This is what I like most about Buddhism. It's actually less of a religion and more of a philosophy to guide your life and to alleviate suffering. This philosophy has also stood the test of time very well, unlike the preaching of most other religions.
I'm a buddhist and myself feel it's too bad people understand it as a religion, rather than a philosophical, ethical guideline. Something about deifying this Buddha doesn't sit well with me since he taught that he himself was just a man and teacher, and that a person could adopt some, all, or none of his teachings at their own discretion.
Out of 85,000 Buddhists sutras, I don't find everything is similar to Hinduism.There are similarity of dharma in few texts with Hinduism.Buddha was Hindu by birth but not by his choice.he reached the stage of Nirvana through his own experiences.Actually he argued about many blind faith in Hinduism such as Brahminism,caste discrimination and old Hindu rituals like hom,yegga and animal sacrifice!Buddha said, you don't have to rely on god to seek better Karma,merit and to achieve the ultimate bliss .Hinduism has belief system of uncountable gods and goddess.
wrong notes These paths lead to the void of the individual uniqueness. Into an eventual state of "universal" consciousness. Generic, and void of any uniqueness of essence. This is a dead universe, lstuck on an eternal repitiotious loop of of rebirth, til one reaches total enlightenment into the absolute of universal void of identity. Then, the consciousness resets n begins the rebirth n evolution process all over. And, this never ends. It's eternal. This is eternity "without" God. A dead universe, and a dead existence. Lacking purpose, and beauty. Lacking Divine purpose. Lacking the beauty and the Divine purpose of individual unique essence. A dead n dark universe of such has us simply seeking to reach enlightenment to escape suffering of existing. Over and over again. To void out any individual essence and identity. Our unique essence is created Divine. With purpose and dignity. Not to simply be destroyed and voided out into a universal bland consciousness. "Life" is precious. YOU are precious. Your uniqueness is so precious. God has a plan for your magnificent beauty. Ur irreplaceable. "Love" hinges on uniqueness. Our uniqueness is what makes us true. Without it, we have no true intimacy. And that bcums a universe and an existence in which love can not survive, nor reach. That is a universe which is left void of God's eternal love. Thus, left with mere generic universal consciousness. A universal eternal state where the richness of the individual unique Soul is dead, and void; Left only with a endless repetitive existence of dead, empty, universal consciousness at its pinnacle(Enlightenment). A never ending eternity of existence separated from God's grace and God's unending love. In God's grace, each and every Beings uniqueness exist with absolute dignity. We are so precious. Don't believe the lies of any other path, than the path of Jesus Christ.
So amazing that 2,500 years ago there was a man who explored and mapped the inner self with such precision. Even if you don't consider him a spiritual teacher, he is certainly the greatest psychologist and healer that ever lived. He saw deeply into human nature. Taught people for 45 years. A giant. Thanks.
what a beautiful religion, I'm an Atheist myself however the Buddhist way of thinking always intrigues me and makes me wish that it wasn't only the 6th most common religion in the world.
The Awesome Adipose These paths lead to the void of the individual uniqueness. Into an eventual state of "universal" consciousness. Generic and devoid of any uniqueness of essence. Tho, this makes for a dead universe, stuck on an eternal repitiotious loop of rebirth, til one reaches total enlightenment into the absolute, devoid of identity. Then, the consciousness resets n begins the rebirth n evolution process all over, (or, you are all together snuffed out into nothing). And, this never ends. It's eternal. This is eternity "without" God. Tho, it is a dead universe and a dead existence. Lacking the divine beauty and the divine purpose specifically for our individual unique essence. A dead n dark universe of such has us simply seeking to reach enlightenment to escape the suffering of existing. Over and over again. Where the aim is to transcend n ultimately void out any individual essence and identity. Tho, our unique essence is fashioned majestically with love and meaning. With purpose and dignity. Not to simply be destroyed and voided out into a universal consciousness, nor into nothingness. Life is precious. "You" are precious. Your uniqueness is the most precious and valuable treasure about you. There is a purpose for your magnificent uniqueness and beauty. You are one of a kind and absolutely irreplaceable. "Love" hinges on our uniqueness. Our uniqueness is what makes us true. It is specifically what people love uniquely about a person. Without it, we have no true intimacy. And, without personal intimacy, that bcums a universe and an existence in which love can not survive, and is not real, (It is merely transcendental).That is the existential reality of a universe that is devoid of God, at the heart. Thus, rendering the true purpose of life and our true nature, meaningless and transcendental; being left to strive towards nothing more than to reach peace, through attaining a generic universal state of consciousness; Left only with a endless repetitive existence, whereas, at its pinnacle, is that of which aims to escape it, (ie. enlightenment). Love is not that which is to be trancended; it is not a mere attachment and neither are you.
Buddha was an atheist. Just like you and me. His way is very much like stoicism. Don’t follow him blindly. Use his principles,test his principles and then u can follow it. As Buddha said,”Dont follow me blindly,test your principles thoroughly and cut anyone standing between you and principles even if that’s me.”
I'm from the United States, so growing up I was never really exposed to eastern philosophy. I was raised thinking that Catholicism and western philosophy was the only way, and until recently I felt this inner struggle to conform to its beliefs. I would feel guilt, knowing that I was doing something that was going against its doctrine. Recently though I have been exposed to eastern philosophy, that of Buddhism in particular. Nothing in my entire life has ever made so much sense and I don't see how the entire world does not think and see the world in this way. I find it amazing that you aren't forced into doing anything. You're simply asked to keep an open mind, to see the world in a different perspective. The fact that this isn't taught let alone even mentioned in western teaching is mind-boggling, saddening even.
I am glad that you figured this out by yourself without having anyone to tell you. You feel more comfortable with the Eastern philosophy because it is reasonable, it conforms with the natural law. It does not just force you to believe in something unreasonable.
@Michelle Michelle why are you on here? this is a buddhist video, we are simply trying to either learn about the faith or strengthen our faiths. We don't go and try to convert people from your religion, they freely come here.
@@EPICPACKOPENINGSXD Why not ? If a Christian or islam or hindu and even an atheist can follow buddhism then why can't make money ? Buddhism never made weird rules like other religions, it's an open minded religion that doesn't have any strict meaningless law but It has some moral paths that one can follow for being a better human. Fold paths are not even religious, it's just logical and karma based. The main motto is "do good deeds". You can be anything or can freely choose to do anything can still be a Buddhist. There is is so called rule that you can't eat meat in buddhism but still you can. It's really an open minded religion Don't blindly believe anything, just doing keep an open mind and follow the 8 paths. That's enough for buddhism
@@IsoXable Theravada-Glaubenssätze, ob Buddha existiert oder nicht, können Nirvana selbst mit Dhamma erreichen. Ich glaube, Wiedergeburt und Karma. Buddhistische Lehren sind praktisch
Blue C I feel the term “dominating” is bit skeptical for Buddhism don’t you think ? “Dominating desires” is again a desire. It’s like you desiring to get rid of desires. Suffering can be eliminated by following eight fold path as given in the four noble truths. It includes controlling desires but much wider than just that.
Blue C root cause of suffering is given as tanha. When you say desire do you mean tanha or something else. I was referring to tanha in my comment when I said desire. I thought you were meaning the same. Of course self control is most essential but better it stems through understanding into reality so it’s not forced upon.
The Best thing About Buddhas teachings were to have a reality check and not let the luxuries get to our mind. Equanimity is something I feel is the biggest weapon for anyone who seeks for both materialistic and spiritual success. I couldn't have agreed more to his philosophy.
I've been raised as a Catholic. The best thing I found about Buddhism is, it focuses on our internal consciousness and compassion, rather than arguing and debating with other religions :))
After i suscribed to this channel i started seeing the world in a different way. I guess i need to start reading some philosophy books. Thank you so much The School of Life, i really appreciate all your videos you guys do an awesome job!.
+Bruce River You might also be interested in Eckhart Tolle, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Sadhguru, and Alan Watts on youtube. There are a lot of interesting things on youtube, but I agree The School of Life is one of the best things I have found also. By the way T.S.O.L., the reply you made here to the original commenter where you suggested thebookoflife.org is the first time I have seen the link for that website. I haven't seen that link anywhere else on any of your videos except for here in your reply to the original commenter. It's a really interesting website and you may want to make the link more prominent for people to find.
It's useful to notice that "suffering" is an inadequate translation of the original term "dukkha", which is more closely related to "dissatisfaction" or "unfulfillment", as if your life's purpose is always beyond achievement, no matter what you do or possess. The Dharma - the teachings of the Buddha - aim at helpping one ceasing this existential itching.
My teacher went to India to teach English there, while she was there she went on tours and on this particular tour they visited a temple where monks would practice Buddhism or what not and take in children who had been abandoned. She saw a monk in the shade of the tree, and said she had not seen a calmer face more than that monk, she said if serenity was a person, that monk would be it. She said she felt ethereal vibrations or energies surrounding him, and it was really beautiful. I mean i'd like to visit monks and really learn from them at least once in my life, I thought I'd share this lol because now she is a loyal Buddhist and is the best teacher ever.
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+Raymond Lai I find Buddhism interesting but I also find it hard to see how anyone could be happy without attachment. Surely attachment and investment in others is the root of happiness as well as sadness and the sadness is simply the necessary price for happiness. Does it not require attachment to have compassion. A love of learning and a desire for understanding to obtain wisdom? A desire to help to be generous? Is meaning in life not derived from what you value? Perhaps I don't truly understand Buddhism and eastern philosophy but I have always through that it is a duty of a person to desire a better world for all rather than be content to simply except it as it is.
+Gareth Brooks-Martin Buddhism isn't trying to articulate that one should be without desire but instead is saying that the kind of desire that is harmful is one which make us more egoistic and cut-off.
+Gareth Brooks-Martin 'desire a better world' Here's the fundamental difference between eastern and western philisophy, not that one is better than the other. Eastern philosophy is trying to better oneself, which will ultimately make the world a better place. It is more concerned with the inner. Western philosophy is more concerned with the outer, and trying to better the world around us, which will ultimately make us peaceful and happy people. I kinda think both are incomplete without the other.
cast system and racism was invented by kings during ancient history to bring society in order, it is not a hindu idea...also there is jainism, sikkhim, taoism etc that are pretty respectable religions too.
if still practicing meditation, check zen. Theravada methodic is good for the beginning. but later, concentration on counting or kongan, or just siting- shikantada, methods of zen schools, are more useful in meditation. gl.
jim gordon no because Buddhism isent about controlling others. cant say the same for western religions. there all corrupted, ignorant and harmful. they do good every once ina while but hurt the population with there primitive teachings spooky story's hateful teachings and money/power hungry asses.
Tasin Al-Hassan i understand its not a religion. there are agnostic and atheist Buddhist, alot of them are actually and yes i am aware of this. i never said Buddhism was a religion i just said id rather have a bunch of Buddhist running around rather than a bunch of Christians and Muslims.
But you know the cardinal points are actually a human invention, in the Universe the Earth is not placed to the right or left, neither is it upside down or not. It's just there and the East could be the West and de South the North...
@dragon warrior Thanks. Guess there is around 4 or 5 milion buddhists. We are adjusted here somehow and Buddhists existance is passing through unknown future.
Without desire there is no existence. But desires with attachments to certain material things is what inflicts suffering and one should extinguish it..
Lao Tzu = enlightened, Budda = enlightened, Osho = fraud. He had the largest collection of Rolls Royces (confiscated by his wealthy students) and was also a bigot: have a look at his quotes on homosexuals. I wouldn't dare to utter his name next to those two icons. For the greatest sage of the 20th century, check out the works of Ramana Maharshi. I believe him to be the most enlightened person of the last 500 years. Peace
"Suffering" doesn't quite express what Buddha was talking about. Rather, he was speaking of unsatisfactory-ness. That is to say that all things humans might strive for are transitory and, even if successfully attained, ultimately do not bring satisfaction and are subject to entropy--just as we are.
Ultimately it is the same thing. We chase the pleasing and avert the unpleasant. We all desire happiness, peace, and contentments because we are in pain, insufficiency and in suffering
GladX That can work, but for most people who are looking for the quickest and more direct path to Enlightenment, I believe it can be troublesome based on my past experience. We are still hanging on to that very desire to experience life's pleasures and awards, which can lead to suffering and confusion. The method known as "Self-Enquiry" by Ramana Maharshi is the quickest from my understanding.
When I was in high school, I got some suicidal thoughts creeping up on me. I confided in my mom, who was Buddhist but she never ever enforced it on me. She explained that Buddha said living is suffering, I’ll only face more pain and struggles in my future. She then added that every human being was born to find their meaning in life, and that meaning is find a way to live without suffering. I was confused as a kid but yes the more I experienced struggles in life I learned how to better cope with things or find a new outlet. Slowly I understand I was consciously changing my mindset and saving myself from depression. I was essentially practicing Buddhism without knowing it.
Great. I just read "Buddha and his Dhamma" By Symbol of Knowledge DR AMBEDKAR. Do read his book, its great interpretation of Buddha Dhamma, and no doubt thats my fav book. DR AMBEDKAR was one who revived Buddhism in India, the reason why there are Buddhist is India is only coz of him. Its great book, please do read it.
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Haha, it's the same in some parts of Sri Lanka, I've studied Buddhadharma for 30 years but it's shocking how many Sri Lankans know v little about the philosophy, they just know how to conduct themselves at the temple. They call themselves Buddhist but they don't even know what that actually means🤷🏽♂️ I think it's the same in most countries n most religions
To test and validate if something is true or not, one must go and discover his or her self. Buddha is not a doctrine in fact , it is a method. It's a method to test and validate for yourself of direct experience . It is not like any other religions that go by blind faith.
it is a religion & its history dates back to 2560 years & been a religion in great historic civilizations in the world. still continuing in big time further spreading.
Tasin Al-Hassan the great monasteries, Statues & Colossal Stupas built by great ancient kings in ancient history still laying on our grounds & in jungles. for an instant wild elephants lives around them in the jungles. we have been worshiping these ancient ruins before westerners even known about buddha & buddisum. the virtues of our religion is in the our tradition & civilization before westerns known about buddha & buddisum. we sent messengers around to globe to spread our religion before westerners known about buddha & buddisum. phylosophy is only a part of our religion. & its the third largest religion in the world. its a religion for our ancestors before westerners come to know about buddha & buddisum. it is a our religion since ancient times.
@@sauron269 Islam is the best in your conditioned deluded mind from childhood to adulthood. As you are forbidden to read about other faith, know that Islam is the most violent and foulest of the three Abrahamic faith. Safer for YOU and others to believe in the tooth fairy!!!
@@sauron269 its about next buddha (Meytri buddha) he also preach the same dhamma which gauthma buddha preched. But islam belive in a god(allah). Buddha teached nirvana so next buddha also teach about nirvana too.
I love eastern philosophy and religion, mostly about bettering ones self and becoming one with the earth. While western religion is more about, well smiting lol
+LordAragon626 But again Gautama bathed in luxury because he was born into the Brahmin Caste, and he lived in a secluded world, while he left he met Sudaras or the worker class, usually dark skinned indians, who were suffering, and he realized how his world is an illusion, so while he may have meditated he did reject hinduism.
***** Because historically Sudras were the poor even now, they were highly discriminated taxed against and in rigid class system they had little social mobility in general Buddha himself was from Brahmin caste and that is enough to establish who were in ruling power.
+LordAragon626 I think you're being a bit hard on the traditions you're more surrounded by. There's a good deal of bettering oneself in Western religion as well. It depends which aspects you want to focus on.
Let's take a moment to honor the Buddha and his contribution to the world. "The Buddha taught the importance of non-violence-to produce no harm, to will no harm, for this is the heart of all the world’s religions if they are clearly understood." From the sacred text 'Buddha and The New Message from God'.
I love Lord Buddha in every aspect, but sometimes I feel Buddha's way is too noble for the world. It's really difficult to make everyone a true Buddhist, as the world is full of difficulties, and humans are full of greed, hatred and stubbornness. And we keep fighting, hating, lying, killing and seeking sexual pleasure, wealth and power. However, I believe that Buddha's dharma will never fade out. It's simple the truth of life. The richer and more powerful we get, the sooner we realize that everything is impermanent and all of our fights for money and power are useless. We spent too much time seeking happiness but didn't know that happiness is inside ourself. Lord Buddha found it out 25 centuries ago, and his wise teachings are still relevant today and in the future.
A Buddhist monk once told me that science and Buddhism go along side each other and (I think) that Buddhist has lasted this many years due to this relationship.
I am fully agree with your words. But if you think Buddha's practice is too hard to do in this present society, That's wrong, His teaching is always valid to any of time. Only thing you have to do is force to your thoughts, world is not in outside its in yourself.
And this is exactly why we recite sutra. Through the sutra, Buddha will give us blessing and change the circumstances of our life, which in turn make our life easier. When I first started practicing Buddhism, I thought people were crazy when they said sutra can make my life different. Now that I’ve been reciting sutra for 2 years, I can honestly say my life has been changed! People around me somehow are all nice people now, and I couldn’t tank Buddha more! The secret is, you have to help yourself in this religion, no one else can help you. How you help yourself is reciting sutra! I wish you a very enlightened life!
The reason there are so many obstacles and difficulties in our lives is because we have too much karma build up on us from this life and many many past lives. The karma is created from bad behaviors and bad thinkings. That’s why Buddha says “every thinking creates karma” so just count the times you talk negatively towards other people, do anything that make people unhappy, or even have negative thoughts will creates bad karmas. If you think this way, you realize that people have obstacles in their life for a reason. It simply because what you put out into this world, you get. Reciting sutra is like an eraser to a whiteboard, every time you recite, you erase some of the bad karma on you, and that’s how sutra can help you have a better life!
Buddhism is not a religion nor will it ever be, Buddha is a teacher, he taught people to see through reality for what it really is rather than what we want it to be
@@buddhismisnazism83 Well I can see why the world goes to shit day by day. Comparing Buddhism to nazism is pure ignorance and sin. But be whoever you want to be because, in the end, Buddhism doesn't support violence.
It is impossible for a religion to emerge without a prophet.If then, it is not a religion rather than following uncertainty. We muslim follow certain things without any doubts.
Wow being a faithful believer and living my best as a Christian I never realized how true Christianity and Buddhism try to live out our lives in similar fashion. Humility, compassion, faithfulness, charity , long suffering of worldly possessions in a world filled with war, lust, pride, deceit, all around us............❤️🇫🇴
You don't have to tell us that you're hindu but you love Buddha !!! You're making the line between gods which Buddha never believed, so fuck your RELIGION
in a simple way the Buddhism is to teach you how to react to the senses captures by your organs (mouth, skin, eye, ear) & process them in your brain in a way that gives you internal self satisfaction. which makes you a happy person. not by having what you want but how to use what you have to be a happy person. understanding the nature of the life & world & action, goes in a circle.
+Jenny Penny I would suggest you try to become a better person on your own without buddhism although he explained it like its this really great thing he didnt mention all the crap included in it (like a few million gods about 7 or 9 or more hells and yeah reincarnation after spending more time in hell than humanity have exiseted for)
+Jenny Penny Buddha is in all of us, don't feel like "written" truths are the same as "truths" we see with our minds eye through mindfulness and quietened states of being all of us are capable of enlightenment.
+Jenny Penny Buddha is in all of us, don't feel like "written" truths are the same as "truths" we see with our minds eye through mindfulness and quietened states of being all of us are capable of enlightenment.
Recently I've picked up an interest in meditation, and thus I have had to confront its religious roots. While Buddhism comes with several unappealing and superstitious claims, it's not dogmatic about it, and overall Buddhism is more like an ancient self help tool, or psychology, than religion. It's the only world religion worthy of some respect and consideration. The philosophical part of it resembles Greek stoicism much enough that one might wonder if there were some kind of cultural exchange going on a couple of thousand years ago.
You are not researching enough my friend. Buddha teaching is the ultimate philosophy of life and reality. It will beat Classical mechanic, evolution theory, space-time theory, quantum mechanics, consciousness and many more in the future. science would need a much much more time to catch up.
As someone who has read a lot on Buddhism, I think this was a great video. Thanks for making these... A video on the Bhagavad Gita would be interesting.
+Marco Dellorusso Can you explain what's that idea of loosing the "ego" and the "i" that i don't fully understand, and they didn't referred to in this video, please.
Buddhism teaches that there is no actual Self, as most people in the western world believe. The Buddha taught that we we think of as "ourself" is really just a continuous flux of physical and mental forces. And apparently it is the cause of all our suffering. So Buddhism teaches you how free yourself from this attachment by following the Noble Eightfold Path.
Marco Dellorusso Wow, thanks it is really amazing how you made that so much easier to understand. xd Now that i can see it that way, that is very similar to Hegel's philosophy about the Absolute
Rarity Sparkle You're welcome. It's been a while since I've read up on Buddhism so I might be forgetting some important points. A good book to check if you're interested would be What The Buddha Taught.
Buddhism is not a religion, it is rather a philosophy, probably the greatest one, it’s NOT an ideology. Buddhism is about subtraction; getting rid of unnecessary; it’s about releasing oneself from the burden of ideologies. ‘Middle way’ means avoiding extremes; having simple life, loving nature. Not to complicate life by asking about God, but to address real problems. Love Buddha. I wish all of us were Buddhists. (I am from a Muslim background).
The first Buddha statue was built by skilful Greek sculptors after Alexander came to India, long after Buddha’s death. And then the surge of Buddha statue making begins. My favourite Buddhist quotes- “Don’t accept anything without logic” “I (and everyone else) am not my body, I am not my thoughts or consciousness, I smile because birth did not give birth to me, death cannot kill me”.
This is education. Not that crappy institutional excuse for education that's only focused on grades and scores. This way allows us to embrace the knowledge given and become even wiser.
Rustatron 3000 Math science and language are a must to know. majority of regular school teaching are necessary. It would be nice if they'd go more in depth with things like this and help us develop deeper knowledge. ..but that's a parent's job so that's where the line is drawn. unless you take the kids to a private school.
Derek Meade i know how to solve complex math problems which i never use in real life but i do not know how to pay my taxes etc. The school system is a fail after reaching a certain grade it is useless to study the same thing for few more years.
Yes the American public school i believe is too long and drawn out. They're preparing us for 8 hour shift jobs and in the northern part studying a trade is a privilege not a need to know class. I think if it was shortened with all the important stuff in one. I'd work.
there was no india until 1947 dude..nepal also came into being in 1600's after unification by a king. Buddha was in "B.C." and what there was then were not nepal or india. let's stick to teachings instead of where he was born..tha is not point of buddhism.
I'm so grateful I ws born as a Buddhist. I guess humans are gifted with a high IQ to analyze things before just believing. I learnt to look at other religions as well as my own life in such an open mind.
Siddhartha taught in order to end suffering one must cut off ignorance and greed. This means changing ones views and living in a more natural and peaceful way. It is like blowing out a candle the flame of suffering is put out for good. The state in which all suffering is ended is called nirvana. Nirvana is an everlasting state of great joy and peace. The extinction of desire is nirvana. This is the ultimate goal of Buddhism to end suffering
Terry Costello Looking at Nirvana as a goal can be misleading in that it teaches you to seek it out as some kind of reward, as religions often do. The end of suffering is everything you really need to hope for; Nirvana is the state that you naturally achieve once that aim has been met. It's a practical set of principles to live by, rather than a faith.
Aranneas And truth has arrived. These paths lead to the void of the individual uniqueness. Into an eventual state of "universal" consciousness. Generic, and void of any uniqueness of essence. This is a dead universe, stuck on an eternal repitiotious loop of rebirth, til one reaches total enlightenment into the absolute of universal void of identity. Then, the consciousness resets n begins the rebirth n evolution process all over. And, this never ends. It's eternal. This is eternity "without" God. A dead universe, and a dead existence. Lacking purpose, and beauty. Lacking Divine purpose. Lacking the Divine beauty and the Divine purpose of individual unique essence. A dead n dark universe of such has us simply seeking to reach enlightenment to escape suffering of existing. Over and over again. To void out any individual essence and identity. Our unique essence is created Divine. With purpose and dignity. Not to simply be destroyed and voided out into a universal bland consciousness. "Life" is precious. YOU are precious. Your uniqueness is so precious. God has a plan for your magnificent beauty. Ur irreplaceable. "Love" hinges on uniqueness. Our uniqueness is what makes us true. Without it, we have no true intimacy. And that bcums a universe and an existence in which love can not survive, nor reach. That is a universe which is left void of God's eternal love. Thus, left with mere generic universal consciousness. A universal eternal state where the richness of the individual unique Soul is dead, and void; Left only with a endless repetitive existence of dead, empty, universal consciousness at its pinnacle(Enlightenment). A never ending eternity of existence separated from God's grace and God's unending love. In God's grace, each and every Beings uniqueness exist with absolute dignity. We are so precious. Don't believe the lies of any other path, than the path of Jesus Christ.
@@t.k.326 Yeah, most likely. The religion's morals and philosophy are not dogmatic and are totally fine with rather a person believes in the religion or not. Plus there is also many atheist Buddhists within the religion considering the fact that Buddhism doesn't really have any gods. So it is really up to the individual to decide rather they believe in any deities or not. Double plus, many nonreligious atheists such as myself actually agree with a lot of the philosophy of Buddhism. So it is understandable as to why Buddhism is totally alright with and even friendly with Atheists.
In my 8th grade, our school course had a book on Buddha's life story. I'm an agnostic, but his teachings have inspired me to try my best to have a clear conscience and do the right thing when time calls. Of course, I'm only human and prone to mistakes, but I'll keep doing what I can.
Unlike many other religions, Buddhism can be understood as a list of "experiments" you can do to see the truth for yourself if you do what the Buddha recommended! That is very appealing to many people nowadays as it does not rely on faith alone
Buddhism kept me out of a lot of trouble I could have otherwise been in. Now, it seems to have only set part of the stage for another development. It could not save me fully, though I don't know what I'd be without it.
I've scrolled through about 300 comments. No hate comments from Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Atheists...Only these Gospel Christians. These individuals give Jesus a bad name. Shame on you all.
Please correct me if I am wrong: I believe the statement that Nirvana "refers to the blowing out of the flame of desire" is actually incorrect. As far as I have learned thus far, Nirvana actually refers to the transcendence (and therefore extinguishing) of ones connection to the material, mental, and emotional desires of human life. It is as though one who achieves Nirvana has shed this world and transfers to one which is unknowable and indescribable since it would be impossible to describe that which no one has experienced, nor has any relation to what we have experienced. But that is simply what I have learned. Wonderful video though, as usual.
There's not an "I" who is transferred to another world. Nirvana is the extinction of the flames of craving which are fueled by ignorance, hatred and greed. Ignorance of what? Of the impermanence of conditioned phenomena; of the unsatisfactoriness of life; and of the illusion of a permanent and essential self. Nirvana is long-lasting peace in the here & now; a peace without conditions, and which does not depend on anything external. Kind regards!
I'm a devout Christian and I love the teachings of Jesus more than love myself, I do have a great admiration of Buddhism and I feel like Gautama and Jesus would have been good friends had they met in real life.
Yet this video about Buddhism conveys positive mindset, patience, acceptance, knowledge, compassion and generosity and inner peace, many people in the comment section are fighting over the debate of whether it’s religion, Buddha is god or not, and spreading negativity. No wonder why the world is filled with many dissatisfied negative beings
@@buddhismisnazism83 No Nagato (Pain) was the second buddha Edit: jokes aside... Bodhisatwa is the second buddha according to Buddhist scripts... The world "Buddha" means "the enlightened one" And Sidhartha Gautam was one of em
This is the best explanation I have seen of the truths which are the essential formula for enlightenment. In our modern world of drugs and iPhones this is more important than ever, but so few really grasp the simple message here and practice it. It works! I always has worked. We owe a debt to Siddharta for putting it together and should honor him by actually practicing these truths. There are many out there who are trying meditation etc, which is a joy and essential to the process, but if one grasps one concept about happiness it is the noble truths and 8 fold path that will help you evolve into a Buddha. It is all so simple. Don't complicate it. Continue to study and review and practice these basics and you will find nirvana every day and live a more joyful life. Also, the first area of attachment most can't see because we are so far away now from the reality of our humanity is that all our practice and joy is built on a foundation of a healthy body, and to build this foundation correctly please use a whole plant food diet that science has revealed without question will lead to healing and freedom from suffering major diseases and mental afflictions!
Please do one. I just remembered a saying from Robert Oppenheimer, the 'father of the Atomic bomb' , mentioning after the creation of the bomb the saying in the Gita:,(Shiva) "I have become death, destroyer of worlds".
Jack Kraken shiva is the god of destroyer,brahma is the god of creator and vishnu is the god of preserver...vishu took many incarnation as krishna,rama,buddha and so On..10 avatars
I asked God if he wanted to show himself to me he would show me a fox 2 minutes later I'm 10 feet away from a fox, I knew the God of the universe who made the stats just visited me Then I wondered why me I'm nothing compared to him and about a week later I gave my life to Jesus
Now Hinduism is more about religion. Guru always act like someone higher class and above and that is the reason why Buddha left his kingdom to become peritual
Milk Man Life is so beautiful yet so brutally painful that is the absurdity of it, why isn't the universe perfect? Why is not everyone happy? War, torture, injustice, lose, pain. The europeans saw existence from a Christian perspective with a God entity responsible for everything good and bad, they saw bad, made no sense and ditched god and spirituality, and some: even morality as an excuse. The Easter view is different, God is everything ,and is not outside of the universe, there is porpuse, there is a meaning to it, the order of things, and the divine essence of existence is in every living thing. There is a reason to exists and that is order and light of love. That is what i got from my studies of eastern religion. For the weak spirited the mind is all there is , the animal instincs is all there is, because that is all that we were, animals,we evolved to be morally conscious, so there is a porpuse, otherwise good things would not exists. There is Beautity there is horror, that is what the chinese call duality and that same patter exists in everything.
For helping others to get away from pain, u awakened. Not in a way to awaken and become a super hero. Be simple, be kind, you will become a Buddha good student.
These two backgrounds that you have running, YELLOW for western philosophy and GREEN for eastern philosophy, are such soothing colors to the eye. It's pleasurable watching them, but not as pleasurable as listening to the lesson.
I appreciate what the school of life has done here, but although suffering (samsara) is a cornerstone of buddhist philosophy, it is not the heart of it. The heart of it is love and compassion; the idea that we all share this life and that we are all inherently good and awakened (we are all buddha). The existence and acceptance of suffering is more so a truth that buddhism realizes.
Buddhism being an atheist religion, there is no GOD & everything is associated with your karma. shows you can be religious and spiritual at the same time.
Im a buddhist and from some buddhist books I've read, there IS God who created nature and place what we called Earth. 😁 Buddha himself said that he is only a teacher to all creatures, both including dead or living creatures, from all dimensions, they who need to be guided from their sufferings. He is the top number one teacher, but he is not God himself, as he was born as a man during his time.
it is possible that he took soma during his journey. but he could have achieved enlightenment through meditation alone, because meditation allows you to clear your mind and think deeply like when ur on acid
I don't deny it, acid expands your consciousness. But how can you be sure whatever you think when your consciousness has expanded are natural truths? It is all how you perceive things. The first three rules of Buddha are something most people can conceive when left to dwell on the topic of sadness. It is easy to blame it on your desires. But desire to arrange all the information on the internet in a searchable index gave rise to Google. There is no one way you can map this world or the natural truths. Do what you want, or don't.
Happy to say im follow doctrine of Buddhism. It is really fit for you and me. Everyone knows buddha is best teacher in the world. He has been teached universal true. Those day how ever much i tried learn it. But I couldn't understand. Frankly speaking now I'm lern it. It is amazing. Wehen We talk about Buddaha we can't forget nibbana.
Jesus Christ is the only way to God Jesus Christ lived the perfect life and died nailed to a cross and rose from the dead And offers eternal life to all who would believe in him
Awesome elaboration and delivery of the history of Buddhism. Thank you for sharing. May all listening and reading gain enlightenment, peace and wisdom. Many Blessings from Chicago, IL
Alain de Botton ah, can't believe a member of the team replied. Well, for the record, I'm Chinese, so i just googled the name real quick to make sure i didnt fuck it up in English. turns out that backfired, eh? Btw, any word on Hegel? funny how his logic kinda goes with Lao-Tze's.
Will Ferrous Hi there Will! You know, he is not only a member of the team, but he is the man who is behind all these projects. ( The School of Life, The Philosopher's Mail, Living Architecture etc.) He is a very well known and beloved philosopher. If you wish, check out his website and look for his documentaries on youtube. You will discover a lot! He has another youtube channel where you can find his documentaries. And if you want one book to begin with you must read " The Consolations of Philosophy". Definitely a life changing book.
***** pardon my ignorance, im sure he is indeed a very well known philosopher and it's solely my own most grievous fault not knowing his name, my understanding of philosophy is only limited to 4 courses back in Univ D: At any rate, ill check out his second channel when i have the time, though i probably won't read the books :P
Will Ferrous It isn't ignorance at all. I don't know the names of the most chinese philosophers, writers and poets either. Unfortunately... But hopefully we still have some more time to live and to keep learning.
Thank you for uploading this video. I'm born in a Buddhist family and I always wanted to be able to explain who Lord Buddha is. However, I can't, because I'm not very good with English. Fortunately, there is a video like this, so I'm very happy. Unlike other videos, this one explains the meaning of Buddhism clearly and everyone in the comment session are very nice. I too, will study hard to translate the language of buddha. I'm only 14, so I have a long way to go.
Nothing lasts forever not even our troubles. I find that understanding of impermanence and uncertainty that Buddha put heavy emphasis on to be comforting and spot on with reality.
+Shmuel Malkin for people who are currently happy, it seems to devalue life. for those who are currently depressed it seems to empower life. so it shows that, its the middle way which the life should be expected and where one can expect peace to be
i feel like christianity if taken to its logical conclusion completely devalues the meaning of life. something created us and then we are just supposed to serve it like a slave? or if we don't then we are tortured for all eternity. no point. no point on creating something just for the sake of it worshipping you.
Actually I believe Buddhism cherishes life more or equal to religion. You cannot boil a philosophy down to a conclusion, only break it into its component parts, as these things are very complex. Buddhism shows its followers how to learn from each and every experience. Saying something like "that would be a waste of time" would be looked down upon. It's true Buddhist do not ask for much hahaha. It's almost nothing, but wanting things doesn't make a person a bad Buddhist necessarily. What do you mean when you say Buddhism devalues life? Buddhist believe that life is sacred and that nature is harmonists
Please nobody be a jerk because I asked, but I'm curious. Is Buddhism purely a religion, or more a philosophy? I'm asking because I'm a devout Christian, but I have incredible admiration for Buddhism.
Though, I am an Hindu, I respect Buddha more than my own Gods...He was no self-proclaimed prophet but a simple and just man who taught the ignorant about love, tolerance and compassion...He was a holy saint....
under British rule, yes they were. Myanmar are one of South East Asia country and among the great power at the region. Afghan & Baluchi are more connected to Persian culture than Indian. Bhutan & Nepal have a strong relationship with Tibet till this day
Nepal was never part of India nor the British Empire also India never existed before the British Empire, there were smaller countries that were at war with each other.
***** that was rather rude calling someone a faggot and mentally challenged. what? u always lash out at someone that dont agree with u like this?.... anger management. Did u flagged MultiDEVILMAYCRY123 original comment as SPAM, seriously..if u cant handle different opinions, u shouldnt be commenting then.
Hi School of life. Thank you for your videos. They are very illuminating. I would like to know if you have any suggestions of books on Buddhism which you may recommend. Thank you.
I stumbled across a sutra because of my curiosity about some phenomena that happened in my life. Decades ago I met an old guy who made my finger moved on its own that made me searching. Then I tried to learn meditation on my own cuz I usually won't believe things that i heard or read(skeptic) unless I experience it myself. Because of that, I began to receive dreams that came true (I seldom dream), and also I began to see things that weren't there although not everytime and feel vibrations on religious items (some religious item have higher vibration than others that is why I'm so interested in Buddhism - I believed in other faith before). After reading the sutra and tried a few meditation, I found myself able to heal a knee problem by touching ( a friend lifted a small fridge on a Friday morning but the pain made him unable to sleep). Although it isn't mentioned in the sutra but it says about how higher vibration during meditation will prevent other beings from disturbing. I used to be scared a lot of the unseen but by being able to maintain a certain state of mind, they don't bother me as much. The problem is the feeling of being "used" because I get to be asked by people to heal from flue, headache, knee, tennis elbow, sore throat, back pain, foot pain etc. At first I felt happy, but now I realized that all these are not real. People are usually interested in the fruit instead of the wisdom behind them. In the sutra it is being warned no to expose these because it will prevent you from getting the higher goal.
As an atheist, I think The world would be a huge amount kinder, if only the philosophy put forward by Buddha was followed by more people… instead we have the defensive, oppressive “philosophies” that rule the world today. One might argue that their religion is no less enlightening than Buddhism, but it’s clear to see that the entire perspective of Buddhism is different. It’s incredibly grounded in reality and human conscience. Which cannot be said for any of the most popular religions.
I have to say that the Buddha's teachings are relatable to all people in every walk of life. I'm not Buddhist, but I'm Catholic. I like to learn about the faiths of the world and learn different perspectives on spirituality and ways of life.
Pleasure and pain are necessary to living. The reality of life is feeling, and this is inescapable. It seems to me that the possibility of the necessity to *feel* for the rest of our lives, and possibly for eternity, is more intense and frightening than any amount of pleasure or pain at any particular time.
Buddhism is separated into two groups; Philosophy and Religion. Buddhism started out as a philosophy, then some people wanted to jazz it up with the supernatural and added chanting and reincarnation. You can understand and follow Buddhism without getting into the religious aspects. The best thing about Buddhism, it allows you to see the truth. And studying chemistry and physics doesn't hurt either.
Well I mean Buddha came from a region where Hinduism was highly practiced and the people around him suffered because of that religion which is why Buddha chose to be agnostic plus no good atheist would ever go without asking him self in the possibility of a god or an afterlife. Spirituality is second nature to human beings and it is important
actually it's a misguided opinion. reincarnation is the core of Buddhist philosophy, so much that there's no Buddhism without Reincarnation and Karma and they aren't simple fancy ideas as we tend to think.. Buddhism disagrees with vedic atman or god but the more you study both philosophies more you learn their similarities. in fact Buddhism seems to be the inevitable evolution of vedic literature. Therefore Vedic knowledge at its peak .
Buddhism as a religion only makes sense as any other religion; a leap of faith. Buddha never called himself God, but if he did, I would not believe him anymore than someone saying Jesus was the son of God, or that Allah speaks to Mohammad. Or that Hindu's believe Cows or elephants are Gods. I do not believe this and look as it as nonsense. However, pretty much any religion has some kernels of usefulness. If you look on the internet "Did Buddha teach reincarnation", you will find many hits saying that Buddha did not teach reincarnation. Buddha did teach "No Beliefs". Meaning you don't have to take someone word. Reincarnation refutes "No Beliefs".
Adrienne: agree with you basically. Most religions have some very good philosophy's. I just will not "believe" in supernatural thinking. That requires faith, a leap of faith. I personally believe we need stop supernatural thinking. If you accept one supernatural thinking, then why not accept another and another. In my experience, most people who believe in supernatural thinking are not logical thinkers.
Is the story of the grasshopper and the Buddha's compassion Mahayana? In Theravadin scripture it says that the memory of his childhood had to do with him happily meditating under a tree, and he reflected "so why am I afraid of that pleasure that has nothing to do with sensuality, nothing to do with unskillful mental qualities?" It's from the Mahasaccaka sutta
Yes it is true, in fact the video here gets it wrong by saying "memories of the grasshopper being trampled" but the actual story goes that he learnt the the technique of meditation when he was little to pass the time and then he put that into practice again under a tree and as you said. Then he got enlightened by meditation. As you see even a child can get enlightened if he/she tries.
also Buddha sought the guidance and teaching of many great religious and yoga practitioners of the time from varying religions in the area...it was through amalgamation of all of these techniques that he succeeded in forming the Middle Way.
The buddhists were calm and peaceful people and he was right that they moved passed their ways and spread it out to the human world. What it teaches us is that you should be calm and try to look for the bright side of things, even when you are suffering.
This is what I like most about Buddhism. It's actually less of a religion and more of a philosophy to guide your life and to alleviate suffering. This philosophy has also stood the test of time very well, unlike the preaching of most other religions.
I'm not denying that a lot of people treat Buddhism as a religion and worship Buddha as a god. This is just my take on it.
I'm a buddhist and myself feel it's too bad people understand it as a religion, rather than a philosophical, ethical guideline. Something about deifying this Buddha doesn't sit well with me since he taught that he himself was just a man and teacher, and that a person could adopt some, all, or none of his teachings at their own discretion.
***** I'd guess he means just any other of the biggest religions, so religions like Hinduism would be included haha
Out of 85,000 Buddhists sutras, I don't find everything is similar to Hinduism.There are similarity of dharma in few texts with Hinduism.Buddha was Hindu by birth but not by his choice.he reached the stage of Nirvana through his own experiences.Actually he argued about many blind faith in Hinduism such as Brahminism,caste discrimination and old Hindu rituals like hom,yegga and animal sacrifice!Buddha said, you don't have to rely on god to seek better Karma,merit and to achieve the ultimate bliss .Hinduism has belief system of uncountable gods and goddess.
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These paths lead to the void of the individual uniqueness.
Into an eventual state of "universal" consciousness. Generic, and void of any uniqueness of essence. This is a dead universe, lstuck on an eternal repitiotious loop of of rebirth, til one reaches total enlightenment into the absolute of universal void of identity. Then, the consciousness resets n begins the rebirth n evolution process all over. And, this never ends. It's eternal.
This is eternity "without" God. A dead universe, and a dead existence. Lacking purpose, and beauty. Lacking Divine purpose. Lacking the beauty and the Divine purpose of individual unique essence.
A dead n dark universe of such has us simply seeking to reach enlightenment to escape suffering of existing. Over and over again. To void out any individual essence and identity. Our unique essence is created Divine. With purpose and dignity. Not to simply be destroyed and voided out into a universal bland consciousness. "Life" is precious. YOU are precious. Your uniqueness is so precious. God has a plan for your magnificent beauty. Ur irreplaceable. "Love" hinges on uniqueness. Our uniqueness is what makes us true. Without it, we have no true intimacy. And that bcums a universe and an existence in which love can not survive, nor reach. That is a universe which is left void of God's eternal love. Thus, left with mere generic universal consciousness. A universal eternal state where the richness of the individual unique Soul is dead, and void; Left only with a endless repetitive existence of dead, empty, universal consciousness at its pinnacle(Enlightenment). A never ending eternity of existence separated from God's grace and God's unending love. In God's grace, each and every Beings uniqueness exist with absolute dignity.
We are so precious.
Don't believe the lies of any other path, than the path of Jesus Christ.
The Buddha is not a god, he is a human and he discovered the nature law .
Law of science: Nothing is forever for example *wakanda*
are you sure about this?
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The purpose of Buddhism is to recognise if an ordinary man can achieve such enlightenment and peace, nothing should stop others from doing so.
@@KHANAKHAJANA1.0 you are one to avoid
So amazing that 2,500 years ago there was a man who explored and mapped the inner self with such precision. Even if you don't consider him a spiritual teacher, he is certainly the greatest psychologist and healer that ever lived. He saw deeply into human nature. Taught people for 45 years. A giant. Thanks.
W.J. Kelly human beings are really wonderful. Everybody has different sense and taste. This man (Buddha ) also different taste like Einstein.
@@buddhismisnazism83 do not compare Hitler to Buddha 😐
I agree.
Tbh in India even before Buddha there were a number of spiritual giants who couldn't get that fame.
@@vishal_on_yt I know india have thousands of Buddha.
what a beautiful religion, I'm an Atheist myself however the Buddhist way of thinking always intrigues me and makes me wish that it wasn't only the 6th most common religion in the world.
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These paths lead to the void of the individual uniqueness.
Into an eventual state of "universal" consciousness. Generic and devoid of any uniqueness of essence. Tho, this makes for a dead universe, stuck on an eternal repitiotious loop of rebirth, til one reaches total enlightenment into the absolute, devoid of identity. Then, the consciousness resets n begins the rebirth n evolution process all over, (or, you are all together snuffed out into nothing). And, this never ends. It's eternal.
This is eternity "without" God. Tho, it is a dead universe and a dead existence. Lacking the divine beauty and the divine purpose specifically for our individual unique essence.
A dead n dark universe of such has us simply seeking to reach enlightenment to escape the suffering of existing. Over and over again. Where the aim is to transcend n ultimately void out any individual essence and identity. Tho, our unique essence is fashioned majestically with love and meaning. With purpose and dignity. Not to simply be destroyed and voided out into a universal consciousness, nor into nothingness. Life is precious. "You" are precious. Your uniqueness is the most precious and valuable treasure about you. There is a purpose for your magnificent uniqueness and beauty. You are one of a kind and absolutely irreplaceable. "Love" hinges on our uniqueness. Our uniqueness is what makes us true. It is specifically what people love uniquely about a person. Without it, we have no true intimacy. And, without personal intimacy, that bcums a universe and an existence in which love can not survive, and is not real, (It is merely transcendental).That is the existential reality of a universe that is devoid of God, at the heart. Thus, rendering the true purpose of life and our true nature, meaningless and transcendental; being left to strive towards nothing more than to reach peace, through attaining a generic universal state of consciousness; Left only with a endless repetitive existence, whereas, at its pinnacle, is that of which aims to escape it, (ie. enlightenment). Love is not that which is to be trancended; it is not a mere attachment and neither are you.
Buddha was an atheist. Just like you and me. His way is very much like stoicism. Don’t follow him blindly. Use his principles,test his principles and then u can follow it. As Buddha said,”Dont follow me blindly,test your principles thoroughly and cut anyone standing between you and principles even if that’s me.”
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Do you disagree?
Kibbie Lou That’s a whole bunch of bullshit.
I'm from the United States, so growing up I was never really exposed to eastern philosophy. I was raised thinking that Catholicism and western philosophy was the only way, and until recently I felt this inner struggle to conform to its beliefs. I would feel guilt, knowing that I was doing something that was going against its doctrine. Recently though I have been exposed to eastern philosophy, that of Buddhism in particular. Nothing in my entire life has ever made so much sense and I don't see how the entire world does not think and see the world in this way. I find it amazing that you aren't forced into doing anything. You're simply asked to keep an open mind, to see the world in a different perspective. The fact that this isn't taught let alone even mentioned in western teaching is mind-boggling, saddening even.
A buddhist cant make money for the rich
I am glad that you figured this out by yourself without having anyone to tell you. You feel more comfortable with the Eastern philosophy because it is reasonable, it conforms with the natural law. It does not just force you to believe in something unreasonable.
Check out Stoicism. It's a philosophy that's like Buddhism of the west (Greek).
@Michelle Michelle why are you on here? this is a buddhist video, we are simply trying to either learn about the faith or strengthen our faiths. We don't go and try to convert people from your religion, they freely come here.
@@EPICPACKOPENINGSXD Why not ? If a Christian or islam or hindu and even an atheist can follow buddhism then why can't make money ? Buddhism never made weird rules like other religions, it's an open minded religion that doesn't have any strict meaningless law but It has some moral paths that one can follow for being a better human. Fold paths are not even religious, it's just logical and karma based. The main motto is "do good deeds". You can be anything or can freely choose to do anything can still be a Buddhist. There is is so called rule that you can't eat meat in buddhism but still you can. It's really an open minded religion
Don't blindly believe anything, just doing keep an open mind and follow the 8 paths. That's enough for buddhism
I became a Theravada Buddhist .Finally i am living happily .Greetings from Germany
Berlin Jack warum genau theravada ? Und glaubst du an Wiedergeburt?
@@IsoXable Theravada-Glaubenssätze, ob Buddha existiert oder nicht, können Nirvana selbst mit Dhamma erreichen. Ich glaube, Wiedergeburt und Karma. Buddhistische Lehren sind praktisch
Apa dipa vhaba.. Shabbe Shatta shukita hantu
Blue C I feel the term “dominating” is bit skeptical for Buddhism don’t you think ? “Dominating desires” is again a desire. It’s like you desiring to get rid of desires.
Suffering can be eliminated by following eight fold path as given in the four noble truths. It includes controlling desires but much wider than just that.
Blue C root cause of suffering is given as tanha. When you say desire do you mean tanha or something else. I was referring to tanha in my comment when I said desire. I thought you were meaning the same.
Of course self control is most essential but better it stems through understanding into reality so it’s not forced upon.
The Best thing About Buddhas teachings were to have a reality check and not let the luxuries get to our mind. Equanimity is something I feel is the biggest weapon for anyone who seeks for both materialistic and spiritual success. I couldn't have agreed more to his philosophy.
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In my opinion, it's the opposite, life is about doing something you like and getting the thing you dream off, and not leaving all that behind.
Once you archived your dream, the dream disappears like you touch the candle light, the light is gone....
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The Buddhism philosophy is great. The teachings leads you to the path of 'awakening' or self-realization.
hi hi unfortunately It won't apply to me, I recently study bullshitism which I am really good at.
+Jeff (Sodium) Yes you are
Jeff yeah you sure sound like you are
Do you know a man never stop on self realization ,he further motived by self actualization
Too many cultism right now. Even for the well-known Buddhism Pali Canon itself.
I've been raised as a Catholic. The best thing I found about Buddhism is, it focuses on our internal consciousness and compassion, rather than arguing and debating with other religions :))
U r a human not a animal that u r raised.. How Abrahamic religion are killing human consciousness
To be fair, Yeshua knew this. And yes, he did visit Nepal.
After i suscribed to this channel i started seeing the world in a different way. I guess i need to start reading some philosophy books. Thank you so much The School of Life, i really appreciate all your videos you guys do an awesome job!.
+Bruce River You might also be interested in Eckhart Tolle, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Sadhguru, and Alan Watts on youtube. There are a lot of interesting things on youtube, but I agree The School of Life is one of the best things I have found also. By the way T.S.O.L., the reply you made here to the original commenter where you suggested thebookoflife.org is the first time I have seen the link for that website. I haven't seen that link anywhere else on any of your videos except for here in your reply to the original commenter. It's a really interesting website and you may want to make the link more prominent for people to find.
Look into Stefan Molyneux
+eduardo muhlbier Good luck on your journey! :)
And if you stare long into the abyss the abyss also stares into you...
+Jacob Zondag Ignorance isn't bliss ~ innocence is.
It's useful to notice that "suffering" is an inadequate translation of the original term "dukkha", which is more closely related to "dissatisfaction" or "unfulfillment", as if your life's purpose is always beyond achievement, no matter what you do or possess. The Dharma - the teachings of the Buddha - aim at helpping one ceasing this existential itching.
Agree."dUKKHA" IS A hindi word.and as a native hindi speaker I understand it simply as sadness over something or someone.
In spanish would be something like "inconforme"
That's an interesting note. Cheers
@@gayatrinayal5758 dukkha is not originally hindi. It's sanskrit. Dukkha means different things depending on context. Specially in nepalese language.
Because of this inadequacy, Buddhism is misunderstood as PESSIMISTIC
My teacher went to India to teach English there, while she was there she went on tours and on this particular tour they visited a temple where monks would practice Buddhism or what not and take in children who had been abandoned. She saw a monk in the shade of the tree, and said she had not seen a calmer face more than that monk, she said if serenity was a person, that monk would be it. She said she felt ethereal vibrations or energies surrounding him, and it was really beautiful.
I mean i'd like to visit monks and really learn from them at least once in my life, I thought I'd share this lol because now she is a loyal Buddhist and is the best teacher ever.
Dear The School of Life =)
My name is Raymond Lai. I am a member of the University of Sydney Buddhist Society also known as Unibodhi.
I would like to thank you, The School of Life, for taking the time and effort to both upload and share this video with the youtube family.
I hope you have a lovely and fun day, The School of Life! =)
Kind Regards
Raymond Lai (Member of the Buddhist Family)
***** can you also make a video of the Ancient China's famous military strategist, Sun Tzu?
+Raymond Lai I find Buddhism interesting but I also find it hard to see how anyone could be happy without attachment. Surely attachment and investment in others is the root of happiness as well as sadness and the sadness is simply the necessary price for happiness. Does it not require attachment to have compassion. A love of learning and a desire for understanding to obtain wisdom? A desire to help to be generous? Is meaning in life not derived from what you value? Perhaps I don't truly understand Buddhism and eastern philosophy but I have always through that it is a duty of a person to desire a better world for all rather than be content to simply except it as it is.
+Gareth Brooks-Martin Buddhism isn't trying to articulate that one should be without desire but instead is saying that the kind of desire that is harmful is one which make us more egoistic and cut-off.
+Gareth Brooks-Martin 'desire a better world' Here's the fundamental difference between eastern and western philisophy, not that one is better than the other. Eastern philosophy is trying to better oneself, which will ultimately make the world a better place. It is more concerned with the inner. Western philosophy is more concerned with the outer, and trying to better the world around us, which will ultimately make us peaceful and happy people. I kinda think both are incomplete without the other.
Shiva Gautam Mohammad Christ if you don't have anything good to say then don't, and if you are "insulting" someone, get your grammer correct.
Buddhism is only the last honest religion in the world
if all the people in the world follow Buddhas path it will be heaven on earth
what about hinduism
Hinduism is so superstitious religion , there is caste system and racism
but does it contradicts itself
Buddhism really isn't a religion to begin with, it's a way of life
cast system and racism was invented by kings during ancient history to bring society in order, it is not a hindu idea...also there is jainism, sikkhim, taoism etc that are pretty respectable religions too.
I'm Cambodian/Khmer & was raised as a Theravada Buddhist 🙏 🙏 🙏
Most of Combodians were Hindus ??
if still practicing meditation, check zen. Theravada methodic is good for the beginning. but later, concentration on counting or kongan, or just siting- shikantada, methods of zen schools, are more useful in meditation. gl.
@@ajitkumarsingh9076 some were thanks to chola i think. and they were something else before that.
Yes
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Seriously, I'm not Buddhist but I wish every religious person were. The world would be much peaceful
same. id rather have a world of janist or buddist than a world full of christians and muslims.
+SPACEMONKEY288 becuase you are familiar with the atrocities of one, and ignorant to the atrocities of the others?
jim gordon no because Buddhism isent about controlling others. cant say the same for western religions. there all corrupted, ignorant and harmful. they do good every once ina while but hurt the population with there primitive teachings spooky story's hateful teachings and money/power hungry asses.
SPACEMONKEY288 Buddhism isn't a religion. That's what you fail to understand.
Tasin Al-Hassan i understand its not a religion. there are agnostic and atheist Buddhist, alot of them are actually and yes i am aware of this. i never said Buddhism was a religion i just said id rather have a bunch of Buddhist running around rather than a bunch of Christians and Muslims.
There is a reason why the Sun rises in the East.
What do you mean by that?
The Earth rotates toward the east, obviously. Do you even school bro xD
right bro
But you know the cardinal points are actually a human invention, in the Universe the Earth is not placed to the right or left, neither is it upside down or not. It's just there and the East could be the West and de South the North...
So it doest burn the eyes of those in the West
Really Buddhism is the real philosophy of life.
Lecture on buddha,must watch and subscribe
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Well said !!!
Buddhist from Bangladesh 😇
Yes
@dragon warrior Thanks. Guess there is around 4 or 5 milion buddhists. We are adjusted here somehow and Buddhists existance is passing through unknown future.
Man, I'd love to hang out and meditate with Buddha, Lao Tzu, and Osho.
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to me he does, so what's your point?
+the village yid There's that desire thing again....
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Not really. Desire would imply a wanting. To me, if it happens, it happens. No desiring on my part. Nice try tho.
Without desire there is no existence. But desires with attachments to certain material things is what inflicts suffering and one should extinguish it..
Lao Tzu = enlightened, Budda = enlightened, Osho = fraud. He had the largest collection of Rolls Royces (confiscated by his wealthy students) and was also a bigot: have a look at his quotes on homosexuals. I wouldn't dare to utter his name next to those two icons. For the greatest sage of the 20th century, check out the works of Ramana Maharshi. I believe him to be the most enlightened person of the last 500 years. Peace
"Suffering" doesn't quite express what Buddha was talking about. Rather, he was speaking of unsatisfactory-ness. That is to say that all things humans might strive for are transitory and, even if successfully attained, ultimately do not bring satisfaction and are subject to entropy--just as we are.
Ultimately it is the same thing. We chase the pleasing and avert the unpleasant.
We all desire happiness, peace, and contentments because we are in pain, insufficiency and in suffering
GladX That can work, but for most people who are looking for the quickest and more direct path to Enlightenment, I believe it can be troublesome based on my past experience.
We are still hanging on to that very desire to experience life's pleasures and awards, which can lead to suffering and confusion. The method known as "Self-Enquiry" by Ramana Maharshi is the quickest from my understanding.
How Buddha Died? (Eng Sub)
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Dukka/Dukh/Dukha means in many Indian languages.
Don't complicate things it's suffering I reached full enlightenment
When I was in high school, I got some suicidal thoughts creeping up on me. I confided in my mom, who was Buddhist but she never ever enforced it on me. She explained that Buddha said living is suffering, I’ll only face more pain and struggles in my future. She then added that every human being was born to find their meaning in life, and that meaning is find a way to live without suffering. I was confused as a kid but yes the more I experienced struggles in life I learned how to better cope with things or find a new outlet. Slowly I understand I was consciously changing my mindset and saving myself from depression. I was essentially practicing Buddhism without knowing it.
Great. I just read "Buddha and his Dhamma" By Symbol of Knowledge DR AMBEDKAR. Do read his book, its great interpretation of Buddha Dhamma, and no doubt thats my fav book.
DR AMBEDKAR was one who revived Buddhism in India, the reason why there are Buddhist is India is only coz of him.
Its great book, please do read it.
Thanks 😊
This video is literary better than what I learned from school in Thailand.
The prophecy in the bible always convinces me of it being God's Word and it is reliable. 🙏🌏🙏🩸✝️🦁. All the things happening in the world now were predicted to happen and more will come to pass to, New World order, plagues and disasters increasing, a false anti ch.rist who promises hope will deceive many. Check it out for yourself. The next life is eternal. Choose life not the lies of the devil. You can't repent in the next life. Don't be eternally sorry. ruclips.net/video/HxylLehMyPs/видео.html ruclips.net/video/K7EwpBOPXjU/видео.html
N ni dhiomsaigh practice but don’t preach.
You can learn more from a mute, than from a Thai public school.
@@NMDecember1 if your god is all powerful and omnipresent, why does he require you, a mere mortal, to preach his way?
Haha, it's the same in some parts of Sri Lanka, I've studied Buddhadharma for 30 years but it's shocking how many Sri Lankans know v little about the philosophy, they just know how to conduct themselves at the temple. They call themselves Buddhist but they don't even know what that actually means🤷🏽♂️ I think it's the same in most countries n most religions
To test and validate if something is true or not, one must go and discover his or her self. Buddha is not a doctrine in fact , it is a method. It's a method to test and validate for yourself of direct experience . It is not like any other religions that go by blind faith.
To test and validate if something is true or not, one must go and discover his or her self.
+dread knot Except that Buddhism isn't a religion.
it is a religion & its history dates back to 2560 years & been a
religion in great historic civilizations in the world. still continuing
in big time further spreading.
roarfunky It's a philosophy when certain religious aspects.
Tasin Al-Hassan the great monasteries, Statues & Colossal Stupas built by great ancient kings in ancient history still laying on our grounds & in jungles. for an instant wild elephants lives around them in the jungles. we have been worshiping these ancient ruins before westerners even known about buddha & buddisum. the virtues of our religion is in the our tradition & civilization before westerns known about buddha & buddisum. we sent messengers around to globe to spread our religion before westerners known about buddha & buddisum. phylosophy is only a part of our religion. & its the third largest religion in the world. its a religion for our ancestors before westerners come to know about buddha & buddisum. it is a our religion since ancient times.
I'm an atheist but I think Buddhism is the best religions of all
Lovely Raven buddhism is not even a religion.Buddha never claimed himself more than a human.It doesnt even function like a religion in any way.
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Buddha ia the teacher of humans and gods, hench Allah is the student of Buddha
@@sauron269 Islam is the best in your conditioned deluded mind from childhood to adulthood. As you are forbidden to read about other faith, know that Islam is the most violent and foulest of the three Abrahamic faith. Safer for YOU and others to believe in the tooth fairy!!!
@@sauron269 dude Allah is a pig and a pimp don't compare him to the mighty enlightened buddha
@@sauron269 its about next buddha
(Meytri buddha) he also preach the same dhamma which gauthma buddha preched.
But islam belive in a god(allah).
Buddha teached nirvana so next buddha also teach about nirvana too.
I've only recently started reading about Buddhism but have felt a sense of peace ever since
I love eastern philosophy and religion, mostly about bettering ones self and becoming one with the earth. While western religion is more about, well smiting lol
+LordAragon626 But again Gautama bathed in luxury because he was born into the Brahmin Caste, and he lived in a secluded world, while he left he met Sudaras or the worker class, usually dark skinned indians, who were suffering, and he realized how his world is an illusion, so while he may have meditated he did reject hinduism.
+LordAragon626 I disagree about the last part :).
***** Because historically Sudras were the poor even now, they were highly discriminated taxed against and in rigid class system they had little social mobility in general Buddha himself was from Brahmin caste and that is enough to establish who were in ruling power.
+LordAragon626 western philosophy however is pretty awesome, and a lot of it delves into "healing" oneself from that smiting religious nature.
+LordAragon626 I think you're being a bit hard on the traditions you're more surrounded by. There's a good deal of bettering oneself in Western religion as well. It depends which aspects you want to focus on.
Let's take a moment to honor the Buddha and his contribution to the world.
"The Buddha taught the importance of non-violence-to produce no harm, to will no harm, for this is the heart of all the world’s religions if they are clearly understood."
From the sacred text 'Buddha and The New Message from God'.
I love Lord Buddha in every aspect, but sometimes I feel Buddha's way is too noble for the world. It's really difficult to make everyone a true Buddhist, as the world is full of difficulties, and humans are full of greed, hatred and stubbornness. And we keep fighting, hating, lying, killing and seeking sexual pleasure, wealth and power.
However, I believe that Buddha's dharma will never fade out. It's simple the truth of life. The richer and more powerful we get, the sooner we realize that everything is impermanent and all of our fights for money and power are useless. We spent too much time seeking happiness but didn't know that happiness is inside ourself. Lord Buddha found it out 25 centuries ago, and his wise teachings are still relevant today and in the future.
A Buddhist monk once told me that science and Buddhism go along side each other and (I think) that Buddhist has lasted this many years due to this relationship.
I am fully agree with your words.
But if you think Buddha's practice is too hard to do in this present society, That's wrong, His teaching is always valid to any of time. Only thing you have to do is force to your thoughts, world is not in outside its in yourself.
And this is exactly why we recite sutra. Through the sutra, Buddha will give us blessing and change the circumstances of our life, which in turn make our life easier. When I first started practicing Buddhism, I thought people were crazy when they said sutra can make my life different. Now that I’ve been reciting sutra for 2 years, I can honestly say my life has been changed! People around me somehow are all nice people now, and I couldn’t tank Buddha more! The secret is, you have to help yourself in this religion, no one else can help you. How you help yourself is reciting sutra! I wish you a very enlightened life!
The reason there are so many obstacles and difficulties in our lives is because we have too much karma build up on us from this life and many many past lives. The karma is created from bad behaviors and bad thinkings. That’s why Buddha says “every thinking creates karma” so just count the times you talk negatively towards other people, do anything that make people unhappy, or even have negative thoughts will creates bad karmas. If you think this way, you realize that people have obstacles in their life for a reason. It simply because what you put out into this world, you get. Reciting sutra is like an eraser to a whiteboard, every time you recite, you erase some of the bad karma on you, and that’s how sutra can help you have a better life!
It's hard to become Buddha only few people or no one after Siddhartha was able to become Buddha .
Buddhism: when a religion without a creator is more reasonable than any abrahamic faith.
Buddhism is not a religion nor will it ever be, Buddha is a teacher, he taught people to see through reality for what it really is rather than what we want it to be
Hitler is second buddha
@NothingButTheTruthInChrist bhudism is nazism amen
@@buddhismisnazism83 Well I can see why the world goes to shit day by day. Comparing Buddhism to nazism is pure ignorance and sin. But be whoever you want to be because, in the end, Buddhism doesn't support violence.
It is impossible for a religion to emerge without a prophet.If then, it is not a religion rather than following uncertainty. We muslim follow certain things without any doubts.
Wow being a faithful believer and living my best as a Christian I never realized how true Christianity and Buddhism try to live out our lives in similar fashion. Humility, compassion, faithfulness, charity , long suffering of worldly possessions in a world filled with war, lust, pride, deceit, all around us............❤️🇫🇴
The more you upload, the more I become amazed
This brings a tear to my eye. Thank you, School of Life. Thank you, Gautama.
I truly respect Buddha. I'm a Hindu but I really love Buddhism
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thank you so much bro.buddha is very nice religion & i'm respect you comment.
Me too
Buddhism is a spin-off of hindusim.
You don't have to tell us that you're hindu but you love Buddha !!! You're making the line between gods which Buddha never believed, so fuck your RELIGION
In the Vaishnavism sect of Hinduism, the Buddha is considered to be an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.
I just found this channel, and I'm so glad I did. It's amazing. I wish schools taught us more in this same manner.
This video helped me tremendously! I am trying to learn as many things as I can about budhism because I would like to become a budhist some day.
I'm a western Buddhist monk, if you ever need any help feel free to contact me via jayantha.tumblr.com
in a simple way the Buddhism is to teach you how to react to the senses captures by your organs (mouth, skin, eye, ear) & process them in your brain in a way that gives you internal self satisfaction. which makes you a happy person. not by having what you want but how to use what you have to be a happy person. understanding the nature of the life & world & action, goes in a circle.
Everyone can practice 🙏🏼 it’s okey everyone doesn’t have to believe and worship
This dude was amazing; instead of becoming a spoiled brat (as one might assume due to how he was raised) he became the exact opposite
This me wanna try Buddhism...I'm going to try it.
Krishan Sapkota I forgot "makes" between this and me.
+Jenny Penny Organized religion such as buddhism is not what Buddha ever preached for, his greatest teaching is simply Vipassana.
+Jenny Penny I would suggest you try to become a better person on your own without buddhism although he explained it like its this really great thing he didnt mention all the crap included in it (like a few million gods about 7 or 9 or more hells and yeah reincarnation after spending more time in hell than humanity have exiseted for)
+Jenny Penny Buddha is in all of us, don't feel like "written" truths are the same as "truths" we see with our minds eye through mindfulness and quietened states of being
all of us are capable of enlightenment.
+Jenny Penny Buddha is in all of us, don't feel like "written" truths are the same as "truths" we see with our minds eye through mindfulness and quietened states of being
all of us are capable of enlightenment.
These 5 minutes were more informative than a 110 minutes PBS documentary "The Buddha"
Yup, it perfectly resumes what Buddhism is about
Recently I've picked up an interest in meditation, and thus I have had to confront its religious roots. While Buddhism comes with several unappealing and superstitious claims, it's not dogmatic about it, and overall Buddhism is more like an ancient self help tool, or psychology, than religion. It's the only world religion worthy of some respect and consideration. The philosophical part of it resembles Greek stoicism much enough that one might wonder if there were some kind of cultural exchange going on a couple of thousand years ago.
You are not researching enough my friend. Buddha teaching is the ultimate philosophy of life and reality. It will beat Classical mechanic, evolution theory, space-time theory, quantum mechanics, consciousness and many more in the future. science would need a much much more time to catch up.
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
As someone who has read a lot on Buddhism, I think this was a great video. Thanks for making these... A video on the Bhagavad Gita would be interesting.
+Marco Dellorusso Can you explain what's that idea of loosing the "ego" and the "i" that i don't fully understand, and they didn't referred to in this video, please.
Buddhism teaches that there is no actual Self, as most people in the western world believe. The Buddha taught that we we think of as "ourself" is really just a continuous flux of physical and mental forces. And apparently it is the cause of all our suffering. So Buddhism teaches you how free yourself from this attachment by following the Noble Eightfold Path.
Marco Dellorusso Wow, thanks it is really amazing how you made that so much easier to understand. xd
Now that i can see it that way, that is very similar to Hegel's philosophy about the Absolute
Rarity Sparkle You're welcome. It's been a while since I've read up on Buddhism so I might be forgetting some important points. A good book to check if you're interested would be What The Buddha Taught.
Quq Balam Rahula seems even more awesome after reading what you've just wrote.
Buddhism is not a religion, it is rather a philosophy, probably the greatest one, it’s NOT an ideology.
Buddhism is about subtraction; getting rid of unnecessary; it’s about releasing oneself from the burden of ideologies.
‘Middle way’ means avoiding extremes; having simple life, loving nature. Not to complicate life by asking about God, but to address real problems.
Love Buddha. I wish all of us were Buddhists. (I am from a Muslim background).
The first Buddha statue was built by skilful Greek sculptors after Alexander came to India, long after Buddha’s death. And then the surge of Buddha statue making begins.
My favourite Buddhist quotes-
“Don’t accept anything without logic”
“I (and everyone else) am not my body, I am not my thoughts or consciousness, I smile because birth did not give birth to me, death cannot kill me”.
I tentatively identify myself as a Zen Buddhist. Very good! I look forward to these other eastern philosophy videos.
Zen is Mahayana category
はるこあずみ Mahayana or hinayana. Both are the same mineral water with different branding.
This is education. Not that crappy institutional excuse for education that's only focused on grades and scores. This way allows us to embrace the knowledge given and become even wiser.
Rustatron 3000
Math science and language are a must to know. majority of regular school teaching are necessary. It would be nice if they'd go more in depth with things like this and help us develop deeper knowledge. ..but that's a parent's job so that's where the line is drawn. unless you take the kids to a private school.
Derek Meade i know how to solve complex math problems which i never use in real life but i do not know how to pay my taxes etc. The school system is a fail after reaching a certain grade it is useless to study the same thing for few more years.
Yes the American public school i believe is too long and drawn out. They're preparing us for 8 hour shift jobs and in the northern part studying a trade is a privilege not a need to know class. I think if it was shortened with all the important stuff in one. I'd work.
It'd work
@@MultiDEVILMAYCRY123 logically u would school maybe not only teach in need of real life
"Wisdom is a habit not an intellectual realisation" what surprises the western readers
Yay Buddha
which is the country of buddha???
+Ṗṛẫḃḝṩȟ Sṹɓéḓì Siddhartha Gautama, the creator of Buddhism, was born in ancient India, present day Nepal
Kapilavastu
there was no india until 1947 dude..nepal also came into being in 1600's after unification by a king. Buddha was in "B.C." and what there was then were not nepal or india. let's stick to teachings instead of where he was born..tha is not point of buddhism.
Hahaha. Yup. XD
u speaks of Buddhism even better than some practicing Buddhist i knew.
I'm so grateful I ws born as a Buddhist. I guess humans are gifted with a high IQ to analyze things before just believing. I learnt to look at other religions as well as my own life in such an open mind.
Siddhartha taught in order to end suffering one must cut off ignorance and greed. This means changing ones views and living in a more natural and peaceful way. It is like blowing out a candle the flame of suffering is put out for good. The state in which all suffering is ended is called nirvana. Nirvana is an everlasting state of great joy and peace. The extinction of desire is nirvana. This is the ultimate goal of Buddhism to end suffering
Indigo Aura the ultimate goal is nirvana, not to end suffering, don't you think? Ending suffering is simply the key.
Terry Costello Looking at Nirvana as a goal can be misleading in that it teaches you to seek it out as some kind of reward, as religions often do. The end of suffering is everything you really need to hope for; Nirvana is the state that you naturally achieve once that aim has been met. It's a practical set of principles to live by, rather than a faith.
Aranneas
And truth has arrived.
These paths lead to the void of the individual uniqueness.
Into an eventual state of "universal" consciousness. Generic, and void of any uniqueness of essence. This is a dead universe, stuck on an eternal repitiotious loop
of rebirth, til one reaches total enlightenment into the absolute of universal void of identity. Then, the consciousness resets n begins the rebirth n evolution process all over. And, this never ends. It's eternal.
This is eternity "without" God. A dead universe, and a dead existence. Lacking purpose, and beauty. Lacking Divine purpose. Lacking the Divine beauty and the Divine purpose of individual unique essence.
A dead n dark universe of such has us simply seeking to reach enlightenment to escape suffering of existing. Over and over again. To void out any individual essence and identity. Our unique essence is created Divine. With purpose and dignity. Not to simply be destroyed and voided out into a universal bland consciousness. "Life" is precious. YOU are precious. Your uniqueness is so precious. God has a plan for your magnificent beauty. Ur irreplaceable. "Love" hinges on uniqueness. Our uniqueness is what makes us true. Without it, we have no true intimacy. And that bcums a universe and an existence in which love can not survive, nor reach. That is a universe which is left void of God's eternal love. Thus, left with mere generic universal consciousness. A universal eternal state where the richness of the individual unique Soul is dead, and void; Left only with a endless repetitive existence of dead, empty, universal consciousness at its pinnacle(Enlightenment). A never ending eternity of existence separated from God's grace and God's unending love. In God's grace, each and every Beings uniqueness exist with absolute dignity.
We are so precious.
Don't believe the lies of any other path, than the path of Jesus Christ.
Holy Aura
Where are you from? Who you parents?
I'm an atheist and I respect the hell out of the Buddha. He really is an awesome guy.
who cares xD
@@vladimirzelenovic7807 apparently the 20 people who liked the comment.
Buddhism is probably the most friendly “religion” to Atheists.
@@t.k.326 Yeah, most likely. The religion's morals and philosophy are not dogmatic and are totally fine with rather a person believes in the religion or not. Plus there is also many atheist Buddhists within the religion considering the fact that Buddhism doesn't really have any gods. So it is really up to the individual to decide rather they believe in any deities or not. Double plus, many nonreligious atheists such as myself actually agree with a lot of the philosophy of Buddhism. So it is understandable as to why Buddhism is totally alright with and even friendly with Atheists.
Draco you are of god(the universe) this what Buddhism represented god
In my 8th grade, our school course had a book on Buddha's life story. I'm an agnostic, but his teachings have inspired me to try my best to have a clear conscience and do the right thing when time calls. Of course, I'm only human and prone to mistakes, but I'll keep doing what I can.
Thank you for amazing videos. Its such lovely way to learn.
Unlike many other religions, Buddhism can be understood as a list of "experiments" you can do to see the truth for yourself if you do what the Buddha recommended! That is very appealing to many people nowadays as it does not rely on faith alone
Buddhism kept me out of a lot of trouble I could have otherwise been in. Now, it seems to have only set part of the stage for another development. It could not save me fully, though I don't know what I'd be without it.
Good Luck
Siddhartha is one of my fav books of all time. I love how this vid is so educational on his life and his philosophy. Thank you! 😀😃😁
Nice illustration of buddhism and amazing truthful facts about it
More than a religion i think of it as a way of livelihood
I've scrolled through about 300 comments. No hate comments from Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Atheists...Only these Gospel Christians. These individuals give Jesus a bad name. Shame on you all.
Funny I saw the opposite also I've seen hate comments from Muslims as well p.s I'm a Muslim
Please correct me if I am wrong:
I believe the statement that Nirvana "refers to the blowing out of the flame of desire" is actually incorrect. As far as I have learned thus far, Nirvana actually refers to the transcendence (and therefore extinguishing) of ones connection to the material, mental, and emotional desires of human life. It is as though one who achieves Nirvana has shed this world and transfers to one which is unknowable and indescribable since it would be impossible to describe that which no one has experienced, nor has any relation to what we have experienced.
But that is simply what I have learned. Wonderful video though, as usual.
There's not an "I" who is transferred to another world.
Nirvana is the extinction of the flames of craving which are fueled by ignorance, hatred and greed.
Ignorance of what?
Of the impermanence of conditioned phenomena; of the unsatisfactoriness of life; and of the illusion of a permanent and essential self.
Nirvana is long-lasting peace in the here & now; a peace without conditions, and which does not depend on anything external.
Kind regards!
@@anattasunnata3498 Thank you for your erudition. It could not be explained any better. Pls. continue to keep us better informed.
I'm a devout Christian and I love the teachings of Jesus more than love myself, I do have a great admiration of Buddhism and I feel like Gautama and Jesus would have been good friends had they met in real life.
best friends!!
the only problem is Buddha was born 500 years before Jesus.
Many Buddhists regard Jesus as a Buddha, for the term Buddha means "Awakened one" :)
Buddha was born in my India
Some believe jesus learned from buddhism before spreading his gospels
Yet this video about Buddhism conveys positive mindset, patience, acceptance, knowledge, compassion and generosity and inner peace, many people in the comment section are fighting over the debate of whether it’s religion, Buddha is god or not, and spreading negativity. No wonder why the world is filled with many dissatisfied negative beings
There is another branch of Buddhism, Vajrayana. It's practiced in Nepal, Tibet and other Himalayan regions.
Vajrayana is come from Mahayana it's just branch of Mahayana
Hitler is second buddha! They both wanted to brinv peace in the world AMEN!!!
@@buddhismisnazism83
No Nagato (Pain) was the second buddha
Edit: jokes aside... Bodhisatwa is the second buddha according to Buddhist scripts...
The world "Buddha" means "the enlightened one"
And Sidhartha Gautam was one of em
@@buddhismisnazism83 Nope jesus was the second bhuddha followed by mohammed everyone tried to sell their religion
Ok
Buddha is heart, heart is Buddha. Buddhism is not religion,not superstition, it's the truth of the Universe.
Hitler is second buddha! They both wanted to brinv peace in the world AMEN!!!
Buddhism is Nazism jesus is my second bitch he do everything I ask him to
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This is the best explanation I have seen of the truths which are the essential formula for enlightenment. In our modern world of drugs and iPhones this is more important than ever, but so few really grasp the simple message here and practice it. It works! I always has worked. We owe a debt to Siddharta for putting it together and should honor him by actually practicing these truths. There are many out there who are trying meditation etc, which is a joy and essential to the process, but if one grasps one concept about happiness it is the noble truths and 8 fold path that will help you evolve into a Buddha. It is all so simple. Don't complicate it. Continue to study and review and practice these basics and you will find nirvana every day and live a more joyful life. Also, the first area of attachment most can't see because we are so far away now from the reality of our humanity is that all our practice and joy is built on a foundation of a healthy body, and to build this foundation correctly please use a whole plant food diet that science has revealed without question will lead to healing and freedom from suffering major diseases and mental afflictions!
Do a video about Hinduism and about Bhagavad Gita teachings.
Please do one.
I just remembered a saying from Robert Oppenheimer, the 'father of the Atomic bomb' , mentioning after the creation of the bomb the saying in the Gita:,(Shiva) "I have become death, destroyer of worlds".
crying out for love and attention,give the guy break
Jack Kraken shiva is the god of destroyer,brahma is the god of creator and vishnu is the god of preserver...vishu took many incarnation as krishna,rama,buddha and so On..10 avatars
I asked God if he wanted to show himself to me he would show me a fox 2 minutes later I'm 10 feet away from a fox, I knew the God of the universe who made the stats just visited me
Then I wondered why me I'm nothing compared to him and about a week later I gave my life to Jesus
Now Hinduism is more about religion. Guru always act like someone higher class and above and that is the reason why Buddha left his kingdom to become peritual
Stoics would have liked this guy
They were pretty much on the same page and were around in the same age and time period.
Nice icon btw, Pool Boy
Milk Man Life is so beautiful yet so brutally painful that is the absurdity of it, why isn't the universe perfect?
Why is not everyone happy? War, torture, injustice, lose, pain.
The europeans saw existence from a Christian perspective with a God entity responsible for everything good and bad, they saw bad, made no sense and ditched god and spirituality, and some: even morality as an excuse. The Easter view is different, God is everything ,and is not outside of the universe, there is porpuse, there is a meaning to it, the order of things, and the divine essence of existence is in every living thing. There is a reason to exists and that is order and light of love. That is what i got from my studies of eastern religion.
For the weak spirited the mind is all there is , the animal instincs is all there is, because that is all that we were, animals,we evolved to be morally conscious, so there is a porpuse, otherwise good things would not exists. There is Beautity there is horror, that is what the chinese call duality and that same patter exists in everything.
Indulging in passion and pleasures?
Someone hasn't properly studied Epicurus...
For helping others to get away from pain, u awakened. Not in a way to awaken and become a super hero. Be simple, be kind, you will become a Buddha good student.
I can't stop giggling from the human faces they used for demonstration
Lol I thought I was the only one
How Buddha Died? (Eng Sub)
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Buddha said that Attachment is the cause of suffering Not Desire
Attachment and Desire are two separate things
These two backgrounds that you have running, YELLOW for western philosophy and GREEN for eastern philosophy, are such soothing colors to the eye. It's pleasurable watching them, but not as pleasurable as listening to the lesson.
It would be great if you could do a video on the founder of Jainism - Mahavira
yeah please do it too
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LOL why "NO"?
A.B. Vass Are you entirely sure about that? I was under the impression Buddha and Mahavira were around at the same time...
A.B. Vass Ahh cool didn't know that! See this is why they need to do a video haha
I appreciate what the school of life has done here, but although suffering (samsara) is a cornerstone of buddhist philosophy, it is not the heart of it. The heart of it is love and compassion; the idea that we all share this life and that we are all inherently good and awakened (we are all buddha). The existence and acceptance of suffering is more so a truth that buddhism realizes.
I'm so glad most of people in comment section are reacting positively toward Buddhism. Hope all of you have a happy, peaceful life 🙏
Buddhism being an atheist religion, there is no GOD & everything is associated with your karma. shows you can be religious and spiritual at the same time.
Im a buddhist and from some buddhist books I've read, there IS God who created nature and place what we called Earth. 😁 Buddha himself said that he is only a teacher to all creatures, both including dead or living creatures, from all dimensions, they who need to be guided from their sufferings. He is the top number one teacher, but he is not God himself, as he was born as a man during his time.
@@mistventure nope
@@mistventure There is no creator No god
One of the few sane religions! No magic man rewarding or punishing humans.
@@mistventure stop spreading lie..your no buddhist.
when i took acid i reconstructed the ideas of buddhism on my own. there is a spiritual truth to this philosophy
Or maybe Buddha dropped 'cid before it was cool.
it is possible that he took soma during his journey. but he could have achieved enlightenment through meditation alone, because meditation allows you to clear your mind and think deeply like when ur on acid
This is why I don't read trip reports on erowid. We are full of ourselves when we are on drugs.
A lot of revelations made on acid end up actually being stupid, but some are true
I don't deny it, acid expands your consciousness. But how can you be sure whatever you think when your consciousness has expanded are natural truths? It is all how you perceive things.
The first three rules of Buddha are something most people can conceive when left to dwell on the topic of sadness. It is easy to blame it on your desires. But desire to arrange all the information on the internet in a searchable index gave rise to Google.
There is no one way you can map this world or the natural truths. Do what you want, or don't.
Happy to say im follow doctrine of Buddhism. It is really fit for you and me. Everyone knows buddha is best teacher in the world. He has been teached universal true. Those day how ever much i tried learn it. But I couldn't understand. Frankly speaking now I'm lern it.
It is amazing. Wehen We talk about
Buddaha we can't forget nibbana.
Jesus Christ
is the only way to God
Jesus Christ lived the perfect life and died nailed to a cross and rose from the dead
And offers eternal life to all who would believe in him
For God So Loved The World
He gave his only begotten Son
That Whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life
John 3:16
He was kind of "Philosophical Batman " who born as king's but when he faced reality he left that all what he had
never thought of him like that lol
Thank you School of Life. You really do shed light on a variety of topics. This video is especially appreciated in this material time we live in.
Awesome elaboration and delivery of the history of Buddhism. Thank you for sharing. May all listening and reading gain enlightenment, peace and wisdom.
Many Blessings from Chicago, IL
Don't be a Buddhist.
Be a Buddha because Buddhist believes and Buddha knows ❤️
Dayum, you guys are going east.
can't wait for Laozi
Alain de Botton
cool, cool,. btw who are "we"?
Alain de Botton
ah, can't believe a member of the team replied.
Well, for the record, I'm Chinese, so i just googled the name real quick to make sure i didnt fuck it up in English. turns out that backfired, eh?
Btw, any word on Hegel? funny how his logic kinda goes with Lao-Tze's.
Will Ferrous Hi there Will! You know, he is not only a member of the team, but he is the man who is behind all these projects. ( The School of Life, The Philosopher's Mail, Living Architecture etc.) He is a very well known and beloved philosopher. If you wish, check out his website and look for his documentaries on youtube. You will discover a lot! He has another youtube channel where you can find his documentaries. And if you want one book to begin with you must read " The Consolations of Philosophy". Definitely a life changing book.
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pardon my ignorance, im sure he is indeed a very well known philosopher and it's solely my own most grievous fault not knowing his name, my understanding of philosophy is only limited to 4 courses back in Univ D:
At any rate, ill check out his second channel when i have the time, though i probably won't read the books :P
Will Ferrous
It isn't ignorance at all. I don't know the names of the most chinese philosophers, writers and poets either. Unfortunately... But hopefully we still have some more time to live and to keep learning.
Thank you for uploading this video. I'm born in a Buddhist family and I always wanted to be able to explain who Lord Buddha is. However, I can't, because I'm not very good with English. Fortunately, there is a video like this, so I'm very happy. Unlike other videos, this one explains the meaning of Buddhism clearly and everyone in the comment session are very nice. I too, will study hard to translate the language of buddha. I'm only 14, so I have a long way to go.
Keep trying and best wishes.Buddhist from Bangladesh 😇
Even the Mighty Zeus & Heracles has great respect for Buddha.
When expectation ends, peace begins.
-Buddha
Nothing lasts forever not even our troubles. I find that understanding of impermanence and uncertainty that Buddha put heavy emphasis on to be comforting and spot on with reality.
I feel like Buddhism taken to its logical conclusion offers solace, but ultimately devalues life.
+Shmuel Malkin for people who are currently happy, it seems to devalue life. for those who are currently depressed it seems to empower life. so it shows that, its the middle way which the life should be expected and where one can expect peace to be
devalue from what exactly?
+Shmuel Malkin your definition of "life" must differ from mine
i feel like christianity if taken to its logical conclusion completely devalues the meaning of life. something created us and then we are just supposed to serve it like a slave? or if we don't then we are tortured for all eternity. no point. no point on creating something just for the sake of it worshipping you.
Actually I believe Buddhism cherishes life more or equal to religion. You cannot boil a philosophy down to a conclusion, only break it into its component parts, as these things are very complex. Buddhism shows its followers how to learn from each and every experience. Saying something like "that would be a waste of time" would be looked down upon. It's true Buddhist do not ask for much hahaha. It's almost nothing, but wanting things doesn't make a person a bad Buddhist necessarily. What do you mean when you say Buddhism devalues life? Buddhist believe that life is sacred and that nature is harmonists
Please nobody be a jerk because I asked, but I'm curious. Is Buddhism purely a religion, or more a philosophy? I'm asking because I'm a devout Christian, but I have incredible admiration for Buddhism.
Philosophy of the phenomenon of living beings and the universe.
Though, I am an Hindu, I respect Buddha more than my own Gods...He was no self-proclaimed prophet but a simple and just man who taught the ignorant about love, tolerance and compassion...He was a holy saint....
finally, someone who get`s what its about. down to the birth place.
under British rule, yes they were. Myanmar are one of South East Asia country and among the great power at the region. Afghan & Baluchi are more connected to Persian culture than Indian. Bhutan & Nepal have a strong relationship with Tibet till this day
tq for telling me, i'm still learning :)
Negromancer Negro nope you don't
Nepal was never part of India nor the British Empire also India never existed before the British Empire, there were smaller countries that were at war with each other.
***** that was rather rude calling someone a faggot and mentally challenged. what? u always lash out at someone that dont agree with u like this?.... anger management.
Did u flagged MultiDEVILMAYCRY123 original comment as SPAM, seriously..if u cant handle different opinions, u shouldnt be commenting then.
Hi School of life. Thank you for your videos. They are very illuminating. I would like to know if you have any suggestions of books on Buddhism which you may recommend. Thank you.
"what the buddha taught" by rahula walpola is a good place to start.
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Thank you. Skeptical it is.
Wachira Mwangi please google ajahn brahm. there are loads of free stuff available on youtube and other sites
Wachira Mwangi try the Buddhist holy book.
+Wachira Mwangi "What Buddhists Believe" by Reverand K Dhammananda is a good resource, it is free to download
I stumbled across a sutra because of my curiosity about some phenomena that happened in my life. Decades ago I met an old guy who made my finger moved on its own that made me searching. Then I tried to learn meditation on my own cuz I usually won't believe things that i heard or read(skeptic) unless I experience it myself. Because of that, I began to receive dreams that came true (I seldom dream), and also I began to see things that weren't there although not everytime and feel vibrations on religious items (some religious item have higher vibration than others that is why I'm so interested in Buddhism - I believed in other faith before). After reading the sutra and tried a few meditation, I found myself able to heal a knee problem by touching ( a friend lifted a small fridge on a Friday morning but the pain made him unable to sleep). Although it isn't mentioned in the sutra but it says about how higher vibration during meditation will prevent other beings from disturbing. I used to be scared a lot of the unseen but by being able to maintain a certain state of mind, they don't bother me as much.
The problem is the feeling of being "used" because I get to be asked by people to heal from flue, headache, knee, tennis elbow, sore throat, back pain, foot pain etc. At first I felt happy, but now I realized that all these are not real. People are usually interested in the fruit instead of the wisdom behind them. In the sutra it is being warned no to expose these because it will prevent you from getting the higher goal.
Best, most courageous and scientific religion of the world.
@Cartman san Buddhism is not a science or religion, it's a nonsense, Buddhists are even worse than Muslims. SAD!
Christ Miller why is that so?
Christ Miller explain. Not claim
@@christmiller5875 I feel sorry for your suffering and desire for hating Buddhism so much. Maybe u should try Buddhism? It will help 😊😁
As an atheist, I think The world would be a huge amount kinder, if only the philosophy put forward by Buddha was followed by more people… instead we have the defensive, oppressive “philosophies” that rule the world today. One might argue that their religion is no less enlightening than Buddhism, but it’s clear to see that the entire perspective of Buddhism is different. It’s incredibly grounded in reality and human conscience. Which cannot be said for any of the most popular religions.
exactly this is coming from an ex catholic who is now practicing buddhist and hindu spiritual practices
I have to say that the Buddha's teachings are relatable to all people in every walk of life. I'm not Buddhist, but I'm Catholic. I like to learn about the faiths of the world and learn different perspectives on spirituality and ways of life.
My favourite philosopher...
I am buddhist and i am from BUDDHA's home Nepal
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal
Pleasure and pain are necessary to living. The reality of life is feeling, and this is inescapable. It seems to me that the possibility of the necessity to *feel* for the rest of our lives, and possibly for eternity, is more intense and frightening than any amount of pleasure or pain at any particular time.
Buddhism is separated into two groups; Philosophy and Religion. Buddhism started out as a philosophy, then some people wanted to jazz it up with the supernatural and added chanting and reincarnation. You can understand and follow Buddhism without getting into the religious aspects.
The best thing about Buddhism, it allows you to see the truth. And studying chemistry and physics doesn't hurt either.
Well I mean Buddha came from a region where Hinduism was highly practiced and the people around him suffered because of that religion which is why Buddha chose to be agnostic plus no good atheist would ever go without asking him self in the possibility of a god or an afterlife. Spirituality is second nature to human beings and it is important
actually it's a misguided opinion.
reincarnation is the core of Buddhist philosophy, so much that there's no Buddhism without Reincarnation and Karma and they aren't simple fancy ideas as we tend to think.. Buddhism disagrees with vedic atman or god but the more you study both philosophies more you learn their similarities.
in fact Buddhism seems to be the inevitable evolution of vedic literature. Therefore Vedic knowledge at its peak .
+Rock Anderson Being religious and studying chemistry and physics at the same time is not a problem either?
Buddhism as a religion only makes sense as any other religion; a leap of faith. Buddha never called himself God, but if he did, I would not believe him anymore than someone saying Jesus was the son of God, or that Allah speaks to Mohammad. Or that Hindu's believe Cows or elephants are Gods.
I do not believe this and look as it as nonsense. However, pretty much any religion has some kernels of usefulness.
If you look on the internet "Did Buddha teach reincarnation", you will find many hits saying that Buddha did not teach reincarnation. Buddha did teach "No Beliefs". Meaning you don't have to take someone word.
Reincarnation refutes "No Beliefs".
Adrienne: agree with you basically. Most religions have some very good philosophy's. I just will not "believe" in supernatural thinking. That requires faith, a leap of faith. I personally believe we need stop supernatural thinking. If you accept one supernatural thinking, then why not accept another and another. In my experience, most people who believe in supernatural thinking are not logical thinkers.
Is the story of the grasshopper and the Buddha's compassion Mahayana? In Theravadin scripture it says that the memory of his childhood had to do with him happily meditating under a tree, and he reflected "so why am I afraid of that pleasure that has nothing to do with sensuality, nothing to do with unskillful mental qualities?" It's from the Mahasaccaka sutta
Yes it is true, in fact the video here gets it wrong by saying "memories of the grasshopper being trampled" but the actual story goes that he learnt the the technique of meditation when he was little to pass the time and then he put that into practice again under a tree and as you said. Then he got enlightened by meditation. As you see even a child can get enlightened if he/she tries.
also Buddha sought the guidance and teaching of many great religious and yoga practitioners of the time from varying religions in the area...it was through amalgamation of all of these techniques that he succeeded in forming the Middle Way.
The buddhists were calm and peaceful people and he was right that they moved passed their ways and spread it out to the human world. What it teaches us is that you should be calm and try to look for the bright side of things, even when you are suffering.
I recommend those who interest to read the Buddha (manga) of Tezuka Osamu. It's really amazing.