who is Buddhism?

Question

hey every friends am your friends nice to meet you, i love buddhist very much they are so nice and very peaceful religion i love buddhist

buddhist is me

Answer 1

namo amitofo!

Answer 2

A Buddhist follows the four noble truths, the eight fold path, the 10 precepts, and meditates.

I do Zen 6 days a week but I am NOT Buddhist.

Answer 3

Tibetan Buddhist here, Gelug lineage.

PeaceC obviously you have no concept of the terminology within Buddhism because you're taking it all out of proportion. Once you've studied Buddhism from within and actually understand the terms you're bandying about, like your incorrect use of freedom from suffering and "pleasure", then I invite you to TRY to refute it.

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Answer 4

IV PHILOSOPHY OF BUDDHISM IS SELF – CONTRADICTORY:

As mentioned earlier, the main teachings of Buddhism are summarised in the Four Noble Truths:

(i) There is suffering and misery in life.

(ii) The cause of suffering and misery is desire.

(iii) Suffering and misery can be removed by removing desire.

(iv) Desire can be removed by following the Eight Fold Path.

This Philosophy of Buddhism is self-contradictory or self-defeating because the third truth says ‘suffering and misery can be removed by removing desire’ and the fourth truth says that 'desire can be removed by following the Eight Fold Path'.

Now, for any person to follow Buddhism he should first have the desire to follow the Four Noble Truths and the Eight Fold Path. The Third great Noble Truth says that desire should be removed. Once you remove desire, how can we follow the Fourth Noble truth i.e. follow the Eight Fold Path unless we have a desire to follow the Eight Fold Path. In short desire can only be removed by having a desire to follow the Eight Fold Path. If you do not follow the Eight Fold Path, desire cannot be removed. It is self contradicting as well as self-defeating to say that desire will only be removed by continuously having a desire.

V CONCEPT OF GOD

Buddha was silent about the existence or non-existence of God. It may be that since India was drowned in idol worship and anthropomorphism that a sudden step to monotheism would have been drastic and hence Buddha may have chosen to remain silent on the issue of God. He did not deny the existence of God. Buddha was once asked by a disciple whether God exists? He refused to reply. When pressed, he said that if you are suffering from a stomach ache would you concentrate on relieving the pain or studying the prescription of the physician. "It is not my business or yours to find out whether there is God – our business is to remove the sufferings of the world".

Buddhism provided Dhamma or the ‘impersonal law’ in place of God. However this could not satisfy the craving of human beings and the religion of self-help had to be converted into a religion of promise and hope. The Hinayana sect could not hold out any promise of external help to the people. The Mahayana sect taught that Buddha’s watchful and compassionate eyes are on all miserable beings, thus making a God out of Buddha. Many scholars consider the evolution of God within Buddhism as an effect of Hinduism.


Many Buddhists adopted the local god and thus the religion of ‘No-God’ was transformed into the religion of ‘Many-Gods’ – big and small, strong and weak and male and female. The ‘Man-God’ appears on earth in human form and incarnates from time to time. Buddha was against the caste-system prevalent in the Hindu society.

Answer 5

What happened to you now? Buddhism is there since 3000 years..
Study and learn about Buddhism... It is not a fun loving religion and tolerant to the maximum....

Answer 6

Hey, NICE to meet you too,

yeah, Buddhism is great .

if you want to learn more about Buddhism visit

http://www.metta.lk

Answer 7

I am too, and I agree with you. Buddhism is a very peaceful philosophy

Answer 8

I AM A BUDDHIST

BUDDHISM IS NOT A RELIGION
ITS ALL BASED ON PROPER UNDERSTANDING.
Buddhism is a kind of Philosophy.
Please read the Thripitaka at http://www.metta.lk to find out.
You can also read articles on metaphysics.

Email me: [e-mail]

Answer 9

you should have first learned how to differentiate Buddha, Buddhism and Buddhist before you post

Answer 10

Congrats !