Describe Buddhist teachings about how people should treat the environment and animals
R.E Buddhism Coursework - Part A Describe Buddhist teachings about how people should treat the environment and animals At the moment there are many terrible things going on in the world which are caused by the fault of humans and the way they treat the environment. For example the rain forests over the world have dramatically decreased in size due to the fact that humans continue to chop it all down, whilst knowing that rain forests are essential for oxygen. Also by chopping down the rain forests many different species of plants and animals are being wiped out. Buddhists are very against anything to do with harming the environment. Buddhists would never get involved with anything to do with harming the environment, for example you would never find a Buddhist helping or even justifying chopping down the rainforests. They do everything they can to preserve the earth that they are so grateful to live on. Another aspect of the environment is that humans are harming is by polluting the world. The main factors that are polluting the world are factories and vehicles. This is a quote by W.O Cole "Modern Buddhists believe that being socially involved to protect our environment simply neglecting, destroying and polluting our planet will result in people living on a neglected and polluted planet because of the Laws of Karma" Buddhists are also very keen to keep the environment
Analysis the Sutra on the Eight Realizations of the Great Beings.
Analysis the Sutra on the Eight Realizations of the Great Beings Introduction: a monk whose name was An Shin Kao translated the Sutra on the Eight Realization of the Great Beings from Sanskrit during the later Han Dynasty in China. An Shin Kao was a prince when he was young, however, he became a monk after his father died. Moreover, An Shin Kao learned the knowledge of sutras well; he translated many famous Buddhist Sutras. Thus, An Shin Kao could represent to be a translating monk for the Buddhist Sutra in the earlier period of Buddhism in China. The word of great beings means that people are liberated from birth and death and help everyone in the world with Great Vow. In other words, Great Beings is similar to Bodhisattvas. The purpose of these eight realizations is for Buddha, Bodhisattvas and Great Beings who have followed and practiced diligently the way of compassion and understanding. There are over three hundred words in the sutra, but the value is important. Therefore, learners can get the main idea of the sutra easily because of clear clauses. Eight Realization of the Great Beings The view of World-1.All political regimes are subject to fall. 2.The world is impermanent. 3.All things composed of the four elements are empty. The view of Life-1. More desire is the root of samsara. 2. To feel fulfilled is the root of practicing the way. 3. To
Buddhism and Buddhist teachings.
GCSE RE Coursework: Buddhist 2002 All Buddhist have an aim in life and that's to reach enlightenment and escape samsara (the cycle of death and rebirth.) To do this they have to follow certain rules and teachings, which affect their daily life in many ways, for example their diet, Buddhists aren't aloud to eat after midday. The numbers 3,3,4,4,5,8 and 10 may seem like a long list of numbers but in fact these numbers help me to remember the Buddhists teachings and beliefs... 3 stands for the three signs of life. Every Buddha wants to escape samsara the cycle of death and rebirth. To do this they must cope with the three signs of being, Dukkha, Annicca and Anatta. Dukkha means 'suffering' everyone has to suffer to succeed in something, it means more than just pain. Being uncomfortable or even bored. "Nothing in life is perfect and the Buddha said that no one can escape dukkha" meaning everyone has to suffer sometime in their lives, for example, losing a relative or close friend and no one can escape this happening to themselves or anyone else. Annicca means everything changes, for example, humans change, plants change and animals change, nothing lasts, and Buddhists believe that there is no rest except nirvana. Anatta means no soul. Buddhists believes that you don't own your soul your soul owns you. In other words your soul owns you until you gain enlightenment and
Describe Buddhist teachings about how people should treat the environment and animals
Describe Buddhist teachings about how people should treat the environment and animals Buddhism is known as a peaceful religion which treats humans and animals as equals. As a result of this, many Buddhists are vegetarians whom also embrace a kind attitude towards nature. Buddhist teachings give the basic moral teachings of life, which are then incorporated into their actions towards animals. These teachings include The Four Noble Truths and the Eight Fold Path. The Eight Fold Path compromises of eight aspects to further morality and mental training. All of these can be applied, in some way, in Buddhists treatment towards the environment and animals. Right Intention, Right Livelihood, Right Action and Right Mindfulness are four key aspects of the Eight Fold Path and can be taken further to examine how Buddhists should treat the environment and animals. Right Intention is thinking and reasoning in situations. If the action is wrong, at least the intention is still there. With Right Intention, a Buddhist is able to intend helping the environment: thus, the motive is there. This is then carried forward through Right Action. Right Action helps guide a Buddhist and states: "do not destroy life." Some people inadvertently tread on insects or kill insects without realizing, but a buddhist must try hard not to do so. This has become such a problem, that one group of
Buddhism revision
Religious education revision (Buddhist) Siddharta Gautama • He was a Prince born in Lumbini. • When he was 29, he saw an dead, a holy, and sick person and a old man. This is called the 'four sights'. • He reached enlightenment after sitting under a bo tree to meditate. Key words • 'Buddha'-one who is enlightened. • 'Dharma'-the Buddhist's teaching • 'The three poisons' are- Greed, hatred and ignorance. • 'Dukkha'-Suffering • Nirvana-point of peace which all cravings end The three marks of existence • Anicca-Everything in the world changes (Anicca... A knickers, picture the earth wearing pants). • Anatta-Everybody around us changes (Anatta... anatomy, people). • Dukkha-we change, we suffer (dukkha, ducks, they suffer. ). The four Noble truths • All life contains suffering- we are never content with what we have. • The cause of our suffering are cravings • The way to stop suffering is to stop craving, • The way that we should follow to stop craving is to go through the Noble Eightfold Path. The Noble Eightfold path (three of them). • Right livelihood- earn a living that doesn't cause suffering to others. • Right concentration- Meditate. Peace....... • Right action- Follow the Five precepts. Okay? The Five Precepts • I abstain from the taking of life - Veggies come from here. • I abstain from the misuse of the
The Buddhapadipa Temple
History of Buddhism -the life of the Buddha When Siddhartha Gautama was born a wise man came to his father, the king, and told him that his son would either be a great king or a great holy man. The king was worried, he wanted his son to follow in his footsteps and become king. So Siddhartha was raised in luxury and his father made sure nothing would trouble him so that he would learn to love all the earthly things and would not choose to give everything up and become a holy man. He was married to a beautiful princess of a neighbouring country and they had a son, but he was not happy. One day he went out with his chariot to see the town. As he came near the town he saw a frail old man, he was distressed by this as he had never seen anyone who was old. He went back to the palace but the next day he went out again. This time he saw a sick man. He had never seen anyone who was sick, only healthy people were aloud into the palace, it distressed him deeply, so he went back to the palace again but the next day he went out again but this time he saw something that trouble him a lot. He saw a grieving family carrying a corpse. He thought about all he had seen. He thought about how much suffering was brought on by death, sickness and old age. He went out once more but this time he saw something which inspired him. He saw a holy man at peace with everyone and everything around him.
Meditation as a Form of Psychotherapy
Meditation as a Form of Psychotherapy INTRODUCTION Although meditation practices have been in use for over 3000 years they have only been introduced into Western society in the last half a century (Walsh 1995). Before the 1960's meditation was rarely practiced and was widely misunderstood, labelled as "an attempt at psychological and physical regression. . . a sort of artificial schizophrenia" (Alexander et al 1946, cited in Walsh 1995: 388) by a well known psychiatrist. Recently, however, psychologists have become aware of the psychotherapeutic aspects of meditation. These aspects have proven to be so beneficial that meditation has even been controversially labelled by some as a form of psychotherapy (Walsh 1995). HOW MEDITATION FITS INTO THE DEFINITION OF 'PSYCHOTHERAPY' Contraversy over the labelling of meditation as a form of psychotherapy both arises and is resolved in the ambiguous nature of psychotherapy itself. The general definition of psychotherapy could be classed as: A formal process involving a professional and legally trained 'therapist' helping a person who has distress or disfunction in the areas of emotion, cognition, or behaviour. The therapist has a logical theory about how the problem developed and treats the patient in relation to this theory. (Based on Corsini 1995). Based on this definition some argue that meditation is not a psychotherapy
Overview of Buddhism.
Overview of Buddhism Buddhism was founded by Gautama Buddha, who lived on the Indian subcontinent, in or around fifth century BCE. Buddha taught life was inherently suffering, that is caused by craving, but curable by the Eightfold Path, which is used to gain nirvana.The eight aspects of the path are not to be understood as a sequence of single steps, instead they are interdependent that have to be seen in relationship with each other. . Right View Right view is the beginning and the end of the path, it simply means to see and to understand things as they really are and to realize the Four Noble Truth. As such, right view is an aspect of wisdom. It means to see things through, to grasp the impermanent and imperfect nature of worldly objects and ideas, and to understand the law of karma and karmic conditioning. Right view is not necessarily just intellectual , just as wisdom is not just a matter of intelligence. Instead, right view is attained, sustained, and enhanced through all capacities of mind. It begins with the insight that all beings are subject to suffering and it ends with complete understanding of the true nature of all things. Since our view of the world forms our thoughts and our actions, right view yields right thoughts and right actions. 2. Right Intention Right intention can be described best as ethical and mental self-improvement. Buddha distinguishes
Buddhism vs. Hinduism
Marcus Cendro Cendro 1 0/12/02 Period 1 Mrs. Scott Buddhism/Hinduism Paragraph Buddhism vs. Hinduism Here are some similarities and differences between the Buddhist and Hindus religion. First of all there are the two religions diet, which are basically the same. Hindu's do not kill animals for fear they will be destroying someone's soul, so therefore some Hindu's do not eat meat at all. The Buddhist diet can be explained in modern terms with the word "vegan", which refers to one who does not eat animals, but also no animal products nor derivatives. Next is the topic of afterlife, which is a difference between the two religions. Hindu's believe that humans and animals die and then are reborn in another form and that form is an indication of how well he/she behaved in their past life. As for the Buddhist belief if the mind does not achieve enlightenment in this life, or enter a Pure Land at death, it will have further rebirths, and An Enlightened Being may choose to leave the Pure Land and be reborn in human form to lead others to enlightenment. Now for the religions highest goal, which is somewhat of a difference. The goal of Buddhism is to win enlightenment. In addition to meditation, morality is very important in the pursuit of this goal. The Buddha gave us precise guidelines about how we should act as individuals, how we should treat others and how we should
Life of Siddhattha Gautama
Life of Siddhattha Gautama Siddhartha Gautama was a spiritual teacher from Ancient India and the founder of Buddhism. He was known generally recognized by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha. We don't know the actual date of when he was born or when he died but many historians say that he was born in 563 BCE and died in 483 BCE. He was also known as Sakyamuni or Shakyamuni. He was the key figure in Buddhism. After he died accounts of his life, discourses, and monastic rules were taken into account. When he was young he was spoiled by his parents. He was built 3 palaces in his name. Siddhartha was brought up by his mother's younger sister. As the boy reached the age of 16, his father arranged his marriage to Yasodhara that was his cousin. In time, she gave birth to a son, Rahula. Siddhartha spent 29 years as a Prince in Kapilavastu that is now in Nepal. His father offered him anything to his need butr he did not want anything as he thought that money wasn't everything in life. At the age of 29, Siddhartha left his palace in order to fulfill his ambitions. On his trips he saw a diseased man, a decaying corpse, and an ascetic. This made him very depressed and he escaped the palace and pretended to be a beggar on the streets. After being taught the teachings of Alara Kalama. Siddhartha is said to have discovered what Buddhists call the Middle Way that was a path of moderation