“But the ‘present’ moves at the Speed of Thought, into a ‘past’ that is simply a collection of electro-magnetic imprints called memories.  So what are generally recognized as re-incarnations is actually one single projection of consciousness that, in the third-dimensional reality, is perceived to be several consecutive incarnations that are all trying to fulfill the same life purpose.” – V Anderson

The Awakening Website ~ In 563 BC, a prince named Siddhārtha Gautama was born into a Hindu family in what is now modern day Nepal. Gautama is the key figure in the Buddhist religion. He was commonly known as Buddha – a Sanskrit word that means ‘awakened one’.

Various collections of teachings that were attributed to the Buddha were passed down by oral tradition, but were not committed to writing until about 400 years after his death. At that time, the doctrine of the Buddha was written on parchment in the language of Pali.

There are some striking similarities between the lives that both Jesus and Buddha have led and the teachings they taught. Most of these similarities went unnoticed until Professor Richard Garbe, a German Indologist and Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Tübingen in Germany, journeyed to India in the late 1880’s.

Professor Garbe spent a year in the sacred city of Benares studying Hindu philosophy and the languages of Hinduism and Buddhism, and then wrote a journal about his experiences. In his book, Indien und das Christentum, he describes the many similarities he had discovered between the teachings of Hinduism and Buddhism, and those of Christianity.[i] Continue reading →