Can someone explain to me the teachings of Buddhism?
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Why do you want to "become" a Buddhist? Why not just study Buddhist philosophy, practice meditation, practice the eight-fold path, etc, without worrying about labels or official conversion?
What is your motive exactly?
Edit: no fair, you edited your post.
I like Stephen Fry's short explanation: Buddhism's Four Noble Truths
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You know ... the same teachings you will find in practically any New Age self-help book at any storefront psychic shop.
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I suppose that would depend on what type of Buddhism you practice.I’m only familiar with one.
Usually there are flowers, incense ,and there are seven offering bowls filled with various substances.Water is a universal offering.We prayed facing the shrine,the images are a representation of the Dharma.
Lots of symbolism.
Supposedly the Buddha never wanted any statue of him.
I’m really lazy so I don’t put out offerings that often.
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I am the dust that dances in the light. - Rumi
The Dalai Lama is quite good at explaining in simple terms about their way of life.
He can be quite witty too which helps.
Thich Nhat Hanh is a master and also explains in simple terms.
Youtube is full of their teachings and explanations.
These are the ones who can explain the best.
It's Impossible to 'Understand'
'Buddhism', 'Literally'; but in
Rather Simple Poetry i 'See' Now
What i find works best is Discard
All The Words And Other CuLTuRaL
Clothes; Dance As 'God' Breathes Free
In Other Words:
Sit Under A Tree
Inhale, Then Exhale,
Understand (Sense/Feel) that
You And That Tree And Your
Breath is No Separation; Be Free
Just
Be...
Now...
Other Folks
Erect Statues
of Words in
Books And
Worship Those
Idols of Words
Separate from Breath
Under A Living Tree Now
They Never Come to Be...
Inhale
Exhale
Breathe
Just Be Free...
Be The Whole
Living Tree Free..
i Suggest, Create Your 'Own Religion'; Feel/Sense
Your Way Through it as 'Buddha' Is reported to do;
And Really At Core, What the Story Book Character
Jesus Does until folks take/twist His Parables Literally and get lost...
Per What Lies and Tells the Truth below,
Christianity is A 'Molding Bread' indeed of Lies Now;
i Highly Do Not Suggest what has Honestly become A Cult oF Lies...
Note: Before What is below; Honestly, it's easier just to Breathe In And Out
And Be the Entire Living Tree (Existence/Reality/All) in Flow Like A River
At Ease Creating Your Own Shores Expanding or Receding as you go...
Eventually Water, Streams, Rivers, Bays, And the
Entire Ocean Finds You And You See the Ocean as You; You Realize You Are All;
No Separation; nothing to gain and nothing to lose; Just Free to Breathe in Balance...
Bliss... Eternally Breathing in and Out No WHere to Go but Complete Now Ocean WHole.
‘Iconoclasm’: 'Trump' has Destroyed A ‘Statue’
of what Christianity And Republicans ‘Used’ to
Stand For in Terms of Ideals And Truth but
Since he ‘Literally’ didn’t Tear Down
Any Statues, His Followers
Can’t see It: ‘Ironiclasm’,
‘Predicticlasm’, For
It Reveals the
Beatitudes and
Real Conservatism
Were Never Really
Dear And Worth Keeping
As Ideals, And Principles of Core
Truth; Indeed, Revelation occurs:
The 'Wicked Witch' of 'the
West' is Melting And ‘They’
Have No Clue, This ain’t
Kansas Anymore: Point of
No Return, Dust in the
Wind...
It Requires ‘Soul’
To understand
This ‘Word Salad’
And that’s Ironic too..
It only gets to
intended
Recipients:
Just Another
Long Tradition
From: the Other Side..
Buddhism is A Verb of God;
The Living Breath; The Living one
Within; The 'Gospel of Thomas' Describes
This Living one Within Similarly as does most Other
'Poetry' Arriving at Living Breath as Living Trees Come to see..
Generally SpeaKinG, Across Cultures, When You Find People of Different
Religions/Languages Finding the Same Flow of Bliss; Just Breathing in and Out Effortlessly
'Tween Apathy and Anxiety of Increasing Complexity in Creativity and Productivity in Autotelic Bliss
What You May
Find is the
Science And
Religion of the
Living one Loving
Life Within is surely the All You Master too..
In this way, Per Biblical Stories, the 'Tower of Babel' is Falling Down now.
Smiles; i for one no longer Have to Wait; And Many other Living Trees too;
God is Dark; God Is Light; God Is Dance; Song; And On An '8th Day', 'God'
Creates Poetry to Share God True iN LiGHT; These are all Just Leaves of a Living Tree..
There are Different Kinds of Trees and Leaves; Go Figure, Everyone Creates Their Own Leaves of Religion...
Actually A
'Tower of
Babel'
Will
Never Fall
As Long as
Trees Flower
Less And More Colorful to Be i Am..
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I suppose that would depend on what type of Buddhism you practice.I’m only familiar with one.
Usually there are flowers, incense ,and there are seven offering bowls filled with various substances.Water is a universal offering.We prayed facing the shrine,the images are a representation of the Dharma.
Lots of symbolism.
Supposedly the Buddha never wanted any statue of him.
I’m really lazy so I don’t put out offerings that often.
Putting offerings out for the local wild animals, e.g. nuts for the gophers or squirrels, is a great idea and better than offerings which no one can make use of, least of all a statue.
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SunFlower Offerings for
Birds and Squirrels
Laid Down Freely
At Their Beaks
And Paws
And
Talons
And Such
^^^
It's What
We Do in
'Our Naked Garden
of Eden'; me and Eve hehe..
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I suppose that would depend on what type of Buddhism you practice.I’m only familiar with one.
Usually there are flowers, incense ,and there are seven offering bowls filled with various substances.Water is a universal offering.We prayed facing the shrine,the images are a representation of the Dharma.
Lots of symbolism.
Supposedly the Buddha never wanted any statue of him.
I’m really lazy so I don’t put out offerings that often.
Putting offerings out for the local wild animals, e.g. nuts for the gophers or squirrels, is a great idea and better than offerings which no one can make use of, least of all a statue.
You can also release animals.Some people buy worms that would be used as fish bait and turn out into the garden.I bought a slider turtle and put him in the garden pond.He is free now and happy.
Just don’t release invasive species.
I plant shrubs and plants that have berries for birds,habitat and food for bees and butterflies.I was feeding the birds and squirrels but I developed a large rat population so I stopped that.There is a really smart one that won’t go in the live trap.It poops on the porch every night.It’s mocking me.Bound to be a NIMH rat.
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I am the dust that dances in the light. - Rumi
You don’t have to use food.Just clean water.
https://www.yowangdu.com/tibetan-buddhi ... bowls.html
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I am the dust that dances in the light. - Rumi