What exactly are the main beliefs of Buddhism?

Question

I'm interested in becoming Buddhist, but don't exactly know the beliefs. Can someone explain them for me? Thanks!

Answer 1

A.Buddha achieved Enlightenment through meditation and wisdom .

B.there is no god , there is the Universe and the Universe does not care if we suffer or not .

C.End to suffering

D.Reincarnation , Nirvana .

Mara : Why did you gave us ALL thumbs down ???? thumbs down for you!

Answer 2

wHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? YOU ASKED cHRISTIANS ABOUT THEIR RELIGION, AND NOW YOU ARE ASKING ABOUT bUDDHISM? YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO BOW DOWN TO. TO BELIEVE SOMETHING. ANYTHING THAT IS TO YOUR LIKES? wELL DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR PURPOSE HERE ON EARTH IS?PROBABLY NOT. LET ME HELP YOU.  IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WA WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD. JESUS IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE, NO MAN COMES UNTO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH JESUS. BELIEVE ON THE LORD AND YOU SHALL BE SAVED.

Answer 3

One thing I like about Buddhism is that they give a choice to follow their tenets, its completely optional. Its guidelines to end suffering and live a non-materialistic life, and you wont go to "h**l" or get exiled or anything for disobeying the buddha.

Thumbs up to Buddhism.

The beliefs is that life is just suffering, and to let go of suffering you need to let go of all material worth and enjoy just being alive, and not the things or events in your life. (Something like that I think)

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddism#Bud...

Answer 5

The core? That life is a journey of spiritual enlightenment and release. That through self reflection and meditation one can reach deeper and higher forms of understanding of the self and the world around them.

Answer 6

Gautama Buddha was a man who believed their was something more to life than what locals kept saying so he searched for it.

Answer 7

http://www.dalailama.com/

Answer 8

Right thinking, right acting, right speaking.

(Jesus is a great Savior, who was both God and man. Check Jesus out.)

Answer 9

You've asked for an answer to a very big question. It is very difficult to reduce a philosophy and an ideology to a few lines or even paragraphs, but if you bear with me I'll do the best I can to satisfy your avid curiosity. I'll try to keep it to less than War and Peace..../Buddhists are allowed to have a sense of humour/...The Lord Buddha often said in the Suttas "Are we not the happy ones..?"

Buddhism then....in a nutshell....whew this is going to be tough even for me as a Buddhist........

We believe in the Dharma or Teaching. The basis of which is the 4 Noble Truths which are

1. In Life there is suffering (there are many kinds of suffering)

2.The cause of suffering is self serving human desire (our own selfishness which originates in our consciousness is the cause of our own and other's suffering)

3.To cease suffering one must cease self serving desire (this means that we must stop being selfish and begin to think of other's happiness in the first instance and stop the arising of these selfish feelings in the consciousness)

4.The way to do this is by following the Noble Eightfold Path

This involves meditation practises which will highlight our thought processes and this is where we find the source of or the causes of the arising of theses selfish feelings, so we know them and can find ways of improving ourselves. As well as following the guidelines in a practical manner by practising being unselfish in our everyday lives.

It follows then that to follow the Noble Eightfold Path one must develop the following

Morality including

1.Right Speech

2.Right Actions

3.Right Livelihood (killing is forbidden even as employment)

Mind including

4.Right Effort

5.Right mindfulness

6.Right concentration

Wisdom including

7.Right thoughts

8.Right understanding

As well as these, there are a set of moral code guidelines which are called the Precepts. In general there are 5 but some prefer the more strict code and follow 8. The 5 are

1.Refrain from taking Life

2.Refrain from theft

3.Refrain from sexual miscunduct

4.Refrain from lying

5.Refrain from drugs and alcohol

So, by practising the development of these 8 characteristics of the Noble Eightfold Path and adhering to the 5 Precepts we strive for the achiement of an enlightened state of consciousness which is free of suffering.

We do this not for a selfish reason, rather we strive so that all beings are free of suffering both through a direct result or consequence of our Actions or through the positive consequence or Karma for which we strive.

Buddhists believe several things

1.That Beings include all sentient Life Forms, these Life Forms

include animals and humans.

2.There are several levels of existence....several Lower Realms,

this Realm and several higher Realms each containing Life

Forms of their own.

3.There is no Deity or all powerful God

4.Some higher Realms do have Beings such as Gods and

superhumans who have evolved to get to that Realm

5.Life is a cyclic phenomenon which continues endlessly from

Birth through Life then Death then Rebirth

6.Rebirth is a result of another phenomena known as Karma.

Karma is a phenomena which is a consequence of our

Actions in both this Life and our previous Lives. These

consequences can be positive, negative or neutral depending

on our intentions.

7.To escape from and therefore move out of the cycle of Karma,

Death and Rebirth, one must evolve and to do this one must

attain enlightenment it is understood that we do not have to be Monks to achieve this state but it attainable by all who dilligently follow the Path, it is further understood that it is a Path with no end, that following it will expand our awareness to include others and thereby release ourselves from our self serving feelings, selfishness if you will. We are in effect to become truly selfless in our dealings with others.

8.Buddhists do not preach to attract converts as the Dharma

states that we each should not believe the Dharma but should

reach understanding by our own experience of it.

9. Buddhists do not pray to or worship the Lord Buddha or His image, rather we pay homage and honour to a great human being who's compassion we respect in giving humans the beautiful Dharma. We do this by repeating our promises to Him....we seek refuge in the Buddha...we seek refuge in the Dharma...and we seek refuge in the Sangha or community..these promises are known as the 3 refuges or the 3 gems.

This is a very, very basic introduction to the Dharma and Buddhist ideology. Do not take this answer as the truth of Buddhism. I am not a Teacher nor an Adept and only serves as a very incomplete guide.

I hope I've helped you...

Peace from a Buddhist (Theravada Tradition)..in the season of joy

Answer 10

In the Buddhist belief, the practice deals with reading scripture, meditating, giving up attachments, energy purification, and enlightenment.  

Copied from the section “Buddhist Qigong and Buddhism” of the Zhuan Falun Lecture on the web, it reads:

"Buddhism was founded 2,500 years ago by Shakyamuni in ancient India. At that time, after Shakyamuni had Unlocked and Enlightened, he recalled what he had cultivated before, and he spread it to save people. In his discipline, no matter how many tens of thousands of sutras have been written, there are actually just three words, “Precept, Concentration, Wisdom,” and these are the features of his discipline."

Falun Gong is a unique Buddhist School, teaching an ancient practice for the body, mind, and spirit based upon the universal principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance. Falun Gong consists of five sets of powerful exercises.

Falun Gong, Tibetans, other Buddhists, and Christians have been persecuted in China. The most offensive human right violation is the organ harvesting from the Falun Gong practitioners in China.

Can you kindly sign a petition to stop persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, please ?

http://cipfg.org/en/news/petition.html

Answer 11

filial piety and reincarnation 8 pillars of faith and the six fold path each is to reach the fullness of enlightenment (dam i hope its the 6 fold path i dont know the right number honestly)