How do contemporary Buddhist practices reflect the foundations of the religion?

Answer 1

buddhism is not a mere philosophy and/or religion, but as a way of life, and to reflect upon the contemplative life and the difficulties of living mindfully, especially with an emphasis for lay persons practicing Buddhadhamma-Vinaya as a way of life.

buddhism is dedicated to supporting compassionate, charitable, humanitarian, non-political causes.
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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

1.)Everything in the contemporary dojo should be the same as the foundations.
2.)Everything outside of the contemporary dojo is subject to the circumstances of contemporary times. The lessons of the foundations are accessed through immediate, personal experience-through contemporary experiences.

Example-
1.) In a dojo.
A contemporary practitioner does zazen (sitting meditation) the same way the Buddha did.
2.)Outside of a dojo.
In contemporary times, a student can get answers for her homework using the Internet. Meanwhile, a practitioner can help that girl to understand the foundations of Buddhist practice, in a contemporary way by using the Internet. In the times when the foundations were being laid, there was no Internet. Once again, the lessons of the foundations are accessed through immediate, personal experience-through contemporary experiences.

Answer 3

I am not qualified to answer the question but I find Buddhism to be fascinating.

When I have a questioon about Buddhism, I go to Mirage. I see he has been here. That is good.

Answer 4

That depends on who is practicing it, Buddhism is a very personal religion...

Answer 5

Which ones hon? You've got Zen, Tibetan, Theravadan... I don't see what you're getting at. I AM a wee bit "thickheaded" today...

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