I know this story is entirley about Buddisim, but I just want to hear your opinions on the religion that is more appealing or better to you all... I am a Hindu.. and I personally think Buddisim is gaining many more converts compared to Hinduisim. The only thing that bothers me about this is that I dont think people give Hinduisim a chance. Hinduisim is a very similar religion to Buddisim.
shareBoth of these religions are based more on behavior than believing. That is why I agree with you in that they are similar. They are very similar. To me Buddhism seems outdated and silly at times due to the precepts. If I had to chose a religion from those to I'd go Hinduism because you have the right to believe or not. They can believe in God, or many Gods or no God at all. If there was a way to tell which relgion is right (out of every religion) I'd probably hope it was the Hindus that got it right. There ideas or your beliefs about the natural ways of life is very comforting.
shareBoth religion has its similarities and defers in many ways. For one there is no God in Buddhism. I see Buddhism as a way of life and the precepts are never outdated, it is us the mortal beings who are unable to follow them because easier said than done. The point of a religion is for your to choose which you believe you are most comfortable with. But not one religion is silly. I find Buddhism the hardest to follow because everything comes from within oneself.
shareThis is an interesting topic, and I am a Buddhist :)! First of all, when you say there is no God in Buddhism, what you should say is that we do not submit to the gods, however in Tibetan Buddhism there are many manifestations of the Buddha Nature (An enlightening essence so to say) which have been called deities, such as Vajrasattva, many can say that because a Bodhisattva has such strong Buddha Nature that he can be considered a half manifestation of a Deity. But there is no way that a person such as a deity, can create the Earth, everything comes from somthing and has a cause, conditions and ultimately an effect. And Deities do not have eternal lives, in fact the Buddha talked about how the gods will live for many Kelpas (About a Billion years!) however they will come to a sudden death which none will see coming, they are also born in such a way that they are ignorant to the fact that they are reborn from a lower being, and think based on this ignorance that they are eternal. Also another reason that we try not to be reborn into the god realm is that it takes a lot of good karma to do so, however when all of this Karma is used up in heaven, you will have only bad karma left and your next incarnation will be in the deep hells or as a hungry ghost. You can save up your good Karma if you wish by vowing never to leave the human realm, there are many ceremonies for such things, however the best karma is no karma for then you will exist the cycle of rebirth and become extinguished from existance and abide in Nirvana (This is not heaven but ultimate bliss).
shareSo its silly being an atheist? You offend me.
shareHahahaha Truthy, you make me laugh!
shareI thought Buddhism was a way of life while Hinduism is a religion. You can be a Hindu and Buddist at the same time just as you can be a Christian and Buddhist at the same time, maybe it depends on the person...personally, i have no religion, but find myself in both as well as others...
sharewell you see Buddhism came from Hinduism, Guatama was born into hinduism and pretty much disagreed with the Hindu caste system and sought a new way of life by rejecting the caste system
shareI don't like Hinduism because they have the cast system, that's sick people be treated like slaves and being murdered and tortured only because they have a lower rank
shareBuddhism practices casteism as well. Buddhists have kept millions of Burakumin untouchables in Japan as slaves and tortured and murdered them (google the term Burakumin).
Don't believe the Nazi-Buddhist propaganda. Buddhists are murderers and rapists by thought, nature and action. Sri Lankan Buddhists have raped and murdered millions of Tamils in Sri Lanka.
It is your right to question, challenge, and investigate --Bhagat Singh Thind
I don't think you can blame the atrocities in Sri Lanka on Buddhists. It was the SL military - which may have been, in part, followers of Buddhism, but that's obviously not the same.
My belief is that there are no inherently good or bad races, all are equally capable of bad things. If there is a race that has not yet committed some terrible deed against another it's probably because it has not had the opportunity.
Name a race and I'll name their sins. I'm British and we've got the Boer War concentration camps, the Slave Trade, Irish potato famine, Dresden etc. etc.
And you Indian hindus have got all the muslims after Partition, and let's be clear - that one WAS a religious conflict. The deciding factor was religion rather than race, so a muslim Tamil, for instance, would be just as likely to be killed by Hindus as some other race muslim. I guess you are going to say "what about all the hindus that were killed by the muslims?", well that's exactly my point - no race can claim the moral high ground. Religion however, may serve as a means of mitigating all this evil. It can of course be subverted by the supposedly religious into evil ends.
If we ever encounter some technologically superior extraterrestial intelligence I just hope that they are more enlightened, charitable and forgiving than us humans. If they were not and it came to war, I guess you would have Bin Laden fighting alongside the USA military, Greeks and Turks together in the Cypriot divisions, Jews and Arabs etc. etc. Hey! might not be a bad thing.
Complete change of subject: Any idea why Rama appeared just before the riot in Slumdog? I suppose it's not really off-topic is it., it does connect with the above.
You can't judge Hinduism by its past though. Yes, there was a caste system, but the government has tried very hard to eliminate it. Untouchables were eliminated back when Gandhi was around, so really...try to see things from their point of view. This is a social hierarchy that has existed for thousands of years for them, it's is a bit difficult to throw it away in 100 years, b/c foreigners don't deem it to be appropriate according to their beliefs. Furthermore, the caste system did keep India intact for centuries, did it not? It gave a rigid social hierarchy, and allowed for stability. It's better than anarchy, and India is one of the longer-running civilizations.
"Contempt loves the silence, it thrives in the dark" -Merchant
both religions are based on falsehood and having wrong concept of god
only islam is a pure monotheistic faith belieing in one god only withouth any ideas such as god giving birth to a son or idolatory etc
Do not put both Buddisim and Hinduisim down just because you disagree with their terms and philopshies. Also do not say they are based on falsehood because many think Islam is based on falsehood.
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Mgkhantra is correct. Buddhism came from Hinduism.
shareNot exactly. Buddhism came from Gotama's enlightenment, as did the Buddhistic Dharma with its rejection of Brahma and other gods. Where in Hinduism Brahman is the ultimate reality which is not separate from the soul/atman, in Buddhism ultimate reality is Bodhi/Nirvana (Theravada) or Emptiness/Buddha Nature (Mahayana). Buddhism comes out of Hinduism only as a protesting reaction to it.
shareGood post. Very True.
shareIm afraid you arent right. Buddha idd protested against the Brahmin, but Brahmins do not represent the whole hinduism. Hinduism comes from the yogi's and the guru's and there where guru's before buddha who reached nirvana. Infact how do you think Buddha came with the idea to meditate? He learned it from a guru. So yeah Budhism came from Hinduism in its whole. Also in Buddhist scriptures there is alot of reverence to other indian guru's and avatars. The thing Buddha did was establishing the true Hinduism - not deity worship but meditation. Because that is the true hinduism (look at Shiva - he is always meditating).
Budhism and Hinduism are the same in essence. The major difference is that Buddhism doesn't speak about a higher god (though if you know the scripture, buddha does speak about higher levels - places if you are reborn there then the next life you will also become a buddha - and a fake god. If there is a fake god then there must be a real one...). Also buddhism cast away the half gods - the deity's - because they are not true - they won't lead to nirvana (just as the hindu's say - Braham is the only god - meditate to him).
But don't be a hindu or a buddhist, be a meditator and find out for youself. The truth is within you
here is a verse from the Rig Veda - the oldest written book there is - it shows the true spirit of hinduism:
The God of the Earth, Atmosphere and Space, who is to be followed, we meditate on his power, (may) He inspire(s) our intellect.
OM ASATOMA SADGAMAYA
OM ASATOMA SADGAMAYA
TAMASOMA JYOTIRGAMAYA
MRITYORMA AMRITAMGAMAYA
^ lead us from darkness to light, from ignorant to truth, from mortal to immortality. If that isnt buddhism then i don't know what is (a mantra from an old hindu scripture).
Budhhism came against Hinduism.
shareThe God of Islam imprisons women for life time in burkha, just because they're women whereas men need burkhas for the same reasons and logic with which a woman is imprisoned into one. God of Islam doesn't understand economics (concept of interest) and arts, why to believe in such an ignorant and illitrate god?!
shareFor budding and continuing Mystics Jesus in the Lotus: The Mystical Doorway between Christianity and Yogic Spirituality by Paul Risill is recommended reading. I've read it twice with much of the book dog-earred for reference. Wisdom trekking through Christianity, Hinduism & Buddisim and how all three Paths at once (but being true to each while doing so) benefit The Seeker.
shareIs "Buddism" the religion practiced by Cheech and Chong?
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"Hinduisim is a very similar religion to Buddisim."
But the fact is that Budhhism (and Jainism too) is a religion which is a direct rebellion against the Brahminism which is the integral part of Hinduism, even today and don't forget that Budhhism was forcibally driven out of India by Hindus under the leadership of a Brahmin religious leader named Shankaracharya, in the 8th century AD.
Because many converts are white and have yellow fever so they try to be all zen like or whatever.
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