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said to the rabbis, "Jesus was a Jew, your last prophet and our first founder. Can you also walk on water?"
The rabbi said, "Easy."
The bishop could not believe it. He said, "I want to see."
So one rabbi got out from the left side of the boat and walked on water for a few feet and came back. The bishop could not even blink his eyes when he saw the man walking on water. He said, "We used to think that it was only Jesus, but it seems to be a Jewish quality."
The old rabbis said to the bishop, "We don't follow Jesus and we don't accept him as our prophet. We have crucified him for the crime of being a fraud, propounding himself to be our last prophet. But you are a follower of Jesus, so just take the name of Jesus and you try walking on the water."
Now it was a great challenge....
But the bishop was sitting on the right side, so he got out from the right side and went down into the water and started shouting, "Help! Help!"
Those two rabbis took him out, and the older rabbi asked the younger, "Shall we tell this idiot what the secret is?"
The secret was that there were stones in the water, just below the water, but they were on the left side, not on the right side. Jesus must have walked on those stones -- there is no question about it.
I have heard that an American Christian, a very rich man but very miserly, went to Israel. And every visitor is bound to go to Lake Galilee which is the holiest place -- where Jesus lived for most of his life. And he asked the boatman, "How much will it cost to take me to the place where Jesus walked on water?"
He said, "It will cost ten dollars."
The American said, "That explains everything about how Jesus walked on water. Ten dollars? Forget about it. I am not in a mood to walk on water."
You will not find in Buddha anything that is not possible for you. He is as human a being as you are. He does not proclaim himself to be anything special. That is his grandeur. That is his greatness.
In this incident, Hyakujo is asking his mother, pointing to the statue of Buddha, "What is that?"
The mother said, "That is a buddha."
Hyakujo
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