Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian

He is both the way that leads to the experience of co-inhering with the Divine, and also the life that results as this experience deepens and becomes more real.

Buddha describes the broad energy field and Christ is a revealing instantiation of what happens when that energy takes form.

It will be Awakened seekers of justice who, because they can respond to hatred and injustice with love and compassion, have the best chances of waking up the oppressors from their state of ignorance and greed.

Buddha makes clear what’s going on. Christ shows how it goes on.

the surges of anger that we spontaneously feel when we witness how cruel and unjust humans can be to each other can be used as “wake-up bells” that call us to return to the connecting Spirit within us and to respond from that Spirit, not from anger.

Gandhi opposed, but he also embraced.

What the makers of peace end up making depends on what they are.

we have to do a substantial amount of spiritual training and develop a basic store of the inner resources of wisdom, compassion, and mindfulness before we enter the fray and take up the exhausting and the always dangerous work of peacemaking and Kindom-building.

We act not to gain the fruits of our actions but because this is how the Christ-Spirit or our Buddha-nature acts, though we rejoice when our actions do bear fruit.