The Dharma of Jesus

It is very clear that the "teachings of Jesus" are in fact, as in Buddhism, a form of Dharma--that is, a careful balance of both theoria and praxis. Understood in this way these are like the conundrum of the chicken and the egg. Which comes first? You can never really say, for they are each in a feedback loop to the other. Does "insight" come from practice, or does practice grow out of insight? You would have to say, both, for they are always in dynamic relationship to one another.

What Jesus teaches, however, can never be grasped if it is not practiced. You can have ideas, of course, about the teachings of Jesus (very strong, doctrinal ideas), but until you "become the truth of it" -- living the truth of his teachings, practicing the truth, you cannot know the truth. It is curious, but this is the way of the Dharma of all the great wisdom Masters.