Christianity And Buddhahood

Anecdotes

oi-Staff

By Staff

Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 14:21

Once a university student on his visit to Gasan asked him : " Have you ever gone through the Christian Bible?"

Gasan said : " No read it to me"

The student immediately started reading out from St.Matthew : "And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lillies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for things of itself."

On hearing, Gasan said "Whosoever uttered these words, I considered him an enlightened man"

The student went on to read further, "Ask and it shall be given to you, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened."

Gasan remarked : " Excellent. Whoever said these words is not far from Buddhahood"