What is the destiny of a Buddhist in Christianty?
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In all my working with Buddhist principles, I don’t recall any interpretation of destiny per se. I lean towards Zen, and Zen just points to Just This…The idea of one’s destiny is a story, a reference that gives meaning to Just This….but Just This has no reference external to itself. Just This means you are just t this. That’s IT. Just This is life and life has no meaning external to itself. Nothing need be applied to life to make it meaningful.
Destiny implies a plan. Whose plan? God’s plan? A cosmic plan? A soul’s plan? Nature’s plan? What if your destiny is to just BE THIS? Considering that man lives in a mind that believes Just This should be something else, a plan or a destiny, then it is quite an extraordinary achievement to be Just This. You have to drop the destiny and the force of the mind that says you should be something better, someplace else in a better moment than Just This.
The paradox is that your destiny is to give up having a destiny, which means leaving without a future, living Just This.
Destiny implies a plan. Whose plan? God’s plan? A cosmic plan? A soul’s plan? Nature’s plan? What if your destiny is to just BE THIS? Considering that man lives in a mind that believes Just This should be something else, a plan or a destiny, then it is quite an extraordinary achievement to be Just This. You have to drop the destiny and the force of the mind that says you should be something better, someplace else in a better moment than Just This.
The paradox is that your destiny is to give up having a destiny, which means leaving without a future, living Just This.
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You should read enough of the materials presented in this section concerning the tradition of Buddhism in order to understand how this tradition displays the characteristics or elements that make a tradition one that would be termed a “religion. The tradition presented in the materials below is one of the world’s living religions. You reading should indicate why this is so.
· THE ABSOLUTE: what do the believers hold as most important? What is the ultimate source of value and significance? For many, but not all religions, this is given some form of agency and portrayed as a deity (deities). It might be a concept or ideal as well as a figure.
· THE WORLD: What does the belief system say about the world? Its origin? its relation to the Absolute? Its future?
· HUMANS: Where do they come from? How do they fit into the general scheme of things? What is their destiny or future?
· THE PROBLEM FOR HUMANS: What is the principle problem for humans that they must learn to deal with and solve?
· THE SOLUTION FOR HUMANS: How are humans to solve or overcome the fundamental problems ?
· COMMUNITY AND ETHICS: What is the moral code as promulgated by the religion? What is the idea of community and how humans are to live with one another?
· AN INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY: Does the religion offer an explanation for events occurring in time? Is there a single linear history with time coming to an en****
Buddhism evolved in India. There were periods in India's past when Buddhism was dominant in India. Today less then 1% of India's population is Buddhist. Buddhism has more followers in countries east of India. Buddhism was established in about 500 BC. Buddhism began with a prince called Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha belonged to an aristocratic family. As a prince he had lot of wealth. He never left his palace. At some point Siddharta began to leave his palace and behold for the first time poverty, sickness and misery. After seeing this Siddharta lost interest in his spoiled life and left his palace forever and gave his rich personal belongings to the needy. He joined a group of ascetics who were searching for enlightenment. In those days people searching for enlightenment believed that this could be gained only by people who were capable of resisting their basic needs. These people almost did not eat anything and almost starved themselves to death. Siddharta also adopted this path of searching enlightenment. But at some point he came to a conclusion that this was neither the way towards enlightenment nor the spoiled life he had as a prince was the right path towards enlightenment. According to him the right path was somewhere in the middle and he called it the 'middle path'.
In order to focus on his enlightenment search, Buddha sat under a fig tree and after fighting many temptations he got his enlightenment. In his region 'enlightened' people were called Buddha. And so Siddharta was named Buddha. According to Buddha's theory life is a long suffering. The suffering is caused because of the passions people desire to accomplish. The more one desires and the less he accomplishes the more he suffers. People who do not accomplish their desirable passions in their lives will be born again to this life circle which is full of suffering and so will distant themselves from the world of no suffering - Nirvana.
To get Nirvana, one has to follow the eight-fold path which are to believe right, desire right, think right, live right, do the right efforts, think the right thoughts, behave right and to do the right meditation.
Buddhism emphasis non- violence. Buddha attacked the Brahmanic custom of animal slaughtering during religious ceremonies. Religiously the Buddhists are vegetarians. But many Indians believe that Buddha, died because he ate a sick
· THE ABSOLUTE: what do the believers hold as most important? What is the ultimate source of value and significance? For many, but not all religions, this is given some form of agency and portrayed as a deity (deities). It might be a concept or ideal as well as a figure.
· THE WORLD: What does the belief system say about the world? Its origin? its relation to the Absolute? Its future?
· HUMANS: Where do they come from? How do they fit into the general scheme of things? What is their destiny or future?
· THE PROBLEM FOR HUMANS: What is the principle problem for humans that they must learn to deal with and solve?
· THE SOLUTION FOR HUMANS: How are humans to solve or overcome the fundamental problems ?
· COMMUNITY AND ETHICS: What is the moral code as promulgated by the religion? What is the idea of community and how humans are to live with one another?
· AN INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY: Does the religion offer an explanation for events occurring in time? Is there a single linear history with time coming to an en****
Buddhism evolved in India. There were periods in India's past when Buddhism was dominant in India. Today less then 1% of India's population is Buddhist. Buddhism has more followers in countries east of India. Buddhism was established in about 500 BC. Buddhism began with a prince called Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha belonged to an aristocratic family. As a prince he had lot of wealth. He never left his palace. At some point Siddharta began to leave his palace and behold for the first time poverty, sickness and misery. After seeing this Siddharta lost interest in his spoiled life and left his palace forever and gave his rich personal belongings to the needy. He joined a group of ascetics who were searching for enlightenment. In those days people searching for enlightenment believed that this could be gained only by people who were capable of resisting their basic needs. These people almost did not eat anything and almost starved themselves to death. Siddharta also adopted this path of searching enlightenment. But at some point he came to a conclusion that this was neither the way towards enlightenment nor the spoiled life he had as a prince was the right path towards enlightenment. According to him the right path was somewhere in the middle and he called it the 'middle path'.
In order to focus on his enlightenment search, Buddha sat under a fig tree and after fighting many temptations he got his enlightenment. In his region 'enlightened' people were called Buddha. And so Siddharta was named Buddha. According to Buddha's theory life is a long suffering. The suffering is caused because of the passions people desire to accomplish. The more one desires and the less he accomplishes the more he suffers. People who do not accomplish their desirable passions in their lives will be born again to this life circle which is full of suffering and so will distant themselves from the world of no suffering - Nirvana.
To get Nirvana, one has to follow the eight-fold path which are to believe right, desire right, think right, live right, do the right efforts, think the right thoughts, behave right and to do the right meditation.
Buddhism emphasis non- violence. Buddha attacked the Brahmanic custom of animal slaughtering during religious ceremonies. Religiously the Buddhists are vegetarians. But many Indians believe that Buddha, died because he ate a sick
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