01-05-2018, 04:36 AM
(01-05-2018, 02:33 AM)Cainite Wrote: Yeah, but why would buddha teach wisdom when mankind hadn't learned unconditional love yet? this has always confused me.
Sufism focuses on both.
Nothing says Love has to be learned in a vacuum. Offering a message of Wisdom created another path for those that, for whatever reason, weren't connecting to the messages of Jesus or Zarathustra or some of the other previous prophets/messengers. Presumably, the entity which would become the Buddha was simply offering another alternative path towards truth. Learning Wisdom might even lead some to discover the wisdom of Love, if they wouldn't understand the appeal of Love by itself. Really, Jesus's message was somewhat unique in its near-exclusive focus on Love. Most other major prophets and soforth tended to be a bit more blended in their messaging.
I mean, if I wanted to get deconstructionist, I could point out that while Jesus's message may be the most distilled version of 4D Love understanding we got, it wasn't exactly the most practical of philosophies for actually living on Earth. Which in turn could help explain why it was so quickly and readily distorted\misunderstood even by early followers of Jesus. That's certainly not to say other paths like Buddhism or Islam haven't also been distorted over the centuries, but it seems like the mainstream versions have tended to stay a bit closer to their roots, whereas most mainstream modern Christians preach a faith that would be nigh-unrecognizable to Christ himself.
Which is all to say, more or less, sh*t's complicated and the best laid plans of higher entities rarely play out as intended once actually set in motion on Earth.