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Here's an interesting
and compelling comparison of sayings from the Buddha Dharma and the
Christian Gospels.
From the Dhammapada we have the two verses 153-154 from Chapter 11 – Old
Age:
153/11:8.
Wandering through countless
births, transmigrating without cessation,
searching for the
house-builder, suffering birth again and again.
154/11:9.
You are seen, house builder,
nowhere to dwell again.
All the rafters are broken and
the ridge of the house is destroyed.
Mind has come to the unconditioned, experiencing the extinction of thirst.
And from the Gospel According to Thomas we have these two sayings:
Saying 71: Jesus said this, "I will first destroy the house, and
nothing can build it another time."
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Saying 98: Jesus said, “The kingdom
of the father compares to a man wanting to kill a powerful man. He drew the sword in his house -- he stabbed
it into the wall so that he
might realize whether his hand had the inner strength. Then he slew the powerful one.”
I
suggest for your consideration that there is a truth here that deserves inquiry
as being transcendent of cultural clothing and pointing directly to the human
mind and how we build houses of illusion to live in that require us to destroy
them for our liberation.
And then we have this too,
