The Greatest Creator is one and only, and the holy spirit is also one and pervades the universe and all things. If this is not the case, then the universe would be disorder, and the prayer, meditation, and performance of miracles would not work. So, the truth is One, any right teachings must be those who refer to and explain The Greatest Creator and the holy spirit, and these teachings must be no fundamental differences in the aim and way.
All Jesus, Sakyamuni, and Lao-tzu explained the truth and the way to heaven for us, the differences mainly lie in the enlightenment methods and the languages and words they used. In short, all of them were leading us to change and become like infants, based on the explanations of the origin of all things and the thinking methods of how to become one with Him, and also told us the methods to extricate from the attractive forces of earth.
1. Light, Tathagata, Tao, etc, all refer to the origin of all things.
“I’m the light that’s over all. I am the All. The All has come from me and unfolds toward me. Split a log; I’m there. Lift the stone, and you’ll find me there.” (Gospel of Thomas, Saying 77)
Tathagata, means all laws(dharmas) are coming from. All dharmas are buddha dharma. (The Diamond Sutra, Section 17)
Before the birth of heaven and earth, there was something came into being from chaos, solitary and lone, self-contained and decisive, perfect and eternal, He is the mother of all things, I don’t know His name, address it as Tao, and grudgingly call Him “The Great”. (Tao Te Ching, Section 25)
2. The origin of all things can’t be seen by physical senses, and can’t be defined in any notions, all things are from Him, but He is not all the thing.
“I’ll give you what no eye has ever seen, no ear has ever heard, no hand has ever touched, and no human mind has ever thought.” (Gospel of Thomas, Saying 17)
“Images are revealed to people, but the light within them is hidden in the image of the Father’s light. He’ll be revealed, but his image will be hidden by his light.” (Gospel of Thomas, Saying 83)
“For where the beginning is, there will the end be. Blessed is he who will take his place in the beginning; he will know the end and will not experience death.” (Gospel of Thomas, Saying 18)
One cannot recognize the tathagata by physical forms. All phenomena and notions are illusions, if one sees all the henomena and notions are not phenomena and notions themselves, then one sees the tathagata. (The Diamond Sutra, Section 5)
The so called buddha dharma is no buddha dharma. (The Diamond sutra, Section 8)
The supreme enlightenment the Tathagata has achieved is neither real nor unreal. (The Diamond Sutra, Section 17)
Those who see me in forms and colors, or seek me in sounds, are in an evil way, they can’t see the Tathagata. (The Diamond Sutra, Section 26)
Tao is void, but its use is inexhaustible. Fathomless, likes the origin of all things; clear, seems to exist. I don’t know its origin, maybe existed before the Greatest Creator. (Tao Te Ching, Section 4)
Look, it cannot be seen, that is called Invisible. Listen, cannot be heard, that is called the Inaudible. Grasp, cannot be touched, that is called the Intangible. These three elude our inquiries, and hence blend and become one. Going up, it is not bright, going down, it is not dark, unceasing, continuous, and cannot be defined, it reverts again to nothingness. That’s why it is called Form of the Formless, Image of Nothingness, and why it is called the Emptiness and Void. Meet, can’t see its face; follow, can’t see its back. (Tao Te Ching, Section 14)
Tao never does, yet there is nothing it doesn’t do. (Tao Te Ching, Section 37)
3. Be one with the origin of all things, thus you can enter heaven.
“When you make the two into one, and make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and so make the male and the female a single one so that the male won’t be male nor the female female; when you make eyes in the place of an eye, a hand in the place of a hand, a foot in the place of a foot, and an image in the place of an image; then you’ll enter [the kingdom].” (Gospel of Thomas, Saying 22)
When he is not tied by any phenomena and notions, he is called a Buddha. (The Diamond Sutra, Section 14)
The mark of great virtue, is be one with Tao. Tao, the thing is empty and void. Be void and empty, in it there are images; be void and empty, in it there are things; be vast and deep, in it is essence, the essence is so real, therein is faith. From the antiquity to present, this nature never change, thus can read the origion of all things. How can I know the origion of all? This it is. (Tao Te Ching, Section 21)
4. The features of those who have been one with the origion of all things:
“Thomas said to him, ‘Teacher, I’m completely unable to say whom you’re like.’ Jesus said, ‘I’m not your teacher. Because you’ve drunk, you’ve become intoxicated by the bubbling spring I’ve measured out.’” (Gospel of Thomas, Saying 13)
The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. — John 3:8
“[The foxes have dens] and the birds have nests, but the Son of Humanity has nowhere to lay his head and rest.” (Gospel of Thomas, Saying 86)
Tathagata cannot be recognized by means of all forms and attributes. (The Diamond Sutra, Section 20)
Tathagata, nowhere come from, nowhere to go. (The Diamond Sutra, Section 29)
In ancient times those who were good of Tao, are profound, impalpable, and difficult to recognize. As they are difficult to recognize, so constrainedly describe them: Cautious, like crossing the stream in winter; irresolute, like fearing neighbours; deferential, like a guest; easy, like the ice’s melting; simple, like the raw wood; open-minded, like a valley; diverse, like a mix; plain, like the sea; free, like wind. (Tao Te Ching, Section 15)
5. Change and become like an infant
“I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18:3)
“The older person won’t hesitate to ask a little seven-day-old child about the place of life, and they’ll live, because many who are first will be last, and they’ll become one.” (Gospel of Thomas, Saying 4)
“When you strip naked without being ashamed, and throw your clothes on the ground and stomp on them as little children would, then [you’ll] see the Son of the Living One and won’t be afraid.” (Gospel of Thomas, Saying 37)
All bodhisattvas and mahasattvas should purify the mind like this: not let the mind attached to any forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and laws, the mind should not be tied with any thing. (The Diamond Sutra, Section 10)
All the saints and sages are graded with the amount of non subjective doing (the level of harmony with the origin of all things); (The Diamond Sutra, Section 7)
No self notion, no human notion, no beings notion, no age notion. (The Diamond Sutra, Section 14)
Those who have plentiful virtues are like newborn babies. (Tao Te Ching, Section 55)
Concentrate your energy flows to be soft and harmonious(with the Tao), can be like an infant? (Tao Te Ching, Section 10)
I am plain alone (not seek fame, money, power, and wealth etc), as if immature; ignorant, like an infant. (Tao Te Ching, Section 20)
6. Pay off the debt to earth, or one can’t get out from it to enter heaven.
“I tell you the truth, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.” (Matthew 5:26)
“Anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:27)
“If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.” (Matthew 5:39-42)
“Love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High.” (Luke 6:35)
If there are good sons and good daughters were persecuted by others when read, recite, and practise this sutra, it is because of their sins in previous lives which would cause them fall into the wretched destinies, but due to the persecutions in this life, their previous sins were eradicated, and they will attain the supreme enlightenment. (The Diamond Sutra, Section 16)
In the practice of giving, bodhisattvas should not attach it to forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and laws.” “Why? If bodhisattvas give with out tied by any phenomena or notions, the reward is inconceivable. (The Diamond Sutra, Section 4)
Misfortunes, are the dependance of comforts; fortunes, where the misfortunes lie in. (Tao Te Ching, Section 58)
Cultivate on yourself, the virtue is real. Cultivate for the family, the virtue is surplus. Cultivate for the town, the virtue is great. Cultivate for the country, the virtue is abundant. Cultivate for the world, the virtue is everywhere. (Tao Te Ching, Section 54)
7. Deny self and give up all possessions and notions
“If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.” (Matthew 16:24-25)
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters–yes, even his own life–he cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:26)
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 19:24)
“Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?” (John 18:11)
“The kingdom of the father is like a certain woman who was carrying a jar full of meal. While she was walking on the road, still some distance from home, the handle of the jar broke and the meal emptied out behind her on the road. She did not realize it; she had noticed no accident. When she reached her house, she set the jar down and found it empty.” (Gospel of Thomas, Saying 97)
If bodhisattvas have notions of self, human, sentent being, and life, they are not bodhisattvas. (The Diamond Sutra, Section 3)
When my body was dismembered(by King Kalinga) in a previous life, supposing I had notions of self, human, sentient being, and life, then I would resent and hate. (The Diamond Sutra, Section 14)
You should not think that Tathagata has the thought: “I should liberate the sentient beings.” (The Diamond Sutra, Section 25)
Cultivates all good without the notions of self, human, sentient being, and life, you will achieve the supreme enlightenment. The so-called good is no good. (The Diamond Sutra, Section 23)
Why we have fears because we have a self, if I give up the self, what have I to fear? (Tao Te Ching, Section 13)
For all of his minds, words, and actions, sage is one with the Tao. (Tao Te Ching, Section 22)
Sage do not accumulate (for himself), the more he benefits others, the more he has, the more he gives, the richer he is. (Tao Te Ching, Section 81)
Studying the knowledge, one is gaining; learning to the Tao, he is emptying, empty and empty again, then there is no doing, no doing but there is nothing not do. (Tao Te Ching, Section 48)
8. The way showed by Jesus, Sakyamuni, and Lao-tzu is narrow and on the opposite side of the majority
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.” (Matthew 7:13)
“Do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them. But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.” (Luke 12:29-31)
“What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?” (Mark 8:36)
“At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.” (Matthew 22:30)
“Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.” (Matthew 19:29)
“My kingdom is not of this world.”(John, 18:36)
All subjective doings, are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, and shadows, and like dews, flashes of lightning, you shall perceive them as these. (The Diamond Sutra, Section 32)
Do the others not do, work the others not work, taste the others not taste. (Tao Te Ching, Section 63)
Know the Male, but keep to the Female, be the small stream of the world. Know the White, but keep to the Black, be the model of the world. Know the Splendor, but keep to the humbleness, be the gorge of this world. (Tao Te Ching, Section 28)
The origin of all things is The Greatest Creator and the holy spirit, The Greatest Creator is in heaven faraway from earth and the holy spirit is everywhere and in everything, and They can’t be seen by physical senses. If we put the teachings of Jesus, Sakyamuni, and Lao-tzu into practice, then can open the spiritual sense to accept the holy spirit, thus can be one with The Greatest Creator and be live, this is the hope and wish of Jesus, Sakyamuni, Lao-tzu, and the harvester Hoondoon Yuantchu, just as Jesus had prayed for us:
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one:
I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.” (John 17: 20-24)
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