pastimes He performed as a child, are described in this
Srimad-Bhagavatam, and also in other scriptures. Anyone who clearly chants these descriptions
of His pastimes will attain transcendental loving service unto Lord Krishna, who is the goal of all
perfect sages."

"Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form; They do not know My transcendental
nature as the Supreme Lord of all that be."
-Sri Krishna; Bhagavad Gita 9:11

"I took my place in the midst of the world, and I appeared to them in flesh. I found all of them
intoxicated; I found none of them thirsty. And my soul became afflicted for the sons of men,
because they are blind in their hearts and do not have sight; for empty they came into the world,
and empty too they seek to leave the world. But for the moment they are intoxicated. When they
shake off their wine, then they will repent."
- Jesus Christ; Gospel of Thomas

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