Buddhism and Meditation
Buddhism is a way of life. Meditation is a mental culture to develop good qualities and purify the mind.
Buddhism and Meditation
With approximately 376 million followers, Buddhism is one of the major world religions. Its philosophy is based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, who lived between approximately 563 and 483 BC. Originating in India, Buddhism gradually spread throughout Asia to Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Southeast Asia, as well as the East Asian countries of China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.
Buddhism teaches followers to perform good and wholesome actions, to avoid bad and harmful actions, and to purify and train the mind. The aim of these practices is to end the suffering of cyclic existence, samsara, by awakening the practitioner to the realisation of true reality, the achievement of Nirvana and Buddhahood.
Buddhist morality is underpinned by the principles of harmlessness and moderation. Mental training focuses on moral discipline (sila), meditative concentration (samadhi), and wisdom (prajña).
Dharma is a sanskrit word and a concept of eastern religions. Simply explained, it is the way of the higher Truths, a lifestyle that leads to minimum accumulation of karma and is therefore the fastest path to personal liberation.
“So you lean how to keep a peaceful mind. You have to purify the mind, how to develop the mind. Meditation means to develop and cultivate the mind. There are in the mind wholesome thoughts and unwholesome thoughts like anger revenge, enmity.
These are negative thoughts. If you don’t know how to deal with them you hold on to them instead of letting them go. You learn to practise loving kindness instead of anger, loving kindness to self and then to others. You develop good quality of mind by practising meditation. So it is a way can help society how to keep a good peaceful mind. It helps people have a better life. If you are given loving kindness to meditate on you pull loving kindness to yourself, then it radiates it back out to others.”