Originally Posted by Esaias
The Message of Jesus is that HE, J E S U S, is the only way to God, that He - JESUS - is the One sent by God to redeem a people for His name, that all who believe in him - JESUS - have everlasting life, and anyone who doesn't believe in Him - JESUS - is condemned to the wrath of God, revealed against all sin and unrighteousness.
The message of the Buddha is that HE - Buddha - is simply one who found the way to escape the cycle of reincarnation, birth, death, rebirth, and suffering in this life by eliminating desire and attachment to people, things, thoughts, ideas, goals, etc, through a specific discipline of meditation and works which contribute to cultivating a state of mind free from the illusion of so-called 'reality'. 'God' was irrelevant and largely a distraction in his scheme of things.
On a related note, unless you were born and raised speaking an Eastern language pattern with inflections where the noun is not the 'root' of your grammar, you will probably never fully comprehend eastern philosophy or religion.
One's language determines the boundaries of one's thoughts, and one's thoughts determine the boundaries of one's beliefs and practices and understanding. Eastern thought (Oriental, not ANE) is derived from a language base very different from the Western (Greek, Hebrew, Latin, English, or Germanic) language base and therefore the thought processes are very different.
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