Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7 % of the global population, mainly from Far Eastern countries. Buddhism encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and spiritual practices largely based on original teachings attributed to the Buddha (born Siddhārtha Gautama in the 5th or 4th century BCE in ancient India) and resulting interpreted philosophies. These subdivisions began to develop after the death of the Buddha at the age 80 and the holding of the Second Buddhist Council in Vaiśālī between one and two centuries later, the main ones being the Theravāda (Sanskrit: स्थविरवाद, meaning "School of the Elders") and Mahāyāna (Sanskrit: महायान, meaning "Great Vehicle") schools. Both derived from the oldest known divisions of Buddhist doctrine: Sthaviravāda and Mahāsāṃghika.

History

One important aspect is where Hindu meditation is based only on concentration (Samatha), Buddhism also adds in mindfulness meditation toward obtaining insight into the true nature of reality (Vipassana). The most basic part of Vipassana () is Anapanasati, mindfulness of breathing, which is being aware of one's breathing without interfering in it and using that to obtain insight. People would become aware of bodily sensations of breathing or count their breathing.

There are various dogmas such as the "Three marks of existence", "Four Noble Truths", "Noble Eightfold Path", but the essential core is gaining insight on how one's spirit can escape this reality. The Five Precepts (pañcasīla) and Noble Eightfold Path offer instructions on how to do achieve this.

Buddha's ethnicity

He was a priest in Vedic times and the kings of that time descended from light skinned Europeans and Northwest Asian migrants who gave them their language and culture. His origins also go back to the ancient Northeastern Shakya clan, which was largely made up of individuals of Indo-Aryan ethnicity (hence one of his epithets: Shakyamuni, meaning "The Sage of all Shakyas").

The Buddha is traditionally regarded as having the Thirty-two Characteristics of a Great Man (Skt. mahāpuruṣa lakṣaṇa). These thirty-two characteristics are also regarded as being present in cakravartin kings as well.The Digha Nikaya, in the "Discourse of the Marks" (Pali: Lakkhaṇa Sutta) (DN 30) enumerates and explains the 32 characteristics. These are also enumerated in the Brahmāyu Sutta of the Majjhima Nikāya (MN 91).

Important numbers include:

11) His skin is the colour of gold (Suva n Nava no)

14) His hair is blue-black, the color of collyrium, and curls clockwise in rings (Uddhagalomo)

29) His eyes are deep blue (Abhi Nila Netto)

The 80 minor characteristics of the Buddha are known to be enumerated a number of times in the extant Āgamas of the Chinese Buddhist canon. According to Guang Xing, the 80 minor marks are related to the 32 major marks, and are merely a more detailed description of the Buddha's bodily features. In the Sarvāstivādin Abhidharma Mahāvibhāṣa Śāstra, the question is posed about the relationship between the major and minor marks, and it is said that the minor marks are among the major marks, but not mixed with them, just as flowers in the forest make the trees distinctive. These 80 minor characteristics became significant as well, as were adopted by Buddhist traditions including both Mahāyāna and Theravāda traditions. In Pali literature, the 80 minor characteristics are found in the Apadāna and the Milindapañha. Some scholars believe the 80 minor characteristics were an early development in the Buddhist tradition, but held as important mostly by the Sarvāstivāda school.

Important numbers include:

4) His fingernails and toenails have a rosy tint.

21) The lines on the palms of his hands have a rosy tint.

30) His upper and lower lips are equal in size and have a rosy tint. [There is no mention of his skin color, but rosy palms, lips, and skin under the fingernails means low melanin in the skin so light skin.]

41) The lines on his palms have a rosy tint.

57) The hair of his eyebrows is fine. [This means he is not from the middle east as they have thicker eyebrows.]

72) His hair has the colour of a dark shadow.

So The Buddha was pink/golden skinned, blue eyed, and dark haired.

Core Beliefs

Karma

Karma is a belief in Buddhism that one's mental defilements or lack thereof determine what type of being one incarnates into in their next lifetime.

For an example, in countries with large amounts of white people, Cultural Marxism became a dominant way of life several decades ago and keeps growing in popularity. Cultural Marxists eschew higher art for degenerate art, believe in hedonism in all manner from drug addiction to Sexual Bolshevism, and basically they try to become like animals. The Buddhist doctrine of karma states that their mental defilements would mean they cannot incarnate as a white person or another intelligent being such as a Japanese person and would instead have to incarnate as a lower being.

Coincidentally, the more popular Cultural Marxism has become in white countries, the more the demographic genocide of white people has happened. In this, white people are being replaced by non-whites and not the intelligent civilized ones from East Asia, but the savage races such as the Latin American mestizos, Subsaharan Africans, and the Middle Eastern mulattos.

Three marks of existence

• Impermanence (Anicca)
• Suffering (Dukkha)
• Non-existence of the self (Anatta)

Five Precepts

1. No intentional killing of living beings, unless it is to prevent a greater tragedy

2. No taking what isn't yours, theft, fraud or forgery

3. No sexual misconduct, commonly interpreted as exclusively sex with the purpose of procreation

4. No lying, malicious or rude speech, gossip or spreading rumours about others

5. No taking of intoxicants that cloud one's mind, such as alcohol and drugs

Noble Eightfold Path

The Noble Eightfold Path is a series of practices which when applied will lead to liberation from Samsara. They are hereby ordered by the Sila-samadhi-prajna later order of application, rather than the traditional order. It is to be noted that Right Concentration cannot be completed unless all other practices are being fulfilled.

1. Right Speech: no lying, idle chatter, speech to cause discord

2. Right Action: no injuring, killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, material desires

3. Right Livelihood: no trading in weapons, living beings, meat, liquor or poisons

4. Right Effort: preventing the arising of unwholesome mental states (such as sensual thoughts, doubts about the path, restlessness, drowsiness, and ill will of any kind), and generating wholesome mental states

5. Right Mindfulness: strengthening one's consciousness

6. Right Concentration: practicing the four stages of meditation (dhyāna), ultimately culminating in insight

7. Right View: understanding how one's actions and beliefs have consequences, even after the death, and that death is not the end

8. Right Resolve: striving for a non-violent, non-hateful conduct, resolving to renounce the worldly life and follow the Dharmic path.

External links

• Jewish Crypsis in American Buddhism