#Synchronicity still festinates me. The first photo is of my ‘ #alter of sorts’, and I happen to have both #Christ and #Buddha beside each other. I painted the Buddha a couple months ago at @theartsyfartsystudio in Yuma AZ, and the Christ ceramic piece was made by my maternal grandmother, whom resides in #Utah . I am not the one to call religious, but I believe in a higher power beyond our selves, and I listen to my intuition for it has NEVER led me wrong. Read more from #CGJung below, on #psyche and #religion .
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Christ and Buddha
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“Christ – like Buddha – is an embodiment of the self, but in an altogether different sense. Both stood for an overcoming of the #world : Buddha out of rational insight; Christ as a foredoomed sacrifice. In Christianity more is suffered, in Buddhism more is seen and done. Both paths are right, but in the #Indian sense Buddha is the more complete human being. He is a historical personality, and therefore easier for men to understand. Christ is at once a historical man and God, and therefore much more difficult to comprehend. At bottom he was not comprehensible even to himself; he knew only that he had to sacrifice himself, that this course was imposed upon him from within. His sacrifice happened to him like an act of #destiny . Buddha lived out his #life and died at an advanced age, whereas Christ’s activity as Christ probably lasted no more than a year.”
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“Later, Buddhism underwent the same transformation as Christianity: Buddha became, as it were, the image of the development of the self; he became a model for men to imitate, whereas actually he had preached that by overcoming Nidana-chain [a concentration of cause and effect] every human behind could become an illuminate, a Buddha. Similarly, in Christianity, Christ is an exemplar who dwells in every Christian as his integral personality. But historical trends led to the imitation Christi, whereby the individual does not pursue his own destined road to wholeness but attempts to imitate the way taken by Christ.."C.G.Jung,CollectiveWorks#3
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