Siddhartha and Jesus (6/7)

This Sunday, we delve into the profound wisdom that emerges from the crucible of suffering, as exemplified in the lives of Siddhartha and Jesus. This lesson explores the transformative power of embracing suffering, finding purpose in adversity, and the concept of redemptive suffering. Through the lens of Siddhartha's encounters with pain and Jesus' ultimate sacrifice, we will discover how suffering can be a catalyst for growth, compassion, and the realization of our true Selves.

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Sermon Notes

Quotes

“For a long time, the wound continued to burn.“ (ch. 11, p. 105)

“When he ferried travellers of the ordinary kind, childlike people, businessmen, warriors, women, these people did not seem alien to him as they used to: he understood them, he understood and shared their life, which was not guided by thoughts and insight, but solely by urges and wishes, he felt like them.” (ch. 11, p. 105)

“…the worldly people were of equal rank to the wise men…” (ch. 11, p. 106)

“It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.” (ch. 11, p. 106)

“Had his father not also suffered the same pain for him, which he now suffered for his son? Had his father not long since died, alone, without having seen his son again?” (ch. 11, p. 107)

“The river laughed. Yes, so it was, everything came back, which had not been suffered and solved up to its end, the same pain was suffered over and over again.” (ch. 11, p. 107)

“at odds with himself, tending towards despair, and not less tending towards laughing along at himself and the entire world.” (ch. 11, p. 107)

“You’ve heard it laugh,” he said. “But you haven’t heard everything. Let’s listen, you’ll hear more.” (ch. 11, p. 108)

“The river sang with a voice of suffering, longingly it sang, longingly, it flowed towards its goal, lamentingly its voice sang.” (ch. 11, p. 109)

“…the river, which consisted of him and his loved ones and of all people he had ever seen, all of these waves and waters were hurrying, suffering, towards goals, many goals,” (ch. 11, p. 109)

“but other voices joined it, voices of joy and of suffering, good and bad voices, laughing and sad ones, a hundred voices, a thousand voices.” (ch. 11, p. 109)

“Siddhartha listened. He was now nothing but a listener, completely concentrated on listening, completely empty, he felt, that he had now finished learning to listen.” (ch. 11, p. 109)

“Already, he could no longer tell the many voices apart…they all belonged together…everything was one, everything was intertwined and connected, entangled a thousand times.” (ch. 11, p. 110)

“And everything together, all voices, all goals, all yearning, all suffering, all pleasure, all that was good and evil, all of this together was the world. All of it together was the flow of events, was the music of life. And when Siddhartha was listening attentively to this river, this song of a thousand voices, when he neither listened to the suffering nor the laughter, when he did not tie his soul to any particular voice and submerged his self into it, but when he heard them all, perceived the whole, the oneness, then the great song of the thousand voices consisted of a single word, which was Om: the perfection.” (ch. 11, p. 110)

“His wound blossomed, his suffering was shining, his self had flown into the oneness.” (ch. 11, p. 110)

“I’ve been waiting for this hour, my dear. Now that it has come, let me leave. For a long time, I’ve been waiting for this hour; for a long time, I’ve been Vasudeva the ferryman. Now it’s enough. Farewell, but, farewell, river, farewell, Siddhartha!” (ch. 11, p. 111)

Scripture

26 Healings by Jesus Christ

Jesus Heals a Nobleman’s Son at Capernaum in Galilee (John 4:43–54)
Jesus Heals Peter’s Mother-in-Law Sick with Fever (Matthew 8:14–15, Mark 1:29–31, Luke 4:38–39)
Jesus Heals All Who Were Sick at Evening (Matthew 8:16–17, Mark 1:32– 34, Luke 4:40–41)
Jesus Cleanses a Man with Leprosy (Matthew 8:1–4, Mark 1:40– 45, Luke 5:12–14)
Jesus Heals a Centurion’s Servant in Capernaum (Matthew 8:5–13, Luke 7:1–10)
Jesus Heals a Paralytic Who Was Let Down From the Roof (Matthew 9:1–8, Mark 2:1–12, Luke 5:17–26)
Jesus Heals a Man’s withered Hand on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:9– 14, Mark 3:1–6, Luke 6:6–11)
Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son From the Dead in Nain (Luke 7:11–17)
Jesus Heals a Woman in the Crowd with an Issue of Blood (Matthew 9:20–22, Mark 5:25–34, Luke 8:42–48)
Jesus Raises Jairus’ Daughter from the Dead (Matthew 9:18,23–26, Mark 5:21–24,35–43, Luke 8:40–42,49– 56)
Jesus Heals Two Blind Men (Matthew 9:27–31)
Jesus Heals a Man Who Was Unable to Speak (Matthew 9:32–34)
Jesus Heals an Invalid at Bethesda (John 5:1–15)
Jesus Heals Many Sick in Gennesaret as They Touch His Garment (Matthew 14:34–36, Mark 6:53–56)
Jesus Heals a Gentile Woman’s Demon-Possessed Daughter (Matthew 15:21–28, Mark 7:24–30)
Jesus Heals a Deaf and Dumb Man (Mark 7:31–37)
Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida (Mark 8:22–26)
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind by Spitting in His Eyes (John 9:1–12)
Jesus Heals a Boy with an Unclean Spirit (Matthew 17:14–20, Mark 9:14–29, Luke 9:37–43)
Jesus Heals a Blind, Mute Demoniac (Matthew 12:22–23, Luke 11:14–23)
Jesus Heals a Woman Who Had Been Crippled for 18 Years (Luke 13:10–17)
Jesus Heals a Man with Dropsy on the Sabbath (Luke 14:1–6)
Jesus Cleanses Ten Lepers on the Way to Jerusalem (Luke 17:11–19)
Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead in Bethany (John 11:1–45)
Jesus Restores Sight to Bartimaeus in Jericho (Matthew 20:29–34, Mark 10:46–52, Luke 18:35– 43)
Jesus Heals a Servant’s Severed Ear While He Is Being Arrested (Luke 22:50–51)

The 27th Healing

Jesus Heals Himself and the World at His Crucifixion and through His Resurrection (Matthew 27:32–56 and 28:1–10, Mark 15:23–25 and 16:1–14, Luke 23:33–34 and 24:1–44, John 19:18, 23–24 and 20:1–29)

Metaphysics

crucifixion–The crossing out in consciousness of errors that have become fixed states of mind; the surrender or death of the whole personality in order that the Christ Mind may be expressed in all its fullness. The crucifixion of Jesus represents the wiping of personality out of consciousness. We deny the human self so that we may unite with the selfless. We give up the mortal so that we may attain the immortal. We dissolve the thought of the physical body so that we may realize the spiritual body.

resurrection–The restoring of mind and body to their original, undying state…The word resurrection also suggests that there has been a falling short of the divine standard; therefore, the necessity of being restored and revived…The resurrection takes place in us every time we rise to Jesus' realization of the perpetual indwelling life that is connecting us with the Father. A new flood of life comes to all who open their minds and their bodies to the living word of God.