How true is Buddha?
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I never said these were my beliefs, just the Buddha's beliefs, and I don't have a strong understanding of what shaped these events. I will try and find out why Birth and Aging are suffering, and why the cycle of life is viewed as suffering if one enjoys life. I'll get back to you sometime next week, or possibly sooner.
Saint said:
All people live forever, it is impossible to die. Only the body must be replaced when it gets damaged or too old. After your body dies, you will return to earth with a new body because of your karma (relations with people). The body is like clothes. When they get old, you discard them and get new one's
hapsburg, yr so funny
Siddhartha Gautama wasn't fat. In fact, before he reached enlightenment he is said to have been an ascetic.Hapsburg said:
The image you're thinking of is not Siddhartha but Hotei also known as Pu-Tai (meaning cloth sack) and is an image of Maitreya the future Buddha. The large belly on the image of the Laughing Buddha is symbolic of the largeness of his soul. It is also symbolic of prosperity, tolerance, luck, happiness, and generosity. Hotei's sack is supposed to contain an endless supply of rice plants, candy for children, food for the hungry, kinda like Santa Claus; or the woes of the world.
~Raithere
Well think of it like the reincarnation. You leave this body to go onto another one, or another type of being. Your existence and name will end, but your "life" keeps going.Saint said:
Yorda said:All people live forever, it is impossible to die. Only the body must be replaced when it gets damaged or too old. After your body dies, you will return to earth with a new body because of your karma (relations with people). The body is like clothes. When they get old, you discard them and get new one's
hapsburg, yr so funny
you know you are more funny!
If you believe you are just a body you will live life beleiving you are doomed to death and oblivion.
If you believe you are a being who has a body but who is not a body you may believe instead in the continuation of life in some form or another (depending on religion / philosophy).
At the end of their lives they will both either live or die according to the truth of the matter.
Who has led the richer life?
If you believe you are a being who has a body but who is not a body you may believe instead in the continuation of life in some form or another (depending on religion / philosophy).
At the end of their lives they will both either live or die according to the truth of the matter.
Who has led the richer life?
Not precisely, Yorda, The Buddha's realization was about everything being directly connected, everything is one, and self is an illusion, so self doesn't simply go through amnesia and occupy another body, it's more of a big picture, like the tree of life. You were never in another body, the thing you call you is a one time deal. But, since everything is one, our ideas, our culture, our understanding or lack of it is inherited. There is a continuous transition between self and other, through the birth process. In a sense it's all one body that gets renewed over and over.
Reincarnation isn't an article of faith, but an implication of the essential truth that enlightenment reveals, that of all forms being a temporal manifestation of one thing. Want to know about your past life? Study human history.
Buddha said life is suffering to counteract the idea that there is an existential problem in the fact that there is suffering in the world. The capacity to suffer, and the capacity to enjoy life both come from the same source, sensitivity. You can't have one without the other. But, most suffering isn't physical, it's mental, and that's what the Buddha's teaching works on.
Reincarnation isn't an article of faith, but an implication of the essential truth that enlightenment reveals, that of all forms being a temporal manifestation of one thing. Want to know about your past life? Study human history.
Buddha said life is suffering to counteract the idea that there is an existential problem in the fact that there is suffering in the world. The capacity to suffer, and the capacity to enjoy life both come from the same source, sensitivity. You can't have one without the other. But, most suffering isn't physical, it's mental, and that's what the Buddha's teaching works on.
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