most ancient of all existing world religions is Buddhism.The main ideas of this religion are part of the vision of many people living in the territory from Japan to India.
Foundations of Buddhism laid Siddhartha Gautama, who went down in history under the name of Buddha.He was the son and heir of the king of the Shakya tribe, and from childhood was surrounded by luxury and all sorts of benefits.According to the standard version, once Siddhartha left the palace grounds, and first encountered the harsh reality in the face of a sick man, an old man, and the funeral procession.For him it was the full opening, because of the existence of disease, old age and death of the heir did not even know.Shocked by what he saw Siddhartha runs from the palace, and, being already 29-year-old, joins the wandering hermits.
For 6 years of wandering Siddhartha knew many techniques and state of yoga, but came to the conclusion that to achieve enlightenment through them is impossible.He chose the path of meditation and prayer, motionless meditation, which led him to enlightenment.
Originally Buddhism was a protest against the orthodox Brahmins and their teaching on the sanctity of existing caste-varna system of society.However, many provisions of Buddhism is learned from the Vedas, abandoning their rites, the law of karma, and some other standards.Buddhism originated as a cleansing of the existing religions, and eventually turned into a religion that has been able to continuously self-cleaning and updating.
Buddhism: basic ideas
At the heart of Buddhism is based on four basic truths:
1.Duhka (suffering).
2.Prichina suffering.
3.Stradanie may be terminated.
4.Suschestvuet way leading to the cessation of suffering.
thus suffering - this is the main idea, which includes Buddhism.The main provisions of this religion say that suffering can not only be physical but also mental.Even the birth is suffering.And the disease, and death, and even the unsatisfied desire.Suffering - a constant component of human life, and perhaps even a form of human existence.However, the misery is unnatural, and therefore need to get rid of it.
It follows another idea of Buddhism: to get rid of suffering, it is necessary to understand the reasons for its occurrence.Buddhism, the basic idea is - it is the desire for education and self-knowledge - believes that the cause of suffering is ignorance.That ignorance is the impetus for the chain of events that lead to suffering.But ignorance is a misconception about their own "I".
One of the key theories of Buddhism is the denial of the individual "I".This theory says, it is impossible to understand what is our personality (ie. E., The "I"), because our senses, intellect, interests are fickle.And our "I" - a complex of different states, without which the soul does not exist.Buddha did not give any answer to the question of the existence of the soul, which allowed representatives of different schools of Buddhism make a completely opposite conclusions in this regard.
for knowledge, which means liberation from suffering (nirvana) is the so-called "middle way."The essence of the "middle way" is to avoid any extremes, opposites become taller, look at the problem as a whole.Thus man attains liberation by abandoning any opinions and inclinations, giving up his "I".
The result is that Buddhism, the basic ideas which are based on the suffering, says that all life - this is suffering, and thus cling to life and cherish it - is wrong.The man who seeks to prolong his life (t. E. Suffering) - ignorant.To avoid ignorance, you need to destroy any desire, and this is only possible by destroying ignorance which is the isolation of the "I".So we come to the fact that the essence of Buddhism - a rejection of his "I".
