Jesus Christ Calls The Buddhist & Taoist Poem by Daniel Partlow

Jesus Christ Calls The Buddhist & Taoist



Siddhartha was a man who saw the evil of a religion made in the absence of the true God.
He understood that the high would be brought low, and that the caste system was flawed.

Rejecting the caste system which grants privileges and servitude based on birth.
He taught that both rich and poor, dark and light, man and woman, all have equal worth.

Lao Tzu had some similar thoughts and described them as the Tao, the path, the way of what to do.
But to him, wisdom was not meant to be shared, but guarded by a privileged few.

The core seed of the Buddhist and Taoist fruit, any guru will admit is void and nothingness
Yet in the fruit of Christ one finds fulfillment, light, and life, for all castes forever nothing less.

Buddhist Sayings, ‘Converted’ or Paired with Christian Truths:

To control your qi, be pure and supple as a child -
The child who was born of a Hebrew virgin meek and mild.

Yield and become whole, bend to become straight -
Turning cheek when smote for the last will eventually become the great.

The heavy is the foundation of the light, the still is the master of agility -
The weak are given his strength, the humble are given awesome capability.

Developing excessive strength hastens decay -
All earthly riches will disappear on your final day.

One who overcomes others has power, one who overcomes himself has inner strength
Submitting our will to His may seem sour, but yields contentment of infinite breadth and length.

Taoist Sayings Converted to Christian Truths

1. The truth cannot be trodden down but is the enduring and unchanging Word.
The nameless great ‘I am” is the maker of all things and sent His Son to be heard.

Desire and passion for the Lord is it’s own Heavenly treasure.
But submitting to his will does not mean a rejection of all his gifts or pleasures.

His gifts to us include redemption in Christ, the law, and Holy Spirit.
There are still many mysteries, but the truth has been declared to those who will hear it.

2. In the tongues of humanity, beauty is known relative to ugliness and skill to ineptitude.
But to imply a co-dependence is vanity, and spiritual truth is misconstrued.

Long to short, high to low, good to evil, harmony to discordance,
Linguistic polemic does not prove a symbiotic dependence.

3. Why should superior ability be undermined if it is a reflection of inspiration?
Rewarding the marginal to avoid rivalry misses the point of the ten servant’s revelation.

But indeed, prizing earthly riches which may be lost to moth or thief or rust
Is less clever than keeping labor’s bounty in the vaults of Heaven’s trust.

But the point is not to douse the flames of men’s excited desires.
But rather share the truth of God’s kingdom by fanning their Holy Spirit fires.

Satan may wish to empty peoples minds or weakens their wills.
But the truth of Jesus Christ is the only true bread which forever fills.

Satan seeks to ban the light, and where it exists to contain it.
Abstaining from acting in the Spirit is impossible, no one can restrain it.

4. In the emptiness of a vessel, the ability to hold good fruit, it’s potential value is prized.
But only if it can be filled with the truth and blood of Jesus Christ is that value realized.

We should not attemper our brightness, or agree with obscure profanity.
In fact we should shine and share our light to reveal the true path for all humanity.

5. Our father in Heaven is not benign; He is the epitome of benevolence.
While the world may treat you as a ‘dog of grass’ – His blessings are offered upon repentance.

6. We offered sacrifice to God for the first fruits of the matrix, the feminine gate.
The Son of God, Root of David, perfect sacrifice has offered us a peaceful fate.

7. Heaven and earth do not live of, or for, themselves and so continue long and vast.
The Lord says that the last shall be first and the first shall be last.

8. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things – quenching their thirst.
But in the living water of Christ, one never thirsts a second, after receiving him first.

Water occupies without striving the low places which men disdain.
The living water bore the punishment of all men and id not complain.

The excellence of a residence is in the suitability of its location and firm foundation.
The value of both a tree and man, is the yield of fruit – not the social station.

9. When gold and jade fill the hall, their possessor cannot keep them safe.
When wealth and honors lead to arrogance, this evil collar begins to chafe.

Withdraw when the work is done and one's name is becoming distinguished?
Withdrawing into obscurity leads not to the joy of Heaven – but to a light extinguished.

10. When the intelligent and animal souls are held in one embrace, they unite.
The proud intellectual and predatory beast are both creatures of the night.

To become a tender babe, one gives undivided attention to the breath.
Christ has breathed on the dry bones of humanity and overcome death.

11-81 The One true Word is not unseen, unheard, ungrasped by man.
Only those blinded, deafened, and numbed by pride receive this ban.

Who can the turbulent muddy water still, and make then them clear?
Christ who calms the tempest of our hearts and distills out any fear.

Benevolence and righteousness is not the opposite of Christ’s True Great Tao,
But the hardened hearts of man ensued great hypocrisy and row.

To renounce learning of the truth is the beginning not the end of man’s troubles.
But cautiously reject the levin of the Pharisees, the yeasty hypocritical bubbles.

A multitude of men look satisfied as if banqueting or mounted on a tower in spring.
This multitude which has turned to Christ, Holy Spirit doth peace and contentment bring.

The proud seem listless and still, an infant which has not yet ever smiled.
The lost are dejected and forlorn, but the shepherd searches for them across the wild.

The multitude of men all have enough and more to spare - filled with the bread of Christ.
The lost have the mind of an idiot, and live in a state of chaos, where Satan hath enticed.

Ordinary men look bright and intelligent, full of discrimination, and capability.
While the proud seem to be benighted, dull, and confused, drifting on the sea.

The lost shall be found and all those beyond the border.
If they answer the call of the wisdom nursing-mother, and cured of all disorder.

The grandest forms of active force
From True Tao of Christ, their only source.

Who can the true Tao the nature tell?
In the Word of Christ, but also in sight and touch as well.

It eludeth neither sight nor touch,
Save those who in the darkness crouch;

Though they may have a glimpse in the night.
Their semblances and perceptions are slight.

Profound it is, but only dark and obscure,
To those who invite or permit iniquity to endure.

The essence the truth did already enfold
Of what, then seen, and now is told.

Now it is so and 'twas so too of old.
His kingdom that shall never fold.

So, in the kingdom’s beautiful array,
Things shall form and never know decay.

He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm of his own accord.
So stretch out to seek his outreached hand and be held from above by the Lord

Lao Tse admits “I do not know its name, and I give it the designation of the Tao”
The name is Jesus Christ who brought the truth complete, and even showed us how.

He invites us to follow him, and we see the shepherd’s back.
And when we meet him on the street, the least of men, kindness should never lack.

The eternal God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son
Together with the true Holy Spirit, the True Tao Kingdom’s Three-In-One.

If a speaker says nothing that can be found at fault by the corrupted world
Then what use is his PC drivel? His useless spin leaves only a tangle to be un-twirled.

If any one should wish to get the kingdom for himself, and to effect this on his own,
Failure will be his prize, for the kingdom is of the spirit, and only in Christ can it be known.

Now armaments, however beautiful, are instruments of evil omen, hateful, to all.
He who lives by the sword dies by the sword, and answers Beliar’s call.

Heaven and Earth unite and send down the sweet dew evenly across the ground.
The Lord’s offer of redemption is also made evenly to everyone, His love doth abound.

He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is wise.
He who loves and obeys the Lord, know no bounds when the Spirit he applies.

He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself has greater might.
He who submits his will to the Lord’s in every way, earns blessings and Heaven’s right.

Lao Tse says ‘Those of high benevolence, have no need to be.’
But Christ says ‘Whosoever ye help, even the least, it is as if it were done to me.’

Lao Tse proclaims that the true Tao was lost in ancient times.
Hear then now, the Word and Path of God, in these humble Christian rhymes.

If the understanding of the Tao in the East is admittedly imperfect and vague.
Hear the call of the One who teaches, heals, and saves all who pray, beseech, and beg.

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