blackandbrownlove:Buddha the AfricanToday we will look at the origin of the Buddha.Originally it see
blackandbrownlove:Buddha the AfricanToday we will look at the origin of the Buddha.Originally it seems that title was for a man or group of African men, from an ancient priesthood. Buddhism was established 500 years before Christianity in the so-called Middle East. Buddhist tenets included the ‘Golden Rule’“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you..”Buddha was not a name but a title meaning Enlighten One, Blessed One, or to Become awake. Over the centuries there have been several chronicled Buddha’s, Gautama, Sakayanumi, and Siddhartha.The name Siddhartha according to Barbara Walker - Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets:…Siddhartha - the last again, not a name but a title, “Rich in Yogic Power.”These enlightened ones were Africans as attested to by Sir Williams Jones, he called them Cushites. These are excerpts from the book Anacalypsis by G. Higgins.It was the opinion of Sir William Jones, that a great nation of Blacks* formerly possessed the dominion of Asia, and held the seat of empire at Sidon. These must have been the people called by Mr. Maurice Cushites or Cuthites, described in Genesis; and the opinion that they were Blacks is corroborated by the translators of the Pentateuch, called the Seventy, constantly rendering the word Cush by Ethiopia. …The religion of Buddha, of India, is well known to have been very ancient. In the most ancient temples scattered throughout Asia, where his worship is yet continued, he is found black as jet, with the flat face, thick lips, and curly hair of the Negro. Several statues of him may be met with the East-India Company. There are two exemplars of him brooding on the face of the deep, upon a coiled serpent. To what time are we to allot this Negro ? He will be proved to have been prior to Cristna. He must have been prior to or contemporaneous with the black empire, supposed by Sir William Jones to have flourished at Sidon.The religion of this Negro God is found, by the ruins of his temples and other circumstances, to have been spread over an immense extent of country, even to the remotest parts of Britain, and to have been professed by devotees inconceivably numerous. …Mr. Wilsford, in his treatise on Egypt and the Nile, in the Asiatic Researches, informs us, that many very ancient statues of the God Buddha in India have crisp, curly hair, with flat noses and thick lips; and adds,“nor can it be reasonably doubted, that a race of Negroes formerly had power and pre-eminence in India.”In my Essay on The Celtic Druids, I have shown, that a great nation called Celtæ, of whom the Druids were the priests, spread themselves almost over the whole earth, and are to be traced in their rude gigantic monuments from India to the extremities of Britain. Who these can have been but the early individuals of the black nation of whom we have been treating I know not, and in this opinion I am not singular. - Godfrey Higgins.The learned Maurice says,“Cuthites, i. e. Celts, built the great temples in India and Britain, and excavated the caves of the former.”“And the learned Mathematician, Reuben Burrow, has no hesitation in pronouncing Stonehenge to be a temple of the black, curly-headed Buddha. [Anacalypsis, Godfrey Higgins - 1833].”The concept of Buddha.The word “Buddha” denotes not just a single religious teacher who lived in a particular epoch, but a type of person, of which there have been many instances in the course of cosmic time. (As an analogy, the term “American President” refers not just to one man, but to everyone who has ever held the office of the American presidency.) The Buddha Siddhartha, Gautama then, is simply one member in the spiritual lineage of Buddha’s, which stretches back into the dim recesses of the past and forward into the distant horizons of the future.Gautama did not claim any divine status for himself, nor did he assert that he was inspired by a god or gods. He claimed to be not a personal savior, but a teacher to guide those who choose to listen.A Buddha is any human being who has fully awakened to the true nature of existence, whose insight has totally transformed him or her beyond birth, death, and subsequent rebirth, and who is enabled to help others achieve the same enlightenment.According to Gerald Massey:‘It is certain that the Black Buddha of India was imaged in the 'Negro’ type. In the Negro God, whether called Buddha or Sut-Nahsi [Nehesi] we have datum. They carry their color in the proof of their origin. The people who first fashioned and worshipped the divine image in the Negroid mold of humanity must, according to ALL knowledge of human nature, have been Negroes themselves. Fro blackness is not merely mystical, the features and hair of Buddha belonged to the Black Race and Nahsi [Nehesi] is the Negro name. Volume 1pp.18,218 - A Book of Beginnings.According to Barbara Walker:“The Buddha was said to have miraculously begotten by the Lord of Hosts and born to the Virgin Maya. [Maia, Marah, Mari, Maria].”http://www.essaysbyekowa.com/Buddha%20the%20African.htm source: http://www.assatashakur.org/…/spir…/6055-buddha-african.html -- source link
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