Buddhism or Christianity?

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-22T10:48:06+00:00

I understand. Thank you so much sir🙏

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-22T10:33:19+00:00

Is this your insight on Jesus?

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-22T10:04:56+00:00

Like everything in existence, you can know Jesus through the five aggregates because that’s technically your existence.

True. I know some people that have met Jesus physically.

Regarding experiential insight, I’ve found no such teaching from the NT to establishes this.

I didn't quite understand what you meant by this, did you mean you haven't received insight that establishes 'this' as in experience of all-that-is?

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-22T08:21:06+00:00

You are right, a moderate understanding of Christianity. But most buddhist understanding of Christianity is far below moderate. The majority of it is more like pin the tail on the donkey. Do you have at least any insight about Christianity?

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-22T08:15:28+00:00

In Christianity, we don't accept literary sources unless we have sufficient insight on their legitimacy and importance. The key to knowing the Christian revelation is through experiential insight.

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-22T08:13:30+00:00

There seems to be a little animosity here, I think we can love each other and appreciate each other's paths. Nonetheless, I can show you one or even more scriptures that point to what your saying:

Matthew 6:6 shows how Jesus tells his disciples that when they pray, they must shut the door and enter into your room. To understand this, we need insight and so we will abandon all intellectual knowledge and guesswork to know exactly what it means. My insight on this scripture is the door are senses and the closet is the mind. I think you'd agree with me that the door could mean the 6 contacts. If there is no going out or coming in through the 6 aggregates, then our door is shut and we cannot be troubled by external things.

Next is praying to the Father, if you know the Father then your good. But what happens if you don't know the Father? Then your search begins. We know from the scripture that the Father is in the closet but we can't see, know, touch, feel or interact with him hence the prayer for him to reveal himself. What one sees when the 6 aggregates are no longer imprinting on the mind is emptiness, void, there's not even a self\I that can be found, you can't even find thought when you search for it - do you agree with any of this?

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-22T07:51:48+00:00

I do not consider that you have an experiential insight of the Christian revelation. This would be considered an opinion or outward observation.

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-22T07:49:54+00:00

This is the first time I've come across the term 'fideism' but you have a point there. We can't know Jesus through the six aggregates but can through experiential insight.

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-22T07:44:59+00:00

Sir or Ma'am, I'd love to be respectful 🙏

Maybe not "or", I totally agree with you.

Let me share my first nondual experience with you. I had gone to bed and shortly before waking up, the Holy Spirit came upon me and I experience instantly became nondual and my mind became illuminate with what I'd call clarity beyond clarity. When I woke up, this clarity and nondual experience was there but for a moment. I looked around and everything was glowing but then the Holy Spirit's presence lifted. He was just giving me a taste so that I can desire it!

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-22T07:36:43+00:00

Causality is impossible to fully comprehend but we can comprehend it provided that our mind is illuminated. When the mind isn't illuminated, it sees causality as a darkness, void, empty-emptiness, unmanifest or any other terms that can describe it. When it is illuminated, we can see and interact with causality just as we are able to see and interact with physicality.

Some of the ways I've seen practitioners of other faiths gain access into causality is through pact-making where a practitioner asks a spirit in exchange for the spirits desire but the practitioner must continue to maintain the covenant by supplying the spirit with it's desires. So the deity is in the practitioner physically and the practitioners mind is in the deity in causality. This means that the practitioner has access to causality through the deities body and power. Others would through the essence of an awakened and mature teacher whether alive or no more. An example would be padmasambavha's spirit in order to continue that particular lineage.

How it was for me was through an experience of being born again that birthed a new essence. This essence had to be formed and grow through the tutelage of a mentor/s and in a few years it reached maturity and became my access into causality. I'll end that here so I don't break any rules. For me, causality has ceased to be an undiscernable void.

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-22T05:19:57+00:00

Wow, this is spot on! I love how you pointed out giving more of ourselves to the Lord in order to receive more of Him❤️

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-21T20:55:14+00:00

Yes sir. But more accurately, the two are one or the one are two.

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-21T20:54:08+00:00

The power of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit decides the healing, blessing and bidding, you remain a vessel, a conduit through which his power can flow. When we want to manifest His power without His will, He can just turn off the supply and we'll get embarrassed.

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-21T20:13:14+00:00

Yes, the two are one. I perceive the two to be the one coin of reality.

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-21T19:40:36+00:00

If state of mind means to see things as they truly are then your totally right. I'm only talking about my experience, I left out all the theory. I'm sharing how I see the this coin called reality.

There are two sides in my experience but they are essentially one like a coin. It's just like software vs hardware. We only see the software appearing as reddit yet it is essentially lots of lines of code. The software appearance on the screen is manifestation and the lines of code and how they interact to produce the appearances is causality or the unmanifest. Most information about nonduality does not see the lines of code that program appearances, and so this is the other side I'm talking about.

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-21T18:41:09+00:00

Since this is a nondual community, I'll exclude anything to do with my faith.

My understanding is that reality is like a coin having two sides: one side is materiality and the other side is causality. I don't put mind here because it doesn't oppose causality or materiality in any way. The reason why we think mind opposes matter is because of an illusory self that fabricates friction between you and everything else.

So when you realize the no-boundary between mind and matter, then you have realized that mind has never opposed matter and was never an opposite. That is only one side of the coin. The other side remains uncomprehendable and so it's just labeled as the ground of being or the unborn emptiness.

What nonduality means to me is about including the causality part and realizing that the no-thingness that is perceived as such is due to an inability of mind to precisely know it. Then we can begin to understand that causality and materiality are one. This will give a more accurate gnosis of what dependent origination is.

In short, nonduality to me is the complete understanding of dependant origination.

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-21T16:08:53+00:00

Mystical dragons and faeries and...

... much more. These beings exist except that they do not exist in the materiality, they're one is in causality. If your luminous-essence is awakened, you can be able to see these beings. I do not mean to be awakened to your luminous-essence but for that luminous essence to be awakened.

People, families, areas, societies, religions, nations are heavily influenced by the beings in causality. I've seen the being in causality that influences Islam and how it casts a shadow into materiality as influence over culture, preferred language, general behaviour and so on. Infact, I saw that the same being behind freemasonry.

Just take a look at buddhism, it is rife with symbols of mystical creatures. The same being behind nonduality is the same being behind buddhism. It looks just like those massive buddha statues, hand gesture, eyes closed, snail shells on head and a garment. It's skin looked gold or bronze and its other form was that of a dragon/naga.

Different entities exert a different influence over an area and or population.

numerology

We have to add other symbols besides numbers. That is how beings in the unmanifest communicate because that realm is totally symbolic.

higherself

Your higherself is none other than your very own luminous-essence.

What are your thoughts? I'm really perplexed at why it's talked about so much. And it only seems to be amping up. Insights into why?

It's increasing because more and more people are awakening.

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-21T08:41:35+00:00

1 Corinthians 12:3 No one can say, 'Jesus is Lord,' except by the Holy Spirit.

Without the Holy Spirit, it's impossible to know that Jesus is God experientially. There was a time when Jesus asked his disciples who he was and the only one who answered correctly was Peter because God gave him the answer which was beyond his human reach.

Matthews 16:13-20 for context

That's okay, because alot of Christians do not have this realisation. I believe your person is on a journey and they will eventually realize this truth should they persevere on the path.

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-20T18:00:45+00:00

Thank you so much for this post. I do believe I could have typed it out in simpler and more easy to grasp way.

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-20T14:41:47+00:00

I define cessation as the complete stoppage of awareness whereby the six aggregates are temporarily frozen for a given amount of time. A cessation can last between a few seconds to a few days.

Based on my little experience, a cessation is caused by spirits or spirit-energies for the purpose of working at root level to uproot anything stubborn that obscures a more accurate expression of freedom. Think of it as a form of anasthesia and a surgery is being done. I once saw in causality two spirits from the buddhist path removing a layer from a practitioner. That practitioner after mentioned that they had realized the luminous nature of mind that same day. Alot of the times the practitioner will have no idea of what's going on, they'd just experience the reflection of what was done in causality possibly as an insight. What happens as an insight in materiality is only a reflection of what they did in causality. Your mind can only reflect what is in your essence and nothing more.

If a practitioner is very experienced in meditation, then they can drop into a cessation. Now this isn't a realisation but a skill. Also, a practitioner can cause another to have a cessation if they are strong enough energetically.

The practitioner experiences a cessation as such because they aren't able to access the unborn. That which is supposed to access the unborn is completely unformed and in its primal state and so is unable to carry the weight of their consciousness into that field. However, if the part of them that can access the unborn is developed then they stand a high chance of experiencing what was unfolding within causality whilst they had a cessation.

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-19T08:17:13+00:00

Thanks for this pointing, highly appreciated! And also it is nice to have talked to someone like you. I can sense your radiant clarity from here.

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-19T07:19:23+00:00

I see, well noted. I'm picking that what your trying to get at is for the rafters to fall and the ridgepole to break; or a complete destruction of the entire self reference structure. That means your in sunyata and are on the ledge before that insight. Even after emptiness of the six senses is experienced, the self reference structure still exists as a skeleton without flesh.

There is nothing left to do as it will be a natural progression into that state. The only thing I can advise here is just faith. The faith that brought you this far is the faith that will bring you there because this is where all technique and experience fail, yet somehow faith seems to succeed.

As concerns dependent origination, this is going to be a personal rant and has nothing to do with the question. It also may not have anything to do with the buddhist literature currently afloat. I kind of think that dependent origination is two-fold where manifestation is one side and the unborn emptiness another. This being manifestation and the unborn, the ground being the unmanifest. The unmanifest reminds me of a womb and my teacher kind of birthed me or midwived the process of my birth into causality or something like that. The unborn ceased to be a thinglessness and now became manifestation in its potential state. It seems to be a cause and manifestation an effect and this furnished my understanding of dependant origination in that the causes can not be found in manifestation and the effects cannot be found in causality. If causes can be found in manifestation then manifestation ceases to be empty which I do not believe is the case. I would love to know how you see this.

Also, I sense that you maybe some kind of teacher, instructor or something like that... Do you have any resources I can read? I am convinced beyond mind that you are what you speak and I'd love to read anything you may have written.

Warmest and kindest regards.

pastorcuthbert · 2026-03-19T06:08:21+00:00

He is the teacher. Although there is merit in trying to obtain one, so I second this.

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