Eckhart Tolle (Humanity Needs Wisdom)
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The Central Image of Christianity Is the Crucifixion
The central image of christianity is an image of suffering in the same way that the central teaching of the Buddha is a teaching of the fact of human suffering called dukkha. There's not just the cross because there's an image of the man crucified on the cross and people are worshipping that image so they wouldn't say how does that make sense what is that. The path of human evolution is the is the evolution through suffering we eventually we awaken in and we transcend through the experience of suffering suffering eventually awakens us and the Buddha said wherever you go whatever you do sooner or later or sooner than later you will encounter some form of suffering.
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