The four sights are four events described in the legendary account of Gautama Buddha’s life which led to his realization of the impermanence and the ultimate dissatisfaction of conditioned existence. According to this legend, before these encounters Gautama Siddhartha had been confined to his palace by his father, who feared that he would become an ascetic if he came into contact with sufferings of life according to a prediction. However, his first venture out of the palace affected him deeply and made him realize the sufferings of all humans, and compelled him to begin his spiritual journey as a wandering ascetic, which eventually led to his enlightenment. The spiritual feeling of urgency experienced by Siddhārtha Gautama is referred to as saṃvega.
Kalpa Sūtra
The Kalpa Sūtra (Sanskrit: कल्पसूत्र) is a Jain text containing the biographies of the Jain Tirthankaras, notably Parshvanatha and Mahavira.[1] Traditionally ascribed to Bhadrabahu, which would place it in the 4th century BCE,[2] it was probably put in writing 980 or 993 years after the Nirvana (Moksha) of Mahavira
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_literature
There may be somewhere where it’s stated as a positive, i.e. “eating well was necessary to pursue the jhānas and the Middle Way” — I think I’ve read something like that, but I don’t remember whether that’s a direct quote or an indirect paraphrase.
https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/17550/why-the-buddha-abandoned-asceticism
Did he inventado the middle way path?
Buddha remembered his previous lives
Jains believe in the existence of an eternal Jiva (soul), whereas Buddhism denies the concept of self (jiva) or soul (atman), proposing the concept of no-self (anatta) instead. … The Buddha taught the Middle Way, rejecting extremes of the answer “it is” or “it is not” to metaphysical questions.
Buddhists don’t believe in reincarnation, they believe in rebirth.
Buddhists don’t believe is a soul, a self, an essence or any kind of substantive identity.
Buddhists believe that humans aren’t human beings, but human events made by 5 khandas coming together and forever changing.
It isn’t entirely accurate, but what goes on to a new life is your unfinished karma, your desires, dispositions, memories.
The dispute about “self” and “not-self” doctrines has continued throughout the history of Buddhism.[74] According to Johannes Bronkhorst, it is possible that “original Buddhism did not deny the existence of the soul”, even though a firm Buddhist tradition has maintained that the Buddha avoided talking about the soul or even denied its existence.[75] French religion writer André Migot also states that original Buddhism may not have taught a complete absence of self, pointing to evidence presented by Buddhist and Pali scholars Jean Przyluski and Caroline Rhys Davids that early Buddhism generally believed in a self, making Buddhist schools that admit an existence of a “self” not heretical, but conservative, adhering to ancient beliefs.[76]
Anatman, al igual que el resto de afirmaciones filosóficas del budismo, es para sus seguidores un elemento de práctica en el que investigar y no una convención de fe. Nace teniendo como punto de partida la experiencia, que siempre supedita a los razonamientos en el budismo.
La palabra se compone del prefijo “An“, que es una negación y la expresión “Atman“, alma, auténtico ser, sí-mismo, o esencia verdadera. El atman es un concepto fundamental en el contexto de las religiones dhármicas de las que surgió el budismo y en el que Buda Gautama -su fundador-, siguió una línea nastika (heterodoxa), o lo que puede ser visto como una reacción a pensamientos existentes en aquel entonces.
Rebirth is when a soul leaves the body in the state of ignorance and then again gets a new body in ignorance. Reincarnation is when soul leaves the body in full knowledge and such souls reincarnate only to fulfill a some mission or purpose in life.
Rebirth is when a soul leaves the body in the state of ignorance and then again gets a new body in ignorance. Reincarnation is when soul leaves the body in full knowledge and such souls reincarnate only to fulfill a some mission or purpose in life.
That exact question is covered in the Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta as one of the “imponderables,” meaning that the question itself is irrelevant both to the practice and to achieving Nirvana.
“….but denies the existence of a soul.”
Sort of. The Buddha never said that there is no soul just as he never said that there is no self. The Buddha saw questions like: are the body and soul the same? Is the body is one thing and the soul another? Is there a self? Does self not exist?, as unskillful questions. What the Buddha did reject was eternalism and annihilationism as well as partial eternalism and partial annihilationism. The Brahmajāla Sutta lists sixty two unskillful views that the Buddha refuted.
As for “sort of” part. In the Buddha’s time there was a Vedic belief that the attan (soul) was a creature that lived in heart. At death this little guy moved to a new body. The Buddha did reject that.
As for reincarnation or “rebirth” there are some differences. The Buddha did not really use the word rebirth in the Pāli Nikayas. Instead he spoke of birth (jati) or renewal of being (punabhava) which he explained through the doctrine of dependent arising, an agentless process that needs no self or soul.
You might enjoy reading Bhikkhu Bodhi’s short piece that explains the process and compares it to reincarnation.
Anatta is the Buddhist idea of non-self. Winston L. King, a writer from the University of Hawai’i Press, references two integral parts of Anatta in Philosophy East and West.[97] King details the first aspect, that Anatta can be “experienced and not just described.”[98] King states the second aspect of Anatta is that it is the liberation from the “power of samsaric drives.”[99] Obtaining awareness of Anatta and non-self reality results in a, “freedom from the push-pull of his own appetites, passions, ambitions, and fixations and from the external world’s domination in general, that is, the conquest of greed, hatred, and delusion.”[100] This “push-pull” of mundane human existence or samsara results in dukka, but the recognition of Anatta results in a “freedom from the push-pull.”
https://swarajyamag.com/ideas/was-buddhism-a-social-reform-of-hinduism
buddha a philosopher of hinduism
https://www.learnreligions.com/tripitaka-tipitaka-449696
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textos_budistas#Textos_de_Asia_Ortiental
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhāran_Buddhist_texts
https://www.quora.com/What-did-the-Buddha-look-like-when-he-was-alive
https://www.bl.uk/sacred-texts/articles/the-buddhist-canon
https://www.ancient.eu/Sutra/#:~:text=500%20BCE)%20and%20so%20were,century%20BCE%20-%206th%20century%20CE.
https://blog.sivanaspirit.com/understanding-buddhism-10-reasons-not-religion/
The four truths grew to be of central importance in the Theravada tradition of Buddhism by about the 5th-century CE, which holds that the insight into the four truths is liberating in itself.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/It-is-said-that-Buddhism-existed-even-before-Gautama-Buddha-If-it-is-true-then-why-did-Buddha-identify-himself-with-Buddhism-tradition-clan-and-if-not-then-why-his-followers-did-so
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-in-Buddhism-to-get-to-Nirvana-heaven-you-depend-on-your-own-enlightenment-and-God-something-other-than-Buddha-does-not-help
https://www.quora.com/Did-Gautama-Buddha-name-his-teaching-Buddhism
He didnt even intent to set noble stuff as main believe but one of his philosophies
About buddha knowing number raindrops is about his ability to count like a super computer model
https://www.quora.com/Does-the-Buddha-need-to-learn-physics-to-know-physics-Or-does-the-Buddha-already-know-everything-in-physics
https://www.quora.com/Did-Buddha-know-everything
The three things a buddha can’t do (如來 三不能 Buddha’s three incapacities)
1.不能免 定業衆生 He cannot destroy bad karma for anyone.
2.不能度 無緣衆生 He cannot save the people unrelated to him.
3.不能盡 衆生界 He cannot save the whole world of all living things
https://www.learnreligions.com/the-agganna-sutta-450123
short answer on a economic and social level yes. buddha stopped many donations to brahmin families and sacrifices which brahmin profited from. also buddha preached elimination of the varna system which brahmins also sat atop of, go fig. :/
a bit of a secret though buddhism is responsible for the nastiness of the modern caste ststem and all its rigidity. bless ashoka and all his rules.
long answer get it elsewhere i’m sure its here already.
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“What do you think, Assalayana? Have you heard that in Yana & Kamboja and other outlying countries there are only two castes — masters & slaves — and that having been a master one (can) become a slave, and that having been a slave one (can) become a master?”
“Yes, Master Gotama…”
“So what strength is there, Assalayana, what assurance, when the brahmans say, ‘Brahmans are the superior caste… the sons & offspring of Brahma: born of his mouth, born of Brahma, created by Brahma, heirs of Brahma’?”
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.093.than.html
https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-original-religion-of-Gautama-Buddha-before-he-founded-Buddhism
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajivika
Fundador Makkhali Gosala
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chárvaka
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brijaspati-sutra
https://www.quora.com/Was-the-Buddha-agnostic
Yes, and all the Nastika schools as they are called by Hindus are agnostic.
The Sanskrit term for agnostic is ajnana.
Buddhism and Jainism emphasize ajnana, and so did their extinct sister movements Ajivika and Carvaka.
Ajnana means you doubt and reject the claims of the Vedas, certain ideas of karma/rebirth, and you might also discard the concept of Atman.
All the founders of the skeptical Indian schools said the idea that Isvara created the world is not a certain fact.
https://www.quora.com/Did-Buddha-find-the-truth
What about theravadaaaaaaaaaaa????????
They shouldn’t.
Nobody should believe that there is only one Buddha. Multiple people have attained enlightenment, not just one.
There are many sects of Buddhism. Different sects focus on different numbers of Buddhas. A search for “list of Buddhas” turns up lists of different numbers of Buddhas, and apparently, China publishes ‘verified living buddha’ list that includes 870 “verified” buddhas. Some sects might prefer to follow the teachings of one Buddha over the others. Some sects believe that every living creature (even non-human ones) can eventually attain enlightenment.
However, there may have been a Buddha who is credited with helping all later Buddhas, just like we credit Albert Einstein with discovering relativity, Isaac Newton with discovering gravity, or Socrates with many concepts. The same thing that made Socrates so special probably also made a particular Buddha special to some sects of Buddhism: it’s possible that many other people had the same ideas as Socrates before Socrates did, but Socrates influenced other people who wrote down the ideas and gave Socrates credit, and those writings were taught to others and survived across time. Every “modern” thinker can trace parts of their thought process back to the ideas of Socrates.
Buddha was a prince, born to King Suddothana (sorry about spelling, Thai transliteration destroys Indian languages).
He eventually found that life of comfort was not for him. He lamented how people are born, age, get sick, and die. Is this a cycle, he asked.
He tried to find an answer with the Indian practitioners, but none worked. He tried various methods, hung out with the Jains, tried fasting, and none worked.
So he practiced meditation. Eventually, he learned that the best way that works for him is to meditate and get rid of everything that clutters the mind. Get rid of earthly needs and bodily desires. Eventually get rid of EVERYTHING from your mind, and release yourself from all ties to the universe. (Hate and greed are especially what we laymen should strive to release ourselves from.) This is Nirvana.
He preached and taught the others, even some of the old people he respected as his master. He later gained the respect of the local kings, his own father, and even a serial killer out to kill him.
He died a man. He was never elevated to godhood. He never told anyone to worship him, or to follow his teachings. He presented his words as an option, a way you can try for yourself. If it works for you, great. If it doesn’t, then you keep working towards your own enlightenment.
In summary, Buddha:
was an Indian prince
was hell bent on finding an escape from the cycle of birth, aging, sickness, and death.
found the way and taught the others. This is what makes him *a Buddha.
*“a” Buddha, not “the” Buddha. There have been many Buddhas in the past. If you discover and teach, you are a Buddha. If you don’t teach, you are a Pajjeka-Buddha or “Lone Buddha.” If you decide to wait for all souls to ready for enlightenment, you are a Bodhisattva. If you merely follow the teachings of Buddha and become Enlightened, you are an Arhat.
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