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3 Things the Buddha can teach us about Beliefs
If it’ll benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it.
Founder of Buddhism, one of the world’s major religions, the Buddha was born Prince Siddhartha Gautama in northeast India, near the borders of Nepal.
After seeing the unhappiness, sickness, and death that even the wealthiest amongst us can’t escape, he abandoned the life he was living in search of higher truth at the age of twenty-nine.
Buddha’s name is actually a title that translates to the “awakened one” or the “enlightened one.” The title was given to Siddhartha Gautama after living behind the princely life at the age of twenty-nine to go on a lifelong search for religious understanding and free others from suffering. His teachings became the basis for the religious practice of Buddhism, which has played a significant role in the spiritual, cultural, and social life of the Eastern world and later the Western world. Hence, when it comes to convictions, the Buddha stated the following:
Do not believe what you have heard. Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations. Do not in anything that has been spoken of many times. Do not believe because the…
