The difference in the manifestation of love between Buddha and Christ?

[Scholar]

Why does Buddha seem to have been passive while Christ seems to have been proactive? Buddha's actions seems to have been manifested more among the lines of leaving all living creatures alone and helping those who would come to ask him  for help, while Christ seems to have been far more involved in trying to help and aid people, as an action rather than a reaction.

 

Where does that difference in action originate from? Can we learn something important from Christ that we cannot learn from Buddha, and vice versa?

 

Maybe there is a difference between fully dissolving the ego and structuring it in accordance/resonance to the divine?

Edited April 9, 2019 by Scholar

[abrakamowse]

I think is a cultural thing, the way the jewish saw and interpreted the idea of God was different and Jesus was immersed in that culture, so that's the way he had to help us to wake up to the truth.

Buddha lived in the Indian society that was more "philosophical" than the Hebrew and they tend to see reality much less personal than the jewish view of it.

 

God is both ways, I think the best explanation for it is the parable of the Elephant and the blind people who touch it, when they asked them how the elephant was all had different ideas about it.

 

https://www.peacecorps.gov/educators/resources/story-blind-men-and-elephant/

 

 

[Leo Gura]

@Scholar Different personality types, different brain types, different facets to awakening. Awakening will be filtered through the mind and personality no matter how awake you get. Some people are more sentimental and emotional while other people are more autistic, cool, and dispassionate.

One awakened person could emphasize Nothingness in his teaching. Another awakened person could emphasize Love in his teaching. Etc. Which is why an integral approach is so good. You can get the best of all the teachings and teachers.

[Shadowraix]

@Leo Gura Beautifully said ?

[abrakamowse]

I found this book online @Scholar

It is about how and why the "techniques" of different masters are well, different.

:-)

http://holybooks.lichtenbergpress.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Be-Still-It-Is-The-Wind-That-Sings.pdf?83ba00 

Quote

"When Buddha came to a rest-house with a few followers one night and heard a sadhu there holding forth against him and his teaching he neither intervened nor allowed his followers to. This magnanimity had such an effect that the attacker became a follower. When abused he answered mildly that since he refused to accept the abuse it must fall back on its utterer. When, on the other hand, to take one characteristic example among many, some Pharisees asked Jesus why his disciples ate without the prescribed ritualistic washing of hands, he rounded on them, calling them hypocrites, quoting Isaiah against them and adding: “You are so busy holding on to the traditions of men that you let go the Commandment of God.1 True, of course, but certainly the way to make enemies.”