Buddhism says: "Buddha teaches by good and by evil" and "pain is part of a spiritual development"?

Question

I was seeking religion to avoid pain and evil. But if some religion like Buddhism teaches that I have to accept evil and pain in order to develop, then I feel tricked by such religion.
I prefer teaching of love and joy. I do not like teachers that bring pain and suffering! Buddhism sucks!

Answer 1

There is something to be learned from any situation that life hands you. the teaching is the same as the old cliche "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

You can't experience true joy without having experienced pain. It's unfortunate that it happens, but joy becomes meaningless without its opposite. What does good mean? Can you define it without evil? One can't exist without the other. It's yin and yang.

I encourage you to look deeper into whatever religion you choose to follow. The lesson will be similar. There is pain. It's a part of life. But you will also learn that you're not to inflict pain onto others. Practice joy, and you will receive joy. Call it karma. Call it the golden rule. Call it what you will, but it's a simple, age-old truth.

Best of luck in whatever path you choose to follow.

Answer 2

You appear to have a warped sense of Buddhism. The central tenant of Buddhism is that there is suffering in the world. But the Buddha did not bring pain and suffering; he, and true Buddhists, seek to relieve suffering. He provided the Four Noble Truths to help us realize that suffering is a part of the human condition, and he provided the Eightfold Path as a means of us working to elivate that suffering, for ourselves and for others.

Unfortunately, pain is a part of life. That isn't just a claim in Buddhism.

And if you don't like Buddhism, then do not follow the Dharma. It's really that simple my friend.

Answer 3

Yes a "very good study", weeds that are planted among the wheat not separate from the wheat, these weeds are planted by Satan and can be right among us and that's why we follow what the Bible teaches and not man and is the reason why we are so uniformed in our faith world wide. These weeds are what produces apostates and they are so easy to expose because they don't follow scriptural advise, but there are weeds that undermine us if we don't keep our eyes wide open, they bring in dissension's talk about our brothers, they are murmurous and trouble makers and very judgmental of others. Most of the time the truth changes these type of people and they put on the new personality but for those that bring in worldly actions these are weeds and we must always be on guard and not underestimate our adversary Satan the Devil. Did you know that Wycliffe and Tyndale were Catholics, Wycliffe was a priest and Tyndale was a bishop both were put to death by the Roman Catholic church and the man that murdered Tyndale was made a saint by the catholic church and a little later had a disagreement with the catholic church so they put him to death even though they had made him a saint? How any sane person can be a catholic after researching the catholic church is beyond me, they were a murderous lot that put to death anyone who disagreed with them!

Answer 4

This is not "literal pain"

Pain is part of spiritual development. i.e.
Catholosism used to use a knotted rope to beat themselves with to get closer to God - that is literal pain

Pain in a Buddist sense is not literal - i.e.
someone in your family dies - you experience pain - this allows you to grow spiritualy.

evil is present in all aspects of life & it is an acceptance that evil existists not that you must become aquainted with evil personally.

Really - you should read some books by the Dali Lama.

Buddhism is a path to enlightenment by experienceing you in the here and now. If you believe that you have not one shred of evil & pain deep within yourself - then you have not experienced another facet of buddhism - Humility.

It is important to experience & release all of the predisposed ideologies within yourself to attune yourself to the real you that resides deep within your soul. This includes Pain & Evil.

We all Have pain & evil inside & it is not a "real & literal pain" it is emotional & it is energy.

You will never find any religon or philosophical idea that will avoid pain & evil because it is inherant in the human.

Love & Joy come from an understanding.
You must deal with your pain & evil to progress to a high spiritual awareness.

Try again & read books - & stop bieng so literal.

Answer 5

Buddhism does not teach that evil is a part of spiritual development. His original teaching were so similar to that of Jesus, that some theologians believe that Jesus must have studied with the original Buddha.

Answer 6

Aleksander, Im not a Buddhist myself, but i love the teachings and lessons of Buddha

What is life without the pain and evil? Think about it: life isnt always sweet and sugar...you have the ups and the downs, the highs and the lows

So this religion has you covered when you are both happy and sad...both part of your spiritual development

And you've heard the saying 'the sweet aint as sweet without the sour': how can you realise that you are truly happy without being sad first? Its all about the balance of life

BUDDHISM ROCKS!

Answer 7

A person needs a standard of comparison in order to know anything. We must experience some sadness in order to recognise and appreciate joy. Having felt pain, (inevitable in one's lifetime), one appreciates feeling well and appreciates it. One can experience evil. But that does not mean that we condone evil nor must we sit immobile in the face of evil. Nor must we experience more evil than the irreducible amount of evil. We can experience evil and still work to lessen or stop some of it.
To do less is to withdraw from living: to cop out.
D.

Answer 8

If you burn your hand on the stove, are you going to touch it again? That's one way to learn from pain.

You have to accept evil and pain because it exists outside of yourself. you have to accept things as they are to lessen it. The Buddha isn't making the pain and evil.

By saying "Buddhism sucks!" before you understand, what good are you accomplishing?

Answer 9

I think it just means that there are lessons to be learned in every situation or state of being. I too prefer teachings of love and joy, but I think I would be doomed to repeat negative patterns if I didn't learn from bad situations.

Answer 10

If you cannot understand that without Darkness the Light doesn't exist, you are not ready for a real religion. Without the bad, good is meaningless.