2007-12-11 13:46:51 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
http://www.religioustolerance.org/buddhism.htm0
"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity" A widely cited, but apparently spurious quotation attributed to Albert Einstein 1
bullet "The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances." Atisha.
bullet "If you live the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion." Lin-Chi.
2007-12-11 13:49:32 · answer #1 · answered by voice_of_reason 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/teachings.htm
http://www.uq.net.au/slsoc/bsq/basbud.htm
Basic Buddhism A Modern Introduction to the Buddha's Teaching by Dr Victor A. Gunasekara
Third Edition link above
CONTENTS
Preface to this Edition
1. Introduction to Basic Buddhism
2. The Life of the Buddha
3. The Basic Teaching of the Buddha
4. Some Cardinal Tenets of Buddhism
5. Meditation and BuddhistPractice
6. The Buddhist Attitude to God
7. The Buddhist Attitude to Man
8. Knowledge, Wisdom and Enlightenment
9. The Doctrines of Karma and Rebirth
10. Buddhist Cosmology and Nibbana
11. Buddhism and the Modern World
Appendices
1. On Becoming a Buddhist
2. The Five Precepts
3. Higher Precepts and Meditation
4. The Three Gems of Buddhism
5. Main Buddhist Tendencies in the West
6. Glossary of Pali Terms
Love & Blessings
Milly
2007-12-11 13:55:35 · answer #2 · answered by milly_1963 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the challenge with asking questions like this on Y!A is which you get colors of opinion. continually, my reccomendation to human beings is to study 'What The Buddha Taught' with the help of Walpola Rahula. that's an exceedingly reliable, uncomplicated to study, hassle-unfastened e book which could supply you an understand-how of what Buddhism is and how it got here into being. For me - and that's in basic terms my opinion - the muse of the Buddhism that I guidance is Compassion, Meditation and attempting to stay a ethical existence. yet there is plenty greater to it than that. Many libraries finished to overflowing! study the e book, then you definately'll certainly understand. Jon C Edit something we tend to not talk approximately yet which, certainly, is of user-friendly value is the actuality that this international is illusory. What we see isn't the way it truly, truly is. It even seems that a thank you to get happiness is amazingly different from what we predict of. that's in basic terms via meditation that we finally get that. J C
2016-10-02 08:33:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A book is always more thorough than a website.
2007-12-11 13:51:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I spent time in Korea as a Mormon missionary. I learn a lot of interesting things while over there. Here are a couple sources.
http://buddhism.about.com/
http://www.buddhaweb.org/
2007-12-11 14:03:13 · answer #5 · answered by Kerry 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Talk to persons who fought in the Vietnam war?
Those were all Buddhists? they got pretty cruel and vicious for a religon of peace. but these religions of peace like to blow up buildings.
find out what the countries that are Buddhist do, that is a better explanation of that religon.
In the area of Islands where they had the tidal wave? we seen buddhists guys sitting there? They sell their daughters into prostitution to the tourists. From 5 years old and up.
2007-12-11 13:53:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
http://www.thebigview.com/buddhism/
2007-12-11 13:52:02 · answer #7 · answered by Desert Lotus 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I use wikiepdia.com and it is often helpful.
Other than that I would tell you to visit a Buddist temple.
2007-12-11 19:07:37 · answer #8 · answered by barcode soul (almost suspended) 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here:
http://www.buddhanet.com/
Also try this one:
http://www.beliefnet.com/
Peace to you.
2007-12-11 13:50:05 · answer #9 · answered by Orpheus Rising 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
buddhism.org
2007-12-11 13:49:34 · answer #10 · answered by Бэлзeбот 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋