The Scene: Paradise. A small but elegantly carpeted tent, not too far from the Throne of God. Muhammad is seated cross legged in timeless bliss. The tent flap lifts up. It is Sakyamuni Buddha aka, Prince Siddhartha. “Om Shantih,” says the Buddha. Muhammad looks up and replies, “As-salaam Alaikum! I was wondering when you would show up. I guess we have some things to talk about.” Gesturing with his hand, he offers the Buddha a velvet green cushion embroidered with golden Arabic text, “La illaha illa’Allah.” Buddha graciously accepts and, gathering his robes, sits down in full lotus. “Indeed we do have things to talk about,” Buddha replies, the palms of his hands held together at his heart in a gesture of prayer, bowing ever so slightly toward Muhammad. “Oh you needn’t do that,” says Muhammad. “Save that for God. I’m only a messenger.”
“Very well,” the Buddha continues, “I regret it has taken us so long to get together and talk. But now that things are so bad down on Earth, I thought if we talked, then maybe some of our followers might do the same and we could bring peace while there is still time.”
“Correct, O venerable one - that is what they call you isn’t it? But I feel better if I call you brother, is that all right with you?” Muhammad gazes directly into the eyes of the Buddha, his face radiant like the full moon. Buddha smiles knowingly. Muhammad goes on, “Well, brother Buddha, you know as well as I do, that we both taught on the same planet, though you were born 570 years before our brother Jesus of Nazareth and I was born 570 years after Jesus, still we both said that we brought the truth and there can’t be two different absolute truths, so what gives? God is the truth, the absolute reality, or as we say in Arabic, al-Haaq. And if it is God that sends messengers with the truth, then you must also be sent by God, and we are all supposed to deliver the same message, differing only to be in accord with the place and the time.”
Buddha gazes back serenely into Muhammad’s desert worn but brilliantly handsome face. “You are right. there are not two absolute truths, though as you point out the absolute truth must be made relative to be in accord with the time, place and mental attainment of the one to whom the teaching is being presented, We call that skillful means, upaya.”
“Yes, but is it true that you never taught about God - how could you, my brother?” Muhammad asks forcefully, but with a well-intentioned smile. “If you didn’t teach about God, what did you teach?”
“You are absolutely correct, my brother. When asked about God, I merely remained silent. I spoke not. This does not mean that I did not acknowledge the existence of God, of the supreme absolute truth. My silence was also another way of saying that God is beyond words. In fact, I referred to this absolute truth as the Dharmakaya, the body of truth, which is the same as God. How could it be different? Like you said, we are both of the same planet, preaching the truth and there are not two absolute truths. But in my time and in my place, India, polytheism was even more rampant and powerful than it was in your time, O my brother, Muhammad, and I had to find a way to get people to wake up to the fact that all those different gods weren't helping them at all, and in fact, belief in them was only a perpetuation of their suffering. So I first started with that point - life is suffering ... and that the cause of suffering is ignorant desire for things that do not satisfy ...”
“The only thing that satisfies is submission to God. Only God, the absolute truth can satisfy the soul which is ever restless and distracted by the things of this world. Didn’t you teach that much?”
“What I taught was the Eightfold Wheel of the Law - to terminate the suffering of the soul as you call it, you must first of all develop right view.”
“But what is that right view if it isn’t submission to God? After all that is what Islam means - peace, which is submission to God.”
“Of course, to attain to a state of peace is liberation from suffering from ignorant desire. This I taught as the truth of liberation, the attainment of nirvana, enlightenment. And the path to this enlightenment, I taught as the way of meditation, of mindfulness training, of subduing yourself, of taming your ego, by meditation practice. In such a way you attain to peace, to nirvana, and to enlightenment.”
“But is meditation as you call it the same as submitting to God, of declaring your absolute dependence on God as the only way to release you from the torments of your ego? And what is the ego anyway if not the attachment to things of this world and to be enticed by the devil into belief in anything else but God? If meditation doesn’t lead to God, what is it good for? Is enlightenment the same as being at God?”
“God as you speak of it, Muhammad, is it inside or outside of you?”
“I don’t think you can say God is inside or outside. God is both closer to you than your own jugular vein and yet as distinctly beyond anything we can perceive of or comprehend. Yet we know God is.”
“And you can speak with God and God will speak to you?”
“It is possible, my brother. I am a living example of that. In your meditation does God speak to you? What is this enlightenment of yours anyway, if it is not the Presence of God making itself known to you as the revelation of the absolute nature of reality?”
“You know, Muhammad, if we didn’t use the word God, it would still be God, correct?”
“Yes, God, Allah, by whatever name you call Him, is still that which we describe as God.”
“In that case, when you speak of the Presence of God, that must mean that the person who experiences that presence has been purified of self and has no barrier between himself and that presence, correct?”
“Yes, that it is.”
“Very well. In meditation it is possible that one experiences direct insight into the nature of reality, one might even receive an inspiration. But we say that that is from within oneself.”
“Let me ask you this, my brother. When you became the Buddha - an Enlightened One, as you put it - was that just you? Did you invent that? Or was there something else where that came from?”
“It was I who declared myself to be a Buddha, an Enlightened One, but I was not the first. Nor could I say that enlightened mind is my mind, but that there is simply the mind of enlightenment, self-existing, as it were. And that it has existed since beginningless time.”
“Could not this self-existing mind of enlightenment be the mind of God, the mind at large of the universal creator who has designed and left His seal, His command in everything?”
“Well, most certainly. For I have also taught in my third turning of the Wheel of the Law that everything has the potential mind of enlightenment, bodhicitta or tathagatagarba, the womb of enlightenment.”
“Whoa! Those are pretty big words and interesting concepts, my brother. But what is this turning of the wheel of the law - you said in your third turning - what about the first two?
“The turning of the Wheel of the Law is how I refer to my teaching of the truth or the Dharma. I turned the Wheel of the Law the first time after my enlightenment. In that turning I taught the truth of suffering and the eightfold path. In the second turning I taught the truth of emptiness and compassion ...”
“Emptiness and compassion?”
“Yes, that everything composite in the world of appearances as well as every idea is just an assortment of things, concepts or words that can be just as easily decomposed as they are composed. Most people are fooled into thinking that things are real and develop erroneous beliefs in composite things which really can’t save them. So I teach to have compassion toward the beings who are fooled by appearances. This is what I call samsara, the belief in the world of appearances that is the cause of the suffering.”
“I see. That is what we mean by idolatry. To take a belief in anything beside God is idolatry. It will only cause you to deviate from the path of God - what you call your dharma - and fall into manifest error, what you call samsara. Idols are all those composite things, even stars and galaxies - I guess the whole universe itself - they can’t save you - nothing composite can save you. Nor can any other human save another human. Did you ever teach that you could save anyone if they prayed to you, O brother Buddha?”
“No, that was not my teaching. Nor did I teach to make statues of me and to bow down to them. I taught only that every person’s salvation was his or her own responsibility, and to look to no outside authority, what you would call an idol, O Muhammad.”
“Is it possible that your followers greatly distorted your teachings? When you turned the Wheel of the Law did you leave any written text or did you merely preach?”
“I wrote nothing down. Everything that is claimed to be my teaching or the scriptures of the Buddha, the sutras and the abhidharma, the technical teachings, were all written after me, compiled by students or even channeled hundreds of years after me. By my own teachings, I cannot really take responsibility for these texts, as beautiful and truthful as they may be.”
“Then don’t you think there could have been distortions of what you said.”
“Most certainly.“
“And if people could distort what you taught, how could they really attain salvation on their own? Don’t you think God or the dharmakaya is what guarantees salvation, or enlightenment, the attainment of nirvana? Even if it is the bodhicitta within them, isn't this bodhicitta the same as God’s command within you? If so, isn’t it by following this command within, cultivating it, awakening to it, that brings about enlightenment, the presence of God?”
“Your reasoning is excellent, O Muhammad. Spoken like a true Buddhist, I might add! I taught and advocated calming your mind, attaining insight into yourself and leading a compassionate life by avoiding killing or gross vices that corrupt your ability to reason. Because of this, the mindfulness training is at the heart of my teachings. It is the practical way to realize the nature of reality. But if you did not teach meditation as I taught it, what did you teach as a way of subduing the ego?”
“Salat prayer. Bowing in submission to God, five times a day. And reading the Quran. You see, I not only turned the Wheel of the Law as you call it, but I committed to writing a text which was recited to me by the Angel Gabriel from God Himself so that humanity could have an actual record, a divinely revealed scripture of a verifiable historical messenger. The Quran is complete in itself and anything that was ever taught or revealed to anyone before me, you will find it confirmed in the Quran. It took 23 years for this recitation (that is what Quran means) to be completed. And then I chose, as you would put it, to enter nirvana.”
“Very well, but didn’t your followers also distort your teachings? And why does there seem to be so much bloodshed around the name of your religion on Earth today? Did you omit the teaching on compassion?”
”Compassion, of course. Compassion is God’s mercy, the primary quality of God! But it is true that in place of solely using the Quran my followers developed teachings based on my life called sunna, and on my sayings called hadith. These are never as reliable as what is in the Quran, especially since I was entrusted with the Quran just so humanity would have a reliable criterion. So what did my followers do? They established other less reliable criteria! Isn’t that the story of humanity? The straight truth is very hard for them to take. What are we to do? And of course, God commanded me to resort to battle, but only in self defense, as a test administering further teachings, and because of the circumstances in which I found myself. But never did I advocate war as a religious or spiritual policy, and always does it teach in the Quran ... an eye for an eye is the law of equity, but resorting to patience is far better. For thirteen years I endured persecution in Mecca, but finally had no choice but to go to Medina and establish my ummat - community - what you would call your ...”
“My sangha, my community. Yes. it is interesting to me that we both were sent as world teachers, appealing to the reason and conscience of the individual. that we both established teachings based on the absolute truth, though calling it by different names. That we both advocated specific religious practices for the betterment of the individual soul or consciousness, and that we both established communities. My community was monastic and lay, but yours was solely a lay community. I developed a monastic community because I thought it would be easier for people to cope with their suffering if they cut themselves off from the more obvious sources of suffering and committed to a spiritual existence altogether. Though in no way did I ever say that only by entering the monastic life could anyone be saved.”
Suddenly, the tent flap lifts up, a beautifully bearded person lets himself in. “Shalom! Jesus of Nazareth here. I couldn’t help but get over here. When I picked up on the ‘world teachers’ bit, I thought that I’d better show up.”
“Jesus my brother!” both Buddha and Muhammad exclaim at the same time, both rising swiftly to embrace him.
“Easy now,” Jesus smiles following the warm threefold embrace, seating himself on another of the beautiful green velvet pillows embroidered with gold Arabic script, this one with the inscription, “Allahu Akbar.” “Easy now. I was impressed and surprised that finally the two of you had gotten together. I’ve had conversations with each of you. But you had never spoken to each other, and now the three of us can finally get together. What brother Buddha was saying to you, O Prophet, was very interesting. On the outside you were both world teachers. God commanded you to establish a religion Muhammad. And Buddha, by your originality in your time, your followers had no choice but to establish something of a religion on your behalf and in your name. And still they distorted the teachings. And so you have a lot in common. But me? I just came to reform the Jews, but look what ended up happening to me. The Jews rejected me, and my followers established a religion in my name. I never authorized this, mind you, but it happened anyway. And like Buddha I only preached. I never wrote anything down. So whatever critique you’ve got about Buddha not writing anything down, I’m a lot worse off.”
“It’s Ok Jesus,” Muhammad speaks softly, “We’ve had this conversation before. But now that the three of us are here together, for the first time like this, and we are the three World Teachers in whose name world religions were established, we, more than anyone else, have the responsibility to go back to our followers and tell them to unite and to listen to each other. And to get together to stop the war, the Apocalypse, Armageddon, the Jihad ... For as I was commanded to write in the Quran: “The messenger has believed in what was sent down to him from His Lord, and so did the believers. They believe in God, His angels, His scripture, and His messengers: ‘we make no distinction among any of His messengers.’ They say, ‘We hear and we obey.’ Forgive us, our Lord. To You is our ultimate destiny.” (2:285)
“Yes, Muhammad,” the Buddha responds, “If we are all from the same planet, preaching the truth, how can there really be any distinction among us? Among my followers from my second turning of the Wheel of the Law there arose the ideal of the boddhisattva, the enlightenment being who postpones his own enlightenment to work for the salvation of the world. But today they only want to start their own business or save Tibet.. The world is much larger than Tibet. These bodhisattvas in my name should go and talk to your followers, O Muhammad, and to your followers, O Jesus, and tell them that we must all follow a way of tolerant compassion toward each other or watch the world go up in smoke!”
“Yes! “ Jesus shouts standing up, taking Buddha and Muhammad by the hand. “Let us return, the three of us, hand in hand. Here Muhammad, you go on my right and you Buddha, on my left. For as I was born between the two of you, so I want to be in the middle, the two of you on either side, Buddha the elder on my left, and Muhammad, the younger on my right. We must show our followers that there is no distinction between us, and that therefore there should be no distinction among our followers, and if any of them thinks they know better, then they should lead in compassion to bring this message to the world. If anyone truly believes in any one of our messages, then they must believe in all of our messages and cease now to make war and cease to avoid the responsibility of bringing peace.”
“As they leave the tent, heading down a set of fluffy, cloud like stairs, we hear Buddha asking “Where shall we begin?” Followed by Muhammad and Jesus chiming in together, “Jerusalem, Jerusalem ...”
Electric Deer Moon, Limi 13,
“I consume dualistic thoughts as food. I purify the mental electron at the North Pole”
Vinal 4, 8 Zotz, “Based on knowledge.”
Kin 117: Red Cosmic Earth, Take Magic Flight, Serpent Wavespell
SBTS 3. 23
Telektonon Prophecy, Baktun Thirteen, Babylon Planet/The Climax of Matter
20 Tablets Cube Seven, Padmasambhava
Rinri Precept: “The body is a symbol of heart and spirit, sickness is a danger signal of our life”
7:7::7:7 Second Week, White Antipode Time Atom, Limi Purifies
Futhark Rune 24, Othala is the Mother Realm
Leaf of the Transcending, Othala sent from South to North, seals Limi,
Radion Cube Left Side, Solar Plexus Manipura Chakra, PNM 24, Pacific Plate Four
Psi Chrono Unit: Kin 44: Yellow Overtone Seed
White Overtone Chromatic 14: Wizard - Mirror, Planetary Timelessness - Magnetic Endlessness Chromatic
Red Magnet sent from South to North from/to Red Core Heart center
20 Tablets: Annual Chronograph Tablet 6, St. John of Patmos,
World-Bridger Death, 2002-2003
Chronograph Dragon Genesis, World-Bridger Wavespell Six, White Northern Castle Court of Death
Chronograph Moon Kin 68: Yellow Electric Star, -17 287 - -17,187
Elder Futhark Moon of Elhaz Descending Elhaz is the Act of Making Sacred,
Quarterly Codon Rune 6: People Apart, “Tree Defines Life” Stage 10
Year of the Red Planetary Moon, Second Seed-Storm Year Bundle, Year 2 Week 62
Codon Cube, Codon Seven, Power of the People, “Tree of Time Turns the Earth,”
sixth line, yin, Cube top
White Week Two: Maintain Power of Prophecy - White Humility Refines Meditation
Harmonic 30: Electric Matrix. “Self-regulate Universal Fire of Service”
Biphasic Codon 19: Wizard’s Aspiration, “Way of Wielding Power Shape Space”
Dynamics of Time, 17.13:
“Having consciously completed the dynamics of time as the mathematical logic of the divine plan, the pilot angel program is attuned to all time as the now-point of synchronic order and, simultaneously, to the final ejection of radiative thermic-luminic properties of the stellar mass whence it had originated.”
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