The Divine Within

Jesus said, "Whoever knows the all but fails to know himself
lacks everything."

~ Gospel of Thomas

Icchantika has introduced me to the Gospel of Thomas, a lost text of 114 sayings of Jesus of Nazareth. I've only come across one or two of these sayings so far, but from just these, I find a deep resonance within to the message being conveyed. I am now utterly fascinated and caught up with wanting to know all I can about this Gospel of Thomas and the other texts found at Nag Hammadi.

The message conveyed in the sayings I've read so far, namely the idea of self-discovery to bring out 'the divine within', seems to line up pretty well with what I find so appealing about my Zen buddhist practice ('turning the light inward' to allow our buddha-nature to manifest).

Being raised Christian and still having some of those tendencies remain, I am very intrigued by these 'new' sayings of Jesus. I always knew deep down that Buddha and Jesus were brothers (spiritual brothers) and this just seems to confirm it even more for me.