My family's all Christian and personally I've told them their ignorant. This Sunday I went to church with them and the whole sermon I couldn't help but think that there is self-richeous... Buddhist are peaceful and care for everything. Maybe I'm just shooting in the dark does anyone think this also :D
You have got to be fucking shitting me, Christian fucks here?! Fuck! Its not hard to hate Christianity but it's hard to not hare the ignorant people IN Christianity!
@Truewinner01 I think New Atheism has made such a big deal of the abuse of religion, many young people think that religion actually is entirely lies and abuse. Like 'If they're not terrorists, how can they be religious?' Buddhists also had such conflicts in the past, killing and torturing each other, trust me. But like Buddha, Jesus and Mohammad principally taught peace, so it's worth distinguishing real Christians and Moslems from aggresive invaders and terrorists who claim 'God is on my side'.
@Truewinner01 There are schools of Buddhism because there are meaningful differences in belief and if you choose one belief, you deny another. If you don't care, you deny both. Unless you have a teacher, and engage with the practice, the only Buddhism you'll have is one you made up. A lot of westerners say they're Buddhist because they'd rather invent a religion of hippydom than engage with reality. The cost of that is they don't learn anything new. Real Buddhism is tough work and challenging.
@Truewinner01 I'm sorry, but you're just wrong. I'm a Buddhist and all of us call ourselves that, whatever your opinion. That they hold a variety of beliefs or that they apply their beliefs to ways of life also holds in every other religion. I would add that the argument that Buddhism doesn't have a god doesn't hold because a), Buddha was explicit that the ethics of your behaviour was a matter of personal compassion, not submission to divine authority, but b) the scriptures refer to many gods.
there are boundries and simple human sanity plus happyness is about freedom and nondemanding subtrafuge. like their are certain boundries that just don't bring happiness you might be happy but the parrents of the person u killed arn't. so its about bringing PEACE and Happyness.
I dont like the fact that he calls buddhism a religion, religion comes from the latin religare, it means to re-bond, to restore the bond between us and a superior being or god... thats just my opinion... buddhism is unlike religion, philosophy or psicology. buddhism is just buddhism :) and i love it
@IALON Prayers, rituals, scripture, ethical and moral value systems, priests, temples, metaphysical models of karma and rebirth.... and it's not a religion? The latin roots of words are not as relevant as their ordinary usage. Westerners are just so stuck on the idea that all religions have a god and any other concept is too strange for them to compute. It's certainly not philosophy in the sense that naturalism or logical positivism or platonism are. Nor is it psychology like Freud or Pavlov.
@NegligentGenocide what ive learned is that even if it is recommended there are no impositions in buddhism, yes, most buddhist are vegetarian but you can be a buddhist and eat a whopper every day. Remember the improvement and the success is proportional to the commitment. Have a good day
I'd like to think that the Buddha was an incarnation of Taranis--the Celtic Thunderer--the connection is the sun-wheel. I don't think that Taranis would preach on the subject of suffering, but some of that sounds about right.
Every things that you said about the Buddha thats okay only my point is Buddha was born in NEPAL not in INDIA . if you need any things about it let me know so i will let you know about Buddha
The Universe, according to Buddha, is governed by one single umbrella law based on the science and rhythm of cause and effect, and he said that mankind could prove this.
This law which should be chanted by the human voice is called; Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.
By chanting aloud every day for at least 10 minutes, one can put oneself into perfect rhythm with the Universe, and therby gain insights, wisdom, energy, happiness and benefits that would be otherwise not be available to us.
A similarity in most religions is the concept of 'good' and 'evil'. Oftentimes, they will all tell you not to murder, not to steal, and not to cause pain and suffering. Most people don't actually read their spiritual texts or do any sort of research into their beliefs, so they do things contrary to their own faith. I see a lot of similarities between all faiths, so I'm of the mind that all of them have great truths we can learn from.
"if one suffers from phycial uglyness deformity disease or any ill fortune it is due to ones own past action" wow. good thing im an attractive helthy man i must have great "past action"
People 'suffer' because they themselves choose what causes them suffering. whilst reaching a mental state where nothing is either pleasing nor unpleasant, is great, one thing I've learned is everything is an illusion, so you might as we'll be happy and enjoy 'each and every' moment of it regardless.
There is no need for hatred towards another just because he or she does not beleive what you beleive i have been told im going to hell for being a budhist but i just take it seing that they are just irogant and if you don't respect me you will never have respect towards you. i think that whatever religion or philosphy or science or whatever brings you both happiness and a sence of peace. that is the perfect religion no matter what anyone says.
@fugiha Hell is a conversion tactic used by christians. They believe in a morally inadequate god who has conditions for his love. Buddhism makes way more sense than christianity.
"whatever brings you both happiness and a sence of peace. That is the perfect religion".
please elaborate. is this what buddha taught? my understanding of buddhism was that the goal was nothingness - or losing oneself - then you will have peace. what does happiness or emotion have to do with that?
@paulderek83 buddha taught that with the right inner peace you can have peace with the world therefor you can have inner peace by meditating or just helping people out. as for achieving nothingness if that were to bring you inner peace then that would be ok. but buddha once said that you can light hundreds of candels with just one. so having nothingness and just not doing anything you shut out friends so watch out.
@Plexidi Some Muslim fundamentalists make these interpretations, but firstly, this was never the true spirit of Islam and isn't normal muslim sentiments and secondly Communism preached similar doctrines without any help from religion at all and killed countless millions in the 20th century. This, and countries fighting for control of scarce natural resources for profit is a much more realistic threat. Mao Tse Tung - 45,000,000 dead. The Spanish inquisition (200,000) just doesn't compare.
We deserve Hell, punishment & the whole works, but we get to escape it because we believe in Christ & receive His forgiveness & His punishment on the cross in our place.
5 precepts arise from Buddha's wisdom. To be moral, the Buddha taught that we have to be responsible for every of our actions. We have to follow the right path in speech, thought and actions.
What is considered good or wholesome? The Buddha explained that we should not hurt ourselves and others
If one suffers from ugliness, it is due to one's own past actions?
Are you fucking kidding me? So every time I see an ugly person, I'm to think: "What an asshole. That bitch had it coming." instead of: "The science of genetics clearly at work here."
This is such an asshole religion. I paused right at 7:06 when the calm, monotone voice said that.
have you never noticed that a good person bases most of their perception of others on the way that they act and not how they look? also, you can tell a lot of a person's mindset from the way that they look. that being said, just because a person is genetically misfortunate means that only people who are looking at them on the first level of perception see them as seriously hindered. you can have just as much influence and get just as much action being misfortuned; susan boyle, stephen hawkings
Thich Nhat Hanh is worth listening to, he doesn't bother with the BS from traditional buddhism, keeps it closer to the sensible teachings, the philosophy of living life well i.e. live life in the now because the past is gone and the future is uncertain. I also think that Susan Boyle's success was born of a public guilt trip for pre-judging, she's only slightly above average really imo. It's also a money spinning attempt at a real life fairy tail - people buy into that... Merry Christmas! :D
there are some mistakes in this video, don't use it as your only source on buddhism. on a different note, if you notice how good people view others, they see them for who they are and not what they look like, and great people can easily come from those who are genetically misfortuned. take stephen hawkings for example
They explained Karma totally wrong... Karma is to do with your actions in THIS life, being 'ugly' has nothing to do with what you did in your past life. For example one of the precepts is not take toxins- if you do you could end up doing something you'll regret that's Karma.
I am very grateful to have found the Dharma - understanding emptiness and the mind bring great bliss - way beyond anything found in the dogmas or doctrines of the church.
I believe that my god created me what soever, and about his existance, us muslims, we are just mere humans filled with sins and imbalance, we don' t deserve to see our God, hope u can understand, before u make another stupid commet like that.
how an a statue do somthing for you even it cannot move .you make it by your hands so it means you creat your god not god creats you and your god needs your help not you needs your god. iwetness that budism is rong
theflaniMuslim, Firstable we don't take Buddha as a god but a guider. Secondly Statue is our proof abt the existence of Buddha in this world. In ur case what is the proof of an existense of ur god? u said god created u. is there any proof that is showing that god created u? the only proof people had witnessed during ur birth was your mom n dad. Do you still believe that god created u? u must be greatfull to ur mom and dad then god.
@silverbackman If you like to know God lose all your earthly attributes, and pray to creator of heaven and earth , creator of earth and sky and if God except you then you see the truth. pray from your heart.
@theflaniMuslim You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about... People build statues to honour not create whom which they greatly respect. Gods do not create people, people create people. You have no right to tell anyone they are wrong, especially while you are a muslim which is a very new religion in comparison to the philosophy of Buddhism.... You should think with your heart instead of what people are forcing you to believe...
Why does he have no right to tell anyone they are wrong? Because islam is a younger religion? Shouldn't we all just believe the oldest religion that's around then? You are telling them they have no right to tell anyone they are wrong, but in a sense, aren't you committing the same fault with your comment?
@paulderek83 No, not at all... Because his words are not coming from his heart but from a book... Personally, what comes from the heart is more powerful than any words from any book...
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but are you saying that what you believe in your heart is the most powerful truth? What if I believed that the world was flat? What about Hitler and his fascist ideas that he passionately believed? What is the problem with believing what a book says about ultimate reality?
@paulderek83 We are all allowed to believe what we wish to believe... Even if it is something bad.. Good and bad... I don't think bad should be encouraged but ultimately it keeps a balance...
@paulderek83 For yourself... Not for anyone else... But most people do not believe what is in their hearts. Many are forced to believe in things by threats of disownment, abuse & death.... Eventually, humans become brainwashed and just believe what they are taught to be right and true... It's very apparent with many people how this happens... But few things are "right and true"... That's my opinion though.....
From what you are saying there can be no 'right and true'. If truth is relative to the individual, then right and wrong is completely subjective as well. Your philosophy sounds great and ideal but it cannot be lived out. If someone from England drives on the left side of the road in USA it will lead to complete chaos and suffering. If you have children and one of them is caught cheating on a school test what would your response be?
My family's all Christian and personally I've told them their ignorant. This Sunday I went to church with them and the whole sermon I couldn't help but think that there is self-richeous... Buddhist are peaceful and care for everything. Maybe I'm just shooting in the dark does anyone think this also :D
Cyntia1222 1 month ago
You have got to be fucking shitting me, Christian fucks here?! Fuck! Its not hard to hate Christianity but it's hard to not hare the ignorant people IN Christianity!
epicduckeh6 2 months ago
do buddists believe in god? If so is it one god or many gods?
ciphagreen 5 months ago
@Truewinner01 I think New Atheism has made such a big deal of the abuse of religion, many young people think that religion actually is entirely lies and abuse. Like 'If they're not terrorists, how can they be religious?' Buddhists also had such conflicts in the past, killing and torturing each other, trust me. But like Buddha, Jesus and Mohammad principally taught peace, so it's worth distinguishing real Christians and Moslems from aggresive invaders and terrorists who claim 'God is on my side'.
leconfidant 5 months ago
@Truewinner01 There are schools of Buddhism because there are meaningful differences in belief and if you choose one belief, you deny another. If you don't care, you deny both. Unless you have a teacher, and engage with the practice, the only Buddhism you'll have is one you made up. A lot of westerners say they're Buddhist because they'd rather invent a religion of hippydom than engage with reality. The cost of that is they don't learn anything new. Real Buddhism is tough work and challenging.
leconfidant 5 months ago
@Truewinner01 I'm sorry, but you're just wrong. I'm a Buddhist and all of us call ourselves that, whatever your opinion. That they hold a variety of beliefs or that they apply their beliefs to ways of life also holds in every other religion. I would add that the argument that Buddhism doesn't have a god doesn't hold because a), Buddha was explicit that the ethics of your behaviour was a matter of personal compassion, not submission to divine authority, but b) the scriptures refer to many gods.
leconfidant 5 months ago
i think that the nature of the human is imagination and love with others
sphynx105 5 months ago
Serving people is very good, if the people you deliver are dependent on you.
If they don´t give anything about your help, you actually loose much.
whatthehell81 6 months ago
For anyone who desires the truth, please check out the scribd website that is listed on my channel.
DreamsofMajesty 6 months ago
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DreamsofMajesty 7 months ago
there are boundries and simple human sanity plus happyness is about freedom and nondemanding subtrafuge. like their are certain boundries that just don't bring happiness you might be happy but the parrents of the person u killed arn't. so its about bringing PEACE and Happyness.
fugiha 8 months ago
I dont like the fact that he calls buddhism a religion, religion comes from the latin religare, it means to re-bond, to restore the bond between us and a superior being or god... thats just my opinion... buddhism is unlike religion, philosophy or psicology. buddhism is just buddhism :) and i love it
IALON 8 months ago
@IALON Prayers, rituals, scripture, ethical and moral value systems, priests, temples, metaphysical models of karma and rebirth.... and it's not a religion? The latin roots of words are not as relevant as their ordinary usage. Westerners are just so stuck on the idea that all religions have a god and any other concept is too strange for them to compute. It's certainly not philosophy in the sense that naturalism or logical positivism or platonism are. Nor is it psychology like Freud or Pavlov.
leconfidant 7 months ago
Are most Buddhists vegetarian?
NegligentGenocide 8 months ago
@NegligentGenocide what ive learned is that even if it is recommended there are no impositions in buddhism, yes, most buddhist are vegetarian but you can be a buddhist and eat a whopper every day. Remember the improvement and the success is proportional to the commitment. Have a good day
IALON 8 months ago
@NegligentGenocide No.
leconfidant 7 months ago
I'd like to think that the Buddha was an incarnation of Taranis--the Celtic Thunderer--the connection is the sun-wheel. I don't think that Taranis would preach on the subject of suffering, but some of that sounds about right.
666caimbirdofhell 9 months ago
My karmic no is 3 which says that I don't owe much karmic debt, but I suffer from an ill-birth. what's wrong w/ this picture?
666caimbirdofhell 9 months ago
Every things that you said about the Buddha thats okay only my point is Buddha was born in NEPAL not in INDIA . if you need any things about it let me know so i will let you know about Buddha
c0192 9 months ago
Buddha was born in Nepal,not in India
Public Figure
c0192 9 months ago
The Universe, according to Buddha, is governed by one single umbrella law based on the science and rhythm of cause and effect, and he said that mankind could prove this.
This law which should be chanted by the human voice is called; Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.
By chanting aloud every day for at least 10 minutes, one can put oneself into perfect rhythm with the Universe, and therby gain insights, wisdom, energy, happiness and benefits that would be otherwise not be available to us.
throbule 11 months ago
Thank you for sharing these videos.
OldBattlehorse 11 months ago
A similarity in most religions is the concept of 'good' and 'evil'. Oftentimes, they will all tell you not to murder, not to steal, and not to cause pain and suffering. Most people don't actually read their spiritual texts or do any sort of research into their beliefs, so they do things contrary to their own faith. I see a lot of similarities between all faiths, so I'm of the mind that all of them have great truths we can learn from.
kirby28645 11 months ago
Note the 3 6's hand symbol at 1:00.
bobhansenobc 1 year ago
I love.
NsNr9r 1 year ago
"if one suffers from phycial uglyness deformity disease or any ill fortune it is due to ones own past action" wow. good thing im an attractive helthy man i must have great "past action"
imrichyournot 1 year ago
@imrichyournot - Yep, he did. That don't mean he is a nice guy in this life though. Anything else you'd like to patronize?
matreyia 1 year ago
People 'suffer' because they themselves choose what causes them suffering. whilst reaching a mental state where nothing is either pleasing nor unpleasant, is great, one thing I've learned is everything is an illusion, so you might as we'll be happy and enjoy 'each and every' moment of it regardless.
deuscoreresearch 1 year ago
There is no need for hatred towards another just because he or she does not beleive what you beleive i have been told im going to hell for being a budhist but i just take it seing that they are just irogant and if you don't respect me you will never have respect towards you. i think that whatever religion or philosphy or science or whatever brings you both happiness and a sence of peace. that is the perfect religion no matter what anyone says.
fugiha 1 year ago 41
@fugiha Hell is a conversion tactic used by christians. They believe in a morally inadequate god who has conditions for his love. Buddhism makes way more sense than christianity.
MegaParadox69 1 year ago 2
@fugiha Very wisely what you say...
TheAmmattilainen1 9 months ago
@fugiha
"whatever brings you both happiness and a sence of peace. That is the perfect religion".
please elaborate. is this what buddha taught? my understanding of buddhism was that the goal was nothingness - or losing oneself - then you will have peace. what does happiness or emotion have to do with that?
paulderek83 9 months ago
@paulderek83 buddha taught that with the right inner peace you can have peace with the world therefor you can have inner peace by meditating or just helping people out. as for achieving nothingness if that were to bring you inner peace then that would be ok. but buddha once said that you can light hundreds of candels with just one. so having nothingness and just not doing anything you shut out friends so watch out.
fugiha 8 months ago
@fugiha Sure, but what if a religion preaches no peace without conversion? What if the god you worship commands you to kill?
Plexidi 8 months ago
@Plexidi Some Muslim fundamentalists make these interpretations, but firstly, this was never the true spirit of Islam and isn't normal muslim sentiments and secondly Communism preached similar doctrines without any help from religion at all and killed countless millions in the 20th century. This, and countries fighting for control of scarce natural resources for profit is a much more realistic threat. Mao Tse Tung - 45,000,000 dead. The Spanish inquisition (200,000) just doesn't compare.
leconfidant 7 months ago
@fugiha spot on my friend, spot on.
shooter8718 4 months ago
@fugiha Indeed. :)
J88Wolf 4 months ago
Dear brother, five precepts in Buddhism are not comandmends. Those are Precepts which should be followed by ourselves.
ududuwa 1 year ago
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We deserve Hell, punishment & the whole works, but we get to escape it because we believe in Christ & receive His forgiveness & His punishment on the cross in our place.
TheBillyfoundation 2 years ago
Where do the 5 precepts of Buddhism come from? Do Buddhists believe that there is a being capable of establishing moral absolutes?
bsp256 2 years ago
@bsp256
5 precepts arise from Buddha's wisdom. To be moral, the Buddha taught that we have to be responsible for every of our actions. We have to follow the right path in speech, thought and actions.
What is considered good or wholesome? The Buddha explained that we should not hurt ourselves and others
impermanentoo 2 years ago 2
@bsp256
Read Tipitaka - The original teaching of the Buddha and see how beautiful and profound it is. You can google on the internet.
impermanentoo 2 years ago 2
If one suffers from ugliness, it is due to one's own past actions?
Are you fucking kidding me? So every time I see an ugly person, I'm to think: "What an asshole. That bitch had it coming." instead of: "The science of genetics clearly at work here."
This is such an asshole religion. I paused right at 7:06 when the calm, monotone voice said that.
highwind8124 2 years ago
have you never noticed that a good person bases most of their perception of others on the way that they act and not how they look? also, you can tell a lot of a person's mindset from the way that they look. that being said, just because a person is genetically misfortunate means that only people who are looking at them on the first level of perception see them as seriously hindered. you can have just as much influence and get just as much action being misfortuned; susan boyle, stephen hawkings
tulae101 2 years ago
Thich Nhat Hanh is worth listening to, he doesn't bother with the BS from traditional buddhism, keeps it closer to the sensible teachings, the philosophy of living life well i.e. live life in the now because the past is gone and the future is uncertain. I also think that Susan Boyle's success was born of a public guilt trip for pre-judging, she's only slightly above average really imo. It's also a money spinning attempt at a real life fairy tail - people buy into that... Merry Christmas! :D
ninjatoothpaste 2 years ago
there are some mistakes in this video, don't use it as your only source on buddhism. on a different note, if you notice how good people view others, they see them for who they are and not what they look like, and great people can easily come from those who are genetically misfortuned. take stephen hawkings for example
tulae101 2 years ago
They explained Karma totally wrong... Karma is to do with your actions in THIS life, being 'ugly' has nothing to do with what you did in your past life. For example one of the precepts is not take toxins- if you do you could end up doing something you'll regret that's Karma.
asynchronousmeetings 2 years ago
I am very grateful to have found the Dharma - understanding emptiness and the mind bring great bliss - way beyond anything found in the dogmas or doctrines of the church.
MINMICHELE67 2 years ago 5
I believe that my god created me what soever, and about his existance, us muslims, we are just mere humans filled with sins and imbalance, we don' t deserve to see our God, hope u can understand, before u make another stupid commet like that.
w7301 2 years ago
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how an a statue do somthing for you even it cannot move .you make it by your hands so it means you creat your god not god creats you and your god needs your help not you needs your god. iwetness that budism is rong
theflaniMuslim 3 years ago
theflaniMuslim, Firstable we don't take Buddha as a god but a guider. Secondly Statue is our proof abt the existence of Buddha in this world. In ur case what is the proof of an existense of ur god? u said god created u. is there any proof that is showing that god created u? the only proof people had witnessed during ur birth was your mom n dad. Do you still believe that god created u? u must be greatfull to ur mom and dad then god.
Remember idiot?
silverbackman 3 years ago 18
The last comment is mostly kamelkok2007's right away, since you seem to have forgot.
silverbackman 3 years ago
@silverbackman If you like to know God lose all your earthly attributes, and pray to creator of heaven and earth , creator of earth and sky and if God except you then you see the truth. pray from your heart.
shahebozorg 1 year ago
@silverbackman Man. I am so glad that we have a religion that makes sense.
Thank you
iRobii 8 months ago
@theflaniMuslim You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about... People build statues to honour not create whom which they greatly respect. Gods do not create people, people create people. You have no right to tell anyone they are wrong, especially while you are a muslim which is a very new religion in comparison to the philosophy of Buddhism.... You should think with your heart instead of what people are forcing you to believe...
SwanDust 1 year ago 6
@SwanDust
Why does he have no right to tell anyone they are wrong? Because islam is a younger religion? Shouldn't we all just believe the oldest religion that's around then? You are telling them they have no right to tell anyone they are wrong, but in a sense, aren't you committing the same fault with your comment?
paulderek83 9 months ago
@paulderek83 No, not at all... Because his words are not coming from his heart but from a book... Personally, what comes from the heart is more powerful than any words from any book...
SwanDust 9 months ago
@SwanDust
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but are you saying that what you believe in your heart is the most powerful truth? What if I believed that the world was flat? What about Hitler and his fascist ideas that he passionately believed? What is the problem with believing what a book says about ultimate reality?
paulderek83 9 months ago
@paulderek83 We are all allowed to believe what we wish to believe... Even if it is something bad.. Good and bad... I don't think bad should be encouraged but ultimately it keeps a balance...
SwanDust 9 months ago
@SwanDust Does believing something in your heart make it true?
paulderek83 9 months ago
@paulderek83 For yourself... Not for anyone else... But most people do not believe what is in their hearts. Many are forced to believe in things by threats of disownment, abuse & death.... Eventually, humans become brainwashed and just believe what they are taught to be right and true... It's very apparent with many people how this happens... But few things are "right and true"... That's my opinion though.....
SwanDust 9 months ago
@SwanDust
From what you are saying there can be no 'right and true'. If truth is relative to the individual, then right and wrong is completely subjective as well. Your philosophy sounds great and ideal but it cannot be lived out. If someone from England drives on the left side of the road in USA it will lead to complete chaos and suffering. If you have children and one of them is caught cheating on a school test what would your response be?
paulderek83 9 months ago