Jesus was a traveler. He was a world citizen. He was a universalist because he saw all of humanity as one. He was teacher. He had no material wealth. He was humble. He lived, traveled, and worked hand to mouth, depending on the kindness of friends, people who loved him, and total strangers. Jesus was a teacher. His message, the very essence of his teachings was love. How to love. How to grow love. And how to use love to change the world, to make it a better place. Jesus tried to teach us how to create heaven on Earth. Buddha taught the world how to work through suffering to achieve nirvana and much of it had to do with love which is what attracted Jesus to study Buddha’s message and to combine Buddha’s wisdom and insights into his own. I don’t think of Jesus as being defiant as much as a person who simply chose to do what is right instead of going along with the norm. I don’t think of him as being an anarchist. He simply did the right things by living his life the way he did it. His life was a model for how to be, for how to live, for how to be true to self but also how to be a citizen of the larger community and the world and for how to help the community become inclusive, loving, and caring, nurturing, self sustaining, and thriving. That is how Jesus was non compliant and why he was a threat to not just his own ethnic community but to all religious orthodoxies that veered from the very simple path that is moral and religious in the deepest sense and not at all publicly flashy and ostentatious or collective in the sense of being patriarchal or hierarchical in any way at all.
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