This teaching is widely and appropriately seen as supporting free inquiry and an absence of rigid dogma, an attitude entirely open to empirical verification and thus, consistent with science.
Only thus should they be accepted, but not merely out of respect for me. On balance, it seems reasonable and appropriate that Buddhism be viewed in the West as comparatively free of irrationality, superstitious belief, and stultifying tradition — but this generalization must nonetheless be taken with a grain of salt, noting that in much of the world, Buddhism involves daily ritual devotions, belief in amulets and other special charms, and even the presupposition that the man, Siddhartha Gautama, was a divine being.
There are, I regret to note, Buddhist traditions that insist on retaining an array of nonsensical hocus-pocus and abracadabra altogether at odds with any scientific tradition worthy of the name. I have no difficulty, however, describing Mr. Tenzin Gyatso born Lhamo Dondrub , as the fourteenth Dalai Lama, so long as this means that he is the fourteenth person to hold that position, in the same sense that Barack Obama is the forty-fourth president of the United States, with no implication that he is in any way the reincarnation of George Washington!
The views expressed are those of the author s and are not necessarily those of Scientific American. David P. Barash received his Ph. He was involved in the early development of sociobiology as a scientific discipline, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and professor of psychology at the University of Washington.
He has written more than peer-reviewed technical articles and has authored, co-authored or edited 36 books, most recently Buddhist Biology: ancient Eastern wisdom meets modern Western science , just published by Oxford University Press. Though these vehicle different in style and appearance, basically are made of same system of combusting engine. These god words were reflected and echoed in al l religions of the world.
We can say the Buddhism is the foundation of all religions of the world, if not the best. Now my suggestion to the Buddhist world to acknowledge the supremacy of God the unseen power, which is present in all creatures and His creation proportionately. In Buddhism, It is a great sin to kill a any creature, which was kept unexplained. Now we understand that there is God in all of His creation, the life and the force of unseen God!
So if you are a good buyer of a car you certainly look for the latest model. I prefer this when Go to buy something. In my research, I have picked up some miscellaneous matter as to why the Muslims and many Christian do not eat Pork.
My presumption is that as Gaotama the Buddha died of a serious disease after eating a meal cocked with pork offered by a low cast Hindu. The similarity plazarism. I have comments, I am stopping here, because I have no time. Babasaheb Ambedkar. If people worship him, pray him…. This is the most accurate compilation about the life of Buddha and his teachings His Dhamm.
Now to know the difference and details about this information… read the book and know yourself. I think Shikkhism has no future scope my dear brother. I do not see any single person also who converted to sikkhism from any other religion. It is constant in stage.
Any religion whose rituals or thoughts binds a man with obligations that will have no future scope. In Sikkhism you can not cut your beard and you have to wear Pagadi everyday, always.
Which makes you different than others and you do not look similar to all others. Most of people who respect human freedom they deny these like rituals. In Islam also there are so much obligations for human to follow.
They can not marry with other religion people. During these months they can not live normally as like other people. And this reduces their performance in school, college, workplace etc. Only Buddhism give you freedom to think, to wear clothes, to act, to work according to yours wish and it guides your life and your thoughts with the great teachings of a great teacher.
Buddhism has a great future ahead. Most of Christians are converting themselves in Buddhism. See videos related to Buddhism on youtube you will see lots of monks are there were earlier Christians. Buddhism is pure, honest, scientifically approved and great religion for all human beings. And it must be given best religion of award if any award ceremony happens. Thank you. I hate to tell you this, but Islam is growing the fastest of all religions, and the number of converts is astounding.
The door to being a Sikh is wide open, but it is not being followed by many. Most Indian religions targeting Sikki and Hinduism , although not technically linked to ethnicity such as Judaism or Druze, often have an insular component. I am sure that if they advertised, they would find willing converts. Secondly, there is the ethnic issue. To our ears, this sounds so over the top that it is almost amusing, but to a kid who earnestly believes that these monks have hidden knowledge of the karmic cycle, it is devastating.
She was convinced that her soul was polluted and irretrievably flawed, and that nothing she could do would allow her to ever learn like the people around her. And this is the dark side of karma — instead of misfortunes in life being bad things that happen to you, they are manifestations of a deep and fundamental wrongness within you.
Children have a hard enough time keeping up their self-esteem as it is without every botched homework being a sign of lurking inner evil. As crippling as the weight of one's past lives can be, however, it is nothing compared to the horrors of the here and now.
Buddhism's inheritance from Hinduism is the notion of existence as a painful continuous failure to negate itself. The wheel of reincarnation rumbles ruthlessly over us all, forcing us to live again and again in this horrid world until we get it right and learn to not exist.
I remember one of the higher monks at the school giving a speech in which she described coming back from a near-death experience as comparable to having to "return to a sewer where you do nothing but subsist on human excrement.
It is something to be Finally Escaped. Now, there are legitimate philosophical reasons for holding to this view. Viewed from a certain perspective, the destruction of everything you've ever cared about is inevitable, and when it's being experienced, the pain of loss does not seem recompensed by the joy of attachment that preceded it.
And that yawning stretch of impermanence outside, so the argument goes, is mirrored by the fundamental non-existence of the self inside. Meditation, properly done, allows you to strip away, one by one, all of your merely personal traits and achieve insight into the basic nothingness, the attributeless primal nature, of your existence.
Those are all interesting philosophical and psychological insights, and good can come of them. Being hyper-sensitive to suffering and injustice is a good gateway to being helpful to your fellow man and in general making the world a better place. There is something dreadfully tragic about believing yourself to have somehow failed your calling whenever joy manages to creep into your life. It is in our biology, in the fabric of us, to connect to other human beings, and anything which tries to insert shame and doubt into that instinct is bound to always twist us every so slightly.
If the thought, "I am happy right now", can never occur without an accompanying, "And I am just delaying my ultimate fulfillment in being so", then what, essentially, has life become?
I've seen it in action — people reaching out for connection, and then pulling back reflexively, forever caught in a life of half-gestures that can't ever quite settle down to pure contemplation or gain a moment of genuine absolute enjoyment. The usual response that I've gotten to these concerns is, "You're sacrificing truth and wisdom for the sake of feeling good.
That's just what you criticise Christianity for, isn't it? There are two central claims here: that our own fundamental essence is non-existence, and that the nature of the outer world is impermanence. The idea of the void-essence of self is one arrived at through meditation, through exercises in reflection dictated by centuries of tradition.
That's enough to give us pause right there — it's not really a process of self-discovery if you're told the method, the steps, and the only acceptable conclusion before you've even begun. Here's the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama on how to start a meditation:.
Place your hands in the position of meditative equipoise, four finger widths below the navel, with the left hand on the bottom, right hand on top, and your thumbs touching to form a triangle. This placement of the hands has connection with the place inside the body where inner heat is generated.
This is already an unpromising start — if you aren't even allowed variation in the number of sub-navel finger widths for hand placement, how can we hope to be allowed to even slightly differ on the supposed object of inner contemplation?
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