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The Pure Land is Around Us

Started by Al Billings · 11 months ago

For my class on Esoteric Buddhism at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, I have been reading materials in Tantric Buddhism in East Asia. This is a collection of essays edited by the professor for the course. The topic matter of the collection is fairly obvious but one of the essays in it was par ... Continue reading »

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    22. Jesus saw some babies nursing. He said to his disciples, "These nursing babies are like those who enter the kingdom."

    They said to him, "Then shall we enter the kingdom as babies?"

    Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom]."

    51. His disciples said to [Jesus], "When will the rest for the dead take place, and when will the new world come?"

    He said to them, "What you are looking forward to has come, but you don't know it."

    113. "His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?"

    "It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it.""

    Gospel of Thomas

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