The Tomb of Jesus — Page 48
48 "But especially was he a Buddhist in his attitude toward non-resistance. . . . . . "In this form it makes the teachings consistent and reveals Jesus to have been a strict pacifist, like the Essenes and like all. Buddhists. "The great parables of Jesus are all tinged with Buddhist thought and sentiment. The parable of the Good Samaritan denounced the selfish and the hard hearted Pharisee and extolled the. Buddhist kindness to the poor and the sick. In the parable of the Prodigal Son, the elder son pictures the common Jewish belief, and the father's attitude is the typical Buddhist attitude of compassion and forgiveness and the resumption of spiritual relations. So also in the Great. Commandments. It is Love for God, rather than the Jewish fear of Jehovah, that is commanded; it is love for the neighbour because in him is the same Buddha nature, rather than love for him in the same measure as one loves the self, which would be more after Jewish ideas. "The assertion assertion of the nearness and accessibility of a present, freer life of spirit, and of the fundamental place that Love holds in its experience, especially as love is expressed in unselfish kindness and service between a man and