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“Buddhism is a way of liberation instead of a religion. And we can see the difference most effectively if we look at Buddhism and Christianity with regard to their different social functions. A religion like Christianity serves the social function of cementing a community together, giving that community its laws, its principles of ethics, and its common objectives. The function of Buddhism, on the other hand, as a way of liberation, is as it were to provide a cure for the inevitable ill effects of making the conventions of a community too strong, making the bonds of a community too strong.”

— Alan Watts, Buddhism and Christianity

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Vector5 9mo ago

Christianity: God is outside of you.

Hinduism: God is inside of you.

Both reflect the backdrop of the energy of the times in which they flourished.

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Honeyheart 9mo ago

Buddhism: there is no God because everything is God

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cozzy 9mo ago

That’s not entirely accurate. Both religions have teachings around both of these ideas.

Speaking of Christianity you’ve St Teresa of Avila who says:

“I only beg you to test it [by interior recollection], even at the cost of a little trouble. I assure you…you will find Him within you” (see The Way of Perfection, Chapters 28-29).

Then in Hinduism you’ve Bhakti yoga which relates to the indwelling of the divine within, but then you have things regarding Brahman, whose said to be penetrating and filling all things, which is something that St Paul says of Christ with those very words.

Anyways that’s a bit of that.

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Vector5 9mo ago

Cool, thanks for the clarification.

The way I see it, since the external is a reflection of the internal, we are each Brahman reflecting (projecting) ourselves out as the world we live in, so all is Brahman (Self). Most religions probably have similar ideas.