Editorial Commentary, Buddhism

Buddhism is originally from Tibet and is still practiced there, it is the native culture. The main thing that you have to understand about Buddhism is that they think that you should think more about others than about yourself and that you should do anything to help others, especially the poor. Don't get to attached to material goods instead you should get attached to feeling and how people are on the inside. Since people are a material you shouldn't even get attached to them but to their emotions. The body is just a material thing in which you learn your lesson through weather it may be compassion, anger management, or to love. Buddhism is a very simple religion, you aren't forced to do anything but you can help someone by meditation, meditation is when you relax your whole body get rid of everything around you and try to send your positive energy to someone. If someone in your family is sick you can send your energy to them. The most valued people of all in this religion are called Buddhas they are people that have woken up from the sleep of ignorance -they have understood the nature of reality- and are ready to pass their knowledge on. From what we know the Buddha used to teach people there the is one thing on the earth: suffering that is cause by desire and to stay on the straight path, you have to try to follow the four Nobel truths which are:

• Suffering: all the things that you want but can't get is suffering, birth, money, aging, illness etc.


• The cause of suffering: the desire that then lets you be reborn.


• The cessation of suffering: when you make the desire stop.


• The way leading to the cessation of suffering: the Nobel Eightfold Path.

When you die they think that you wait for you family, switch places -mom becomes daughter, father becomes mother etc.-then you get assigned a lesson and then you are reborn but this time you have a whole new lesson to learn and you don't remember any of your past lives. So you are always together, if you grandfather dies then he is waiting for all of you up there. 365