Understanding Buddhism: What are the "Five Desires"?

Monday, April 2, 2012

What are the "Five Desires"?

The five desires arise fromt he objects of the five senses; thins seen, heard, smelled, tasted or touched. They also refer to the five desires of wealth, sex, food-and-drink, fame and sleep.

http://www.bighappybuddha.com/buquan.html

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Buddhism vs. Hinduism

Differences

-Hinduism is not founded by particular prophet. Buddhism is founded by Buddha.

-Buddhism acknowledge the existence of some gods and goddesses of Hindu pantheon, but give them a rather subordinate status.

-Although both religions believe in karma and rebirth, they differ in the manner in which they operate and impact the existence of individual beings.

BUDDHISM HINDUISM

-Eight-fold Path -Veda& Upanishads

-The Middle Way -Trinity of the gods

BOTH

- Cycle : birth, death, rebirth

- Both believe in certain spiritual practices like meditation

- Both originated in India

Questions and Answers to Interacting with you

Q- Is there any Buddhist temples in the US?

A- There are many Buddhist temples in the US. They are located in Phoenix, Arizona, Berkeley, California, Denver, Colorado.

For more information: http://meditationincolorado.org/buddhist_centers_temples_usa.htm

Q-Is there any other types of Buddhism?

A- There are three types of Buddhism.

Theravada Buddhism – this is the first and in the south. This type of Buddhism is to use the meditation to train mind, and to encourage freedom of the mind from suffering.

Mahayana Buddhism – This is Buddhism in the East. Mahayana Buddhism believes that the person must practice universal compassion and additional sacred texts.

The third type of Buddhism is Tibetan Buddhism – This is the third type of Buddhism that was located in the North. Tibetan Buddhism embraces other teachings, texts, and practices.

In depth detail: http://www.dalailamajuly2008.com/3-types-of-buddhism

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Different-Types-of-Buddhism&id=712243

Q-What is the place of worship? and how does one worship?

A-One can Worship in a monastery or at home. For those experienced practitioners, they can keep on worshiping anywhere and anytime without interruption. How does one worship? Although Buddhists may venerate images of Buddha, they consider this to be paying respect, not worshiping. There is no one special holy day of the week in Buddhism. New and full moons have importance in Buddhism.

expansion on this answer go to: http://www.peakcp.com/pdf/faqb.pdf

Q- What are the special days or times of the year?

A- There is much variety in the celebration of holy days depending on the country and local culture. The lunar

calendar is used extensively to determine the dates of celebrations. Vesak Day is the most popular in 3 Buddhist traditions. Vesak Day celebrates Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death.

http://www.peakcp.com/pdf/faqb.pdf

Q- What happens to someone after they die?

A- The 4 Bardos

1. the “natural bardo of this life

2. the “painful” bardo of dying

3. the “luminous” bardo of

dharmata

4. the “karmic” bardo of becoming

After death, the mind experiences

the phases of 2, 3, 4 one by one in

transition until rebirth.

To Buddhism, however, death is not the end of life, it is merely the end of the body we inhabit in this life, but our spirit will still remain and seek out through the need of attachment, attachment to a new body and new life. Where they will be born is a result of the past and the accumulation of positive and negative action, and the resultant karma (cause and effect) is a result of ones past actions.

http://www.peakcp.com/pdf/faqb.pdf & http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma5/viewdeath.html

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