BUDDHISM

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BUDDHISM
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TID BITS

• Began in India 500 years B.C.
• People had become disillusioned with other
  beliefs such as Hinduism.
• 376 million worldwide

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Buddha

• Buddhisms founder
• Means Enlightened One
• Story of stay at home or travel the country
  (India).
• During this time he saw pain, death, poverty,
  and old age.
• Known as the Great Renunciation

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Buddha

• He began meditating on these things under a fig
  tree.
• During this time he supposedly reached Nirvana.
• Stayed there for seven days and night under the
  tree of wisdom.
• Buddha later died at the age of 80
• However he left behind the beliefs of Buddhism.

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Four Noble Truths

• 1) Existence of suffering Birth is painful, and
  death is painful disease and old age are
  painful. Not having what we desire is painful,
  and having what we do not desire is also painful.

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Four Noble Truths

• 2) Cause of Suffering- It is the craving desire
  for the pleasures of the senses, which seeks
  satisfaction now here, now there the craving for
  happiness and prosperity in this life and in
  future lives.

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Four Noble Truths

• 3) Ending of Suffering- To be free of suffering
  one must give up, get rid of, extinguish this
  very craving, so that no passion and no desire
  remain.

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Four Noble Truths

• This leads to the end of all pain by way of the
  eightfold path.

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Eightfold Path

• 1) Right views- you must accept the 4 noble
  truths and the eightfold path.
• 2) Right resolve- you must renounce the pleasures
  of the senses you must harbor no ill will toward
  anyone and harm no living creature.
• 3) Right speech- do not lie do not slander or
  abuse anyone. Do not indulge in idle talk.

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Eightfold Path

• 4) Right Behavior- Do not destroy any living
  creature take only what is given to you do not
  commit any unlawful sex act.
• 5) Right Occupation- You must earn your
  livelihood in a way that will harm no one.
• 6) Right Effort- You must resole and strive
  heroically to prevent any evil qualities from
  arising in you and to abandon any evil qualities
  that you may possess.

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Eightfold Path

• 6) (Continued) Strive to acquire good qualities
  and encourage those you do pocess to grow,
  increase, and be perfected.
• 7) Right Contemplation Be observant, strenuous,
  alert, contemplative, free of desire and of
  sorrow.
• 8) Right Meditation When you have abandoned all
  sensuous pleasures,

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Eightfold Path

• 8) (Continued) all evil qualities, both joy and
  sorrow, you must then enter the four degrees of
  meditation, which are produced by concentration.

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Sacred Scriptures

• The Three Baskets
• Contains rules for highest class of Buddhists,
  the discourses of Buddha, and Buddhist theology.
• Nirvana- Almost impossible to define but is
  basically a blissful spiritual condition where
  the heart extinguishes passion, hatred, and
  delusion. It is the highest spiritual condition
  on can attain (Handbook 322).

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After Death

• To Buddhism, however, death is not the end of
  life, it is merely the end of the body we inhabit
  in this life, but our spirit will still remain
  and seek out through the need of attachment,
  attachment to a new body and new life.

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After Death

• Where they will be born is a result of the past
  and the accumulation of positive and negative
  action, and the resultant karma (cause and
  effect) is a result of ones past actions.

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After Death

• This would lead to the person to be reborn in
  one of 6 realms which are heaven, human beings,
  Asura, hungry ghost, animal and hell.  Realms,
  according to the severity of ones karmic actions,
  Buddhists believe however, none of these places
  are permanent and one does not remain in any
  place indefinitely.

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After Death

• So we can say that in Buddhism, life does not
  end, merely goes on in other forms that are the
  result of accumulated karma. Buddhism is a belief
  that emphasizes the impermanence of lives,
  including all those beyond the present life. 
  With this in mind we should not fear death as it
  will lead to rebirth.
• http//www.urbandharma.org/udharma5/viewdeath.html
  

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