if you are not buddhist tell me your reasons please?

Question

I am mexican and following buddhist lifestyle which I found a really satyisfying experience.
I am curious about you guys from India, specially you that follow a different philosophy. why don´t you follow Buddha?

Answer 1

Buddhism started in India. Buddha got his enlightenment under a tree in Gaya (in Bihar state) and the place is called BODH GAYA and the peepal tree is known as BODHI VRIKSHA. It had royal patronage at that time since Buddha came from a royal family. The religion was spread to several neighbouring Asian countries.Though it is followed in different countries it is not accepted in this country where it started.
The rituals they follow or more or less as per Hindu concepts.The basic principle is Buddhism do not accept VEDAS as base and preach Sunya theory that is Vacuum.They call that the God is a big vacuum. Whereas Hindu philosophy says God is a vibrant force with perpetual existence in blissful state. In India any theory not based on Vedas is not accepted. That is why Buddhism has to leave the country and find shelter elsewhere.

Answer 2

I am an Indian and an Iyer. Real Buddists are those who truly follow the teachings, living style of Buddha. For example, Buddha did not like anybody hurting others even by words, deeds or look. Buddha used to sympathise all the cruelity he visualised but in todays world, if Buddha existed he would be shedding tears every second for no man is ready to follow his ways of teaching.

Answer 3

I wonder why people like you still follow the religion and its rules even in this modern era. First teach every one that one is a human being. Even Buddha might have preached that all religions are equal. Let us be human beings and live like a family without the beariers of Religion etc.,. Then no one will think of even creating a atomic bomb for harmful purposes.

Answer 4

I'm not from India - but I don't follow Buddha because He didn't die for my sins and he is still in his grave. I want a living God who can forgive my sins and give me eternal life. Buddha and his teachings can't do that.

Answer 5

well well because i was born a hindu i continue to be a hindu!
btw why r u not a christian or a muslim or a hindu?!!

why be worried or be keen to convert in to some other relegion when god is one? why create these differences in the name of relegions?

all i believe is that god is one and being a good humanbeing is more important to me rather than being a humanbeing belonging to one particular relegion /race/caste.

and anyway all the principles of budhism are there in hinduisim and quite similiar too to hindusim.so no worry whether i am a budhist or a hindu?

in the end don't all relegions preach the same?

Answer 6

I eat about 10-15 lbs of beef and 10 lbs of chicken a week. I am disqualified right there.

All the Buddhists I know are awesome.

Answer 7

Just the other day I heard someone say that a Buddhist is into feeding the mind and working really hard to achieve nothingness. I thought that was just ridiculous.

I choose to serve Christ, the One who died to set me free from my own selfish life. He gives me purpose in life, I follow Him, serve others, love people, and in the end I get to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven . Sounds like a much better deal to me.

Answer 8

Because I believe that God exists and that he is one and that he is unlike his creation so none of his creation (including humans) can be him

BTW Buddhism is a very small minority religion in India
(less than 1.8% of the population)

Religions of India
Hindu 80.5%,
Muslim 13.4%,
Christian 2.3%,
Sikh 1.9%,
other 1.8%,
unspecified 0.1% (2001 census)

Also all people find satisfaction in their religion: Christians, Muslims, Jews , Hindus

Answer 9

there is in user-friendly words loving- kindness, compassion, mindfulness, correct innovations & intentions, and so on. in each and every person. we merely want to domesticate it. those strong features does no longer in user-friendly words belong to buddhists, there are various (non secular or athetists) human beings accessible who possessed those features too. merely speaking, that is to dodge harming others and to help them as a lot as conceivable. yet in a unique way of expressing that is, Abandon adverse action; create ideal distinctive feature; subdue your own innovations. that is the preparation of the Buddha. by technique of leaving in the back of inauspicious moves (killing, and so on.) and unfavourable motivations (anger, attachment, close-mindedness, and so on.), we end harming ourselves and others. by technique of coming up ideal distinctive feature, we strengthen effective attitudes, like impartial love and compassion, and do moves influenced by technique of those innovations. by technique of subduing our innovations, we decrease away all pretend projections, therefore making ourselves calm and non violent by technique of expertise truth. The essence of Buddha’s teachings is likewise contained contained in the three ideas of the direction: certain emergence, the dedicated coronary heart and expertise determining emptiness. initially, we search for surely to emerge from the confusion of our issues and their causes. Then, we see that different human beings actually have issues, and with love and compassion, we commit our coronary heart to turning out to be a Buddha so as that we are able to helping others significantly. with the intention to attempt this, we strengthen the expertise expertise the authentic nature of ourselves and different phenomena. Buddhism relies upon extra on expertise than faith.

Answer 10

I was born a vedic Hindoo, & found all the spiritual support in that religion. Hence there was no provocation to study other religions.