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Alan ₿ · 2d
Did Jesus trust his own judgement or did he defer to someone else?
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Jesus didn't operate from His own judgment, He submitted Himself fully to the authority of the Father. He repeatedly said he could do nothing by himself and sought not his own will but the will of the one who sent Him. He judges as he hears, and his judgment is just because it's not His own.

This is our model. It is the opposite of Zen self actualization through meditation and enlightenment. Jesus shows that we should be entirely dependent on God, not ourselves.

Anything not from the Father is of the world. Zen is not neutral and it is not compatible with Christ.




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Alan ₿ · 2d
Agree with everything you wrote but the last sentence. And it sounds an awful lot like Zen. In fact it could be a Zen text if you replaced Father with Ātman.
Cykros · 2d
I suspect you may not be the most familiar with the buddhist concept of anatta, or 'not-self.' Curious if you've encountered Thich Naht Hanh's book Living Buddha, Living Christ. He was a pure land buddhist, not Zen, but they share more in common than what differs. It's true they don't talk about G...