…of the fire. We get the same thing from jesus 500 years, 600 years later where he identifies himself with the fire, with the Christ Energy which supports all beings and speaks out of that. He doesn't speak as jesus of nazareth born of Mary he speaks as…

…boatman that fell on top of me. So she didn't tell a lie and the thing didn't burn. Well, Gottfried says and so you see, Christ is like a weathervane he blows where the wind goes. That may be why Gottfried Didn't finish the book. No one knows how he…

…the bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. That's the idea of the Christ, in his love for the world coming to be crucified, participating in the crucifixion intentionally with joy. What's the imitation…

…Christ, in his love for the world coming to be crucified, participating in the crucifixion intentionally with joy. What's the imitation of Christ? The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sarisen world if you read it this way. So there is a…

…the world coming to be crucified, participating in the crucifixion intentionally with joy. What's the imitation of Christ? The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sarisen world if you read it this way. So there is a wonderful dialogue here…

…participation in the sarisen world if you read it this way. So there is a wonderful dialogue here when you think of the Christ in the way of the buddha, these are two folk manifestations of the same elementary idea. The lesson the buddha tells you is:…

…folk manifestations of the same elementary idea. The lesson the buddha tells you is: you're it. Alright what's the imitation of Christ? Joyful participation come into this crucifixion with joy not fear, not desire and it's a rapture. That's the story there.…

…the subtle body but you're still gross and you're trying to become the immortal while you're still on earth. The third temptation of Christ, after he had rejected the devil when the devil said: look young man you look hungry why don't you turn the stones…

…And in the Medieval Symbology we have the same symbol, the same colors: Mary, who represents the earthly mother, is always blue and Christ, in her womb or born, is red. This is the blood of the savior, the subtle mystery, and this the carrier of it…

…Christian Church. Rejected was the idea of a non rational experience of god. The literal historical interpretation of the life of Christ became the only accepted truth. The religious experience was to be codified, man in relationship to god regulated by the…

…monk, l estoire, the history del st graal, of the holy grail, where the grail is interpreted as the vessel of the passion of Christ, the cup of the last supper, and the cup, the same cup that received his blood when his body taken from the cross was…

…namely of the divine power operative in your own heart, the grail romance is of the god in your own heart and the Christ becomes a metaphor, a symbol for that transcended power which is the support and being of your own life. This is what we're…

…was illuminated. Book of kells is now in the national library in Dublin. It's from the 9th century. This is the apprehension of Christ in the book of kells. This is the famous tunk page. Here is a stone cross from that period in North East Ireland…

…nine times and then nine times again. What it is talking about the angelus when it rings, is the conception by Mary of the Christ child, the pouring of eternal energy into the field of time it's what the angelus is, that's what the 108 names of the…

…divine realization. And in the vaishnava tradition, the tradition associated with Vishnu which is of this erotic mode, the way of love, Christ also love his love brings him to death on the cross. Christ is a kind of vaishnava incarnation and there are…

…which is of this erotic mode, the way of love, Christ also love his love brings him to death on the cross. Christ is a kind of vaishnava incarnation and there are many, many parallels as one studies Christianity in relation to these religions between…

…of the pandavas, the boys of the mahabharata and Krishna. It is the order in the Christian Tradition of the apostles for Christ They're close in they can ask questions, they're thinking of him more and they come to realizations. The third order of love…

…manifestation and it's my belief that the great insight that st Paul had on the road to Damascus was that the death of Christ of jesus on the cross, could be interpreted in terms of the classical mystery religions of the death and resurrection of the…

…of the catacombs I forgot which one we have at the ceiling orpheus playing the lyre, where you would have expected to see the Christ, the animals, the lion will lie down with the lamb not at all the lion's going to eat the lamb but don't worry,…

…see what we have here: orpheus, bacchus, crucified. There's the crucifixion as metaphysical symbol and orpheus in the same sense as the Christ and he goes to the cross like a bridegroom to the bride and you have the death and resurrection motif of the…

…brief reference to what happened with Christianity in those early centuries. What happened was a conflict between the interpretations of the Christ Either as an example of the mystery hero who dies to be resurrected, or as the unique incarnation. That was…

…with attention to what you're saying. I believe in god the father almighty, creator of heaven and earth that's that. And in jesus Christ his only son our lord who was conceived by the holy ghost, born of the virgin Mary, was crucified or judged by…

…of the problems in our religions lies in the fact that it's extending right from the very start, the good and evil problem. Christ comes to atone for a sin, evil atonement. It struck me some months or years perhaps ago that the first people to listen…

…youngsters between the ages of about 12 and 17. And when it came to this problem of explaining what this buddha consciousness or Christ Consciousness was, I looked up the ceiling for an inspiration and I found one. I said: look up boys at the ceiling…

…have a religion of worship, whereas when the deity opens you have a religion of identification with the divine. And that was what Christ mentioned when he said: I and the father are one and he's crucified for it. Halaj said the same thing and all of…

…the heart of a spiritual life. I was lecturing to this point and saying that for the Christian, One should live in terms of the Christ in you and a woman came to me some weeks later and said there was a priest sitting beside me when you said that…

…concretizing terms. This is a function of mythology, that's a mythological reading of what was otherwise a theological statement. The Christ idea and the buddha idea are perfectly equivalent mythological symbols, two ways of saying the same thing: that a…

…either a fall or a voluntary descent. Now in the Garden of Eden story it is represented as a fall. In the story of Christ coming into the world it's in the way of a voluntary descent. Now the symbolism then of the judeo Christian Tradition, the fall…

…statement that Paul picked up that is to say he was stating something that was already stated in the communities of the time. Four, Christ did not think godhood something to be held to, to be clung to but gave it up to descend and take the body of…

…is day aphrodite's day, venus day. It's associated also with osiris and the dead and resurrected god. Also Friday is the good Friday when Christ died for love on the cross. And so Hans is hooked and he's on his way that night there was blood on his…

…it from old French a text known as the queste de saint graal, where the grail is interpreted as the vessel of the passion of Christ, the cup of the last supper and the cup, the same cup that received his blood when his body taken from the cross was…

…namely of the divine power operative in your own heart, the grail romance is of the god in your own heart and the Christ becomes a metaphor, a symbol for that transcended power which is the support and being of your own life. This is what we're…

…boatman that fell on top of me. So she didn't tell a lie and the thing didn't burn. Well, Gottfried says: and so you see, Christ is like a weathervane he blows where the wind goes. That may be why Gottfried Didn't finish the book. No one knows how he…

…will become as I am and I shall be he. He's talking from the point of view of that being of beings which we call a Christ, who is the being of all of us and anyone who lives in relation to that is as Christ and anyone who incarnates or rather…

…of beings which we call a Christ, who is the being of all of us and anyone who lives in relation to that is as Christ and anyone who incarnates or rather brings into his life the message of the word is equivalent to jesus that's the sense there. So…

…a fortunate rhythm has been struck by the artist, there is a radiance. That's the epiphany, and that is what would be the Christ coming through. Do you understand what I'm saying? The Face of the saint beholding god and it doesn't matter who it is I…

…He gathered his materials everywhere, from the erotic mysticism of India to the old testament song of songs, from the life of Christ and the teachings of the Ramakrishna to saint Paul and Bernard of Clairvaux, and William Blake, Thomas Mann and many others…

…well centered and affirmative of life, even with suffering. There's a passage in Paul's Epistle to the philippians: isn't there be as Christ? For Christ did not think godhood something to be hung on to, to be clung to, but let go and came down…

…centered and affirmative of life, even with suffering. There's a passage in Paul's Epistle to the philippians: isn't there be as Christ? For Christ did not think godhood something to be hung on to, to be clung to, but let go and came down and took life…

…a penalty applied, but it was an act of atonement at one with the race. That's the most sophisticated interpretation of why Christ had to be crucified. Abelard's idea was that this is connected with the grail King and everything else, that the coming of…

…had to be crucified. Abelard's idea was that this is connected with the grail King and everything else, that the coming of Christ to be crucified, and illustrating thus the suffering of life, removes man's mind from commitment to the things of this world…

…is sacrificed in the planning culture, that figure is the god. The person who died, was buried and became the food is Christ crucified, from whose body the food of the spirit comes. There is a sublimation of what originally was a very solid vegetal…

…buddha sits, the tree of wisdom the tree of immortal life, of the knowledge of immortal life and the buddha under his tree and Christ hanging on his tree are the same image. They are the same image, the one who has died to the flesh and been reborn…

…they tell me to do this all the time. And this is the problem which can be then metaphorically understood as identifying with the Christ in you, and the Christ in you doesn't die the Christ in you survives death and resurrects or it can be with shiva…

…all the time. And this is the problem which can be then metaphorically understood as identifying with the Christ in you, and the Christ in you doesn't die the Christ in you survives death and resurrects or it can be with shiva shiva hung, I am shiva,…

…the problem which can be then metaphorically understood as identifying with the Christ in you, and the Christ in you doesn't die the Christ in you survives death and resurrects or it can be with shiva shiva hung, I am shiva, and this is the great…

…on the way there are adventures that can be paralleled also in other traditions. Now the buddha figure it's like that of Christ. Of course 500 years earlier you could match those two traditions right down the line, even to the characters of their apostles…

…you could match those two traditions right down the line, even to the characters of their apostles or their monks, Christ. Now there's a perfectly good hero deed formula. Represented there and he undergoes three temptations. The economic temptation where the…

…you won't even be bruised or healed so he says you shall not tempt the lord your god. Those are the three temptations of Christ in the desert. The buddha also goes into the forest, has conferences with the leading gurus of the day and goes past them,…

…in terms of what they have discovered there. These are the same herodees these are the spiritual herodees: moses, the buddha, Christ, Muhammad Muhammad Literally, and we know this about him he was a camel caravan master, but he would leave his home…

…the blue the gross. And in the Medieval Symbology we have the same colors: Mary, who represents the earthly mother, is always blue and Christ in her birth, is red. This is the blood of the savior, the subtle mystery and this the carrier of it all. Now…

…divine realization. And in the vaishnava tradition the tradition associated with Vishnu which is of this erotic mode, the way of love Christ also love his love brings him to death on the cross. Christ is a kind of vaishnava incarnation and there are many,…

…which is of this erotic mode, the way of love Christ also love his love brings him to death on the cross. Christ is a kind of vaishnava incarnation and there are many, many parallels as one studies Christianity in relation to these religions, between…

…of the pandavas, the boys of the mahabharata and Krishna. It is the order in the Christian Tradition of the apostles for Christ They're close in they can ask questions they're thinking of him more and they come to realizations. The third order of love…

♪♪, ♪♪, ♪♪. Hello, I'm Susan Sarandon. In the previous program of mythos, Joe Campbell told us that the Christ idea and the buddha idea were equivalent mythological symbols. The gods are projections of powers within us, not somewhere out there. One day…

…the subtle body but you're still gross and you're trying to become the immortal while you're still on earth. The third temptation of Christ after he had rejected the devil when the devil said: look young man you look hungry. Why don't you turn the stones…

…nine times and then nine times again. What it is talking about the angelus when it rings, is the conception by Mary of the Christ child, the pouring of eternal energy into the field of time. That's what the angelus is that's what the 108 names of the…

…implications of the life rather than the life itself. Reading the stories of the life of the buddha and the life of Christ Symbolically, Campbell finds them telling us much the same thing. The birth of buddha and Christ are representative of the birth of…

…of the buddha and the life of Christ Symbolically, Campbell finds them telling us much the same thing. The birth of buddha and Christ are representative of the birth of our spiritual lives when we awaken to the idea that god is a projection of the…

…Bodhisattva is the one who, out of his realization of transcendence, participates in the world. That's the idea of the Christ, in his love for the world, coming to be crucified, participating in the crucifixion intentionally with joy. What's the imitation…

…Christ, in his love for the world, coming to be crucified, participating in the crucifixion intentionally with joy. What's the imitation of Christ? The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world if you read it this way so there…

…the world, coming to be crucified, participating in the crucifixion intentionally with joy. What's the imitation of Christ? The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world if you read it this way so there is a wonderful dialogue…

…the fire. We get the same thing from jesus 500 years, 600 years later, where he identifies himself with the fire, with the Christ Energy which supports all beings, and speaks out of that. He doesn't speak as jesus of nazareth born of Mary. He speaks as…

…he makes the connection back to our own tradition. The fire of the Hindu sacrifice is the very same fire that Christ identified with the energy that supports the universe. We're back to the elementary idea which Campbell first spoke about. We shouldn't…

…manifestation, and it's my belief that the great insight that st Paul had on the road to Damascus was that the death of Christ of jesus on the cross could be interpreted in terms of the classical mystery religions of the death and resurrection of the…

…of the catacombs I forgot which one we have at the ceiling orpheus playing the lyre, where you would have expected to see the Christ, the animals, the lion will lie down with the lamb not at all the lion's going to eat the lamb but don't worry,…

…see what we have here: orpheus backless, crucified. There's the crucifixion as metaphysical symbol and orpheus in the same sense as the Christ and he goes to the cross like a bridegroom to the bride and you have the death and resurrection motif of the…

…brief reference to what happened with Christianity in those early centuries. What happened was a conflict between the interpretations of the Christ Either as an example of the mystery hero who dies to be resurrected, or as the unique incarnation. That was…

…with attention to what you're saying I believe in god the father almighty, creator of heaven and earth that's that and in jesus Christ, his only son, our lord who was conceived by the holy ghost, born of the virgin Mary, was crucified, judged by Pontius…

…of the problems in our religions lies in the fact that it's extending right from the very start, the good and evil problem. Christ comes to atone for a sin, evil atonement. It struck me some months or years perhaps ago, that the first people to listen…

…youngsters between the ages of about 12 and 17. And when it came to this problem of explaining what this buddha consciousness or Christ Consciousness was, I looked up the ceiling for an inspiration and I found one. I said: look up boys at the ceiling…

…you have a religion of worship, whereas when the deity opens you have a religion of identification with the divine. And that was what Christ mentioned when he said I and the father are one and he was crucified for it. Halaj said the same thing and all…

…of meditation is to find that inside and then let that take control, translate that into Christianity, that is finding the Christ in you and it's exactly the same idea and here they call it Christ Consciousness, there they call it buddha consciousness.…

…that into Christianity, that is finding the Christ in you and it's exactly the same idea and here they call it Christ Consciousness, there they call it buddha consciousness. The figures that represent the two ideas are quite in contrast in that the…

…Imagery concentrates on the Pacific Aspect you might say you know having found peace within and serenity whereas the Christian with Christ crucified concentrates on the heroic attitude of living life which is tearing you apart and finding the one within you…

…have thoughts that govern us, certain images that we can target to, and these images then become the end, the idea of the Christ idea. You put that before you and it helps you to move to this thing which transcends the Christ idea. You understand what…

…the end, the idea of the Christ idea. You put that before you and it helps you to move to this thing which transcends the Christ idea. You understand what I'm saying the myth is this side of the truth but it leads you to it. It's as if that Christ…