To end sufferings caused by Ignorance and by following the Four Noble Truths and living the Eight Fold Path. For more info, see "Buddhanet. Audio" on left and click on "Narration"
because they are etheir born into it or they like the life style.
The effect of desire is to cause suffering. The goal of Buddhism is to eliminate desire and thus eliminate pain.
No, this is belief of Buddhism. In Hinduism life is very beautiful and given for a very specific purpose.
Buddhism is structured into several different schools of thought. For instance, there is Mahayana Buddhism, Theravada Buddhism, zen Buddhism, Nichiren Buddhism, and Pure land Buddhism.
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Lord Buddha's enthusiasm towards knowing the real cause and purpose has actually started Buddhism. He came to know that desires are the real cause for all miseries. He explained the same thing to people who are called Buddhists as they believe in Lord Buddha.
There are no rituals in Buddhism. Infact Buddhism is against rituals. Buddhism is nothing but morality.
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The goal of Zen Buddhism is the same goal as all the other schools of Buddhism, namely, to live life as excellently as the Buddha, in other words, to become a Buddha. This involves experiencing a spiritual awakening (enlightenment, satori) and infusing that awakening throughout all one's activities.
The dissatisfaction (suffering, anguish, trouble) we experience does not happen accidentally. It is caused. The chief purpose of Zen Buddhism is the same as the chief purpose of all Buddhist practices, namely, the end of dissatisfaction. Ultimately, it is ego that causes the greediness, hostility, and delusion, which are the three poisons, that causes dissatisfaction. So the chief values of Zen Buddhism have to do with the antidotes to these poisons. Ego-delusion is undermined by clarity, insight, and present-moment awareness. This is the way to freedom, the way to abiding peace and ease. .
The Dalai Lama is the secular head of the Tibetan people and the Spiritual Leader of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism.
It is a sect of Chinese Buddhism, derived from the pure, Indian Buddhism.