The Buddha is the awakened mind which transcends all phenomena. When the Buddha passed into parinirvana at Kushinagara under a pair of shala trees, it was the awakened mind, as liberated spirit, which became free of the deceased carnal body. What of the carnal body (sharira) that remained was called 'Buddha relics' (sharira-dhatu) which were subsequently enshrined in a stupa.
The Buddha, before he passed into parinirvana, told his attendant, Ananda, not to hinder himself by honoring his remains (sharira-dhatu). He said, quoting from The Questions of King Milinda, IV, 3, 25 [PTS]: "Paying reverence is not the work of the sons of the Conqueror, but rather the grasping of the true nature of compounded things, the practice of thought, contemplation in accordance with the rules of Satipatthana, the seizing of the real essence of all objects of thought, the struggle against evil, and the devotion to their own spiritual good. These are things which the sons of the Conqueror out to do, leaving to others, whether gods or men, the paying of reverence [to relics]."
In other words, the Buddha was telling Ananda not to waste his time paying reverence to a corpse, but, instead, to contemplate the true meaning of the teachings, which point the way to "awakening" to the truth of our condition and the means to free ourselves forever from dissatisfaction, unhappiness and suffering.
Revivalists believe in three realms: heavenly spirits earth spirits ground spirits
Revivalists believe in three realms: heavenly spirits earth spirits ground spirits
spirits
Nature spirits are very important for the religious beliefs of Igorot people. They believe in nature related spirits and household gods.
Evil and Good spirits.
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they think that animal spirits that like them will protect them and that protective spirits live in rocks and thunder
The Bible doesn't condemn a belief in spirits, however, it does condemn interacting with them, consulting them (as a psychic or seer might do).
Most Inuit are Christians but like most of us they have a history of believing that many things had spirits and those spirits had to be respected and appeased.
most native beliefs and pagans.
They believed in animal spirits that is why they made the totem pole to worship
Shinto. Shintoists worshiped the forces of nature and the spirits of their dead ancestors.