Could i please get help answering these 10 questions about buddhism?

Question

These questions are for my education class. Please only respond if you are a buddhist or have studied it intensively.
1. what is the value of religion in your family?
2. are there stereotypes you have learned in your family about other religions?
3. are there things about other religions you are envious of?
4. are there things about other religions that are offensive to you or your religion?
5. what is the ultimate goal for followers of Buddhism?
6. do you think Buddhism is similar to any other religion today?
7. how are children taught today about buddhism?
8. if you could change one thing about your religion, what would it be?
9. do you consider yourself a religious person?
10. what is one thing that separates Buddhism from anyother religion in the world?

Answer 1

I'd be happy to answer your questions. Note that as nearly all of the questions are subjective, you're sure to get many varied answers.

"1. what is the value of religion in your family?"

True Buddhism is not a religion, per se, but rather a way of life. Buddhism itself has no "value" to a family, but is instead present in all family activities (both grand and minute) and is integrated in such a way as to cause a difficulty in distinguishing between family life and Buddhism.

"2. are there stereotypes you have learned in your family about other religions?"

No. Stereotypes are not taught in Buddhism.

"3. are there things about other religions you are envious of?"

No.

"4. are there things about other religions that are offensive to you or your religion?"

No, though I consider the hate practiced by some *practitioners* of other religions to be offensive.

"5. what is the ultimate goal for followers of Buddhism?"

To be able to see through the world of maya ("illusion") and attain Enlightenment.

"6. do you think Buddhism is similar to any other religion today?"

Yes. All religions are similar to eachother. They are bound together by common themes and mythologies.

"7. how are children taught today about buddhism?"

In general, I don't believe they are (at least in America).

"8. if you could change one thing about your religion, what would it be?"

There is nothing to change.

"9. do you consider yourself a religious person?"

No. That is not the "goal" of Buddhism.

"10. what is one thing that separates Buddhism from anyother religion in the world?"

The only thing that separates a religion from another is the terminology used. Nothing more.

Answer 2

I've studied it intensely, attend a couple local monasteries for ram lim and vajrasattva regularly, and consider myself "at least half Buddhist",sooo...

A lot of them don't necessarily apply to me, as, like most Western Buddhists, I wasn't raised in it and my family doesn't follow it. So I'll skip through and grab the ones that do.

3. Not really. If I were, I'd just practice them also. Buddhism allows for flexibility of belief and practice, and believes that all paths can lead to enlightenment.

4. Not really. "Offensive" certainly isn't the term I'd use. There are things done in the name of religion that make me sad.

5. Enlightenment. The knowledge--no, the realization that everything is one, and your suffering is my suffering as well. It's not easy to attain--I'm certainly not there yet.

6. It holds many similarities to almost all religions. If anything, I'd call it a sort of boiled-down essence of what other religions teach, and is much more direct. E.g., be good to others, but not because a deity says so; do it because we're all joined together, and by helping others you help yourself.

8. Nothing really.

9. No, actually. Highly spiritual, but not religious.

10. I am not positive, but I believe Buddhism is the only religion which considers all beings to be sentient, that human and animal souls are the same and we can incarnate into either, and that to kill a bug is, spiritually speaking, the same as killing a human. (Other religions hold some of these beliefs, but I think Buddhism is the only all-in-one.)

Answer 3

1.I'm Buddhist but my family is catholic but religion is held in high regard in my family .
2. i live by the noble eightfold path. so i refrain from judging or labeling.
3. not at all.
4. i don't think it's right to be prejudice against something and then hide behind religion to justify. if something is wrong then it's wrong no matter how you dress it up. i don't find it offensive but i disagree with how they claim the moral high ground.
5. to end suffering and to achieve nirvana.
6. i don't see Buddhism as a religion. it's a way of life.
7. i don't push it on my child as a religion. i lead by example and when she makes her choice, I'll support her.
8. nothing.
9. no but i consider myself a spiritual person. meaning i look for the strength within.
10. the fact that to me it's not a religion at all. it's a philosophy. a way of life.

Answer 4

1. Our religion is the most important thing in our family. Mathew 6:33.
2. Yes.
3. No.
4. Yes, for example same sex marriage.
5. It depends.
6. No
7. I don't know much about this religion.
8. Nothing.
9. Yes.
10. There is only one true god and that's Jehovah the almighty.

Answer 5

commencing with question 3, it is the actual shown actuality that your movements have outcomes, and that a destiny concepts set inhabiting a body without delay descended from the single the present you is experiencing, that provides the effect of a continuity of self, clone of a movie is honestly separate nonetheless pictures, yet they replace only slowly adequate that you discover the consistent turnover as action, likewise the body that concepts is attentive to adjustments slowly adequate that each and each and every prompt of information can develop into attentive to with those earlier, and also you get the phantasm of a self. second question, your modern-day self is suffering, and in case you do not do some thing about it, each and each and every of the destiny states of concepts that spring from a similar actual continuity will too. First question, i do not understand for constructive. The Buddha used rebirth specifically as a metaphor for each and each and every of the psychological adjustments we go through in on a daily basis life, so it is not even had to position self assurance in it to be a practising Buddhist. yet in case you look up reincarnation study on Google, you'll see some really convincing data. i imagine of the "self" as being like a whirlpool the position water flows previous a rock. that's a function, not a project, like the "self". yet now and again the eddy will develop into detached from the rock and wash downstream, and it can now and again get stuck on yet another rock, only because the function that you discover as a self can bypass on to a unique body. wish this facilitates.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

http://www.buddhanet.net/