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During a student uprising in Burma, when the soldiers entered a temple to roust out dissidents, they would take off their shoes yet
hold onto their guns. They were showing respect to the Buddha, while overlooking the Dharma. It's essential to be accountable for our
actions and not overlook the Dharma in any domain.
Christianity depended on the authority of Christ, which was the foundation of its faith. Without faith in the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, there could be no salvation - so the early Christian Christians held. Faith in Christ was primary, moral perfection dependent on it.
In Buddhism, on the contrary, faith in Buddha himself was not primary; the emphasis was on understanding his teaching and on the practices of meditation and moral discipline. Moral perfection was of primary importance for the liberation which Buddha himself exemplified. Thus the sources of Buddhist and Christian belief are very different.
Chai-Shin Yu, Early Buddhism and Christianity, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, reprinted 1981
For Gautama, in whose embrace, Dharma was shown, and opinions vanished.
For all sentient beings, with whom we are inextricably linked to, over time and over space.
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