Buddhism

Sri Lanka
May 29, 2007 12:14am CST
Buddhism is a dharmic, non-theistic religion and a philosophy. Buddhism is also known as a Buddha Dharma or Dhamma which means the "teachings of the awakened one" in the Sanskrit and Pali, languages of ancient Buddhist texts. Buddhism was founded around the fiftith century BCE by Siddhartha Gauthama, here after reffered to as "The Buddha". Buddhism has described alot.Mostly from mainly buddhist or mainly western rational point of view.That way the holistic Buddhist view of reality in left brain using eyes(rational view) seemed "unworldly", though Buddhist thinking makes perfect sense when viewwd at with 'common sense'. But imagine starting from the elegant simplicity of a wheel (everything is connected),to try to give words to above puzzle drawing of Leonardo da Vinci(stressing the pieces of the puzzle. Thats almost impossible. Nevertheless common sense combined with an open mind provide all the means to grasp the essence of Buddhism. Common Sense has MUCH more dimensions than only rationality, and optimizes over many overlapping dimensions while dynamically changing goals. Buddhism will be described seriously,and not by making it look ridiculous using seemingly seriously mystical and difficult scientific words. The simplicity in Buddhist life shows that Buddhism as unity produces simplicity. It were and still are the majority of the Buddhism researching western rationalist scientists that make Buddhism appear complex. Mistakenly they complain that Buddhism is awfully difficult.It's like exclaiming in high voice that Buddhist trees are awfully compex,ignoring the simplicity of the total forest(Buddhist Life).
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@samson1967 (7414)
• India
29 May 07
I got many friends from Tibet who follow Buddhism. I also lived with a buddhist monk by name KIMI from Japan. I like thier culture and practices. I am inspired by Gowthama buddhas words " Desire is the root cause of all the problems."