How does a Buddhist reach enlightenment?

Answer 1

The goal of "enlightenment" is to find this eternal peace and wisdom, and that can be found by many ways. Some ways to help you find enlightenment is through meditation and prayer. Many great religions have practices that are designed to achieve this goal. You may want to check out Yoga, Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Muslim.

I am not a Buddhist myself but at the moment we are doing this topic and i know that buddhists believe that if you do not get too attached to anything in your life you will never go through great pain, and doing this may mean achieving enlightenment..????

I believe the reason why the Buddhist practice non-attachment is to prevent the soul from being preoccupied with the physical world. By caring only about the spiritual a person can spend his time meditating thus hopefully attaining the state of enlightenment.

Most religions on the other hand do not cultivate mystical or altered states of conciousness but concentrate on correct moral behavior according to their particular religious dogma.
Through 'self realization'. In other words - through understanding your own 'self'. Or through investigating and looking for the 'I'. By finding out what is not 'I'.

Answer 2

Constant efforts through meditation(Vipassana), a Buddhist person performs kusala(good) or akusala(bad) actions without creating its reprints(samkhara). Simultaneously, accumulated past samkhara of a Buddhist person which were created in past, vanishes gradually. After eradication of all samkhara, all forms of cravings are eradicated. Thus, a Buddhist person reach Enlightment. It is a very very difficult state to achieve. However, through hardship and constant efforts any person can reach to Enlightment.

Answer:

On the other hand, each of us has a Buddha nature which we tend to ignore and cover up with our desires. Enlightenment is then the return to our simplest nature - a return to simplicity not the gaining of something more. The Buddha himself abandoned the road of privation and hardship as the route to enlightenment.

Zen Buddhist stories are full of references to the fact that the harder you try to reach enlightenment, the longer you will take. The use of Koans to allow the mind experience in reaching awareness without intellectual understanding underscores this concept. In many cases the instant of satori comes in a flash when least expected. The Tibetan concept of dorje (the thunderbolt of enlightenment) is similar.
Enlightenment, which is a state in which we see all things clearly, just as they are, without judgments and preconceptions, and where suffering ends can be attained by following what the Buddha described as the Eightfold Path. It is a path between the extremes of sensual pleasure and asceticism. The Buddha made this observation when he became aware of the impact of his opulent early life as a prince and the lack of progress towards enlightenment he archived as a wandering (and starving) mendicant holy man. The Noble Eightfold Path was also described by the Buddha as The Middle Way. The Noble Eightfold Path consists of:

1. Right View

2. Right Intention (thought)

3. Right Speech

4. Right Action

5. Right Livelihood

6. Right Effort

7. Right Mindfulness

8. Right Concentration.

Answer 3

If it were easy to answer we would all have done it long ago. Through meditation and self awareness, inward study, kindness and many things we all, in my view can hope to reach it perhaps in a single lifetime. I am closer than I was at one time but still very far away. The quest goes on. I believe Buddhism is an excellent path to help one attain enlightenment. i also have a lot of Sikh tradition in my beliefs.

Answer 4

The Buddhist method for reaching enlightenment is to study to increase intellectual understanding, and to engage in specific forms of meditation and mindfulness in order to get a better understanding of how our own minds work and how the ways they work affect our behavior and the results of our interactions with the world. The more clearly we can see what's going on, the more effective our actions will be, and the less harmful to ourselves and others. The practices of meditation and mindfulness serve not only to help us gain that clarity, but to develop skills that make us better able to choose our actions, rather than simply reacting out of habit.

Answer 5

Enlightenment typically is achieved through education. The best example of this is to read about the French Revolution and how the country began to develop, spread educational opportunities to all and how that education broke the control of those in power.

Answer 6

through meditation

The Eightfold Path

Answer 7

Study, study, study!

Practise, practise, practise!

Cultivate, cultivate, cultivate!

Answer 8

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