Many Masters One Message

By Paramartha

Confucianism:
Profound penetration developing insight
Revealing the ultimate Truth.
Sincerity of Heart manifesting,
Leading to self-rectification;
Actualizing the Doctrine of Mean.

Taoism:
Ineffable Tao and illusive multiplicity
Non-conceptualization origin of cosmos
Conceptualization origin of myriad things
Selfless contemplations perceiving the Essence
Tranquility and Non-actions realized

Islam:
Exoteric vehicle carrying the Islamic law
Esoteric vehicle towards union with God
Multiplicity, the shadows of the Absolute
Annihilating lower self revealing the Absolute
Absolute belief, the true servant of God

Christianity:
Repentance, true belief in Christ
A change of mind towards God
God illuminating him
Baptised by the holy spirit
Repentance and faith leading to soteriology.

Buddhism:
Emptiness of self and phenomena
Signlessness and non-duality
Eliminatinga ontological commitment
Appeasing the dispositions
Neither arising nor ceasing.

Hinduism:                                            
In blinding darkness, worhipping the unmanifest;
In greater darkness, taking delight in the manifest.
Understanding the manifest and the unmanifest.
Traversing death through the unmanifest;
Attaining immortality through the manifest.

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The exoteric dimensions of different religions differ in expedient devices, methodology or pedagogy of presentation. The goal of esotericism of all religions is identical- self redemption and a return to the Origin of Man. The Buddha declares that truth is only one and it can not be two. The main enterprise of all major religions is to awaken the adherents to perceiving the distinction between the Appearance and Reality or the Conventional and the Ultimate ! A change of mind followed by self-redemption is the common soteriological goal of salvation. A change of mind is absolute repentance and a return journey to the origin. The mind is absolutely purified.