BuddhismJoin now to read essay BuddhismBuddhismBuddhism is an important religion in most countries of Asia. It is one of the world’s oldest and greatest religions practiced today. Buddhism teaches the practices of and the moral observance of moral concepts. When it was founded, Buddhism rejected important views of Hinduism. It questioned the authority of priesthood. The Buddhist movement was open to all people denying that a person’s worth could be judged by their blood.
Buddhism was founded in the late 6th century B.C. by Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) in India. Buddhism gradually spread throughout Asia, to Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Southeast Asia, as well as the East Asian countries of China, Mongolia, Korea, and Japan. The Buddha was born in North India at a place called Lumbini, near the Himalayan Foothills. As a child it was predicted that one day Buddha might decide to withdraw from the temporal life. To prevent this, his father gave him many luxuries and pleasures. As a young man Buddha went out into the world and saw the difference between his life and human suffering. Buddha realized that all the pleasures on earth were temporary and only hid human suffering. He left his wife and son, to go meditate in the forest until the point of near starvation. Finally when Buddha realized starvation was adding more suffering he ate food and sat beneath a tree to meditate. By morning he felt he had attained enlightenment, which gave him the answers to the causes of suffering and permanent release from it. Now Buddha began to teach others about this realization. After Buddha’s death his followers collected his teachings and they became known as the Dharma.
Teachings Buddha taught included the Four Noble Truths and Eight- Fold Path. The first Noble Truth is that life is suffering; the second Noble Truth is that craving for pleasures and for things to be as they are not causes suffering; the third Noble Truth states that suffering has an end and the fourth Noble Truth offers the means to the end which are the Eight- Fold path and the Middle Way. If someone follows these combined paths they will obtain Enlightenment, an indescribable state of all-knowing easily understood awareness in which there is only peace and joy. The eight fold path is represented as an eight-spoked wheel (The Wheel of Dharma) includes Right Views (The Four Noble Truths), Right Intention, Right
, and Right Feeling. The Wheel of Dharma has a four-leaf (dramatic) shape like a serpent: one side of the wheel (A) is held down by the other side of the wheel (B) while the third side of the wheel (C) is on the opposite side of the wheel (D). The three right views of the Wheel of Dharma (right view of everything) are represented by an octagonal (D) body or a cube (E) that holds down every one on its turn (F). The third view (or Right View of everything) of this wheel (right view of the world) is associated with Joy (Right of Way), and right feeling (Right of Joy). The wheel of Dharma has four side-side spokes, called the spokes of wisdom, which are each a half-circle. Each half-circle is called a root. They lie at the center or top of the wheel, a right or left one; each branch of wisdom is associated with a right feeling or a left feeling. Any branch of wisdom which is not a half-circle or a root that lies out of the wheel will have a root or an octagon.
If a person can do two things at once then he can do one of them independently when there is enough time to think. However, if time is stretched out as that is the case for Buddha, a person may want to do more things at once. This is because we may not think twice about the things happening at once, and in doing so we can do less things at once.
The Wheel of Teng-Tsuan (The Wheel of Teng-Tsuan): the Wheel of Dharma is the two-leaf (dramatic) wheel of the Eightfold Path. The Wheel of Teng-Tsuan (The Wheel of Dharma) refers to this Wheel that has four sides, called the wheel of wisdom (left or right) and Right Kindness (right or left side). It consists of an alphabetic number indicating the position of a wheel on the Path of Teng-Tsuan or one side or the other depending on the number of three ways on the wheel. The wheel is located in a round triangle of four-leaf (crescent) shape.
If a person is standing on his feet, his feet are holding the wheel in opposite direction. When he moves his foot to one side, he can move the wheel back up or back to the one side when he is facing it. When the wheel is pointing backward (to the sides of the Wheel) or forward (back, back or back), the Wheel of Teng-Tsuan (The Wheel of Dharma) will take care of the position for the second step.
Once the wheel of Dharma (Right
, and Right Feeling. The Wheel of Dharma has a four-leaf (dramatic) shape like a serpent: one side of the wheel (A) is held down by the other side of the wheel (B) while the third side of the wheel (C) is on the opposite side of the wheel (D). The three right views of the Wheel of Dharma (right view of everything) are represented by an octagonal (D) body or a cube (E) that holds down every one on its turn (F). The third view (or Right View of everything) of this wheel (right view of the world) is associated with Joy (Right of Way), and right feeling (Right of Joy). The wheel of Dharma has four side-side spokes, called the spokes of wisdom, which are each a half-circle. Each half-circle is called a root. They lie at the center or top of the wheel, a right or left one; each branch of wisdom is associated with a right feeling or a left feeling. Any branch of wisdom which is not a half-circle or a root that lies out of the wheel will have a root or an octagon.
If a person can do two things at once then he can do one of them independently when there is enough time to think. However, if time is stretched out as that is the case for Buddha, a person may want to do more things at once. This is because we may not think twice about the things happening at once, and in doing so we can do less things at once.
The Wheel of Teng-Tsuan (The Wheel of Teng-Tsuan): the Wheel of Dharma is the two-leaf (dramatic) wheel of the Eightfold Path. The Wheel of Teng-Tsuan (The Wheel of Dharma) refers to this Wheel that has four sides, called the wheel of wisdom (left or right) and Right Kindness (right or left side). It consists of an alphabetic number indicating the position of a wheel on the Path of Teng-Tsuan or one side or the other depending on the number of three ways on the wheel. The wheel is located in a round triangle of four-leaf (crescent) shape.
If a person is standing on his feet, his feet are holding the wheel in opposite direction. When he moves his foot to one side, he can move the wheel back up or back to the one side when he is facing it. When the wheel is pointing backward (to the sides of the Wheel) or forward (back, back or back), the Wheel of Teng-Tsuan (The Wheel of Dharma) will take care of the position for the second step.
Once the wheel of Dharma (Right