For Christians,—I can't speak of Buddhists—it means giving away all your money to the poor; healing the blind, sick, deaf, and lame; never having told a lie or did violence; never having stolen; feeding tens of thousands with only a few pieces of meat and dry bread; casting out demons; walking on water; having moral knowledge superior to 7 sages and living it out; dying and coming back to life; never having had sex out of wedlock or even having a lustful thought; if someone does you wrong, you forgive them immediately, no matter how bad; shutting up Lawyers and Doctors in debates with sound moral knowledge; associating with the lowest of the low, including those sick with contagious diseases, the most miserable poor, and the most flagrant criminals; setting free the captive; praising the poor widow over the affluent college professor; not seeking attention from people, but rather drawing them to you with your wisdom and kindness… and dying a torturous death and raising from the dead; to have never thought even a single adulterous, blasphemous, envious or violent thought; to have never been angry at God or your fellow man; to have never called someone worthless or tempted anyone… to call no one master or teacher but Christ Himself, and to hold no man in higher esteem than they ought, beside Christ Himself, and to love other people the same amount as you surely love yourself.
Mark 13:51Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. 52Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
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