Showing posts with label Saint Issa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saint Issa. Show all posts

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Gnostic Jesus too dangerous for Church


Jesus' real teachings are way more dangerous than going to church
(Primeval Archives) What the Gnostic Jesus actually taught is WAY more dangerous than we were ever told. He came to expose Yaldabaoth, the demiurge, to point the way to the "True God" the Father beyond conception, the Monad (The One, akin to Brahman or GOD, the Absolute Reality, rather than Brahma, the "Creator God" or "Supremo," in early Vedic and later Hindu Indic/Dharmic conceptions).

  • Why [Christian] Gnosticism beats mainstream Christianity: As a former Christian pastor who later transitioned to atheism, my spiritual journey has been, to put it mildly, a wild ride. I’ve experienced the highs of religious fervor, the soul-crushing lows of doubt, and the liberating freedom of disbelief. But even as an atheist, I’ve always felt a nagging sense of something missing. Like a phantom limb, the yearning for meaning and purpose persisted, even though I no longer believed in a traditional God. That’s when I decided to take a fresh look at Gnosticism, a long-lost cousin of early Christianity that had been [hidden away] in the theological attic [by the mainstream Church terrified of losing its power over its followers]. As I delved into the Gnostic texts, I felt like I’d finally found some of the missing pieces of the puzzle. (Derrick Day)
  • Fake AI images of Jesus are suspiciously handsome, and we only have ourselves to blame | CNN
The Judeo-Christian God of Hate: the "Father," Yaldabaoth (the Demiurge)

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Catholic Buddhist Lent: Ash Wednesday





Holy [Hindu style) ashes on Ash Wednesday
Happy Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent for most Christians. Wisdom Quarterly's Mexican Buddhist Crystal Q. is torn between celebrating abstinence, the Five Eight or Ten Precepts, Ten Commandments, and reverting to simplicity. Since ancient Indian times, ashes from the pyre have been used by wandering ascetics as a way of getting clean. (Ashes are absorbent, and when collected from a funerary pyre, they are a strong reminder of this body's mortality). Buddhist David Bowie perhaps quoted the Anglican prayer book best when he sang, "Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, we know Major Tom's a junkie" (David Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes").

The tilma of Juan Diego: Our Lady of Guadalupe

Madonna and Child? Kwan Yin
Why would a Mexican be Buddhist? One strong reason in the past was the arrival of Buddhist missionaries from Afghanistan and China before the arrival of Christianity. See American researcher Edward P. Vining and his published findings in An Inglorious Columbus: Or Evidence that Hwui Shan and a Party of Buddhist Monks from Afghanistan Discovered America in the Fifth Century, A.D.) Of course, in modern times Mexican Americans would love Buddhism for its many qualities and perhaps recognizing in the Buddhist Goddess of Compassion Guan Yin a great deal of the Virgin of Guadalupe.


So it's time for a field trip to church (Catholic mass) to see these smearing of cremation ashes across foreheads in Los Angeles. Ananda is eager to see what this is all about. CC took us to the giant Buddhist temple east of Los Angeles in the very Asian San Gabriel Valley, where we enjoyed the Aztec dancers dancing for the Chinese Mahayana Humanist Buddhist crowd. So this explosion/clash of Mexican and European church tradition ought to be a Roman spectacular.

WHAT HAPPENED?
St. Andrew's Church (Pasadena)
Pasadena, California, has many Catholics, and "church" (mass) was packed. The one we attended is beautiful inside, much more beautiful than the usual Holy Roman Empire version. It has a picture of God unlike any other Euro Catholic church building we've ever seen, a massive mural. And next to the God are beautiful devas ("angels"), drawn in gold and very colorful. The many pews were full, and there is a Spanish language service going on in the school building across the street. This church building is on the corner of Fair Oaks and the 134 Freeway, with a big belfry and clock (campanile). Inside, it's like a mausoleum of imported stone. And the attendees are a mix of Hispanics, Italians, Europeans, and a sprinkling of Blacks and Asians. Everyone is very nice and seem repentant as they line up for their pyre ashes, almost certainly incense stick remnants and coal. Wine and gluten crackers are served, if one doesn't mind mixing saliva with everyone else, but it's wiped with a white towel between sips, which is certainly sterilizing through prayer and God's power or the priest's magic. The officiant and his altar boy assistants said some nice words, encouraged people to be good and observe the Ramadan Lenten (Latin Quadragesima, "Fortieth") self-purification practices for the next month and ten days, and to do acts of abstinence, restraint, charity, and kindness, all beautiful sentiments for those who live up to the best of their religion. It is very much like the Buddhist Rains Retreat (Pali Vassa).

Meat eating during the Holy Season?

We agree: Let animals live by not eating them.
Historically, abstinence from meat was a requirement on the days of the Lenten season, including Sunday, the "Lord's Day") [20]. In Eastern Christianity -- including Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Catholics, Eastern Lutherans, and Oriental Orthodox -- Great Lent is observed continuously without interruption for 40 days starting on Clean Monday and ending on Lazarus Saturday before Holy Week [21, 6] and the big finale of the real New Year's Day, Easter, the first day of spring (time of renewal, when the "son" rises after being as dead as the winter, as explained by Astrotheology). More


In India, cremation ashes are called phool ("flowers"). They are collected from the pyre in a rite-of-passage called asthi sanchayana then dispersed. This signifies redemption of the dead in waters (like those of the "holy" Ganges or Jordan River) considered to be sacred and a closure for the living (Hinduism, Note 28).


American Pope's first Lent

Kendrick Lamar's Lefty Gunplay, Grammy Award winning LA Latino
Dr. Dre made mad money signing Eminem, so Kendrick adopted Lefty Gunplay (F. Scott Holladay)


Viking berserkers got high first?
Hollywood's Hart is Catholic?
(HP) Christianity erased the truth, but the evidence remains: Viking "berserkers" were said to fight in a trance of unstoppable fury. Some historians believe this rage may have been triggered by psychoactive plants like henbane or hallucinogenic mushrooms. Seeds found in a Viking grave in Denmark suggest these substances were known and possibly used. Christians systematically destroyed much of the old pagan knowledge. This video explores the evidence behind one of Viking history’s strangest questions. More

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Jesus (St. Issa) travels to the Himalayas

The Christian village in Tibet for St. Issa


The Unknown Life of Jesus
Who's Saint Issa? Someone, like Russian Christian Nicolas Notovich, could argue that Jewish Jesus Christ (who as actually a Nazarene and possibly an Essene) is a Buddhist figure. Why? He appears in written Mahayana Vajrayana Buddhist records long before he appeared in Europe or the West. Yeshua (Yazoo, Joshua) appeared in records as Saint Issa (later appearing as Isa in Islamic texts). He seems to have been a tulku, drawn to Ladakh, India (then part of Tibet, or Tibetan Autonomous Region of China). Notovich tried to tell Christendom, the Christian world, but biblical scholars would not stand for it.
How to live a long life with "His Holiness" the 14th Dalai Lama

Many people in Lhasa, Tibet, Dharamsala, India, and the West call the 14th Dalai Lama "His Holiness" or HH Dalai Lama. It's an honorific title. He is treated like an enlightened being though he himself says he is not enlightened. Still, he stands (with the CIA) against China, and that has to count for something, like his friend former Pres. George W. Bush, whose father was director of the CIA. Americans love him, and the faithful say he is a reincarnation of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. Does that make him the Maitreya (Messiah)?

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

The Buddhist way to give for Christmas


The Buddhist Way to Give at Christmas | No stress, just pure joy
(Buddha's Wisdom) Dec. 23, 2025: What if we could give at Christmas without stress, guilt, or keeping score?
  • 🎁 CHRISTMAS DOESN'T HAVE TO FEEL HEAVY.
  • DISCOVER HOW BUDDHIST WISDOM CAN TRANSFORM GIVING.
For 2,600+ years, Buddhists have practiced dāna (letting go, giving, sharing, generosity, charity), the art of generous giving that liberates both giver and receiver.

This ancient wisdom offers a profound alternative to the anxiety, obligation, and reciprocity calculations that often shadow modern Christmas giving.

Through Buddhist teachings, human psychology, and everyday Christmas moments, this video shows how giving without attachment changes not only the holiday season…but the mind/heart behind it.

📿 DISCOVER:
  • The ancient practice of dāna and its three stages of joy (before, during, and after giving)
  • Why expecting gratitude turns giving into stress
  • Why the Buddha said the "gift of Dhamma [the Teaching, Doctrine, Dharma] surpasses all other gifts" and what this means for our Western pagan holiday we call Christmas (Christ's mass)
  • The three moods of giving: reluctant, calculated, and free (and which one we're actually practicing)
  • The hidden emotional contracts behind Christmas gifts
  • How to give, and receive, without pressure, debt, or obligation
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  • 00:00 Christmas magic meets Buddhist wisdom
  • 01:19 The Christmas giving paradox
  • 03:19 What is Dāna? The Buddhist art of generosity
  • 06:13 The three moods of giving
  • 11:01 How to practice dāna at Christmas
  • 17:29 The ultimate Buddhist Christmas gift
  • 19:30 The one gift experiment
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📚 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING:
PRIMARY TEXTS:
  • The Dhammapada (verse on the gift of Dhamma)
  • Early Buddhist texts in the Pāli canon (teachings on dāna and generosity)
  • Accounts of Anāthapiṇḍika's generosity (Vinaya Piṭaka)
  • The Buddha's final teaching (Mahāparinibbāna Sutta)
SCHOLARLY CONTEXT:
"Dāna: The Practice of Giving" - Selected Essays from Early Buddhist Texts
"Generosity in Early Buddhism" - Bhikkhu Bodhi's translations and commentaries
"Buddhist Ethics" - Damien Keown (Oxford University Press)

MODERN APPLICATIONS: Studies on mindful giving and psychological wellbeing
Research on gratitude practices and stress reduction
Comparative religious studies: Generosity across traditions

© Buddha's Wisdom - Making ancient wisdom accessible for modern life.
  • Buddha's Wisdom (YouTube), Dec. 23, 2025; Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Sheldon S., Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Saturday, December 20, 2025

Jesus Christ warned: Archon Loosh Farm


Robert Monroe of the monroeinstitute.org described invisible emotional energy and called it "loosh." This world of ours has been converted into a Loosh Farm by the Archons, and their symptoms brings us back in a cyclical fashion described by the Dharmic religions as samsara, the Wheel of Life and Death that binds us to suffering, constantly seeking pleasure now here then there, coming to death again and again. But rebirth is a process impelled by our craving, aversion, and ignorance (aka "greed, hatred, and delusion," lobha, dosa, and moha).

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Tomb of Jesus Christ found in Jerusalem?

(ZMVT about history) What Jewish Talmud says about filthy (ritually impure Gentile) Christians


Middle Eastern/North African Rabbi Yeshua
(PM) A long-awaited excavation by Italian archeologists has finally taken place beneath the floors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Palestine.

The church is believed to have been built in part upon the site of Jesus’s tomb, which the Gospel of John describes as having been “a garden.”

Their dig uncovered evidence of 2,000-year-old olive trees and grapevines, suggesting the site had indeed once been used for agriculture [if not gardening].

The Unknown Life of Jesus
“At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.”- John 19:41

As a literary device, this description of the burial place of Jesus Christ is effective; it offers a contrast between the site of Jesus’s death at the crucifixion site of Calvary (also called Golgotha, both derived from the Latin for “place of the skull”) and a fertile garden, brimming with life.

It also provides a cyclical shape to the final chapter of the Christ [the Anointed One's] narrative, which begins with his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane. So, as storytelling, this single sentence from the Gospel of John (the most recently written of the four canonical gospels, most scholars agree) has a substantial power to its brevity.

Unknown years of Jesus (Nicolas Notovitch)
But as a historical record of where, exactly, one of the most famous men [or overhyped propaganda figures beginning with a historical figure then blown all out of proportion with myths, comforting fables, and voluminous imperial Roman psyops] who ever lived was laid to rest, one would be forgiven for finding it sorely lacking in detail.

Yet, thanks to a new discovery reported in the Times of Israel, that sentence might be key to confirming where the real [Jewish, Nazarene, or Essene] man at the center of the Christian faith was placed after his famous [imperial Roman torture practice of] crucifixion. More

Monday, November 24, 2025

Did Rabbi Jesus Christ marry Mary M?


(Prof. Jiang Clips) Jesus Christ and his teachings were too dangerous for the official Church order

Jesus [the Nazarene] had a wife: The evidence!

A rabbi's wife but no children?
(Simcha's Sessions) Nov. 19, 2025: Was Jesus a lifelong celibate, or was he a typical 1st century rabbi with a wife?

The conventional image is that of an unmarried savior (messianic figure), but a close look at the Gospels and the customs of the time suggests the truth is far more provocative.

In this session, Simcha Jacobovici sets aside tradition to investigate the pure historical and textual evidence.

What was uncovered:
  • The Rabbi's Requirement: In 1st century Judaism, it would have been highly unusual [some would say impossible] for a man of Jesus's status (a rabbi) to be unmarried.
  • The Problem of Paul: The tradition of Jesus's celibacy likely originates with Paul (Saul), who was vehemently against marriage and sexuality, yet Paul himself never claims Jesus was unmarried.
  • The Intimate Anointing (rubbing with oil): The shocking scene in the Gospels where a woman washes, kisses, and dries Jesus's naked feet with her hair—an act considered [sexually erotic] "nakedness" (ervah) in Jewish law. This highly intimate act would only be permissible for a wife.
  • A holy couple in ancient Palestine?
    Mary Magdalene and the Cross
    : Mary Magdalene's constant presence and emotional acts (e.g., anointing Jesus's body after his death) point toward the role of an intimate family member, specifically a wife.
  • The Gnostic Evidence: The excluded Gnostic Gospels, such as the Gospel of Philip, explicitly state Jesus and Mary Magdalene were constant companions and were known to kiss on the lips. The historical, social, and textual evidence strongly suggests the man known as Jesus was indeed married.
  • Revealed: What Jesus REALLY looked like, according to experts (MSN)
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Sunday, November 9, 2025

The Christ vs. The Buddha: similarities

Sid (the Buddha), Kris (Krishna), Mo, Josh (Jesus), Aquaman, Lao Tzu, Joe (Joseph Smith)

JESUS vs. the BUDDHA: Love vs. Non-Attachment
The Buddha and the Christ: friends
(Buddha's Wisdom) 🔍JESUS vs. BUDDHA: LOVE vs. DETACHMENT: TWO PATHS, ONE TRUTH. What happens when Jesus’s fearless [yogic] love [called agape in Greek] meets the Buddha’s wisdom of [boundless love called metta and] letting go*?
  • *“Attachment says, ‘Be mine,’ whereas love says, ‘Be well.’”
This video explores how two of history’s greatest spiritual teachers [the Buddha preceding Christ by at least 500 years], born five centuries and continents apart, answered the same human question: *How do we love without suffering*?
  • *Suffering: dukkha, disappointment, pain, unsatisfactoriness, misery, ill, woe, not getting what we want and getting what we don't want.
From Galilee to the Ganges, discover how their paths converge in a timeless lesson for the modern heart.

📿 DISCOVER:
  • The radical love of Jesus that defied tribal and political boundaries
  • The Buddha’s teaching on non-attachment and the end of desperate grasping and clinging
  • The hidden parallels between early Christian and Buddhist thought
  • The mystery of whether the Christ and the Buddha’s teachings ever crossed paths [in ancient India, Tibet, and Central Asia]
  • How to practice “love with open hands” in relationships today
🙏 Subscribe for more East-meets-West wisdom: Every week, we explore the meeting point of philosophy, history, and spirituality, from Buddhist cosmology to hidden wisdom in Western thought.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:0
  • 00:00 The grip in our chest
  • 01:14 The love paradox
  • 02:44 The dangerous love of Jesus
  • 07:24 The freedom love of Siddhartha the Buddha
  • 11:19 When two truths collide
  • 15:35 Love without the leash
  • 21:21 The third path
  • 24:50 Love fearlessly, LET GO freely
📚 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING:
  • The Metta Sutta (Sutta Nipata 1.8) – Teachings on Loving-Kindness
  • Sallatha Sutta (SN 36.6) – The Parable of the Second Arrow
  • The Gospel of Luke 10.25-37 – The Parable of the Good Samaritan
  • The Gospel of Matthew 5.44 – “Love thy enemies”
  • Comparative studies on Greco-Buddhist exchanges along the Silk Road
  • Historical scholarship on early Christian monasticism and Buddhist influence
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  • Buddha's Wisdom, Nov. 8, 2025; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

We've been LIED to about Christianity



Young Jesus (known in Buddhism as Issa) in India and Tibet
Does curel, bloody black magic animal sacrifice really undergird all of modern Christianity?
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The Church knew, buried truth
In 1887, Russian Christian war correspondent Nicolas Notovitch claimed that while traveling through the Himalayas with other Russian, he was thrown from a horse and broke his leg.

The others left him to recover over the winter at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery known as Hemis Gompa in Ladakh (now part of India), he was shown written documentation called the "Life of Saint Issa, Best of the Sons of Men" (Isa being the Arabic name of Jesus in Islam) by the Buddhist abbot [30][31][32].

Christian Nicolas Notovitch
Notovitch's story, with a translated text of the "Life of Saint Issa," was published upon his return to the West in French in 1894 as La vie inconnue de Jesus Christ (Unknown Life of Jesus Christ) [5][32].
 
According to the Buddhist scrolls, Jesus (Issa) abandoned Jerusalem, Palestine/Israel, at the age of 13 and set out towards India, "intending to improve and perfect himself in the divine understanding and to studying the laws [the Dharma or Doctrine] of the great Buddha."

The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ
He crossed Punjab and reached Puri Jagannath, where he studied the Brahmin priests' Vedas (sacred text, lit. "Knowledge Books").

He spent six years in Puri and Rajgir (the famous Buddhist city Rajagriha, site of Vultures' Peak and Venuvana/Veluvana Vihara), near Nalanda (site of the world's first university, a Buddhist monastic learning center in India), an ancient seat of Brahminical/Vedic learning.

Then Issa/Jesus/Yeshua went up into the Himalayas and spent time in Tibetan lamaseries, studying Buddhism [30], and continued on through Persia (the Aryan Land of Iran), and returned to Jerusalem at the age of 29.

Christendom shaken
Jesus Lived in India: Unknown Life (H. Kersten)
Notovitch's writings were immediately controversial, and German scholar Max Müller stated that either the Buddhist lamas at the lamasery had deceived Notovitch (or played a joke on him), or he had fabricated the evidence [30][33][34].

Müller then wrote to the Buddhist monastery at Hemis, and the [replacement] head lama replied that there had been no Western visitor at the monastery in the past 15 years and there were no documents related to Notovitch's story [35].

J. Archibald Douglas then visited Hemis Gompa and interviewed the [new] head lama, who stated that Notovitch had never been there [35].

Indologist Leopold von Schroeder called Notovitch's story a "big fat lie" [36]. Wilhelm Schneemelcher states that Notovich's accounts were soon exposed as fabrications and that to date no one has even had a glimpse at the manuscripts Notovitch claims to have had [5] [which is untrue since Swami Abhedananda traveled to Hemis and was allowed to see, touch, and confirm their existence].

The Jesus Conspiracy: Turin
Notovich defended himself by responding to these attacks and claims [37]. However, once his story was reexamined by historians – some even questioning his existence – they claimed Notovitch confessed to having fabricated the evidence [36].

American scholar Bart D. Ehrman states that, "Today there is not a single recognized scholar on the planet who has any doubts about the matter [other than German scholar Holger Kersten and his colleague German Indologist Gunter Gronbold, author of Jesus in Indien]. The entire story was invented by Notovitch, who earned a good deal of money and a substantial amount of notoriety for his hoax" [38].
However, others deny this. Notovich never accepted any accusations against him – that his account was a forgery or any such thing.

Although not impressed with his story, Sir Francis Younghusband recalls meeting Nicolas Notovitch near Skardu not long before Notovitch visited Hemis monastery [39].

Swami Abhedananda
In 1922, the President of the Vedanta Society of New York between 1897 and 1921 and the author of several books Swami Abhedananda went to the Himalayas on foot and reached Tibet, where he studied Buddhist philosophy and Tibetan Buddhism.

He traveled to Hemis Gompa and allegedly found the manuscript Notovitch claimed and translated, which was a Tibetan translation of the original scrolls written in the exclusively Buddhist language Pali.

One of the lamas said that it was a copy and that the original was in a monastery at Marbour near the Tibetan capital of Lhasa.
After Abhedananda's death in 1939, one of his disciples inquired about the documents at the Hemis Gompa but was told that they had disappeared [40][41] [which is to say moved for safety so that Westerners would not come kill everyone and steal them to hide the truth in accord with their sectarian religious views]. More