Buddhism: briefly and understandable

With Tatia about Buddhism - philosophical teaching, which is often taken for religion. Probably it is not by chance. After reading a small article about Buddhism, you decide how much Buddhism can be attributed to religious teachings, or rather, he is a philosophical concept.

Buddhism: briefly about religion

First of all, let's notice that, although for most people Buddhism is a religion, including for his followers, however, in fact Buddhism has never been a religion and should not be. Why? Because one of the first enlightened, Buddha Shakyamuni, despite the fact that Brahma himself made him responsibilities to transfer the teachings to others (about what Buddhists prefer to silent for obvious reasons), never wanted to do from the fact of their enlightenment and the more so the cult of worship Who after all later led to the fact that Buddhism more and more began to understand as one of the religions, and nevertheless Buddhism is not.

Buddhism is primarily the philosophical teaching, the purpose of which is to send a person to search for truth, exit from Sansary, awareness and vision of things as they are (one of the key aspects of Buddhism). Also in Buddhism there is no concept of God, that is, this is atheism, but in the sense of "non-thesis", therefore, if you attach Buddhism to religions, then this is a non-tech religion, as well as Jainism.

Another concept that testifies in favor of Buddhism as a philosophical school is the absence of any attempts to "connect" a person and Absolute, while the concept of re-ligi ("binding") is the attempt to "connect" a person with God .

As a counter-errors, the defenders of the concept of Buddhism as religion represent that in modern societies professing Buddhism people worship Buddha and make sentences, and read prayers, etc. This can be said that the trends followed by the majority, in no way reflect the essence Buddhism, but only show how modern Buddhism and his understanding deviated from the initial concept of Buddhism.

Thus, seeing for himself that Buddhism is not a religion, we can finally begin to describe the main ideas and concepts on which this school is based on philosophical thought.

Briefly about Buddhism

If we talk about Buddhism briefly and it is clear, it could be characterized by two words - "deafening silence", - because the concept of shunits, or emptiness, is fundamental to all schools and branches of Buddhism.

It is known that, firstly, since the existence of Buddhism as a philosophical school, many of its branches have been formed, the largest of which are the Buddhism of the "Large Chariot" (Mahayana) and the "Small Chariot" (Cryana), as well as Buddhism "Diamond Ways "(Vajrayana). Also, Zen-Buddhism and the doctrine of Advaita acquired great importance. Tibetan Buddhism is much more different from the main branches than other schools, and some consider it precisely the only right way.

However, in our time it is quite difficult to say which of the multitude of schools is really closest to the original teachings of the Buddha about Dharma, because, for example, in modern Korea, even more new approaches to the interpretation of Buddhism appeared, and, of course, each of them claims to be right truth.

Mahayana's schools and Khainany are based mainly on the Pali Canon, and Mahayan Sutras add to them in Mahayana. But we should always remember that Buddha Shakyamuni himself did not record anything and passed his knowledge exclusively orally, and sometimes just through the "noble silence." Only much later, the pupils of the Buddha began to record these knowledge, so they reached us in the form of a canon in the Language of Pali and Mahayan South.

Secondly, due to the pathological thrust of man, temples, schools, centers for the study of Buddhism, etc., were erected, that naturally deprives Buddhism of his pristine purity, and every time innovation and neoplasms again and again give us away from Fundamental concepts. People, obviously, much more like the concept of not cut-off unnecessary with the purpose of the vision of "what is", but, on the other hand, entering the fact that there are already new qualities, the embellishment, which only takes from the original truth to new interpretations, unjustified hobbies Rituality and, as a result, to oblivion of origins under the load of the exterior decor.

This fate is not only one Buddhism, but rather, a general trend that is peculiar to people: Instead of understanding simplicity, we gare it all new and new conclusions, while you needed to make the opposite and get rid of them. The Buddha said this, about this and his teaching, and the ultimate goal of Buddhism is just that a person realize himself, his emptiness and the inconsistency of things, in the end, to understand that even "I" in reality is not There is, and it is nothing but the design of the mind.

This is the essence of the concept of shunyata (emptiness). In order for a person to be easier to realize the "deafening simplicity" of the Buddhist teaching, Buddha Shakyamuni taught how to fully perform meditation. The usual mind gets access to knowledge through the process of logical discourse, more precisely, it turns out and draws conclusions, thus coming to new knowledge. But as far as they are new, you can understand the prerequisites of their appearance. Such knowledge can never be really new if a person came to him a logical way from point A to point B. It can be seen that he used the starting and passing points to come to the "new" conclusion.

The usual thinking does not see the obstacles in this, in general, this is a generally accepted method for obtaining knowledge. However, not the only one, not the most faithful and far from the most efficient. Revelations, through which the knowledge of the Vedas was obtained, is another and fundamentally excellent way to access knowledge when the knowledge themselves discover themselves.

Buddhism features briefly: meditation and 4 types of emptiness

We conducted a parallel between two opposite ways of access to knowledge not by chance, since meditation is that method that allows you to get knowledge directly in the form of revelations, direct vision and knowledge, which is not important to do, taking advantage called scientific methods.

Of course, the Buddha would not give meditation so that the person learned to relax. Relaxation is one of the conditions for entry into the meditation state, so it would be wrong to say that meditation itself contributes to relaxation, it would be erroneous, but it is so often a meditation process to people by unbreaking, beginners, which makes the wrong first impression with which people continue live.

Meditation is the key that reveals the greatness of the voids in front of a person, the shunyata that we talked above. Meditation is the central component of the teachings of Buddhism, because only through it we can know the void. Again, we are talking about philosophical concepts, and not about physico-spatial characteristics.

Meditation in a broad sense of the word, including meditation-thinking, also brings fruits, because a person already in the process of meditation reflections understands that life and everything is due to, - this is the first emptiness, Sunskrit Schunyata - the emptiness due, which means that there are no qualities unconditioned: happiness, constancy (regardless of duration) and truth.

The second emptiness, Asanskrita Shunyata, or emptiness unlocked, can also be understandable thanks to meditation-reflection. The emptiness of the unound is free from all caused. Thanks to Asianskrite Shunyata, the vision becomes available - the vision of things as they actually have. They cease to be things, and we observe only their dharma (in this meaning of Dharma is understood as a certain flow, not in the generally accepted sense of the word "Dharma"). However, and here the path does not end, because Mahayana believes that both Dharma themselves have some reality, so they need to be found emptiness.

From here we come to the third mind of emptiness - Makhashunai. In it, as well as in the following form of emptiness, shun the shunyata, it lies the difference between Buddhism tradition of Mahayana from Krynyna. In the two previous types of emptiness, we still recognize the duality of all things, duality (this is what our civilization is based on, the confrontation of two began is bad and good, evil and good, small and great, etc.). But in this, the misconception is rooted, since it is necessary to free themselves from the making differences between the conditionality and the ability of being, and even more - it is necessary to come to understand that emptiness and non-emptiness is just one more difference of the mind.

This is a speculative concept. Of course, they help us better understand the concept of Buddhism, but, the longer we cling to the dual nature of the existing, the further we are from the truth. In this case, the truth is again understood not a certain idea, because it would be real and belonged to, like any other idea, to the world of conditional, and therefore, could not be true. Under the truth should be understood that the very emptiness of Makhashunyata, which brings us to a true vision. The vision does not judge, does not share, so it is called a vision, this is his principled difference and advantage over thinking, because the vision makes it possible to see what is.

But Makhashunata herself is another concept, and therefore, it cannot be complete void, so the fourth void, or shunny, is called freedom from any concepts. Freedom from thinking, but pure vision. Freedom from the theories themselves. Only the mind free of theories can see the truth, the emptiness of the void, the great silence.

This is the greatness of Buddhism as philosophy and its inaccessibility compared to other concepts. Buddhism is great because he does not try to prove anything or something to convince. There are no authorities in it. If you are told that there is, - do not believe. Bodhisattva arrive not to impose something to you. Always remember the sharing of the Buddha that if you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. It is necessary to open emptiness, hear silence - in this, the truth of Buddhism. His appeal - exclusively to personal experience, the discovery of the vision of the essence of things, and later their emptiness: the concept of Buddhism is concluded in this.

Buddhism wisdom and the doctrine of "four noble truths"

Here we deliberately did not mention the "four noble truths", which tell about Dukkha, suffering, is one of the cornerstone stones of the Buddha teachings. If you learn to watch yourself and for the world, you yourself will come to this conclusion, as well as how to get rid of suffering, - the same as you discovered it: you need to continue to watch, see things without "slipping" Just. Only then can be seen as they are. Incredible in its simplicity, the philosophical concept of Buddhism meanwhile is available to its practical applicability in life. She does not push the conditions and does not distribute promises.

The doctrine of o and reincarnations is also not the essence of this philosophy. An explanation of the process of rebirth is, perhaps, just what makes it applicable to use as a religion. This explains why a person appears in our world once over time, it also acts as a person's reconciliation with reality, with that life and the embodiment he lives at this moment. But this is only an explanation already given to us.

The pearl of wisdom in the philosophy of Buddhism was concluded precisely in the ability and the possibility of a person to see what is, and to penetrate the curtain of secrets, into the emptiness, without any intervention, in the absence of an intermediary. This is exactly what Buddhism makes much more religious philosophical teachings than all other asistic religions, since Buddhism provides a person with the opportunity to find what is, and not what you need or someone prescribed to look. There is no goal in it, and therefore, he gives a chance for a real search or, more correctly, for a vision, discoveries, because, no matter how paradoxically it sounds, but it is impossible to find what you want to seek what you are looking for, . To. The desired becomes only the goal, and it is planned. You can truly find only what you are not waiting and not looking for, - only then it becomes a real discovery.