Hi Old trucker always good to hear from you. I am quite comfortable with the idea that Jesus was enlightened, it is something that all sentient beings can achieve! 🙏🙏🙏

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Yes you may or may not be right. Some even claim that Jesus was teaching non dual Advaita, that seems far fetched. My own feeling is that Mahayana Buddhism influenced Jesus's view primarily through the teachings on Bodhicitta and not by the Buddhist view as a whole. Of course whatever of Jesus's teaching remain they are presented to us not in the original context but in the context of the various codexes that make up the new testament. What is certain s that the Christian view post "council of Nicaea" was very different from that of early Christian communities many of those labelled as heretics. Also there is no reason to believe that a Bodhisattva would necessarily teach the Buddha Dharma. As it is taught a Bodhisattva will appear whenever appropriate, even in the form of a bridge or a prostitute. Not sure how true this is but a friend of mine who is a deacon in the Russian Orthodox Church (that has high regard for the desert fathers) claims that their religion accepts the existence of Bodhisattvas who intentionally reincarnate to benefit beings. One example was a bodhisattva who reincarnated as the warden in one of Stalin's Gulags. As it is quite likely that the Orthodox churches preserve a more authentic representation of the view of early Christians (who I am told held a belief in reincarnation) I wonder whether this was influenced by Buddhist Philosophy. 🙏🙏🙏

I don't want to offend any Muslims but I suspect that was the case! 🙏🙏🙏

Muhammad is a lecherous man, a pervert, and a pedophile