Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings, The Camel and the Eye of the Needle
Posted on January 10, 2011, in Art of Dharma, Dharma, Meditation, with
How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone rich to enter the Kingdom of God.
Jesus: How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone rich to enter the Kingdom of God. -Mark 10.23 & 25
Buddha: Riches make most people greedy, and so are like caravans lurching down the road to perdition. Any possession that increases the sin of selfishness or does nothing to confirm one’s wish to renounce what one has is nothing but a drawback in disguise. -Jatakamala 5.5 & 15
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Jesus: If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. -Matthew 19.21
Riches make most people greedy, and so are like caravans lurching down the road to perdition. Any possession that increases the sin of selfishness or does nothing to confirm one's wish to renounce what one has is nothing but a drawback in disguise.
Buddha: The avaricious do not go to heaven, the foolish do not extol charity. The wise one, however, rejoicing in charity, becomes thereby happy in the beyond. -Dhammapada 13.11
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Excerpts from Jesus and Buddha, The Parallel Sayings by Marcus Borg
HI
GOD SAY IN Quran :
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Surely (as for) those who reject Our communications and turn away from them haughtily, the doors of heaven shall not be opened for them, nor shall they enter the garden until the camel pass through the eye of the needle; and thus do We reward the guilty. (Quran – Al Araf – 40)
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nsun