Buddhism is a WONDERFUL Religion!!!?

Question

I've been reading up on Buddism and The history behind it. It's beautiful religion. I want to know if there are anytypes of Conversion steps involved. Im thinkin about accepting the ways of buddism. I just started doing Muay Thai and Ninjutsu, i want to take the full step of Mental Strenghtening and Physical Strenghtening

Can a black foreigner also become a Shaolin Monk?? I know it sounds like some comic book dream type of Question...But i've been dreaming about that since i was younger. I want to be in that state of mind, Peaceful and one with the world.

Answer 1

buddhism isn't a religion, and you don't get 'converted'...Buddhism depends more on understanding than faith.
In one way being a Buddhist means belonging to a particular community of people and following a path of life taught by the Buddhas (enlightened beings). Members of the Buddhist community are formally joined by taking refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma (the teaching) and the Sangha (the community of noble disciples).

To many, Buddhism goes beyond religion and is more of a philosophy or 'way of life'. It is a philosophy because philosophy 'means love of wisdom' and the Buddhist path can be summed up as:
(1) to lead a moral life,
(2) to be mindful and aware of thoughts and actions, and
(3) to develop wisdom and understanding.

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 2

Yes, if has had envisioned the inner beauty of a certaint religion you would think to join yet another one, in such a case that you would foresee a church or a mosque as a starting point to go on a Journer or an Adventure, or stay just at where you are now, and start thinking that you would extinct before you got a chance of knowing anything about whatever that had come to Mind,the Self, on a Shelter it must take a Hide on. Congratulation, may the Light give thou guidance. Happy Journey !

Answer 3

God has many Sons and Daughters under different names. Only Christ, however, gave His life to attone for the sins of the world. That does not make the others any less Sons or Daughters of God, but does put one of God's Sons, the only beGOTTEn Son, above the others.

The Catholic Church was considering naming Buddah as a prophet in the 80s I believe. I was very curious about why, so I did much investigation.

It seems that Buddah was a prince who had a very wealthy king for a father. The way I heard it, Buddah was sitting in his room thinking, and went out to his balcony. He saw the people on the other side of the wall struggling, starving, and going through much pain. He looked around at all his posessions, and realize that they would do little good to help in the long run, so he went down to the people, leaving all his royal posessions behind. He went out and lived among the people, teaching them a better way. Hmmm... does that sound familiar?

Love, Hope, & Peace,

Cal-el & Swissy

Answer 4

Buddhism is not really a "religion" it is a way of life. Many Buddhists view the Buddha as a teacher or as "the enlightened one."

To become a true Buddhist, it would take literally years (and lifetimes) of study and meditation. But good luck with it, and really study it hard, (travel) and learn all you can about it.

I love the peacefulness of Buddhism.

Answer 5

im buddhist. Its prolly the most peaceful religion.

I dont go crazy with meditation and crap but all i know is i was born a buddhist and i am proud. I also believe in stuff behind it like karma and reincarnation.

Buddhism is indeed a very good religion.

Answer 6

As a buddhist i'm tempted to assert certain yet i ought to easily favor to assert:nicely expounded is the preparation by using the blessed one,to be self-realized,come and word,the following and now ,able to being entered upon;to be attained by using the smart each and each by using himself.Sadhu 3x.

Answer 7

Ive read a lot about Buddhism and it has helped me thru some hard times. I have become a very peaceful person:)

Answer 8

It's more of a philosophy than a religion, but it is beautiful. A lot of people don't understand that you can be Buddhist and still believe in God and Jesus.

Answer 9

It's not bad as far as religions go, as long as you realize the Buddha was just a man and do not blindly accept what he said without criticising it yourself. The whole rebirth stuff is pretty damned far fetched for example.

Answer 10

There are no formal rites of initiation into Buddhism unless you become a Buddhist monk.