To be Buddhist is to follow the path laid out by Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha), emphasizing the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path to achieve enlightenment (awakening) and liberation from suffering and the cycle of rebirth (samsara). Key practices include meditation, cultivating compassion, and living ethically according to precepts like refraining from harming, stealing, and lying.
Core Teachings
The Four Noble Truths:
Dukkha (suffering): Life involves suffering, unease, and dissatisfaction.
The Origin of Suffering: Suffering arises from craving, attachment, and desire.
The Cessation of Suffering: It is possible to end suffering.
The Path to End Suffering: The Noble Eightfold Path provides the way to end suffering.
The Noble Eightfold Path: This is the "Middle Way" that leads to awakening and includes right understanding, thought, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration.
Karma and Rebirth: Buddhists believe in a cycle of life, death, and rebirth called samsara, which is influenced by one's past actions (karma). The ultimate goal is to break free from this cycle.
Key Practices and Beliefs
Meditation: A core practice to develop wisdom, clarity, and insight into the nature of reality.
Ethical Conduct: Adhering to guidelines such as refraining from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, false speech, and intoxicants.
Compassion: Cultivating goodwill and friendship towards all living beings.
Enlightenment (Nirvana): The ultimate goal is to reach a state of profound wisdom, peace, and liberation from suffering and the cycle of rebirth.
What Being a Buddhist Means
Being a Buddhist is not just about intellectual understanding or ritual but about experiential practice and self-discovery. It involves incorporating the Buddha's teachings into daily life to cultivate inner peace, compassion, and wisdom.
So what do these guys do here..
Dukkha (suffering): Life involves suffering, unease, and dissatisfaction.
The Origin of Suffering: Suffering arises from craving, attachment, and desire.
The Cessation of Suffering: It is possible to end suffering.
The Path to End Suffering: The Noble Eightfold Path provides the way to end suffering.
Where's this suffering comes from.. like.. wtf with these guys, eh? Like why do they need this buddha guy? So what do they do about homeless people.. they go.. oh you can just come live at my place. Meanwhile they're like meth fentanyl zombies standing there hunched down in the street. lol. Or you give them 20 bucks and it's gone in 2 hours and they're hungry in a few hours later. Those are not solutions.
a) Buddha/bheudh - "be aware, make aware"... https://www.etymonline.com/word/Buddha
b) Awareness requires ones analytical mind...others suggest buddhism to tempt ones mind into a consensus, within which each member becomes a buddhist. Member/memory implies a synthetic mind...
-ism (suggestion) + -ist (consent) imply a contract/covenant/pact that binds ones free will of choice, hence making one unaware.
c) A buddhist ignores buddha by consenting to buddhism...as suggested by someone that wasn't buddha.
d) All perceivable generating each ones perception implies buddha giving awareness. Ones consent to any suggestion of another implies ones lack of awareness aka "In Buddhism, the opposite of a Buddha is often considered to be an "unawakened" person or someone who has not attained enlightenment."
a) IN (within) VOLVERE (to roll). Nature utilizes linear progression to separate each being within from one another... few suggest fiction to roll many into a consensus.
Rock & Roll aka rocking free will of choice with suggested information from one side to another, which rolls whoever consents into circular logic within self; while turning into conflicts of reason against one another.
b) Suffer aka sub (under) bher (to carry)...whatever one carries becomes a burden upon self, dragging on under.
Being (life) implies in-between over (inception) and under (death), hence being passed down (dying), while struggling to rise up (living). Neither the infant; nor the elderly has the potential to carry anything...only during the process of adulteration has one enough potential to temporary hold onto...letting go thereof represents the struggle of temptation aka the need to resist want.