A Definitive Buddhism
Autor: Fernando Roque da Silva | Publicado: 2017-03-05T06:33:00-08:00

A Definitive Buddhism.
I decided to talk about Buddhism on the blog today.&nbsp;
Buddhism is VERY misrepresented today, just as Christianity is.&nbsp;

If we go deeply to the essence of the teachings of this religion; We will see that there are even Buddhist religions nowadays that preach and practice principles completely opposed to Buddhism.&nbsp;
I have already explained lot of time, &nbsp;and I will explain again:&nbsp;
If it makes sense for you to think that Jesus or even Buddha were aliens who came on spacecraft and visited the Earth, that's ok ....&nbsp;
But you can not &nbsp;force other people to think like you saying that everyone has to accept that point of view because if they don´t &nbsp;they will be punished ....&nbsp;
I already told you about it ....&nbsp;
man, oh man !!!! It´s horrible!&nbsp;
To hang a watermelon on your neck and saying that you have discovered the true concepts that the rest of mankind is ignorant about it, &nbsp;it´s is ridiculous.&nbsp;
That's hard to respect.&nbsp;
How can I come out announcing that I acquired in math the most exact and unknown knowledge by the laity if I say that 2 + 2 is 5?&nbsp;
I may even respect it, but if &nbsp;you say I will be punished for continue &nbsp;thinking that 2 + 2 is 4, then it will be difficult to respect such a creature ..... I will try to simply pretend that I am neither seeing nor hearing ....&nbsp;

So let´s go to budhism

Buddhism arose when an Indian prince decided to abandon his destiny as king to be a religious man.&nbsp;
In India, every person must belong to a caste that is divided according to the body of Bhrama (God).&nbsp;
So if your father was a warrior you would have to be one too ... if you were born to a merchant family in that distant country then you should follow that same fate.&nbsp;
But this principle, called Siddhartha did not respect this rule that was religious one ..... that is, he wanted to be a religious practitioner breaking the most basic rule of religion of his time and not accepting the role of being a &nbsp;king in future, a role which was dictated by religion of his own culture.&nbsp;
You can be sure that that was one of the reasons &nbsp;this prince &nbsp;have had gained followers ... he was breaking with an old tradition of which many people was negative about it.&nbsp;
The other reason he attracted followers may be &nbsp;he is a member of royalty, he must had been seen as a hero by many.&nbsp;
Imagine: a prince begins to give importance to religion, and breaks its principles to correct a lot of misconceptions.&nbsp;
Well, just as in Christianity, texts that chronicle the life of the founder of Buddhism were manipulated to pass on specific ideas, beliefs that people created about their founder; in addition to undergoing changes for reasons that were not too much &nbsp;innocent.
But it is possible to extract the essence of both Buddhism and Christianity, even on the basis of the sacred texts of these religions.&nbsp;

The second act of the Prince Siddhartha &nbsp;was to disagree of &nbsp; austerities &nbsp;practices, &nbsp;this kind of practice had&nbsp; the objective to obtain an existence that left no 'residue' of the person in this existence, it served to purify the person in himself and so escaped the condemnation of reincarnation in this world of suffering. This was the belief at the time.&nbsp;
The Hindu religious followed these practices, they say that Siddhartha also practiced them until &nbsp;became skeletal, emaciated ... but we do not know if this is accurate; It is possible that he has only analyzed these practices and then has already drawn his conclusions.&nbsp;
As he was once again changing the meaning of the Hindu religion, an explanation was missed to people, and this explanation is now called the middle way.&nbsp;
According to Siddhartha a religious person must follow the path of balance, everything that is an excess is naturally &nbsp;bad .&nbsp;
Both to live only in the pleasures of the body or trying to eliminate them radically are the ambitions of being (ego).&nbsp;
The correct &nbsp;is to eliminate any ambition at all.&nbsp;
Hence he went on to explain that suffering exists because the being feels and desires.&nbsp;
So simple like that, our senses want a way of being satiated in all their senses and without any stimulus that could be undesirable.&nbsp;
We want; And that brings suffering.&nbsp;

In part that is true, but today we can go a little further than those concepts ... but I will leave this subject &nbsp;for another time; The purpose here is to talk about Buddhism.&nbsp;
Well, the prince then came to be called a sage.&nbsp;
But as the idea of ​​holiness was a belief deeply rooted in the culture of India, it was necessary that he was considered as holy, that is; without sin; without desires ... he came to be regarded as a man who was able to completely detach himself from anything, he became almost a &nbsp;person living out of his own being .... Thus he sought nothing, nor salvation after death , nor material things, nor any personal desire ...&nbsp;
This was put in the person of Siddhartha, because only then &nbsp;people&nbsp;would&nbsp;respect the new religion that arose from him.&nbsp;
But there was more ... beside it is said that he only founded a new religious belief when it reached a state of mind and soul, called enlightenment.&nbsp;
This enlightenment has acquired the image of &nbsp;a fantastic thing ..... hence some religions claim that this fantastic illumination can be achieved by us, mere mortals, and for this reason these religions proclaim themselves above the others for preaching this revelation still unknown .&nbsp;
Hence a lot of religions believe that Siddhartha taught, or left sub-understood in his teachings sacred mantras that bring some fantastic effect.&nbsp;
So there are some who have mantras that will raise you up and reach a rebirth in a paradise after you die,&nbsp;
then there are those who preach a magical mantra that if recited brings material goods and solves all the problems of our lives (my Buddha!)&nbsp;
There are also those who preach meditations that Siddhartha maybe left as a practice of his new religion.&nbsp;

In fact, Siddhartha, or The Buddha .... who received this title after he attained such fantastic illumination left no practice at all ....&nbsp;
I assure you.&nbsp;
This does not mean that he did not recite any prayer, of course; Just as we all in the west have already prayed the '' our father ''; &nbsp;even if today we are an atheist; Buddha also must have practiced some meditations of that time, and also must have recited some mantras or prayers.&nbsp;

Ah, Buddha was an atheist?&nbsp;

NO and NO !!!!!

Hinduism is polytheistic; believes in several gods; So it is clear that the Buddha quoted the gods when he spoke of the reality of life in his sermons.&nbsp;
But he did not believe in the absolute power of these gods in people's lives, he said that his teachings were meant to deal with the reality of man and not to speculate about the unknown and supernatural world of the gods or of any God.&nbsp;

How then do you follow or practice Buddhism?&nbsp;
Well; I understand Buddhism as an analysis of religion in general.&nbsp;
Why?&nbsp;
Because if Buddhism speaks about wisdom and about religion; then it is a wisdom that explains many things of life and religion; can be applied to any religion.&nbsp;
Jesus would &nbsp;hinted at any belief of his day, and he did; Buddha did too.&nbsp;

Practicing Buddhism can be defined as an effort to a better understand of yourself and the world around you, and an effort to do something positive in this world that can change it.&nbsp;
This thing a person can reach by believing in sacred mantras, a prayer or meditating if he wants to ..... But this is not mandatory.&nbsp;
It is up to you to practice these things or not.&nbsp;

Is Buddhism the only true religion?&nbsp;
NO !!!&nbsp;
It is only a religion that could serve for the development of more 'wise' mentalities rather than fanaticism.&nbsp;
Can Buddhism bring a definitive answer to any religious or life question?&nbsp;
NO !!!!&nbsp;
It only clarifies many things and serves as a religious way for those who choose this religion.&nbsp;
But what about God?&nbsp;
Look; God is in another sphere; &nbsp;you understand God the way you want to, &nbsp;or how you are able to understand.&nbsp;
Because &nbsp;Buddhism &nbsp;tells about &nbsp;gods because it was connected to Hinduism; as I am from the west I believe in the west God who is invisible and is not reached in the way many preach.&nbsp;
I can establish a connection with him; He already extends as an entity by the physical reality of the universe; but he does not act here as if he were human; as if we were the center and the meaning of the universe... we are not the sense of existence.&nbsp;
What is the meaning of life?&nbsp;
It's not you, it´s not me.&nbsp;
It is like the sun, the sun is shining but is not for us, is not because we are here that sun exists.&nbsp;
We are the ones who can create a bond with him.&nbsp;
It is just what I think in few words; &nbsp;it is a feeling that you can create even if God did not &nbsp;appears to you.&nbsp;

You can say that Buddhism serves to take you to a paradise after you die, or that it provides you with a mantra that performs miracles and brings material goods .... You just can not say that These ways of understanding Buddhism are absolute and that all mankind should bow down and follow in order not to be punished.&nbsp;
Reason with me:&nbsp;

I must practice a mantra and then I will cure myself of an illness or reach a material desire.&nbsp;
But what if I fail on it, what's the explanation?&nbsp;
Answer: it was a karma that I carry &nbsp;from another reincarnation.&nbsp;

OK.&nbsp;

I teach you a spell to win the lottery, I'll even cash in you to teach you, I explain and give you sure that it is exact, a truly thing, the most fantastic thing on &nbsp;the earth .... then you pay me, then I'll teach this spell, then you do it but it does not work ...&nbsp;
Hence I explain to you that it was a karma that you had from another life so it did not work .....&nbsp;

Will &nbsp;you think &nbsp;I´m ridiculous?&nbsp;
I think you're going to want to hit me.&nbsp;

I can believe with faith that I will be cured of an illness or I will conquer a material desire, I do not even need Buddhism for that, I can do this even without any religion ... (there´s a lot of people that follow their dreams to become true and they are not religious one)&nbsp;
but there is the possibility &nbsp;I can fail , and this is a reality.&nbsp;
I do not need beliefs and formulas to &nbsp;know that, any idiot knows that ... not matter I´m a Buddhist or not, ...&nbsp;

A person of 100 years will not reach 170, and as it will not happen; please do not claim when he died that he had a karma from another life, or that he was the victim of &nbsp;bad spirits ....&nbsp;
So do not explain that I'm going to die one day because I'm not of your religion.
But it seems that the people are blind, &nbsp;
&nbsp;explaining the most normal things of life as if they were from another world .... everyone can make their '' &nbsp;fights '', and there is the possibility of failing ...&nbsp;
Well, although the posting is called definitive Buddhism, I think I have not yet given a definitive explanation of this religion.&nbsp;
Ah, I can do nothing if you believe that Buddha and Jesus were marijuana smokers