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Is Buddhism pessimistic?

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Many religious leaders have said Buddhism is fatalistic and pessimistic. One need to judge for ourselves by understanding the teachings of Buddhism.

The Noble Eightfold Path is:

1. Right Understanding: accepting the Four Noble Truths.

1. The existence of suffering;
2. the cause of suffering;
3. the end of suffering;
4. and the end of pain.

2. Right Resolve: renounce the pleasures of the body. Change your lifestyle so that you harm no living creatures and have kind thoughts for everyone.

3. Right Speech: do not gossip, lie or slander anyone.

4. Right Action: do not kill, steal or engage in an unlawful sexual act.

5. Right Occupation (Right Livelihood): avoid working at any job that could harm someone.

6. Right Effort: heroically work to eliminate evil from your life. Through your own effort develop good conduct and a clean mind.

7. Right Contemplation: make your self aware of your deeds, words and thoughts so that you can be free of desire and sorrow.

8. Right Meditation: train your mind to focus on a single object without wavering so as to develop a calm mind capable of concentration.

The Eightfold Path is also known as the Middle Path because it teaches avoiding the extremes of sensual indulgence and self-mortification. Following the Noble Eightfold Path requires that a person do the above eight things. Nirvana (Salvation) is through what a Buddhist does. It is through human works, what a person does with his life.

In Buddhism, the three marks of existence are three characteristics of all existence and beings, namely impermanence (aniccā), unsatisfactoriness or suffering (dukkha), and non-self (anattā).