A: BUDDHA ON JESUS



Siddharta Gautama Buddha @563-483 BC

Permission was granted to copy the following Buddhist scriptures from Wat Phra Sing (the monastery of the lion) in ChiangMai Province, Thailand. The person who gave permission was Phra Sriwisutthiwong in Bangkok. It is guaranteed that this copy is accurate according to the original, that there is no error in transmission, which is in the book of the district headman, the religious encyclopedia volume 23, book #29. This inquiry was  on October 13, 1954 A.D. (Buddhist era 2497)

     “When Buddha was traveling and living in this world, there was an old Brahman priest who wore white robes who asked Buddha, ‘How will all men and all Brahman continue in their merit-making so as to escape the results of sin?’ The Buddha answered, ’Even though all of you give alms according to the 5 precepts, the 8 precepts, the 10 precepts or the 227 precepts for 9 trillion years and you raise your hands and offer yourselves as a burnt offering, or you pray 5 times a day, you will still not escape the results of your sins. If you do this every day, your merit gained will only be equal to the smallest strand of hair of an unborn infant extremely small. You shall not enter heaven’s doors’. 

     The old Brahman priest asked further, ‘What are we all to do to be saved?’ The Buddha answered the old Brahman priest, ‘The results of sin and karma are very great, heavier than the sky; thicker than the earth, and so high that it would be like an angel dusting the corner-posts at the temple compound with a cloth. Posts that are 18 inches high dusting them one time per year, until the posts were worn down to the ground, that’s how long it would take to end your sins.
     The Buddha said further, ‘I have given up my high position and entered the priesthood I considered that even though I am good, I would have only a very small amount of merit at the end of the year. If I was given this same amount of merit for 100,000 epochs and live 10 more lifetimes, I would not be saved from sin’s results even once.’

The old Brahman priest asked further, ‘So what should we all do?’

The Buddha answered, ‘Keep on making merit and look for another Holy One   who will come and help the world and all of you in the future.’

     Then the old Brahman priest asked, ‘What will the characteristics of the Holy One be like?’  The Buddha answered him, ‘The Holy One who will keep the world in the future will be like this: in the palm of his hands and in the flat of his feet will be the design of a disk, in his side will be a stab wound, and his forehead will have many scars.

This Holy One will be the golden boat who will carry you over the cycle of rebirths all the way to the highest heaven (Nirvana). Do not look for salvation in the old way; there is no salvation in it for sure. Quit the old way.  And there will be a new spirit like the light of a  lightening bug  which will come down from the sky above to live in all of your hearts and you will be victorious over all your enemies. Nobody will be able to destroy you. If you die, you will not come back to be born in this world again.  You will go to the highest heaven (Nirvana)”

The Holy One that the Buddha spoke about was fulfilled 5 centuries later when Jesus came to help us and show us the way to be saved, when he gave his life to liberate us from the burden of sin. When he was crucified, each hand and foot was pierced with a large nail leaving a disk shape, his side was pierced with a spear and his forehead had many cut marks from the crown of thorns that the Roman soldiers put on him and smote into his head with a reed (Book of John chpt.19)

As the Buddha rightly taught that in the old ways of merit is no salvation. Jesus took away the burdensome load and guilt complexes of sin, heavier than the sky and thicker than the earth, and showed us the new way to Nirvana. Accept these truths and particular words of the Buddha and accept that they are fulfilled in Jesus Christ and there will be a new spirit of light in your heart, as by accepting Jesus you are assured that when you die you will be carried over the cycle of rebirths all the way to Nirvana, the highest heaven.

   Roman nail leaving disk shape imprints.