星期三, 十二月 14, 2005

Buddhism misunderstanding

Buddhism is not a religion, i repeat.. Buddhism is NOT A RELIGION!!!! But it is teaching to correct people behavior and let us to discover the truth of universe and humanity 宇宙人生观. It just like Confucianism.... Everyone is future buddha, no matter you are christian, muslim, jews and so on... Because buddha is not a god-like creature, but he or she is a person who enlightened...

Does god exist in buddhism view?? Certainly. But you should know a thing the god in buddhism is totally different with other religion, because buddhism is generally regarded as a non-theistic "religion". Although it does teach the existence of “gods” (devas), these are merely heavenly beings who temporarily dwell in celestial worlds of great happiness. Such beings, however, are not eternal in that incarnational form and are subject to death and eventual rebirth into lower realms of existence.

In buddhism prospect, the creation of the universe is more pointed to the interconnected causes and effects rather than a work of a divine agent. But just REMEMBER!!!! Buddhism is not reject any religion teaching, because all religion are equal and actually came from a source.... I am not promoting buddhism, but wanna correct the misconception of buddhism from other people. The main teaching of buddhism recommended that a certain lifestyle or path be followed which consists of:

Right Understanding
Right Thought
Right Speech
Right Action
Right Livelihood
Right Effort
Right Mindfulness
Right Concentration

2 条评论:

okaywhy 说...

Buddhism is not easy to be understood. It isn't really 'user-friendly' in that sense. So, it's not surprising that the buddhists tend to distort or mispractise the teaching of Buddha.

I recommend a good source of Buddhism in the intellectual point of view - Wikipedia: Buddhism

Kaito Liew 说...

Thanks for your comment, okaywhy. But, anyway, western interpretation toward buddhism is also not completely correct. As a buddhist, we are responsible to correct people's misconception. You are right, buddhism is hard to understand since our wisdom is limited and blinded by those poisons from our environment.