Buddhism Religion

The impacts of Buddhist teachings and the worshipping of individuals in the buddhist community, enabled those in society to reflect upon their ethics. This notion is evident through the buddhist ethical teachings that governs our morals, decisions and actions established as a result of the Dalai Lama’s philosophical teachings of peace, which is further supported by the notion of “Puja”, the act of devotional attention and offerings.

An organization of Buddhists that maintain the website Buddhaweb hold these teachings as the core concepts of Zen Buddhism. The Four Noble Truths state that suffering exists, suffering arises from attachment to desires, suffering ceases when attachment to desire ceases, and freedom from suffering is possible by practicing the Eightfold Path. The Noble Eightfold Path teaches three disciplines in wisdom, morality, and meditation. Wisdom, or panna , is learning to have the right view and thoughts. Morality, or sila , teaches to control your speech correctly, act correctly, and pursue a correct livelihood. Meditation, or samadhi , has you discipline your efforts, your mindfulness, and your contemplation. These teachings in qualities are meant to be practiced to obtain peace, and for some to travel the path towards Enlightenment. (“ buddhaweb ”)

Buddhist believes that the mind is in control of their health, and a weak mind will allow the development of illness.  Men and women are considered equal, but mothers are considered special, and because they give birth are considered extra special and deserve additional attention and compassion.  Abortion is against the Buddhist faith; this is influenced by their belief in rebirth or reincarnation.  Abortion is considered murder in this faith (Bowker, 2006).

The Mara is some thing that is hidden from us. Mara is different from us. a being is an illusion as if someone is standing beside us. some thing that someone believes in is an illusion.

There are many different religions with many different beliefs, traditions, practices, and rituals. These differences are a very important part of understanding and appreciating the culture and history behind the specific religion. However, the practices that certain religions have in common can aid even more in furthering the understanding of specific beliefs of other religions. Since most religions cultivate from the practices and beliefs of other religions, they use those core values and beliefs and transform them into what they believe is a better way practicing. Religions use similarities within each other and twist them into their own. There are certain beliefs within every religion that shape their practices such as their morals or their most essential or absolute value, their position on human beings’ problems and solutions, and their view on life and death within their religion. Pure Land Buddhism (a form of Mahayana Buddhism) and Vaishnavites (a group within Hinduism) are great examples of this very concept.

Buddhist teachings influence the adherents to change their way of life, following the Buddhist way of life and teachings. Buddhist teaching influence the adherents to change their way of life, following the Buddhist way of life. The way the Buddhist community interact upon each other and send their messages through include the views on Bioethics, Laws of Buddhism that promote influential change through Temple Puja, and the role of the Tibetan Buddhist Leader, Dalai Lama. It is through the Four Noble Truths, Five Precepts and the Three Jewels that Buddhists teachings reduce the cause of all sufferings and sorrows, while increasing the source of happiness into the religion - where meditation fits in. The ethics of the Buddhist are based on the Buddhist guidelines,

No one saves us but our self. No one can and no one may. We ourself must walk the path.-Buddha Buddhism is one of few religions that do not worship a God. Instead, the meaning of their religion is to have nirvana. Since there is no God in their religion the religion is formed around the idea that once you reach enlightenment you will no longer be stuck in reincarnation. I will go over the origin, afterlife, and the religion's rituals.

All life is full of suffering. This fateful verity is expressed in the foundational scriptures of the Buddhist religion, and it continues to redefine the promises of alternative religions that argue life is an undeniably joyous privilege. By denying optimism and revealing the true brutality that life has to offer, the morals behind the east Asian religion known as Buddhism, and the Four Noble Truths it is centered around, strike its followers with dread and dejection. These so called “truths” serve as structure for the spiritual beliefs of people who follow Buddhism, as well as a scapegoat that can easily be condemned in a time of misfortune or when one is faced with adversity. These primitive beliefs are reflected through the eyes of many

There are two different schools of thought in Buddhism, Theravada and Mahayana, which have varying goals of life. They do, however, have a similar path to get to their ultimate goal in life. Most of their path to get to a state of Nirvana, as the Theravada believes, comes through discipline. Discipline comes from the Four Noble Truths, which also contains the eightfold path. The Four Noble Truths are that there is suffering in the world, suffering in the world comes from desire, desire and worldly attachments need to end for suffering to end, and there is a path to end suffering. The eightfold path is actually the fourth noble truth. The eight practices include: right view or understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, full effort, right mindfulness, and meditation. This path is done to try to obtain wisdom and discipline on the way to spiritual enlightenment. The enlightenment stage brings forth the next universal tenet, which is the afterlife. The Buddhist school of Theravada believes in an afterlife called Nirvana, which literally means blowing out or becoming extinguished. Nirvana is the liberation from the never ending cycle of rebirth known as the samsara cycle where the believer becomes one with the Supreme Being. Nirvana is similar to the afterlife in other religions in that once the believer reaches this final destination, it is said to be a euphoric ending to the rebirth cycle. The third tenet that

Buddhism is also a polytheistic religion similar to Hinduism. An Indian prince who founded Buddhism was called Siddhartha Gautama; he abdicated all his rights to become the enlightened one, Buddha. Like Hindus, Buddhists believe in reincarnation but instead of Moksha. They believe in Nirvana [the goal of the Buddhist path], both concepts are similar, understanding life and death and the cycle ending in reincarnation. Buddha reached enlightenment or wisdom, during that time, he found Four Noble Truths, which enabled people to achieve happiness so they could all stop suffering. People must give up all thought of achievement, desire living life in poverty. Buddhism has never had a caste system [division of social classes], therefore, the first

Each the reader gets a better understanding of the practice of Buddhism. As the reader continue this piece they will see the way to understand this fascinating religion. The rule are simple and easy to understand.

I do agree with this quote in some way. I am a Buddhist, so instead of believing in the Lord, I believe in Buddha, which essentially similar. When we make decisions in our life, we incorporate the Lord, Buddha for me in this case. We fear him because he sees, knows, and evaluates what we are doing in our daily life. We fear that if we do something bad, something that he doesn’t like, he will punish us. Therefore when we fear the Lord, we follow his rules and what he wants us to do, so that our relationships with him is accordingly. According to the Proverbs, wisdom is merely seeing life in God’s perspective. Wisdom for me is to do the right things and gain knowledge. Most of the time, the Lord wants the best for us, so listening to him and fear will give us wisdom.

How does Buddhism, through its teachings or practices best encourage its adherents to live out the golden rule?

Buddhism is one of the major religions with an intricate history of system and beliefs. Siddhartha Gautama also known as Buddha “the awakened one”, the founder and leader of the Buddhism, lived from the periods of 566 BC to 480 BC (Buswell). Siddhartha Gautama was an Indian warrior king’s son so he lived a lavish life as he was the prince of the warrior caste. He got bored of his extravagant life as he lived on and went into the world to search and explore it for understanding. He wondered what happened outside of the palace and he finally got permission to explore the life of others outside the palace. His father, Shuddodana Gautama, believed that his son should not see the life of the poor and suffers of the people because he didn’t want Siddhartha to lead a religious life, therefore, only the healthy and well looking people got to meet and greet the prince. However, he still faced the truth as he chased some old men who accidently went into the parade that he saw. He came across sick people, an ascetic, and a monk as he was greatly surprised to see such people existed. He found out about death and how one can die. After meeting the monk, Siddhartha said, “When ignorant people see someone who is old, they are disgusted and horrified, even though they too will be old someday. I thought to myself: I don’t want to be like the ignorant people. After that, I couldn’t feel the usual intoxication with youth anymore (Boeree).” Soon after he saw the sufferings of the world, he

Buddhism stands as a philosophy and a religion founding itself on the theory of a possible eternal soul. Until awakening is achieved, this eternal soul is locked in the vicious cycle of rebirth (Samsara). According to the Four Noble Truths preached by the Buddha, life is a perpetual suffering caused by desire and attachment, and freedom from suffering is only possible by practicing the Eightfold Path. The World is suffering in a succession of temptations and negative experiences from birth to death. Therefore Buddhism advises on searching to go beyond suffering, and only aspire to rest, nothingness, and liberation, into a final state called Nirvana. Happiness or Nirvana can eventually be achieved in a hereafter, another life, if man abandons any desire or perspective of action within his present life, in order to go past suffering.