People are people first and are generally unaffected by labels like Buddhist, Christian, Pastafarian. In their spare time people play with their children, paint, sing, chat with friends, grow flowers, cook, have parties, nap, read, think - the same as you.
The same things you and i do in our free time
meditate
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Buddhism might impact your whole life but it doesn't stop you from having a whole life. Buddhists work, play, raise kids, mow their lawns and weed their gardens, attend PTA meetings, run marathons, get married. clean their homes - in short anything that any other person in their community does, Buddhist, secular or theist.
Buddism is 'now-ness' and a Buddhist practioner/cultivator is mindful of doing good, avoiding evil and purifying the mind at all times. Buddism is mind culture where we train the mind to perfection, to look inward in order to understand the true nature of things. When we have perfected the mind we are enlightened; we are liberated and free from samsara(a sate of mind that is polluted with sufferings); we have return to the source, our Trua Nature/ True Mind. Buddhist do not believe to live for one day, one year, one life time but many, many life times until enlightenment is attained.
Between get up and go to bed they:
* Earn a living * Raise kids * Cook * Eat * Have fun with their kids * Have hobbies * Have wives or husbands The same as everyone else in the world.
Praying five times a day, is not common to all Buddhists although there may be some who do. The goal of most Buddhists is to be present or awake in every moment.
Buddhists celebrate Bodhi day.
It depends on what you mean by "believe in". There are certainly spiritual tales that Buddhists believe in as well as the story of the Buddha himself. Buddhists also enjoy stories from their day-to-day lives. However, not all stories that a Buddhist believes to be true is necessarily a source of spiritual enlightenment (and therefore worthy of proper belief).
Some Buddhists meditate all day every day (the monks living in the forest, mainly found in china do that). Others meditate twice a day, once in the morning and once in the night and on full moons. Some meditate only once a day, and some only meditate when they have time to do so. But it is really not specific, but most buddhists try to always meditate on the night of a full moon. And the meditation is worship.
Yes, since not all Buddhists are monastics. Lay Buddhists can be journalists.
Certainly all Buddhists do not believe this. There may be some Japanese Buddhists who think this.
The birth of Siddhartha Gauthama, Attainment to Buddhahood, and death all happened in the first Full Moon day of May, celibrated as Vesak.
Vesak Day is a Buddhist holiday.
It a holiday celebrating buddah. Of course that means that buddhists celebrate it.
Buddhists do not pray, they practice, and the theory is that they should practice everywhere, all the time, without limitation.
varies between different sects of Buddhists. Nicheren Buddhists for one typically pray twice a day morning and night Buddhism is a very varied religion There is no hard and fast rule
All Buddhists follow the Four Noble truths. If you are looking for more specific rules, look at the Eightfold Path.