If the Buddha and Christ were swapped and lived each others lives you would now be a Buddhist and the Buddhists would be Christians.They were both of their culture and could only operate within certain parameters dictated by their time and culture. The essential difference between Eastern & Western philosophy is that whilst The Buddha attains enlightenment by sitting peaceably beneath a tree, Christ does so in the tortured agonies of being nailed to one. In the East they talk of Yin and Yang, the unnameable Tao and Complimentariness; in the West its all good & evil, sin, and the oppositions of heaven and hell. Maybe it's got something to do with the weather...
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