Are Jesus and Buddha Brothers?

The perennial teachings of the Catholic Church and the Buddhist sangha are inherently incompatible. Whereas God remains completely other, distinct from his creation, higher Buddhist discourse rejects the possibility of any such duality. There can be no Creator / creature distinction in Buddhism.

That's true to a point. Buddhism is incompatible with Catholic teachings because they teach the permanence of that dualistic relationship and any contradiction of that is a threat to the teaching itself.

Catholicism (or any Christianity), on the other hand, is compatible with Buddhism because it is recognized that all phenomena are of a dualistic nature, including religious views of 'man and God.' In Buddhism it is not expected that dualistic views must be abandoned in order to start the path. If one could do that there would be no need for a path. Dualistic views are not abandoned by force they simply drop away when direct experience of their insubstantiality is seen. Free will is never expected to submit to an abstract philosophical concept like 'faith.'

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