There are many different religions in the world. Each religion offers its own qualities of living to make life as enjoyable and fulfilled as possible. Each religion has different rules and values that a person must follow along with meditation or prayer. Each religion has different goals that one must reach in order to fully understand what the religion truly means. The goal of the Buddhist is to achieve a total state of nirvana. Literally it means, "blowing out”. In nirvana, all “individual personality or ego ceases to exist and there is nothing to be reborn." (The Buddhist Tradition, 12) It may be the felling of nirvana that is attracting more and more people to this religion. Buddhism may not be known all over the world but it has spread greatly and now is the forth largest religion in the world with an estimated number of 350 million followers. Throughout this paper you will learn about the history of Buddhism, some of the meditation styles, and how it compares to the leading religion Christianity.
The Buddhist tradition can be traced back to the year 536 BC, with the birth of Siddhartha Guatama. Siddhartha was the son of a wealthy respected land owner. The birth of Siddhartha was very odd, he was placed inside
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Meditation is an essential part to the Buddhist religion. During the Yi dynasty (1392 - 1910's) Buddhism was forced into the background and Confucianism was made the state religion but then revived itself in 1945. From the second century forward, Mahayana became a dominant religion in India. If these are followed it will lead to the end of suffering. Matter turns into energy, energy turns into matter. If we destroy something around us, we destroy ourselves. Before we criticize others, we should first see what we do ourselves. We are born of our parents, our children are born of us. When Siddhartha was an infant a wise scholar noticed the 32 auspicious signs of the enlightened one. This means choosing a job that does not hurt others. Everything Changes
The second universal truth of the Buddha is that everything is continuously changing.
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