Buddhism Is Not a Religion

Buddhism Is Not a Religion

INTRODUCTION

Religion is the only way to know and make sensitive high meaning of life the feeling coarse and unruly mind of the crowd diving to the bottom of his vile task and work equipment. Religion is the metaphysics of the people. According to Buddha, religion is a matter of faith and revelation, while philosophy is knowledge based on reason. It has been argued that Buddhism is not a religion it is actually teaching of Buddha. I agree with this argument. This paper discusses the reason behind the argument regarding Buddhism as an education not a religion.

DISCUSSION

These state that life is unsatisfactory, that suffering is due to desire and attachment, that there is a solution to this state, and that following the Noble Eightfold Path includes having the right understanding, action, and mindfulness that suffering can end. Buddhism also coexists with other local religious traditions. The monastic institution is an important feature in Buddhism, but it is marked by gender bias as the ecclesiastical authority in the Theravada and Vajrayana tradition is yet to recognize women's ordination as bhikkhuni (the female counterpart of bhikkhu or monk). In contrast, there is a strong bhikkhuni presence in the monastic order in Mahayana Buddhism even as male dominance still exists.

Buddhism is not a religion because it is not a faith in a transcendent principle and creator. However, this is not a philosophy if by that we mean a theory about things. In fact, Buddhism is a practice which, by the experimental study of the mind, proposes to bring us happiness by freeing us from our packaging. On the other hand, Buddha claimed no divinity. Buddha was not a savior, not a savior, not a messenger of God, not a prophet. He was an ordinary man who announced his insights teaching. In Buddhism, there is no faith , the addressed is solely his own intelligence capability.

Buddhism teaches that we experience the world according to our projections of the mind, and that we are fundamentally conditioned by the illusion of "I" or ego. Dualities are well born and will be there as long as our minds remain prisoner of the ego and its games. The spiritual journey involves a long process which aims to gradually get rid of the ego and to be free from its grip to reach the fullness of enlightenment. It is therefore natural that, as long as we are affected by good and evil, these dualities count much in our lives and we even help us evolve along the way. Indeed, those who actually achieved nirvana now having crossed the constraints of dualities can really say "there is no good and evil." For others, the good and the evil will still be valid (Elliott, 2011).

Buddhism Panacea for All Our Problems

Through prayer, teaching and practice, Buddhism can help us but it would be unethical or even moved, to believe that it can provide solutions to all our problems. The principle of Buddhism is the inevitability of ...