Articles or Manuscripts invited.

  • Any manuscripts or articles written on Buddhism are invited for publication in this blog.
  • Before being published, they will be reviewed for correctness and coincidence with Dhamma.
  • Articles written in English are preferable.

Web Page Version of this Blog

Dear Readers, If you may want to visit the webpage version of this blog, Please go to http://supremeenlightenment.webs.com/ Thank you for your strong support.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

What do Buddhists believe?

Sources from different websites and article being edited.

Beginners to Buddhism are handed lists of doctrines -- the Four Noble Truths, the Five Skandhas, the Eightfold Path. "Believing in" doctrines about Buddhism is not the point of Buddhism because Buddhism is not a “believing in” one but one is told to understand the teachings and practice them.



What the historical Buddha taught was a method for understanding oneself and the world in a different way. The many lists of doctrines are not meant to be accepted on blind faith.

There is no point in believing in reincarnation/rebirth, for example. Rather, one practices Buddhism in order to realize a self not subject to birth and death.
Please refer to Kalama Sutta

1 comment:

Henry Cheng (郑 国 锋) said...

Dear Karim,
Thank you for your lovely comment.