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How are the Course of Miracles' ideals differ from Buddhist and Hindu ideals?

This question is only for people who are familiar with the Course of Miracles, a text written in the last 50 years that is said to have been channeled by the spirit of Jesus Christ. It is a really amazing book and has a poetic and beautiful message.... but I am very familiar with the Upanishads (a Vedic scripture that greatly influenced Hinduism and Buddhism) and the Bhagavad Vita and both seem to have the same essential message. I am curious about your opinions on this... I have never seen any of the major published thinkers of the Course (Wapnick, Perry, Renard, Williamson... on and on) address this at all. If you have references please source them... but I welcome your own comments on this. I am not necessarilly looking for trivial differences.... I mean the essential messages. Obviously, the responders of my question did not understand or did not read my question in full.... this is about a real text (ACIM), an actual book that the publishers claim was authored by Jesus Christ... It is not part of the Bible BUT it is a real book with pages that are numbered. I won't select a best answer for this... people can vote on it... but I won't pick a best answer because my question was not addressed. I was not talking about actual "miracles", I was talking about a real piece of prose.

Public Comments

1. A miracle something designed to ASTOUND the viewer and exclaiming: My goddit. Can your God do the miracles?? Hindu view : Whatever God does is natural to Him in excercise of His natural powers. So it is well with the Laws. They are called His Acts.
2. On one occasion a grieving lady carried her dead child to Buddha and asked him to revive it. This was a perfect setting for a miracle to be woven into religious folklore, but Buddhist records state that Buddha calmed the lady and told her that he would require three mustard seeds to revive her child. But the mustard seeds should be from a family where so far no one has ever died. To fulfill this seemingly simple request the lady went from house to house only to be told that sometime or the other, someone had died in every family. Gradually, the truth dawned upon the grieving lady and going to a cemetery, she laid down her child's body and taking its little hand in hers, she said "Beloved son, I thought that death has overtaken you alone. but no it overtakes all of us". She went back to Buddha and became his disciple.