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Hanshan · 40w
Christianity is just Buddhism for white people. nostr:nevent1qqsx87k7aw5pssy6t063x7hwxtrvwg6f0ycd0469qxp73zwdsv5h2xcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsyg8r5kvjfyeun70jm7p5fyz4avu93u2gplwschkmjh0s30ku6tnxysp...
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I hear this a lot and I could see why people think that. Some of the practices and wisdom overlap.: (stillness, humility, kindness, detachment from possessions, etc)

But Christianity’s cosmology and call on a person’s life is not inwardly focused (where there is more overlap with Buddhism).

The call is to bring heaven to earth: to speak truth, to oppose evil, to fix poverty, to heal the sick, to bring people hope they lost a long time ago, to teach people about the God made human in Jesus who did the work to make it all possible.

I believe there is goodness is Buddhism but I don’t think Jesus and Buddha would have haven’t along philosophically on what mattered most to each of them.
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Hanshan · 40w
Both "Buddhism" and "Christianity" are vast and varied in their actual practice. Most Buddhism is not "inwardly focused" and is practiced as you describe. and there are certainly Christian sects that are as meditative as any Buddhist monk. Jesus and Buddha point to the same eternal truth. What matt...