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The Pink Buddha
Posted on Tuesday, November 08 @ 05:14:41 PST by kalos |
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Flakinde submitted: "In my office, in full view, I have a ceramic felt-covered statue of Buddha. The felt is bright pink, and the statue welcomes everyone who comes in with a great smile.
Note: Before I continue, I feel like I need to clarify a couple of things. 1) I do not believe that Buddha was a perfect elevated and enlightened master. In fact, I think many of his teachings are totally contradictory to my beliefs. 2) I do not kneel down in front of the Buddha when I get into work, nor do I rub its belly for good luck. 3) For the same reason that having a portrait of my family is NOT idolatry, I also don't think having this statue is. Gauthama Buddha was a human being just like you, my wife, my children, and me. END OF CLARIFICATION, ok?
This statue is really a coin bank (kind of like a piggy bank, but in the shape of Buddha). When you turn it around, on the top part of its back is a little slit where you can drop coins in it. This bank is an excellent picture of what old-order religion is all about: a number of things that you need to do to be better / reach God / attain enlightenment. If you drop in enough coins of good works / love for others / rituals and celebrations / etc., you'll be able to fill up the bank called "pleasing God" / "enlightenment" / "elevation" / "perfection" / etc. / etc. . . .
One day, while I was in a store, I spotted the perfect "accesory" for my Buddha . . . a small cross, which in the horizontal beam featured the words "PAID IN FULL". This cross around the Buddha's neck would make up the perfect composite message.
This is the great difference between New Covenant Christianity and all other religions: while all others feel like they need to keep popping their coins in to "get there", Christ already filled up the bank for us. While other feel like they depend on what they can do, we can depend on what Christ already did.
I don't know, but I think the Buddha has a much brighter smile ever since I hung the cross around its neck. :)
"But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life." Titus 3:4-7 (ESV)
Alexander Rodríguez"
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Re: The Pink Buddha (Score: 1)
 by alberto on Tuesday, November 08 @ 07:51:08 PST
(User Info | Send a Message) | From what I have read, the real Gautama Siddhartha, AKA "the Buddha", was a sincere seeker after truth. His idea of "arriving" was to attain some kind of extinction by getting rid of all desire. This extinction was viewed as a postitive state, nirvana, or enlightenment, if you will.
If he had ever heard the gospel, I have no doubt that he would have embraced Jesus Christ. The Buddha was truly seeking "the way, the truth, and the Life", therefore it follows that he would have found what he was looking for in Jesus.
Regrettably, he had no opportunity to either receive of reject the Lord. By the way, Buddhists are coming into the Christian faith. They find it much easier to believe than do Muslims, although many Muslims are also receiving Christ, and not at the point of a gun, either. God will judge whether American political adventures in the world are really "spreading Christianity", or merely expanding the empire of Mammon. |
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Re: The Pink Buddha (Score: 1)
 by Virgil on Tuesday, November 08 @ 07:57:47 PST
(User Info | Send a Message) | Alexander, this is an awesome post! I've had a statue of Nefertiti in my home office for years. It's there because my wife likes her...but it also serves as a book-end for the many books I have on the destruction of Jerusalem.
Pretty ironic I would say.
Like you said, Christianity (like Christ) has an amazing capacity to assimilate what is around and change it for the better...or best. What a beautiful thing! |
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