Buddha was a teacher. So was Jesus. But now that I have turned 75, i prefer the Buddha.
Jesus was more literary; he used a lot of symbols, irony, paradox and a lot of contradictions.
I have no patience for that type of teaching.

I prefer the Buddha as presented by Sylvia Boorstein. I like the practical and straight to the point style. I like that the Buddha according to Boorstein taught not to believe even the Buddha but to go by one’s experiences. I love this.

“The Second Noble Truth explains that suffering is what happens when we struggle with whatever our life experience is rather than accepting and opening to our experience with wise and compassionate responses.”

This is not martyrdom!