I would say that Jesus Christ and his followers were a cult, Buddha and his followers were a cult and Mohammed and his followers were a cult. Every religion starts out as a cult and if it becomes 'box office', it is accepted.
Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the political regime.
The Romans had to kill him because he was threatening the order because he had a great deal of personal power.
The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order.
We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God and light.
They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.
Christ said, 'Seek and ye shall find.' Learn the ways to seek which will expedite your journey and make it more fun.
When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters are trying to convey is the psychic light, which is around everyone.
When you read Boethius and some of the Renaissance philosophers, they talk a lot about the other spheres. There's a music of the spheres. There's a music that's actually in the universe, they believed, that's out there in different dimensions.
The Buddhist mind is more complicated than the Christian mind. It comes up with endless heavens, endless hells, endless earths, and then we have something lower than hell. We have endless sub-realms that make hell look like Club Med and we have endless nirvana.
In tantra we don't believe in commandments. We believe in the moment and the truth that is applicable for that moment, as best we can sort it out with our heart, our intuition, our knowledge, our common sense.
Paradise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state.
The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If that were the case, we'd live in a perfect world.
They say that faith can move mountains, so can bulldozers, so can nuclear weapons. I'm not really sure if that's what faith is intended for. I guess if there is a mountain that has to be moved, and you've got nothing else to do it with, you could probably do it with faith.
Feel eternity around you. Not as an idea, not as a nice intellectualization, but to really feel it; not to be some religious fanatic who's strung out on some weird idea of salvation to the exclusion of common sense.
The more I say about God, the less you'll know about God.
God is limitless awareness. There, now I have told you everything I know about God ... a lot of good it did you.
God is not an objective correlative reality.
God is Godless. God is an idea that we have, another construct, a prop, which doesn't suggest that God doesn't exist. God is existence. But your idea of God and existence are two different things at the moment.
The stillness of God is perfect. Nothing has to be added to it. Nothing can be taken away.
Only a humble person can come to know God because the humble person can recognize that there is something more powerful, more complete and more perfect than they are.
The reason you don't get to know God is because you're afraid. You're afraid of the immensity.
