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Anonymous asked:
How do you think buddhism has impacted/changed the world in a positive way?
buddhajourney answered:
Good question! Well… There’s really no right or wrong answer here, so I’m just gonna type something out and hope it makes sense!
We know that things and people are all interdependent. Something or someone always relies on something or someone else for something, an outcome. We think we’re independent because we have our own job, house and car, but rely on the world to purchase the products or services that give us our job, on the people and products that build our house and car, and people and products to give us food. So we are never really independent. So what am I getting to here? It takes a mass effort to make something, to create change, to produce goods, to influence, to win or lose.
The world is obviously full of chaos and suffering. It is a saddening and depressing world - but only if we choose to see it that way. The good completely outweighs the bad, but we live in societies that feed off the bad, that profit off the bad, that grow off the bad, so that’s what the world and the media give us and make us focus on that. But if you do a quick search on non-profits and charities, there are literally thousands of them, all trying to help people and make the world a better place. To help us see that there is hope for someone behind the chaotic fog of the world.
There are beautiful, intelligent and highly realized people in every religion. Every religion is the “right” religion. Why? Because they all want happiness and freedom. Unfortunately there are many that take that way out of context and use their own ignorant interpretations. But anyway - every religion has a handful of great people that travel the world and talk about love, compassion, liberation and heaven/nirvana, Buddhism is no exception. There are dozens and dozens of Buddhist monks/nuns and teachers that travel all over the globe to teach compassion and loving-kindness. Very rarely do they teach “Buddhism,” they teach the fundamental essence and nature of humans; love. So these teachers help us come back to that natural state through meditation and mindfulness practices, and maybe every once in a while a Buddhist teaching.
So how has Buddhism changed the world in a positive way? By, I think, reminding people to love, approach situations with compassion, to not judge, to not hate, to see and practice equanimity, and to help others is to help ourselves as well.
Smile and be well!
Anonymous asked:
how should one deal with loneliness from a buddhist perspective?
buddhajourney answered:
Well, I always tell myself to just suck it up and deal with it, that usually helps a bit :p
There’s really no such thing as loneliness if we can really sit down and think about it. In Buddhism, we learn that everything is interconnected, everything is dependent on something else. For an apple to grow it needs soil, water, sun, air, and the tree to grow big and nurtured enough to grow the apple. For us to have the apple, we need everything that makes up the apple, then we need people to grow the apple, pick the apple, transport it to the store, and then all the means and abilities in between for us to get to the store and purchase that apple.
Everything around us works in the same way; computers, books, pens, walls, chairs, everything - it all needs a helping hand and sometimes human help. So we’re surrounded by things and people all the time. We are always in a crowd!
Sometimes we think we need to be surrounded by people, friends and family to be happy, to not be lonely. Sometimes all that makes us even more lonely. Loneliness, like jealousy or anger, is a mental formation; it is something that we create.
Loneliness can seem unpleasant or a feeling that something is wrong with us or others, but we can always practice meditation to help assuage those concerns. When we meditate on ourselves, most of the time we can determine or pin-point certain feelings or perceptions we have and either eliminate them or change them. It also helps discover ourselves, to look deeply within us, and we can end up finding out something about ourselves that we never knew!
Smile and be well!
First of all your spirituality is sacred - no one can judge it. And no one has access to it. People can hang their opinions on you or me no different than they hang a hat on a rack, but that’s all it is. Sometimes we internalise people’s opinions, we wear them underneath our skin as if we’re tattooed. If there is a compassionate, benevolvent force then it loves all human forms of expression. Nobody can tell you not to take your own path. Nobody has that authority unless we give it to them.
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama XIV
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No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
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Do Buddhists believe in god?
No, we do not. There are several reasons for this. The Buddha, like modern sociologists and psychologists, believed that religious ideas and especially the god idea have their origin in fear. The Buddha says:
“Gripped by fear men go to the sacred mountains,
sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines”.
Dp 188
Primitive man found himself in a dangerous and hostile world, the fear of wild animals, of not being able to find enough food, of injury or disease, and of natural phenomena like thunder, lightning and volcanoes was constantly with him. Finding no security, he created the idea of gods in order to give him comfort in good times, courage in times of danger and consolation when things went wrong. To this day, you will notice that people become more religious at times of crises, you will hear them say that the belief in a god or gods gives them the strength they need to deal with life. You will hear them explain that they believe in a particular god because they prayed in time of need and their prayer was answered. All this seems to support the Buddha’s teaching that the god-idea is a response to fear and frustration. The Buddha taught us to try to understand our fears, to lessen our desires and to calmly and courageously accept the things we cannot change. He replaced fear, not with irrational belief but with rational understanding.
The second reason the Buddha did not believe in a god is because there does not seem to be any evidence to support this idea. There are numerous religions, all claiming that they alone have god’s words preserved in their holy book, that they alone understand god’s nature, that their god exists and that the gods of other religions do not. Some claim that god is masculine, some that she is feminine and others that it is neutral. They are all satisfied that there is ample evidence to prove the existence of their god but they laugh in disbelief at the evidence other religions use to prove the existence of another god. It is not surprising that with so many different religions spending so many centuries trying to prove the existence of their gods that still no real, concrete, substantial or irrefutable evidence has been found. Buddhists suspend judgement until such evidence is forthcoming.
The third reason the Buddha did not believe in a god is that the belief is not necessary. Some claim that the belief in a god is necessary in order to explain the origin on the universe. But this is not so. Science has very convincingly explained how the universe came into being without having to introduce the god-idea. Some claim that belief in god is necessary to have a happy, meaningful life. Again we can see that this is not so. There are millions of atheists and free-thinkers, not to mention many Buddhists, who live useful, happy and meaningful lives without belief in a god. Some claim that belief in god’s power is necessary because humans, being weak, do not have the strength to help themselves. Once again, the evidence indicates the opposite. One often hears of people who have overcome great disabilities and handicaps, enormous odds and difficulties, through their own inner resources, through their own efforts and without belief in a god. Some claim that god is necessary in order to give man salvation. But this argument only holds good if you accept the theological concept of salvation and Buddhists do not accept such a concept. Based on his own experience, the Buddha saw that each human being had the capacity to purify the mind, develop infinite love and compassion and perfect understanding. He shifted attention from the heavens to the heart and encouraged us to find solutions to our problems through self-understanding.
- Venerable Dhammika
There is an entire universe that exists solely in your mind that is impossible to completely share with another person. You are a god onto yourself as beautiful and cruel as you wish to be. That is the realest shit ever.