Was JESUS a BODHISATTVA? | The Jesus-Buddha Connection

I am from a Buddhist background. Yes! To me, Jesus Christ is the renowned bodhisattva to save human mankind through his self -less service and sacrifice to all sentient beings. I resonates with your video perspective . Amen and God bless all🙏. Namo Buddhaya Namo Dharmaya Namo Sanghaya.

I've been saying for a while that Buddhists live more in line with the teachings of Jesus than any Christian I've ever met - and I live in Oklahoma. I'm not comparing the two religions, I'm comparing how people live their lives.

There's a reason so many people are simultaneously watching this video right now.. humanity hunger for the truth and Yaushua and buhdda teachings and ways are the only ones who connects with all on a soul level

I have the same thought that Jesus was a Bodhisattva. Happy to hear that we are on the same page

Incredible video. I imagine both Jesus and Buddha together in the quantum realm, sharing ideas, and love for humanity.

I practice Buddhism, ( raised Catholic) for the last 25 years. I loved this, thank you so much.

From two we can become one, One with all that is said and become, Blessed are those who do not judge one from the other but embrace both wisdoms as one.

Finally a place where it can be understood when I confess that I realized my christ consciousness while practicing the teachings of the Buddha. I like to use the term awakened when describing my spiritual experience. This is the first video I've seen from this site but hope I will find another exploration into the similarities between these divine incarnations and Krishna. My intuition tells me that he is in the same classification as jesus and the Buddha. Masterfully done, universal gratitude and continued success. 🙏 namaste.

Hi Matt! Thank you for this video! You have summarized so beautifully what I think/feel/believe. (Yet again…). I was born and raised in very catholic country. I was always searching though… I kind of ended up “dismantling” my “preconditioned” understanding of Christian faith. But I could not abandoned Jesus and his teachings. I have red Bible, and I tried to read it through my own “lens” of understanding things. I could love Jesus more that way. My spiritual search did not end though. I have ultimately “landed” in Buddhism. I felt I “needed” more active “tools” for my spiritual growth. Buddhism was the answer for me. I was able to achieve SUCH spiritual progress as a human, I was not able to achieve with teachings of Catholic faith. I did not stop loving Jesus though. I always saw him as LOVE on Earth. Interestingly, I think I can say that path of Buddhism helped me to be a better Christian as well :)) So again, Thank you! And Thank you for the other videos as well!!

Thank you! I see Jesus as a Boddhisatva too.

A little fun fact: Siddhartha sat under the fig (Bodhi) tree meditated for 49 days (fasting?). Jesus went into the desert and fasted for 40 days. In both cases, they overcame the demon (in their mind?) and attained spiritual awakening, found "Nirvana" in the case of Buddha, "Kingdom of God" by Jesus. Perhaps, the difference in the choice of words/phrase, were due to the language of the social/cultural norms, understanding etc., in those ancient time.

We know very little about our past. Our goal is remembering. Jesus taught love. Which is in complete alignment with the Buddha and many other enlightened beings. Peace.

As a Buddhist, I pray on all important anniversaries of Jesus Christ, including Christmas, Easter,...

Well, I´ve been a monk in Thailand for some 5 years, learned the Pali script and lived this path of the Buddha in the deepest jungles and caves of Thailand. There it is more or less the Theravada Buddhism, though my personal master, or better said his soul originated from Tibet, and is teaching the way to the Boddhisadtawa more than the for the Theravada more common way to the Arahandt. The exact status of Jesus´ soul is nowadays very difficult to figure out, but some voices consider Jesus´ path rather the path of an "Arahandt", which is kinda divided in four pre-stages, Sodaban, Sagitithakhami, Anakhami and then finally the Arahandt. This pre-stages are stages kinda every living human being can aim for to secure the entry into Nirvana within the next few upcoming lives, a Sodaban will be reborn only 7 more lives, an Anakhami will be reborn only once, to then become an Arahandt in that next life. And it is a quite easy system to understand, every stage has its pre-state, the convinced and passionized will to finish... and the final arrival at this goal. A Sodaban has to get rid of his/her desire for all kinda wealth, tastes, beauty and kinda learn to sacrifice things that he/she calls his/her own for the sake of others, has to put away this craving for one´s own sake and more or less the sexual desire, as much this for lay people is possible. A Sagitithakhami (or however they would write that 😋 ) has to get rid of all kinda bad moods, like anger, wrath, stress, vengeance and all that stuff. An Anakhami has to put away all still left, let´s call it "stupidity", if you pardon me for this harsh sounding word for such highly developed human beings, but even themselves would call it that, it is the point where these people start to really be able to control every single thought of them with highly aware mindfullness. Those people will be able to suffer severe physical pain without an attached mind, since they watch every single second of pain as just one single second that comes and goes away, as natural it just can occur. As you see, are these pre-stages divided also in the amount of rebirths, 1, 3, 5 and 7, and sometimes they are kinda melting together between the one accomplished stage and the next pre-stage. Well, some say that Jesus finally not died at all and then went either back to somewhere in the Himalayan mountains, or some say even Japan, but if we now take one variation of Jesus´ story, that Jesus really died on the cross, the fact that Jesus will allegedly reborn at some day to THEN reach eternal bliss, then it rather lets conclude that he was an Anakhami who will be reborn only once to then gain the "Arahandtship". The reason why at some places Jesus is more considered as an Anakhami than a Boddhisadtawa is because a Boddhisadtawa would not really put himself in front to be looked at as "the salvation", there is less "ego" in that path, a Boddhisadtawa would surely not have cried out loud... "God, forgive them, because they don´t know what they are doing", but would just hung there with the smile of a Buddha. Therefore they consider Jesus having been kinda at the stage of an Anakhami on the entry while he was caught by the Romans, who then just before his death, or during his death entered the state of being able to absolutely being mindful at this point of time and become an Anakhami, to be reborn only once again. Boddhisadtawas are a bit more difficult to attain, they require more "pre-lives" than just 7, Sitthartha, the actual Buddha, the fourth in world´s history, had 10 pre-lives in which he had to "solve" various quests in every single life, the very pre-life of the actual Buddha i.e. was to be born as Wasandorn, who sacrificed every single thing in his life from beginning to the end, even when being asked by a greedy merchant for his wife and children he gave them away to fulfill this quest... to be then rewarded in the end with double, a story that makes me think very much about Joob in the Bible. This pre-lives of a Boddhisadtawa can include some very hard quests, one that comes into my mind now was that one Boddhisadtawa had to cut off the own head as a sacrifice, since the Buddhaship is even worshipped by the Gods, all those celestial beings, whether one now calls them Annunaki or Hindu Gods or whatever, they came down to get taught by the Buddha, even those celestial beings have realised that their lives are a big suffering and that the Buddha offers an exit to this. Thanx for reading

Jesus and Buddha are dear to me. To me they represent Bhakti and Jnana Yogis, Jesus being centered around Bhakti, love and devotion towards oneness and Buddha being centered around Jnana, meditative absorption towards oneness. The balance between Embracing all things and Letting Go of identity and notions of things. Emptiness I feel can be paralleled to the vastness of God, where emptiness is form and form is emptiness, God/Brahma and true reality is beyond name and form. God is vast, as the expansion of the infinite cosmos and within all things that we relate to the 18 realms of phenomena (6 senses, 6 sense objects and the 6 consciousnesses between them which is also empty and therefore are not separate self entities). You can find aspects of Bhakti and Jnana in both teachings. The common ground between the too can be found in the golden rule. Treating others both friend and enemy as you would treat yourself is the expression and experience of Inter-being. I and the father are one ❤

At my first Zen retreat over 20 years ago I got up,off the cushion and said to myself: “ oh, I get it. Jesus was a Bodhissatva.” I have realized this ever since.🙏🏼

BBC documentary Jesus in india saying Jesus went to india age of 13 and learned about Buddhism and meditation and return to motherland age of 29 so i can believe Jesus was a bodhisatta .this is really mind blowing .you got me thinkig thank you

Perhaps the second coming of Jesus is about his reincarnation for his last birth as a human before becoming Fully Enlightened. This would connect it to the Buddhist concept of a Bodhisattva (Buddha to be ) & foretold by the Buddha of a future Buddha called Metteyya.

I always follow the wisdom of Lord Buddha. Buddhism is the most democratic religion of all . No using of force to follow Buddha and his teachings and believe him when one's mind is completely free.❤

I feel like this was directed to me personally. I grew up in a Christian family/country, but have been consuming everything I can find on Buddhism since I read Frijof Capras " Tao of physics" around 1990. This was so well prepared and presented. Thank you!