Faith Interface

Ven. Shravasti Dhammika, REAL ‘Buddhism ’s
Insider’, Has Reviewed this book once
please, I beg you, Christians, or Anybody, who interested in this book, read his review here :
http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=10,7797,0,0,1,0

I, Myself, A Thai Buddhist, like Steve, I was born and grew up in the same environment like him, I can tell anyone that Steve is a BAD one, He did not, I repeat, understand his former religion at all. for him, Buddhism is just traditional, born with it, they-told-me-so, full of superstition religion (very true to ‘typical’ Thai Buddhist like Steve).

He is, just like Christians in the West, get tired of he faith that he was, because of his ignorance, blindly followed for too long.

You cant hardly call someone like Steve as ‘Insider of Buddhism’. by Calling him such is like calling Bin Laden an ‘Insider of Islam’. It’s Insulting.

But as the Buddha said in Kalama Sutra,
Don’t believe something based on just what you ‘ve Read or somebody told you about or because it’s in your tradition or because your parents told you so, not until you’ve tried, tested, and be effected positively or negatively by yourself.

So I encourage anybody to read his book if you have a chance, and After that, Remember, test it by yourself, look up, search for more information, asks other, find out what other REAL gurus in Buddhism says what in the same issues that Steve point out in his book.

Hi Everybody!
I am a Buddhist monk who has also written a review about the book “From Buddha To Jesus” by Mr.Steve Cioccolanti. I believe that if one were to read my review and compare it to the book and then NOT understand what a lying Christian propagandist Mr. Steve Cioccolanti really is, such a persons capacity for self deception would have to be truly unfreaking believeable!

I would suggest one go to:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19107203/
or
dhammaprotector.blogspot.com/

The three part ‘review’ that is spoken of here regarding the review that the Venerable Shravasti
wrote of this book is much less a review of the
review itself and much more of a picking apart of other material that the Venerable Sir once wrote elsewhere.

Why has Mr.Steve Cioccolanti NOT written a review of my review? This is why! He knows that he would not have much more to say other than…
Well O.K.! Bhikkhu aggacitto is correct!
I AM a Christian propagandist lying liar!

I have nothing against Christianity as a religion strickly speaking,for those who who choose to believe it, I just dont believe that someone who is truly walking a spiritual path should find it nessassary to LIE about someone elses spiritual path. Fair enough?

I wish you ALL the very best of ALL things spiritual!

Bhikkhu aggacitto

Hi again Everyone!
Sorry about the double posting!
I realized that I had not put the http:// in front of
one of the web site addresses that I gave!
For some I thought that it might make a difference.

Have a blessed day!

Bhikkhu aggacitto

Hi again everybody!
I just took a look at a response from the Venerable Shravasti Dhammika regarding the response of Mr.Cioccolanti to his review of the book “From Buddha To Jesus” that is mentioned above. I found it some what humorous and wanted to share it with all concerned.
http://sdhammika.blogspot.com/2009/04/long-list.html

Have a great day!

Bhikkhu aggacitto

Dear “Anonymous” and everyone else!
Hatred?Anger? No, this is simply TRUTH telling.The review that I have written is about truth telling.The “norm” for right speach is truth telling.There were also the words”I believe” that well qualified the statement that you chose to be “ataken” by. Anything else was as well apparently my opinion which I believe I am well entitled to.There are always those who seem to believe that a “good ” Buddhist (or anyone walking a spiritual path in general) is someone who will bend over and lick up whatever lying/abuse that they have to offer, and if they don’t that it should be used as some sort of mark against the credibility of their spiritual conviction. I of course would beg to differ. This Christian pastor has written lie after lie after lie after lie after lie about the Buddha dhamma ( teaching) slanders the Buddha, AND the monastic sangha again and again, and someone like you becomes offended because you don’t like the way that I’ve talked about it! You know what? To Bad!
It is ironic that you say the things in your post simply because you don’t believe that I should say the things that I say, and that those comments themselves seem truly full of such anger!

For those who would like to take a look at the review in question the address is :http://www.scribd.com/doc/19107203
While you’re at it check out the interesting articles at the blog: http://dhammaprotector.blogspot.com!

I SINCERELY WISH YOU, MR. CIOCCOLANTI AND EVERYONE THE VERY BEST OF ALL THINGS SPIRITUAL!

Bhikkhu aggacitto

Hi Everyone,

I’m a practising Buddhist but I do learn from the Bible.
All I can say about this book is that I think the author has very superficial understanding of the religion. I think it’s quite silly of him to go around converting Buddhist to Christians because it is such a waste of time. Considering the fact that there are so many countries living below the poverty line, I feel that Buddhist are the least of his concern. Just look at Mother Theresa. She didn’t go around converting people. All she did was to help people regardless of all religions. I think the author is very sly, as he got a number of reviews that were quite positive. However, if u look at it carefully, the reviewers are all Christians… Of course, they do not know what’s going on. If a Buddhist said that it is a good book about Buddha, then it will be a true review. Unfortunately it is not.. Sometimes, I think that because of all these “definition” it separates people and that is the cause of all the problems in the world. I have realized long ago that one has to be objective, learn from ALL religions, pick out the best and apply it to one’s own life. After reading the scriptures and text from both religion, I think that Buddha is more defined. He will define what he says. But he’ll always say that one must practise because words cannot describe the experience that he has experienced. I think the Jesus’s teaching are more cryptic and more open to interpretation. So one needs to let go of his ego in order to receive his teachings. I could go on for days but I think that’s all for now.
I suggest to all not to take his book so literally. I think there’s a very good book (although it’s not suitable for beginners) titled: In Buddha’s Words edited by Bhikkhu Bodhi. I’ve read this book and I think it’s great.