(( HISTORY )) As ACCURATELY AS HISTORY Can Tell US , THE BUDDHA Had Been a Prince Who Was Appalled by The Suffering and Deplorable Conditions He Found Surrounding him in a society dominated by HINDUISM , BUDDHISM was the result of his search for a solution to life's agonizing problems . SIMILARLY , MUHAMMAD WAS HIGHLY DISTURBED BY THE IDOLATRY AND IMMORALITY HE saw in the RELIGIOUS PRACTICES AROUND HIM . HE later claimed to have received special revelations from GOD , which formed the QUR'AN and BECAME THE BAIS OF A NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS , ISLAM , PROTESTANTISM GREW OUT OF CATHOLICISM AS A RESULT OF THE REFORMATION THAT BEAN IN THE EARLY 16TH CENTURY , WHEN MARTIN LUTHER PROTECTED THE SALE OF INDULGENCES BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AT THAT TIME ( Something to Think About ) by - Pastor Henry George Sask . Canada

(( POEM ))) = from " EARLY GOLDEN AGE " . the immortal gogs , that tread the courts of heavn , first made a golden race ofmen , like gods they lived ,with happy , careless souls , from toil and pain exempt ; nor on them crept wretched old age , but all their life was passed . in feasting , and their limbs no changes knew ,'  copy - by - Pastor Henry George Sask. Canada

(((( = Second = Religion Started - " BUDDHISM " - )))) BUDDHISM CLAIMS A WORLDWIDE MEMBERSHIP OF SOME 300 MILLION , WITH ABOUT 200,000 EACH IN WESTERN EURPE and  NORTH AMERICA , 500,000 IN LATIN AMERICA , and 300,000 IN THE SOVIET NION . MOST OF BUDDHISM'S ADHERENTS , HOWEVER , ARE STILL FOUND IN ASIAN COUNTRIES , SUCH AS SRI LANKA , MYANMAR ( BURMA ) , THAILAND , JAPAN , KOREA , AND CHINA . THE FOUNDER OF THIS RELIGION , WHO LIVED IN NORTHERN INDIA I THE SIXTH CENTURY B.C.E . BUDDHIST TRADITION OLDS THAT SOON AFTER THE DEATH OF GAUTAMA , A COUNCIL OF 500 MONKS WAS CONVENED TO DECIDE WHAT WAS THE AUTHENTIC TEACHING OF THE MASTER . ACCORDING TO SRI LANKAN CHRONICLES OF THE FOURTH and SIXTH CENTURIES C.E . , THE EARLIEST OF THESE PALI " CANONICAL TEXTS ' WERE PUT IN WRITING DURING THE REIGN OF KIN VATTAGAMANI ABHAYA IN THE FIRST CENTURY B.C.E . . OTHER ACCOUNTS OF THE BUDDHA'S LIFE DID NOT APPEAR IN WRITING UNTIL PERHAPS THE FIRST OR EVEN THE FIFTH CENTURY C.E , NEARLY A THOUSAND YEARS AFTER HIS TIME {{{{ = CHRISTIAN  RELIGION = OLD TESTAMENT and NEW TESTAMENT DID THE SAME THING . IT WAS WRITTEN THOUSAND YEARS AFTER THOSE STORIES HAPPEN IN CHRISTIAN BIBLE )))) = {{{ THE BUDDHA'S  CONCEPTION and BIRTH  }}}} = ((( CHRISTIAN = THE CATHOLIC CHURCH COPY THIS TO CREATE JESUS CHRIST BIRTH ))) = CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING EXCERPTS FROM JATAKA , PART OF THE PALI CANON , and BUDDHA-CHARITA , A SECOND -CENTURY C.E .. SANSKRIT TEXT ON THE LIFE OF THE BUDDHA . FIRST , THE ACOUNT OF HOW THE BUDDHA 'S MOTHER , QUEEN MAHA-MAYA , CAME TO CONCEIVE HIM IN A DREAM {{{ JUST LIKE VIRGIN MOTHER MARY - HAD A DREAM A ANGEL CAME TO HER }}} ' THE FOUR GUARDIAN ANGELS CAME and LIFTED HER UP , TOGETHER WITH HER COUCH , AND TOOK HER AWAY TO THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS . THEN CAME THE WIVES OF THESE GUARDIAN ANGELS , AND CONDUCTED HER TO AOTATTA LAKE , and BATHED HER , TO REMOVE EVERY HUMAN STAIN . NOT FAR OFF WAS SILVER HILL , and IN IT A GODDEN MANION . THERE THEY SPREAD A DIVINE COUCH WITH ITS HEAD TOWARDS THE EAST {{{{ JESUS CHRIST WAS BORN IN THE EAST }}} and LAID HER DOWN UPON IT , NOW THE FUTURE BUDDHA HAD BECOME A SUPERB WHITE ELEPHANTS ... HE ASCENDED SILVER HILL ,and .. THREE TIMES HE WALKED ROUND HIS MOTHER 'S COUCH , WITH HIS RIGHT SIDE TOWARDS IT , and STRIKING HER ON HER RIGHT SIDE , HE SEEMED TO ENTER HER WOMB . THUS THE CONCEPTION TOOK PLACE IN THE MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL {{{ THE TIME IN MIDSUMMER IS THE SAME AS  VIRGIN MOTHER MARY WHEN SHE  GOT CONCEPTION FROM JAHWEH - GOD - }}}} WHEN THE QUEEN TOLD THE DREAM TO HER HUSBAND , THE KING , HE SUMMONED 64 EMINENT HINDU PRIESTS , FED and  CLOTHED THEM , and ASKED FOR AN INTERPRETATION . THIS WAS THEIR ANSWER ; " BE NOT ANXIOUS , GREAT KING ! . YOU WILL HAVE A SON . AND HE , IF HE CONTINUE TO LIVE THE HOUSEHOLD LIFE , WILL BECOME A UNIVERISAL MONARCH ; BUT HE LEAVE THE HOUSEHOLD LFE and  RETIRE FROM THE WORLD , HE WILL BECOME A BUDDHA , and  ROLL BACK THE CLOUDS OF SIN and  FOLLY OF THIS WORLD {{{ JESUS CHRIST HAD THE SAME JOB - REMOVE SIN AND FOLLY OF THE WORLD AND GAVE EVELASTING LIFE - THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH DID A GOOD JOB COPY ' BUDDHA LIFE STORY INTO JESUS CHRIST'S LIFE STORY IN THE  NEW TESTAMENT }}}}} THEREFORE , 32 MIRACLES WERE SAID TO HAVE OCCURRED ; ALL THE TEN THOUSAND WORLDS SUDDENLY QUAKED , QUIVERED , AND SHOOK . THE FIRES WENT OUT IN THE HELLS .. DISESES CEASED AMONG MEN AND WOMEN ; ... ALL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS GAVE FORTH THEIR NOTES WITHOUT BEING PLAYED UPON .. IN THE MIGHTY OCEAN THE WATER BECAME SWEET ... THE WHOLE TEN THOUSAND WORLD BECAME ONE MASS OF GARLANDS OF THE UTMOST POSSIBLE MAGNIFICENCE . THEN CAME THE UNUSUAL BIRTH OF THE BUDDHA IN A GARDEN OF SAL TREES CALED LUMBINI GROVE . WHEN THE QUEEN WANTED TO TAKE HOLD OF A BRANCH OF THE TALLEST SAL TREE IN THE GROVE , THE TREE OBLIGED BY BENDING DOWN TO WITHIN HER REACH HOLDING ON TO THE BRANCH AND STANDING , SHE GAVE BIRTH . " HE ISSUED FROM HIS MOTHER'S WOMB LIKE A PREACHER DESCENDING FROM HIS PREACHING - SEAT , OR A MAN COMING DOWN A STAIR , STRETCHING OUT OTHER HANDS AND BOTH FEET , UNSMEARED BY ANY IMPURITY FROM HIS MOTHER'S WOMB . AS SOON AS HE IS BORN , THE { FUTURE BUDDHA } FIRMLY PLANTS BOTH FEET FLAT ON THE GROUND , TAKES SEVEN STRIDES TO THE NORTH , WITH A WHITE CANOPY CARRIED ABOVE HIS HEAD , AND SURVEYS EACH QUARTER OF THE WORLD , EXCLAIMING IN PEERLESS TONES IN ALL THE WORLD I AM CHIEF , BEST AND FOREMOST ; THIS IS MY LAST BIRTH , I SHALL NEVER BE BORN AGAIN ." ON THE FULL - MOON DAY OF MAY IN THE YEAR 623 B.C . THERE WAS BORN IN THE DISTRICT OF NEPAL AN INDIAN SAKYAN PRINCE , BY NAME SIDDHATTHA GOTAMA ." KING SUDDHODANA WAS HIS FATHER , AND THE QUEEN MAYA' WAS HIS MOTHER . SHE DIED A FEW DAYS AFTER THE BIRTH OF THE CHILD AND MAHA; PAJAPATI GOTAMI BECAME HIS FOSTER - MOTHER . AT THE AGE OF SEXTEEN HE MARRIED HIS COUSIN , THE BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS YASODHARA . FOR NEARLY THIRTEEN YEARS AFTER HIS HAPPY MARRIGAE HE HAD LED A LUXURIOUS LIFE , BLISSFULLY IGNORORANT OF THE VICISSITUDES OF HIS LIFE OUTSIDE THE PALACE GATES {{{ WE GOT MORE OF HIS LIFE TIME - THEN WE  GOT FROM JESUS CHRIST  LIFE TIME . WE DON'T KNOW NOTHING AFTER JESUS CHRIST WAS BORN UNTIL JESUS CHRIST WAS 30 YEARS OLD . WE ONLY HAVE THREE YEARS OF HIS LIFE TIME ( WHY ? ) IF JESUS CHRIST STORY IS TRUE }}} WE RECEIVE EVERYTHING ABOUT " BUDDHA " LIFE TIME  . WITH THE MARCH OF TIME , TRUTH GRADUALLY DAWNED UPON HIM . IN HIS 29TH YEAR , WHICH , WHICH WITNEESSED THE TURNING POINTS OF HIS CAREER {{{ JESUS CHRIST TURN POINT IN HIS TURNING POINTS OF HIS CAREER STARTED WHEN HE WAS 30 YEARS OLD TO 32 YEAR OLD }}}  IT WAS ALMOST THE SAME = THE CATHOLIC CHURCH JUST CHANGE IT JUST LITTLE BIT }}} HIS SON RAHULA WAS BORN . HE REGARDED HIS OFF-SPRING AS AN IMPEDIMENT , FOR HE REALIZED THAT ALL WITHOUT EXCEPTION WERE SUBJECT TO BIRTH , DISEASE , AND DEATH . COMPREHENDING THUS THE UNIVERSALITY OF SORROW , HE DECIDED TO FIND OUT A PANACEA FOR THIS UNIVERSAL SICKNESS OF HUMANITY . SO RENOUNCING HIS ROYAL PLEASURES , HE LEFT HOME ONE NIGHT .. CUTTING HIS HAIR , DONNED THE SIMPLE GARB OF AN ASCETIC , AND WANDERED FORTH AS A SEEKER OF TRUTH {{{ JESUS CHRIST ALL HE DID  IS = HEAL  LITTLE  = MAKING LITTLE MIRACLES = AND PREACHING  LOTS ABOUT KINGDOM OF GOD AND RECEIVING  EVERLASTING IF YOU BELIEVE IN JAHWEH - GOD - RULES , THIS WHAT JESUS CHRIST DID  FOR THREE YEARS ON EARTH AND DIE . = {{{{ ASK YOURSELF !  Which Story Sound FICTION -  Jesus Christ  - STORY  -  REALLY DOES -}}} = THE ENLIGHTENMENT = GAUTAMA = WHY WERE MEN OR WOMEN  BORN , ONLY TO SUFFER , GROW OLD , AND DIE ? THEN , IT WAS SAID THAT HE SAW A HOLY MAN , ONE WHO HAD RENOUNCED THE WORLD IN PURSUIT OF TRUTH . THIS IMPELLED = GAUTAMA = TO GIVE UP HIS FAMILY , HIS POSSESSIONS , AND HIS PRINCELY NAME and  SPEND THE SIX YEARS SEEKING THE ANSWER FROM HINDU TEACHERS and GURUS , BUT WITHOUT SUCCESS ,( THE ACCOUNTS TELL US THAT HE PURSUED A COURSE OF MEDITATION , FASTING , YOGA , AND EXTREME SELF - DENIAL , YET HE FOUND NO SPIRITUAL PEACE OR ENLIGHTENMENT ((( THIS STORY SOUND SO TRUE and REAL ))) EVENTUALLY HE CAME TO REALIZE THAT HIS EXTREME COURSE OF SELF - DENIAL WAS AS USELESS AS THE LIFE OF SELF INDULGENCE THAT HE HAD LED BEFORE . HE NOW ADOPTED WHAT HE CALLED THE = MIDDLE WAY = , AVOIDING THE EXTREMES OF THE LIFE - STYLES THAT HE HAD BEEN FOLLOWING . DECIDING THAT THE ANSWER WAS TO BE FOUND IN HIS = OWN CONSCIOUSNESS = , HE SAT IN MEDITATION UNDERA PIPAL , OR INDIAN FIG TREE . RESISTING ATTACKS and TEMPTATIONS BY = DEVIL MARA = , HE CONTINUED STEADFAST IN HIS MEDITATION FOR FOUR WEEKS ( SOME SAY SEVEN WEEKS ) UNTIL HE SUPPOSEDLY TRANSCENDED ALL KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING and REACHED ENLIGHTENMENT . {{{ REMEMBER THIS - JESUS CHRIST DID THE SAME THING ; HE WAS IN THE DESERT FOR 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHT WITHOUT EATING NOTHING OR DRINKING NOTHING . SEEN HIS FUTURE AND FIGHTING OFF THE DEVIL - SO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN 13TH CENTURY REALLY GOT AND COPY  THIS  FROM THE = BUDDHA RELIGION = WHEN THEY CREATED THE NEW TESTAMENT OF JESUS CHRIST }}}} = ((( ADAM and EVE Wanted this = UNDERSTANDING and REACHED THEIR OWN ENLIGHTENMENT , BY GOING THERE OWN WAY FROM JAHWEH - GOD - )))) DIFFERENT BUDDHIST SECTS , HOWEVER , HOLD DIFFERENT VIEWS ON THIS SUBJECT . ((( DIFFERENT GROUP OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES HAS DIFFERENT VIEWS ON THERE RELIGION  and PAYERS and MUSIC )))) SOME VIEW HIM STRICTLY AS A HUMAN WHO FOUND THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT FOR HIMSELF and TAUGHT IT TO HIS FOLLOWERS . OTHERS VIEW HIM  AS THE FINAL ONE OF A SERIES OF BUDDHAS TO HAVE COME INTO THE WORLD TO PREACH OR REVIVE THE DHARMA ( PALI , DHAMMA ) . THE TEACHING OR WAY OF THE BUDDHA . STILL OTHERS VIEW HIM AS A BODHISATTVA , ONE WHO HAD ATTAINED ENLIGHTENMENT BUT POSTPONED ENTERING NIRVANA IN ORDER TO HELP OTHERS IN THEIR PURSUIT OF ENLIGHTENMENT . THE ENLIGHTENMENT , IS OF CENTRAL IMPORTANCE TO ALL BUDDHISM  ((( WE HAVE THE SAME OPINION ABOUT " JESUS CHRIST ' . ))) = {{{  MIDDLE WAY }}}} ( 1 ) ALL EXISTENCE IS SUFFERING ( CHRISTIAN BELIEVE IN THIS , TOO ) ( 2 ) SUFFERING ARISES FROM DESIRE OR CRAVING ( 3 ) CESSATION OF DESIRE MEANS THE END OF SUFFERING ( 4 ) CESSATION OF DESIRE IS ACHIEVED BY FOLLOWING THE EIGHT- FOLD PATH , CONTROLLING ONE'S CONDUCT , THINKING , AND BELIEF ( CHRISTIAN BELIEVE IN THIS WITH THERE  10 COMMANDMENTS )  GAUTAMA THE BUDDHA WENT PREACHING THROUGH THE LENGTH AND BREATH OF THE GANGAS VALLEY . PEOPLE FROM EVERY SOCIAL RANK AND STAUS CAME TO HEAR HIM , AND THEY BECAME IS DISCIPLES ((( JESUS CHRIST DID THIS FOR THREE YEARS PREACHING ALL AROUND . TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT KINGDOM OF GOD and EVERLASTING LIFE . HE NEVER POINTED OUT YOU HAVE TO LIVE IN JAHWEH - GOD - RULES And Live With The 10 Commandments every Day and Night to Receive This BLESSING BY JAHWEH - GOD - you have to put JAHWEH - GOD - FIRST ON YOUR LIST EACH DAY and NIGHT )))))  BY THE TIME OF HIS DEATH AT AGE 80 , HE HAD BECOME WELL - KNOWN AND WELL RESPECTED IT WAS REPORTED THAT HIS LAT WORDS TO HIS DISCIPLES WERE ." DECAY IS INHERENT IN ALL COMPONENT THINGS . WORK OUR YOUR OWN SALVATION WITH DILIGENCE  (((( THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN CHRISTIAN BELIEVE = THEY WANT YOU JUST BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST AND JAHWEH - GOD - EACH DAY AND NIGHT . JAHWEH - GOD -WILL GAVE YOU EVERYTHING IF YOU PUT YOUR WHOLE HEART  AND COMPLETE IN GOD'S HANDS AND WITH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND GOD'S RULES EVERY DAY AND NIGHT )))) BUDDHA RELIGION SOUNDS MORE REAL  AND UNDERSTAND . YOU MAKE YOUR OWN LIFE AND OWN SALVATION WITH DELIGENCE EACH DAY AND NIGHT . YOU DON'T EXPECT NO ONE TO HELP  YOU ; YOU , HELP YOURSLF EACH DAY AND NIGHT  {{{ NO LAWGIVER }}} KAMMA { PALI EQUIVLENT OF KARMA } IS A LAW IN ITSELF . BUT IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT THERE SHOULD BE  A LAWGIVER . ORDINARY LAWS OF NATURE , LIKE GRAVITATION , NEED NO LAWGIVER . THE LAW OF KAMM TO DEMANDS NO LAWGIVER . IT OPERATES IN ITS OWN FIELD WITHOUT THE INTERVENTION OF AN EXTERNAL , INDEPENDENT RULING AGENY . {{{ FORCES OF ENERGIES }}} A BEING IS NOTHING BUT A COMBINATION OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL FORCES OR ENERGIES . WHAT WE CALL DEATH IS THE TOTAL NON - FUNCTIONING OF THE PHYSICAL BODY , DO ALL THESE FORCES AND ENERGIES STOP ALTOGETHER WITH THE NON - FUNCTIONING OF THE BODY ? BUDDHISM SAYS "NO ." WILL , VOLITION , DESIRE , THRIST TO EXIST , TO CONTINUE , TO BECOM MORE AND MORE , IS A TREMENDOUS FORCE THAT MOVES WHOLE LIVES , WHOLE EXISTENCES , THAT EVEN MOVES THE WHOLE WORLD . THIS IS THE GREATEST FORCE , THE GREATEST ENERGY IN THE WORLD . ACCORDING TO BUDDHISM , THIS FORCE DOES NOT STOP WITH THE NON - FUNCTIONING OF THE BODY , WHICH IS DEATH ; BUT IT CONTINUES MANIFESTING ITSELF IN ANOTHER FORM , PRODUCING RE - EXISTENCE WHICH IS CALLED REBIRTH ((( CHRISTIAN BELIEVE IF YOU BELIEVE IN JAHWEH - GOD - AND JESUS CHRIST WHO DIED FOR US . TO GAVE US EVERLASTING LIFE BY HIS RESURRECTION FROM THE CROSS OF DEATH FOR OUR SIN . {{ ADAM and EVE SINNED  - WANTING THEIR OWN LIFE -  FREEDOM - CHOICE - AND KNOWLEDGE IS THIS A SIN ? JESUS CHRIST DIE ON THE CROSS TO CLEAR AWAY THIS SIN FOR US . WHICH JAHWEH - GOD - CREATED FOR ADAM and EVE . SO WE WOULD NOT DIE NO MORE IF YOU ARE IN THE BOOK OF LIFE AND BELIEVE IN JAHWEH - GOD - AND JESUS CHRIST AND LIVE WITHIN GOD'S RULES AND 10 COMMANDMENTS EVERY DAY AND NIGHT AND PUTTING  JAHWEH - GOD - FIRST IN YOUR LIFE , REBORN AGAIN }}} . = WHICH STORY SOUND TRUE THE BUDDHISM OR CHRISTIAN BELIEVE . MY FIRST CHOICE WOULD BE BUDDHISM . THIS MAKE MORE SENSE TO ME  (( COPY BY - )) Pastor Henry George , Sask . Canada  = {{ Buddha Prayer }} = MAY ALL BE FREE FROM SORROW and THE CAUSES OF SORROW , MAY ALL NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM THE SACRED HAPPINESS WHICH IS SORROW LESS . AND MAY ALL KIVE IN EQUAIMITY , WITHOUT TOO MUCH ATTACMENT and TOO MUCH AVERSION . AND LIVE BEKIEVING IN THE EQUALITY OF ALL THAT LIVES }} = ((SECOND PRAYER )) = MAY I BE HAPPY ; MAY I BE PEACEFUL ; MAY I BE FREE ; MAY FRIENDS BEHAPPY  ; MAY MY FRIENDS BE FREE ; MAY MY ENEMIES BE HAPPY ; MY MY ENEMIES BE FREE ; MAY MY ENEMIES BE PEACEFUL ; MAY ALL BEING BE HAPPY ; MAY ALL BEING PEACEFUL ; MAY ALL BEING BE FREE ; ( SLOW CHANTS ) = {{ THIRD PRAYER For The dead }}} MAY I KNOW MYSELF FORGIVEN ; FOR ALL THE HARM I MAY HAVE THOUGH and DONE . MAY I ACCOMPLISH THIS PROFOUND PRACTICE OF { PHOWA } , and DIE A GOOD and PEACEFUL DEATH , and THROUGH THE TRIUMPH OF MY DEATH , MAY I BE ABLE TO BENEFIT ALL OTHER BEING LIVING or DEAD . ( SLOW CHANT ) - {{{ THESE PRAYER are DIFFERENT THAN CHRISTIAN PRAYER }}}} USE - ONE - TWO PRAYER EACH DAY WITH = SLOW CHANT =
 

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