Buddhist meditation

religions in detail. Before discussing the similarities and differences in these religions, it is essential to have an understanding of the main beliefs of both religions. Buddhism can be seen as a religions of practice rather than a religion of faith. Buddhist basically follow in the practices of the Buddha to ultimately achieve Nirvana. Buddhism revolves around 4 noble truths. The 4 Noble Truths pretty much say that there is suffering in this world and it is caused from attachment. The only…

The strictly issue of Meat-eating in Buddhism According to steven (), there are some few texts which discussed about the Buddhist point of view in eating meat. It is indeed obvious that Buddhism does not encourage eating meat in accordance to its beliefs regarding karma and virtue such as compassion and non-violence to all living beings jayaram, 1999. Tracing back to Buddha’s history, the Buddha did neither want his disciples to kill animals and to feel them nor insist his followers to keep…

The Human Shaped Bubble: Exploring Your Potential If you’ve read some of my past articles discussing meditations based on Tibetan Buddhist Tantric practices, specifically the role modeling or healing mentor meditation practice, I use Loizzo’s notion of a human shaped bubble emerging after dissolving the ordinary body during this guided meditation practice. This dissolution of the body and reemergence as embodied openness (human shaped bubble) allows for the meditator to completely change their…

The man replied, “ I am meditating. Meditation is a conscious effort to change how the mind works.” Interested, the Confucian sat with the man. The man informed him, “I am a Buddhist monk.” The Confucian told the monk, “I have had heard about the Buddhists, when I traveled through India.” As they were conversing, another man happened upon them. He told them, “I overheard you speaking about your faiths.…

The Journey to Peace Buddhists find inner peace when their values are respected. They find peace by knowing they found the most happiness possible by the end of their lifespan, which is impacted by meditation. Buddhists values are heavily focused on positive lifestyles, that require little or no karma at all. Some actions that are prohibited in Buddhism are: killing living things, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, lying, and using drugs or alcohol. These actions are prohibited because…

different, but they do indeed share beliefs and different type of worship ideals, “For Buddhist and Hindus enlightenment in its simplest definition, is the ultimate release from the cycle of samsara, or the cycle of birth, death and rebirth” (Wagner, 2001). ” Both Hindus and Buddhist believe in reincarnation, but they differ in that Buddhist believe there are many different paths to enlightenment. Buddhist and Hindus also both believe that our suffering…

strict beliefs of Confucius. There are two kind of Buddhism, the Theravada Buddhist have strict meditation and reading of teachings of Buddha. This kind of Buddhism is most popular in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. The kind of Buddhism that is most popular in China is Mahayana Buddhism, where believers compare the teachings of Buddha as more abstract and they also accept Amitabha a contemporary Buddha but the Theravada Buddhists don’t expect.…

livelihood. For a person or disciple to achieve right speech they must watch their words they use and seek to avoid deceptive and uncharitable speech. In Right speech, the disciple should not tell lies and “refrain from using abusive speech.” The Buddhist see idle chatter and gossip as bad and they see it as a waste of time. When people have idle chatter, they don’t really ever say anything to each other most just say hi and continue with their day, if you do have a conversation with someone…

Being a Buddhist is a quest to discover and put these methods into practice and constantly strive to develop and grow within. For instance, a commonly heard benefit of the practice of Buddhism is that it leads to a strange feeling of both calm and excitement at the…

A Day in the Life of a Buddhist Monk in Korea, This girl wrote an article how she went a day with the Buddhist at the Beomeosa Temple in Busan, South Korea. When she got there around 1 pm with other foreigners, all of them immediately changed into their monk clothes. Consisted of a vest and baggy sweats designed specially for sitting “Indian style” when they will do meditation time. Had to learn few “temple manners,” like proper way to bow, whom to bow to, where to bow, how many times to bow,…