End vicious circle of negative habits 💀

(Moon Mind Temple) Buddhist teachings that end the vicious circle of negative habits | Zen stories for deep peace (Thich Nhat Hanh)

Compassion with fangs? Buddhist protector

Mom, is this what you call compassion? - Shut the front door, you worthless piece of me!

(Buddha's Wisdom) MAHA KALA: The Buddhist protector who looks like a demon

Mahākāla (Sanskrit महाकाल) is a deity common to Buddhism and Hinduism [1].

In Buddhism, Mahākāla is regarded as a Dharmapāla ("Protector of the Dharma") and a wrathful manifestation of a cosmic or primordial buddha or bodhisattva.

In Hinduism, Mahākāla is a fierce manifestation of the Hindu God Shiva and the consort of the Goddess Mahākālī [1].

Sri Yantra, sacred chakra (Shaktism)

He most prominently appears in the Kalikula sect of Shaktism [2, 3, 4]. Mahākāla appears as a protector deity in the various traditions of Vajrayana Buddhism, like Chinese Esoteric Buddhism, Japanese Shingon, and Tibetan Vajrayana [1] and Bon.

He is known as Dàhēitiān and Daaih'hāktīn (大黑天) in Mandarin and Cantonese, Daeheukcheon (대흑천) in Korean, Đại Hắc Thiên in Vietnamese, and Daikokuten (大黒天) in Japanese. More

• 6-armed Mahakala Buddha Thangka | Hand-Painted Tibetan Art

Six-armed Mahakala to develop Six [of Ten] Perfections

Vajrapani Bodhisattva: The Thunderbolt

(Buddha's Wisdom) VAJRAPANI: The Thunderbolt Bodhisattva who challenged Lord Shiva himself | Om Vajrapani Hum

Fierce protective spirit being

Vajrapani (Sanskrit Vajrapāṇi, Pali Vajirapāṇi, "holder of the thunderbolt," lit. meaning, "Vajra in [one's] hand") is one of the earliest-appearing bodhisattva in various sub-schools of Mahayana Buddhism.

He is alleged to be the protector and guide of the historical Buddha Gautama and rose to symbolize the Buddha's power.

Vajrapāni is also called Chana Dorje and Chador and extensively represented in Buddhist iconography as one of the earliest three protective deities or bodhisattvas surrounding the Buddha. Each of them symbolizes one of the Buddha's virtues... More

• Vajrapani Bodhisattva
• Vajrapani thangka (Dharma Treasures)

The Ten Stages of Zen Enlightenment

The way to sudden awakening is abduction by ETs then gurgling on TV: Disclosure Day

The Ten Bulls (created with Dream by WOMBO feat. music by Infraction) : r/AIArtwork

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The 10 Stages of Zen Enlightenment: A Map to Buddha-Nature

Bongeunsa paintings of ox herding, the Ten Bulls (wiki)

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Ten to Zen Bulls

(Buddha's Wisdom) 🔍 The ancient [Taoist] Zen map that reveals we've been seeking what we already have: The 10 stages of Zen enlightenment, known as The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures, are Zen Buddhism’s 1,000-year-old roadmap to awakening and self-discovery.

• What does Zen consider "enlightenment"? There are two words used. The first is satori (from Japanese satoru, to know, to see, understand a gestalt) or "sudden realization." Any insight or epiphany might do. But there's another word, kenshō, that means suddenly seeing our "true face," our "nature," our intrinsic "Buddha-nature." Certainly, our "true nature," which is the true nature of all things, has three marks. Penetrating this is necessary to letting go of all clinging.
• None of these accords with what the historical Buddha taught as enlightenment (bodhi, "awakening"), but seeing "emptiness" (suññatā) -- how all things are impersonal -- is necessary for the first stage of awakening called "stream entry."
• The Ten Bulls or the "Ten Ox Herding Pictures" (Chinese shíniú 十牛, Japanese jūgyūzu 十牛図, Korean sipwoo 십우)

Created by 12th-century Chinese Chan Master Kuòān Shīyuǎn, these images explain the stages of enlightenment—from desperate seeking to the realization that the ox we’ve been chasing has been the "Buddha-nature" we already possess and have always possessed.

This isn’t just ancient art. It’s a mirror showing where we truly are on the path to awakening right now.

This video explores The 10 Stages of Zen Enlightenment: A Map to Buddha-Nature, decoding the Zen Buddhist path to awakening through Zen’s most iconic teaching story.

Learn how Kuòān Shīyuǎn’s Ten Ox-Herding Pictures became a timeless visual guide to mindfulness, meditation, and non-duality in Chinese Chan and Zen Buddhism.

DISCOVER

• The 10 ancient Zen stages explained step-by-step
• How 12th century Master Kuòān Shīyuǎn transformed Taoist symbols into Zen training tools
• The mystery behind the final picture—why enlightenment ends in a noisy marketplace
• How the Heart Sutra and Zen Master Dōgen’s teachings appear inside these images
• Why these ancient pictures still describe the modern search for meaning and peace
• [Hasbara propaganda works as 'Disclosure Day' invades globe with $93M worldwide opening
• Box Office: 'Disclosure Day' opening to $44 mil in U.S.
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Are ETs into Zen? (Disclosure Day)

🙏 Are you somewhere between Picture 1 and Picture 4, searching, struggling, or starting to see glimpses? That's exactly where you need to be. Subscribe to continue the Path to Enlightenment series as we explore Theravāda's Four Stages and Mahāyāna's Bodhisattva Path.

 ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 Intro – “You’ve lost something”
• 01:09 Chp 1 – The finger pointing at the moon
• 03:11 Chp 2 – When you first spot what you’ve lost 
• 07:52 Chp 3 – The years of wrestling your own mind
• 12:06 Chp 4 – The death of everything you think you are
• 17:57 Chp 5 – Why enlightenment [Zen's version of the awakened state] looks like a drunk in the market
• 21:45 Chp 6 – The ox you’re already riding

Ox herding pictures, No. 7 (Ten Bulls)

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📚 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING

Primary texts:

"Ten Ox-Herding Pictures" by Kuòān Shīyuǎn (Kakuan) - 12th century Chan Buddhism classic "The Platform Sutra" - Teachings of Huìnéng, Sixth Patriarch "The Diamond Sutra" (Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra) "The Heart Sutra" (Prajñāpāramitā Hṛdaya) "Shōbōgenzō" by Dōgen Zenji - 13th century Zen master "The Gateless Gate" (Wúménguān) - Classic Zen kōan collection featuring Zhàozhōu

Modern scholarship:

"Zen and Japanese Culture" by D.T. Suzuki "The Three Pillars of Zen" by Philip Kapleau (commentary on ox-herding) "Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin" translated by Norman Waddell "The Zen Teaching of Rinzai" translated by Irmgard Schloegl Historical Context: Earlier buffalo-herding sets from Chinese Chan tradition Evolution from earlier versions to Kakuan's refined ten-stage cycle Song Dynasty Buddhist art and philosophy

• Buddha's Wisdom, Nov. 2, 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Manjushri Bodhisattva cuts our ignorance

(Buddha's Wisdom with Matt) MANJUSHRI: The bodhisattva who cuts through ignorance

Thousand-Armed Manjushri

Manjushri (Sanskrit 𑀫𑀜𑁆𑀚𑀼𑀰𑁆𑀭𑀻, Romanized Mañjuśrī) is a bodhisattva who represents transcendental wisdom (prajñā) of the "Cosmic Buddhas" [like Vairocana] in Mahāyāna Buddhism.

The name "Mañjuśrī" is a combination of Sanskrit word mañju and the honorific -śhrī. It can therefore be literally translated as "Beautiful One with Glory" or "Beautiful One with Auspiciousness."

Namasangiti Manjushri

Mañjuśrī is also known by the fuller name of Mañjuśrī-kumāra-bhūta (मञ्जुश्रीकुमारभूत) [1], literally "Mañjuśrī, Still a Youth" or, less literally, "Youthful Prince Mañjuśrī." Another name of Mañjuśrī is Mañjughōṣa.

In Mahāyāna Buddhism

Scholars have identified Mañjuśrī as the oldest and most significant bodhisattva in Mahāyāna Buddhist literature [2]. Notable traits of Mañjuśhrī include: More

• Mount Wutai, China
• Mount Odaesan, Korea

It's impersonal: My EGO is an illusion?

Anattā: "not-self," "non-self," "non-ego," "egolessness," "selflessness," "soullessness," the fact that ultimately all is "impersonal" is the last and most difficult of the three fetters or wrong views to cut.

It is one of the Universal Characteristics of All Existence (ti-lakkhana). The anattā doctrine taught by the historical Buddha is that neither within the bodily and mental phenomena of existence (the Five Aggregates clung to as self: form, feelings, perceptions, formations, and consciousness), nor outside of them, can there be found anything that in the ultimate sense can ever be regarded as a self or independently-existing real ego-entity, soul, self, or any other abiding essence, substance, or atman.

This is the central doctrine of Buddhism, without the understanding of which any real knowledge of Buddhism is altogether impossible.

It is the only really specific Buddhist doctrine, with which the entire structure of the Buddhist Teaching (Dharma, Dhamma) stands or falls.

All the remaining Buddhist doctrines might, more or less, be found in other philosophical systems or religions, but the anattā-doctrine is only clearly and unreservedly taught by the Buddha (or buddhas before him), wherefore the Buddha is known as the anattā-vādi, or "Teacher of Egolessness."

Whoever has not penetrated this impersonal characteristic of all existence and does not comprehend that in reality there exists only this continually self-consuming process of arising and passing bodily and mental phenomena, that there is no separate ego-entity within or without this process, that person will not be able to understand Buddhism, that is, the teaching of the Four Ennobling (Enlightening) Truths (sacca) in the correct light.

One will think that it is one's ego or personality that experiences suffering, one's person that performs good and harmful karma and will be reborn according to those actions, one's personality that will enter into nirvana, one's personality that practices the Ennobling Eightfold Path. More

Save oneself or everyone else?

(Buddha's Wisdom) Save yourself or save everyone else? Buddhism's most dangerous question

• Ven. Śāriputra, Maha Thera (Śrāvaka)
• Vimalakirti Sutra
• Mahayana exalts itself and condemns a scarecrow stick figure of its own creation, the Hinayana, no school of which remains, the last being the Sarvastivada
• Theravada, back-to-basics non-Hinayana tradition of the historical Buddha
• The Bodhisattva Ideal (Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, Sri Lanka)

Save oneself or save everyone else? Buddhism's most dangerous question

(Buddha's Wisdom) May 6, 2026: ⚡ FOR 2,000 YEARS BUDDHISM HAS BEEN FIGHTING ITSELF...AND NO SIDE HAS WON YET. Is personal enlightenment (arahantship) selfish?

The Bodhisattva Ideal (BPS)

Buddhism's two greatest paths ideals, that of the Arhat and that of the Bodhisattva, have been locked in the most consequential debate in Buddhist history since the first century CE.

What began as a philosophical disagreement between Mahāyāna and [Hinayana schools until they were all destroyed and] Theravāda Buddhism [arose]. It became something far more dangerous: a 2,000-year argument about what "liberation" (vimutti, moksha) actually means, who it's for, and whether saving oneself first is an act of wisdom or an act of cowardice.

TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 The [apocryphal] trial of Śāriputra [where Ven. Sariputra, male disciple "foremost in wisdom," comparable to Ven. Khema, female disciple "foremost in wisdom" used as a stick figure to represent first the Hinayana ("Lesser Vehicle"), a pejorative epithet, and later the Theravada ("Teaching of the Elder Enlightened Disciples of the Historical Buddha") to attack them with Brahminical and Hindu residues on what the Buddha Taught]
• 02:01 The debate we've been building to
• 04:19 The prosecution — Mahāyāna's real case
• 08:10 The defense — the sentence that stops everything
• 13:19 The trap — who is taking this infinite vow?
• 18:26 The real wound — self-view in spiritual clothing
• 24:01 The dissolution — each path guards the other
• 29:19 The same mountain

🔍 DISCOVER

• Why the [apocryphal Mahayana invented discourse] Vimalakīrti Sūtra placed the arhat (Pali arahant) ideal on trial
• How the Lotus Sūtra reframed personal liberation through the One Vehicle (Ekayana) teaching
• Why Theravāda’s strongest defense begins with one simple fact: the Buddha called himself an was called an arahant
• How the Diamond Sūtra complicates the bodhisattva vow through no-self (anatta) and emptiness (shunyata)
• Why Vajrayāna Buddhism refuses to take sides in this debate...and what that refusal reveals about both paths simultaneously

📚 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: (with affiliate links)

• Primary [Mahayana] Buddhist texts: Vimalakīrti Sūtra (Vimalakīrtinirdeśa Sūtra) — Robert Thurman translation recommended https://amzn.to/3QTtGSD
• Diamond Sūtra (Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra) — Red Pine translation recommended https://amzn.to/3OP9Mro
• Lotus Sūtra (Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra) — Burton Watson translation recommended https://amzn.to/4d2JFqh
• Primary [Theravada] texts: Majjhima Nikāya (Collection of "Middle Length Discourses" from the Pali canon) — Ariyapariyesanā Sutta (MN 26) — Bhikkhu Bodhi translation https://amzn.to/4dcS2y9
• Pāli canon — Nikāya (collection of) discourses on the brahma-vihārās ("Four Divine Abidings" of loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity or dispassionate looking on) 

Scholarly and Modern Resources

• Paul Williams — Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations https://amzn.to/4evxKCq
• Bhikkhu Bodhi (translator) — The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha https://amzn.to/3OMwqkd
• Étienne Lamotte — The Teaching of Vimalakīrti
• Peter Harvey — An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics https://amzn.to/42e1RH9
• Nāgārjuna — Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Jay Garfield translation recommended) https://amzn.to/4w8J0Lr
• Rupert Gethin, The Foundations of Buddhism https://amzn.to/4d5IG7h

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ZEN: Bodhidharma's 'Wake Up Sermon'

Bodhidarma (Hakuin Ekaku)

 

(Echoes of Lost Knowledge) The sermon that has awakened more minds than any other teaching in Zen Buddhism | Bodhidharma

"Bodhidharma" was a semi-legendary Indian Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century CE [1]. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Chan (Zen) Buddhism to China and is regarded as its first Chinese patriarch [a]. He is also popularly regarded as the founder of Shaolin kung fu [2, 3, 4, 5], an idea popularized in the 20th century [4, 5, 2] but based on the 17th century Yijin Jing and the Taoist association of daoyin gymnastics with him. More

Buddhism split: Mahayana emerged

(Buddha's Wisdom) Heretical new texts turn the historical Buddha Shakyamuni's Dharma (Doctrine) on its head, infusing it with the Old Vedic Religion of the Brahmins, Taoism, Hinduism, and later thought, sometimes directly opposing what Gautama Buddha taught about nirvana and samsara and many other things, including the Ten Perfections (reduced by Mahayana to six) and the 31 Planes of Existence (reduced to six)...

Kwan Yin: Buddhist Goddess of Compassion

(Buddha's Wisdom) Transgendering the deva (shining one, god) Avalokiteshvara "who hears the cries of the world" into the Chinese devi (goddess) of compassion Kwan Yin (Guanyin Bodhisattva)

The blue 'Medicine Buddha' - Healer

WATCH NOW: The MEDICINE BUDDHA: Buddhism's Forgotten Healer | Bhaisajyaguru

The MEDICINE BUDDHA: Buddhism's Forgotten Healer | Bhaisajyaguru

(Buddha's Wisdom) March 4th, 2026: #MedicineBuddha #Buddhism #BuddhistHealing 🔍 THE MEDICINE BUDDHA HEALS WITHOUT CURING — AND HERE'S WHY:

The Medicine Buddha (BhaisajyaGuru) is one of the most fascinating figures in Mahāyāna Buddhism: a blue-skinned buddha associated with healing, compassion, and the Pure Land of Lapis Lazuli (a beautiful blue Afghan gemstone).

 

But if Buddhism teaches impermanence, non-self (anattā), and detachment from the body, why does it include a buddha devoted to curing illness?

This video explores the history, philosophy, and psychological depth behind Bhaiṣajyaguru...and what Buddhist healing really means.

This is the story of how Buddhism's "doctor who prescribes enlightenment" challenges everything we think we know about healing, suffering, and what it means to be broken.

📿 DISCOVER:

• Why Medicine Buddha's 12 vows made him Buddhism's most controversial figure
• How 8th-century Buddhist monasteries became the world's first integrated healthcare systems
• The blind Chinese Buddhist monk who taught healing despite losing his sight
• Why Tibetan, Japanese, and Chinese Buddhists practice Medicine Buddha in completely different ways
• What modern science reveals about meditation, stress, and the mind-body connection.

⏳ TIMESTAMPS:

• 00:00 The blue-skinned god that shouldn't exist
• 02:32 The twelve vows that changed Buddhism
• 08:55 When temples became clinics
• 14:55 The disease behind the disease
• 21:22 Three Buddhas, one Truth
• 30:51 The cure that isn't

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📚 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING:

• Primary Buddhist Texts: Bhaiṣajyaguru-vaiḍūrya-prabhā-rāja Sūtra (Medicine Buddha Sutra)
• Vinaya Piṭaka (Monastic Disciplinary Code)
• Dhammapada (Imprint of the Buddha's Teachings)
• Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path
• Madhyamaka Philosophy (Nāgārjuna)
• Yogācāra texts (Vasubandhu)

Historical Sources:

• "The Great Tang Records on the Western Regions" by Xuanzang (7th century) amzn.to/4b3eCYP
• Records of Jianzhen's journey to Japan (735-763 CE) Tōdai-ji Temple archives (Nara, Japan)
• Tang Dynasty medical records Tibetan Gyushi (Four Medical Tantras)
• Archaeological findings from Bamiyan and Gandhāra

Modern Scholarly Works:

• "The Healing Buddha" by Raoul Birnbaum amzn.to/4r5YNqp
• "Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources" edited by C. Pierce Salguero amzn.to/4ct4ivS
• "Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World" by Laurent Pordié amzn.to/4rQuAwU
• Studies on placebo effect and meditation (Harvard Medical School, NIH research)
• Research on mindfulness and pain management Neuroscience studies on visualization practices

Related Academic Resources:

• Journal of Buddhist-Christian Studies Buddhist-Christian Studies journal articles on Medicine Buddha
• Contemporary research on Buddhist medical ethics
• Cross-cultural studies of Medicine Buddha practice

⚡ In a world obsessed with curing the body, Medicine Buddha asks a deeper question: If there is no permanent self…who is being healed? [Ugh, the momentarily dependently arisen "self" (atman, atta)?]

DISCLAIMER: This video is for educational purposes. Medicine Buddha practice is a spiritual/meditative practice and should not replace professional medical care. Always consult qualified healthcare providers for medical conditions.

MLK Jr. + Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh

(Letters & Politics) The Buddhist and The Christian: When Thay met MLK

Brothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr.

Brothers (Parallax Press)

(Paperback) Author Bishop Marc Andrus has 4.7 out of 5 stars (with 105 reviews). This is the never-before-told story of the friendship between American Christian Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh—icons who changed each other and the world.

The day after Rev. King was assassinated in 1968, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a heartbroken letter to their mutual friend Raphael Gould. In it he said: "I did not sleep last night.... They killed Martin Luther King. They killed us.

"I am afraid the root of violence is so deep in the heart and mind and manner of this society. They killed him. They killed my hope. I do not know what to say.... He made so great an impression in me. This morning I have the impression that I cannot bear the loss." More

AUTHOR: Marc Andrus is the American bishop of the Episcopal Church (Anglican Communion). He was the eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California until his retirement in the summer of 2024. Prior to his election as Bishop of California, Andrus served as a suffragan bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama. More

• BOOK: Brothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr.
• Bishop Marc Andrus, January 10, 2023; Asangoham, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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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• * Love fearlessly. Love freely. Stay curious. Stay wise.

#Jesus, #Buddha, #Love, #Detachment, #NonAttachment, #Spirituality, #Mindfulness, #Buddhism, #Christianity, #Philosophy, #EastMeetsWest, #Wisdom, #Enlightenment

• Buddha's Wisdom, Nov. 8, 2025; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Heart Sutra (translation)

Avalokiteśvara, Padmapani. What is the personification of the Perfection of Wisdom?

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The deva Avalokiteśvara

Om! Hail, the Perfection of Wisdom, beautiful and wholesome!

The being bent on supreme enlightenment was moving through the wisdom that has gone beyond, looking down from on high, beholding only five heaps, seeing that in and of themselves they are empty.

Here within this Dharma, O Foremost in Wisdom, FORM is emptiness, and the very emptiness is form.

Emptiness does not differ from form, and form does not differ from emptiness; whatever is form, that is emptiness.

Prajnaparamita of Java

The same is true of FEELINGS, PERCEPTIONS, FORMATIONS, and CONSCIOUSNESS.

Herein, O Foremost in Wisdom, all phenomena bear the mark of emptiness. They are not dual, not produced nor stopped, not defiled nor immaculate, not deficient nor complete.

Therefore, O Foremost in Wisdom, in emptiness, in being impersonal, there is no form nor feeling, nor perception, nor formation, nor consciousness.

Bodhisattva, Dambulla, Sri Lanka

There are no bases -- no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind; no forms, sounds, smells, tastes, tangibles or objects of mind; no sight-organ element, and so forth, until we come to:

There is no mind-consciousness element; there is no ignorance, no extinction of ignorance, and so forth, until we come to: There is no decay and death, no extinction of decay and death. There is no suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path.

There is no cognition, no attainment, and no nonattainment.

Prajna, Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom

Therefore, O Foremost in Wisdom, it is because of this non-striving to attain that a being bent on supreme enlightenment, through having relied on the Perfection of Wisdom, dwells without thought-coverings. In the absence of thought-coverings, one is not made to tremble.

One has overcome what can upset, and in the end is quenched, having let go, having glimpsed Nirvana.

Tibetan Avalokiteśvara with 11 faces

All who appear as supremely enlightened beings in the three periods of time -- past, present, and future -- fully awake to the utmost, to right and supreme enlightenment because they have relied on the Perfection of Wisdom.

Therefore, one should recognize the Perfection of Wisdom, the Prajnaparamita, as the great mantra, the mantra of great knowledge, the utmost mantra, the unequalled mantra, allayer of all suffering, in truth -- for what could go wrong? By the Prajnaparamita has this mantra been realized. It runs like this:

Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha!

(Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, O, what an awakening, all hail!)

This (having seen all conditioned phenomena as impermanent, disappointing, and impersonal) completes the Heart of perfect Wisdom.

• Mantra Music: Heart Sutra Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya in Sanskrit in for Recitation (Buddha Weekly)
• Translated by Dhr. Seven, based on the Sanskrit original as translated by Edward Conze (via DharmaNet International), for Wisdom Quarterly

Jesus never existed, a literary invention

Five forgotten incarnations of Christ (Osiris, Krishna, [Vishnu], Zarathustra, Sophia)

and our own potential for Cosmic or Christ Consciousness as understood by Gnostics

• Do I also have Buddha-nature, the potential for enlightenment?
• List of messiah claimants

Cosmic Consciousness

Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind is an attempted scientific study of illuminated individuals. Author Richard Maurice Bucke provides three dozen very consistent examples of "cosmic consciousness." Some of these are the usual suspects, and others are contemporary case-histories which Bucke collected. He proposed that these enlightened figures are evolutionary jumps, the predecessor of a more advanced species. (Internet Archive)

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Historical figure versus divine fantasy

Church exaggerated me into God

There's another distinction, the small and nearly insignificant historical figure (Jesus the Nazarene of Bethlehem) used as the core of a lot of ancient mythology and astrotheology, which Dr. Reza Aslan calls the fantasy version or "Jesus Christ." It is easy to take a questionable person, like William Shakespeare, and make a superman out of him until one wonders if there ever was a root figure to begin with, one stripped of all the additional mythology grafted onto him.

I'm a professional academic Bible scholar

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth is a historical account of the life of a possible person, Jesus, that analyzes religious perspectives on the figure and the creation of Christianity. Prof. of Religion Aslan, Ph.D., argues that Jesus was a political rebel and eschatological ("end times") Jew, whose proclamation of the "coming kingdom of God" [not the genocidal figure in the Old Testament Bible but rather the Gnostic real God] was a call for regime change, for ending Roman Empire hegemony over Judea and the corrupt and oppressive aristocratic Jewish priesthood. The New York Times bestseller has been optioned by Lionsgate and producer David Heyman with a script co-written by Aslan and screenwriter James Schamus. More

For those who cling, there's this Jesus

• The Esoteric Path

When "demons" put fear in a cowardly warrior