YOUR WORD IS TRUTH

Throughout the centuries, humanity's great spiritual teachers have spoken of one and the same Truth — and yet their words have been divided by borders, traditions, and conflicting interpretations. What if Jesus and Buddha, despite the centuries and continents that separated them, were ultimately teaching the same thing? What if the Sermon on the Mount and the Four Noble Truths, the Lord's Prayer and the Bhagavad Gita, were not competing claims, but different voices pointing toward the same destination? Your Word is Truth is the life's work of Hugo Udo de Groot (1931–2025) — a search that spanned almost an entire lifetime, from his years as a military officer to his studies in Oriental cultural sciences at Leiden University. The result is a compelling and carefully argued comparison of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Greek philosophy — not to blur their differences, but to reveal what, in the author's conviction, underlies each of them. In this book you will discover: How the parable of the prodigal son and Buddha's Four Noble Truths tell the same profound truth about suffering and coming home What the Lord's Prayer truly means, explained word by word The Noble Eightfold Path as a practical guide to a life of understanding, right intention, speech, action, and inner peace Why so many different traditions, arising independently of one another, keep pointing toward the same Truth This is not a book that tells you what to believe. It is a book that invites you, beyond dogma and outward form, to keep searching for yourself for the Truth that, in the author's conviction, waits within every person to be discovered. "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." — John 8:32