What are some of the fundamental differences you perceived? Besides the fact that Hinduism has no founder, and Siddhartha Gautama being the founder of Buddhism, a big difference between the two is that Hinduism is more spiritually directed but Buddhism is more focused on the practice. Also, the final destination for Hindu’s is a spiritual ending, but Buddhists, since they believe in life being an illusion, believe in the final ending is a void. Hindu’s also believe everyone has an atman, a soul, where as Buddhists believe there is no
“When understanding relationship btw atman and Brahman, moksha achieved. Reincarnation is needed. Karma follows from one reincarnation to another. Karma influences specific life circumstances.” The Buddhist oppose to the idea of god in Hinduism. Siddhartha found out that every living thing inevitable sufferings.
This statement frightens me personally because we are actively passing this mentality of selfishness to our future generations. We will, ultimately, destroy ourselves and the environment around us with this vicious cycle. An example of this cycle applied to our own well-being is obesity. We have the means to be healthy but continue the cycle of possession, greed, and inability to be content and destroy our body from the inside out. If we can end this cycle with small things -- such as meaningless possessions, we should be able to apply them to the things that will make the biggest impact on our future -- like Global warming.
It makes you think of satanism, or the KKK. Religion on the other hand makes you think of God, a temple, purity, or prayer. Anything spiritual and of good teachings. To others outside our culture, they all mean the same thing when translated to their language and culture. However, obviously, in our culture, there are very distinct differences between them.
It explains where our selfish habits come from. Suffering is caused by cravings. Buddhist doctrine does not teach that all things people desire for are wrong. The word craving in Sanskrit is translated as “trsna” which does not include the all desires, it only includes the desires and addictions that create a negative impact on life. The Buddha gave the example of a fire when he taught of the Second Noble Truth, because craving spreads, just as fire does, from one thing to another without ever being satisfied.
Mesopotamia and Egypt had their respective differences and similarities, such similarities include belief in gods, the afterlife, and hereditary leaders and the differences contrasting the two consist of the way they saw the gods, burial method, the way the priest were held, and the laws and taxation. Both civilizations shared similar beliefs in their religious structure about gods and what to expect in the “afterlife.” There were also some very different views about the role of priests. The two civilizations strongly believed that gods ruled their world, but Mesopotamians thought the gods in each of their “city-states” were angry and they feared the gods. The Egyptians thought very highly of their gods and believed that they controlled nature and created harmony and prosperity. Each civilization perceived the great floods is an example of their polytheistic beliefs: Mesopotamians thought the flooding and calamity was punishment, while Egyptians thought it was a sign that the gods were looking down on them and the water would make the land more fertile for farming.
The Second Noble Truth is that craving causes all suffering. When we look at psychological suffering, it is easy to see how craving causes it. When we want something but are unable to get it, we feel frustrated. When we expect someone to live up to our expectation and he or she do not, we feel let down and disappointed. When we want others to like us and they don't, we feel hurt.
Peck considers the notion of romantic love to be a myth, and a very destructive one at that. According to Peck, true love is "extending one's ego boundaries to include another." So in laments terms, Peck is admitting that love is effort. Peck also states that love does not exist as a feeling, but as an investment. The Third and final section of The
It is evil, and unfortunately it is something that deep down all of us human beings crave. “Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.” (Buddha) Envy is an insatiable desire; People who are envious resent another person that has something they perceive themselves as lacking, and wish the other person to be deprived of it. Looks at envy in the form of a deadly sin people who are envious are punished because they have gained sinful pleasure from seeing others misfortune. Power smiles upon those who obtain it and will cast aside and use those who do not, people in the quest for absolute power will rip people down and stomp on them, to stop them from being a threat to their power.
They have an extraordinarily long but rather strange and strained relationship that is over many years even to that of Christianity and Judaism. The Buddha is a descendant of Hindu so as Jesus of a Jewish family. However, others still don not believe that the Buddha was a member of the Hindu pantheon, also a child born of a Hinduism family. Such an approach is unacceptable to many Buddhists. However, it is clear that Buddha gained fame, popularity as most of the Indian origin viewed it as a rescuer from the oppression of tradition and orthodoxy.