buddhism
...es and epitomizes the true nature of all other beings. He understood that Basic life is unsatisfactory because it is based on ignorance and desire, resulting in the inability to realize that there is no real “self”, Anatman. One must first unite all opposites by finding the Middle way between all attachments, and wanting to be open to all omniscience, all skill, and all compassion There are two major forms of Buddhism, Theravada (the elders) and Mahayana. Theravada moved out of India into south eastern countries and believed the teachings of the Buddha in a more literal sense by utilizing the roles and ideas of the Tripitka-disciplines for the monks, Arhants-the noble teacher, and the Samadhi-mediation becomes one with the divine. The Mahayana Buddhism moved north east with a much more liberal and innovative taste that adapted into a few branches: Pure Land Buddhism, Chan(Zen), and Jajrayana(Tibetan). Buddhism has very little interest in controlling large amounts of people, as in Hinduism, and is severely attracted to a unified psychological state- profound meditation, warm compassion, or even unambiguous fury against illusion. Buddhist practices are focused on strong clear states mind through ritual chanting, meticulous gardening, and finely rendered Mandolas. PROFOUND/NOT PROFOUND: Nagarjuna’s two basic principles in the Mahayana teachings: Samsara and Nirvana are not different and that the most adequate expression for this totality is “Void”. Understanding that right now while I’m typing this paper, I could be in the same position and be in Parinirvana, truly awaken with no attachments, is a pretty big stretch. What I perceive through my karmic lense filters possible purity and selfless action and thought; that I believe to be truth, but finding that present moment to be one with my perfect moment is difficult to accept as matter-of-fact. I say this just because I probably wouldn’t be writing a paper explaining how I feel about I how could possible, on some metaphysical level, be Awaken already. (too ironic) All exist not of “Own Being” but only in their interrelationships; this Nirvanic vision is to see all things, including oneself, the observer, equally and as endless series of interdependencies and interrelationships. Nothing is stable, nothing begins or ends; Since the cosmos has no pivot or foundation or point of reference within itself,...