2007-10-28 15:44:51 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Based on all the statues of him that I have ever seen....
Good food and lots of it.
He actually had a great many excellent points of philosophy, but he wasn't exactly the embodiment of self-denial.
2007-10-28 15:53:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buddhism as taught by Gautama Buddha, its founder, does not involve any deity at all. It teaches that living souls are reincarnated at death into another life, according to their merits, until they reach Enlightenment. The Buddha developed a way of purposefully pacing one's spiritual development in order to make steady progress toward enlightenment. The enlightened soul, at death, does not have to be reincarnated anymore, but lives in bliss forever. However, some enlightened souls choose to return to an earthly life in order to help others.
2007-10-28 15:52:48 · answer #2 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Buddha often emphasized the characteristics of a good friend. He spoke about a good friend as one who gives a kind of happiness based on knowing our interconnectedness, and that learning to be a friend to ourselves and being one to others is really the same thing.
2007-10-30 20:10:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/footsteps.htm
2007-10-28 15:49:49 · answer #4 · answered by S K 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋