what are the teachings of buddhism?

Answer 1

The four basic precepts of buddhism, also called the Four Noble Truths, are pretty simple:

1. There is suffering in life for all people.

2. The fundamental cause of all human suffering is our futile effort to cling to people or things that are not permanent... all things pass.

3. We can eliminate our suffering by learning not to desire and cling to that which is impermanent.

4. There is a path that teaches us how to do this, called "The Eightfold Path."

Answer 2

That is a very open question and a few have given beautiful answers to the heart of the teachings. If you are asking what the actual teachings are, there are many. Every time the Buddha spoke after his enlightenment, this was considered a teaching. Some of the more important and familiar are:
*The Four Noble Truths- dealing with suffering
*The Noble Eightfold Path-path to escape suffering
*The Two Truths-realitive truth & ultimate truth
*The Three Dharma Seals-impermanace, nonself, and nirvana
*The Three Doors of Liberation-emptiness,signlessness,aimlessness
*The Three Jewels- Buddha, Dharma, Sangha

There were many discources by the Buddha as well many of which can be found at buddanet. Good luck with your question.
Metta

Answer 3

Buddhism teach you to learn, to observe, to develop wisdom and compassion but you don't have to learn from buddhism itself, you can learn from other religion, philospohy, thoughts. Buddhism teach you to always seek the truth, to question and doubt what you think is truth even if its the buddhism's teaching itself.

Answer 4

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/pathmaps.htm <<< buddhism basic

Simply speaking, this is to avoid harming others and to help them as much as possible. Another way of expressing this is, Abandon negative action; create perfect virtue; subdue your own mind. This is the teaching of the Buddha. By abandoning negative actions (killing, etc.) and destructive motivations (anger, attachment, close-mindedness, etc.), we stop harming ourselves and others. By creating perfect virtue, we develop beneficial attitudes, like impartial love and compassion, and do actions motivated by these thoughts. By subduing our mind, we cut away all false projections, thus making ourselves calm and peaceful by understanding reality.

The essence of Buddha’s teachings is also contained in the three principles of the path: definite emergence, the dedicated heart and wisdom realizing emptiness. Initially, we seek definitely to emerge from the confusion of our problems and their causes. Then, we see that other people also have problems, and with love and compassion, we dedicate our heart to becoming a Buddha so that we are capable of helping others extensively. In order to do this, we develop the wisdom understanding the real nature of ourselves and other phenomena.

Answer 5

Like all spiritual teachings, they become quickly corrupted by men who call themselves priests and clergy. In the time of the Buddha, the religion that he opposed was Hinduism. And in the same way that Jesus opposed the priests and clergy of his time, the Buddha opposed the priests and clergy of his. What he taught was that if you get control of the mind -- free it from the shackles of this world -- and seek within yourself -- that you will find an inner door to the greater you (see http://GateOfEden.com . And this is a Universal Truth that few people understand.