Who was the Buddha? 

Curious, maybe you could do the religion of Bon for a new video, if you take requests? :D

I enjoy your videos, but as a Buddhist I have to say you do made a mistake with something. Is not that Buddhism proclaims that it takes billions of lives to become a Buddha, in fact enlightment can be achieve in one single life time (I think the minimal time according to most traditions is 21 days). Of course it can take several eons but there's nothing preventing someone to achieve it faster. Here and on the nature of Buddha there are important differences between the Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions (as for example Mahayana believe that Buddha was already a Boddhisatva while Theravada don't, they believe he actually achieve Buddhahoor in one lifetime. I think Theravadas for example do not accept the Jakata tales a canonincal for this reason). Another different is that Tibetan Buddhism considers that there are always 6000 years between one Great Buddha (Tatagatha) and another which means that could not be billions of years between Gautama and Dipankara (however different schoold do handle different time periods between the two).

Patreon is -- by definition -- patriarchist, and therefore Eeeevil. You should be ashamed of yourself for using such an oppressive service.

Can you do a part where you go through his (Buddha) magical powers or his encounters with demons and other Gods or celestial beings which I think are the most entertaining aspects of Buddhism

@@ElOchentero Video writer here-- Agreed that many Buddhist traditions think that it can take followers as short as one lifetime to achieve awakening. But the jataka stories generally portray Gautama Buddha as having taken many, many lifetimes to have reached his final birth, which seems to be agreed to by all traditions.

And when he came back with his teaching, his son and wife Became monks and reached the state of Arhat thus being free of rebirth and suffering. So in the end he did accomplish his goal of liberating them.

lol

Dunno, I like the my dad leaving to fight 7 foot gods of fitness from Mexico to save humanity sounds ok too.

Spoiler: it’s the same story, just different perspectives.

@@heterian97 Yeah but he missed all of his son's birthday parties and school plays.

That adds credibility to the story. Normally even a privileged (in the traditional sense) person would be told or even observe the facts of aging and death within their own extended family. It would take a special effort to keep someone that ignorant.

Absolutely, the king feared that his son would stray off the path in becoming a great emperor. One of the two futures of Siddhartha as revealed by the sage.

If you do not take the the Nidanakatha narrative as historically true, then you don't have trouble with its credibility. Treat it rather as a parable about the inescapable reality of suffering.

@@johnkelly3886 "Life is pain. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something." - The Princess Bride Samsara in a nutshell...

Sambridha Thapa it’s part of a much larger prophecy that exists as well, between every Buddha spawn there is a world empire that ruled by Chakravarti’s. A Chakravarti cannot exist at the same time a Buddha exists, hence why the King did not want his son to become a sage as he wanted his son to forge a World Empire as Atlas did with Poseidon’s Atlantis prior to the Younger Dryas Impact (10,000BCE) and as Ikshvaku did with Manu’s Surya Vamsa after (8000BCE-2000BCE). Younger Dryas Impact being a cataclysmic comet impact detailed in Gobekli Tepe inscription which created Meltwater Pulses that rose sea levels by 400’, submerging continents such as Azores (Atlantis), and Sundaland (Lemuria) while shrinking the coastlines (East US/West India). If you look on Google earth, every light blue area in the ocean was land before this impact.

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Though the story you are mentioning was written centuries later after Buddha's Death and these stories are made by followers to make him more relatable and this was not mentioned in Ariyapariyesana Sutta.

The astrologer who predicted this also said if Siddhartha choose the life of a holy man, their families rule would come to an end. That’s where the fear of Siddhartha leaving comes from.

@@WickedIndigo that was a metaphorical story for the monks and lay people to get motivated by but The real origination of Buddha was diffferent .

@@vmoz9492 oh interesting I assumed many of the things in the story are metaphorical and not true, I don’t believe that someone can read the future in reality. But I think that piece of the story definitely provides some interesting metaphors in terms of the human experience. Thanks for the comment, I appreciate the information🙏

Thanks Alex! That means a lot. Depending on what platform you prefer, feel free to reach out to me on Twitter or Insta to chat. Definitely want to do a Theravada video.

@Darren Hello, I’m a Buddhist who’s been practicing for quite awhile and it’s helped me astronomically. I’m glad you found Peace through Christ but please don’t just say someone else’s religious views are just wrong. I was not led astray and you shouldn’t tell people who don’t follow Christianity they were led astray. Christ was a beautiful soul with so many beautiful ideas, and so was Siddhartha

@Darren You obviously wouldn't what to do any research revealing that things were added to the Torah things were added to the New testament letters because that's all they were is letters to each other however the other letter is always missing. So you know from one cult to another that is even newer than the one you left. So I guess that means you worship Paul because Jesus or yeshua definitely went against Paul's writings.

Does it cost a lot of money to become a monk?

@@lissam8988 ¡Si, si, señorita tiene la razón, Baruch Ha Shem, Torah es perfecto!

It's a pretty good movie, I think.

Yeah I did a double take. Kinda crazy because in only a handful of years, we've gotten to the point where you would NEVER see a non-white character being portrayed by a white actor anymore (unless in some kind of parody movie calling attention to what it's doing).

Really gets wild when you consider that there's actually some parallels between the Buddha and the One. I'm not sure if that was intentional (although considering all the religious references in the Matrix, entirely possible), but it's there nonetheless.

Be excellent to each other!

Keanu playing god makes sense

perhaps you could also call it the Milky Way

​@@andrewtheworldcitizen GET OUT

Do you think she gave him milk directly from the "bottle"?

​@@jankay8569 WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE 😭

As a srilankan muslim .much love to you❤

You mean murderers?

I believe therawada people are the right folllowers of buddha. Love from kerala♥️

@@darkroomentertainment5882 "Theravada people are the right followers of Buddha" Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven... Christians and Buddhists are all lost and deceived ...... Yahshua ha Mashiach was the final Buddha. People have no eyes to see no ears to hear. Love your brother as yourself. but people won't accept Love as a cure .. WHY .. I have escaped suffering through Yahshua ha Mashiach, for your consideration only

​@@thebutler7284 how do you know about final buddha😂

Namo Buddhaya 🙏🏻

@@aasisch Siddhartha Gautama was born in Nepal no doubt But he attained enlightenment and became the Buddha in India So technically Buddha was born in India #BuddhaWasBornInIndia seems more accurate then? Also Nepal is a part of the Indian subcontinent

@@aasisch Nepal didn't exist back then. It was all considered part of the great India back then.

u r not muslim?

@@fannyalbi9040 All Bangladeshis are not muslims. There are chakma buddhists who live in the Chittagong hill tract region of Bangladesh.

Wtf is the "material world"? And why should your mind be free of it?

@@MrCmon113 oh buddy, I'm sorry that's for you to figure out not to be told.

​@@MrCmon113 well,in buddhism there's 4 noble truths 1)the World is full of misery and suffering 2)desire is the main reason of suffering 3) suffering can be removed by removing desire 4) desire can be overcome by following the eight fild paths. Now in buddhism ,we believe in karma,ur karmic actions will decide ur next life,and this is called the wheel of life(as said in the vid),this is the material world,and we should escape it cause everything in this world is merely an illusion,and Buddhist monks live their whole life in order to escape this material world by overcome the earthly desires and greed

​@@dexlord1368 You will love nothing You will love no one You will feel nothing Might as well be dead

@@Chef_Alpo obviously you're interpreting this as nihilism which is too common. But once you actually learn the teachings(I recommend the Pali Canon) you'll realize you'll never love or feel as much as you do as a Buddhist. In my own personal experience I've gained much more capacity to love everyone and feel my emotions much more now then I ever did as a non-buddhist. Namo Buddhaya ☸️

Love from Indian buddist

That's so wholesome and btw are you Taiwanese?

@@taizu55 yes , I am . 🤗

Pure Land is a beautiful form of Buddhism, meant for ordinary folk who are unable to spend years in meditation practice. Namo Amida Buddha.

They actually had a monk work with them as a consultant.

@@rumrunner8019 - do you have further details about that

@@rumrunner8019 Did they also with the monk during TLOK ?

@@biawakstruus i doubt LoK is just a bunch of generic teenagers that launch their powers in generic ways

@@onewingedren2228 Well, that seems like a monk to me...

Tangentially, how did you move to japan? I would love to make a similar move some day.

Cool! Didn't know that.

Yup, one of the surviving shared roots.

It's becoz iranic and Indic are proto Indo European languages

buden, not budan

European languages and Sanskrit both came from an ancient language that scholars call the 'Indo-European'. No wonder there are common words...

Good add, We shouldn't take western historiography from colonial era at face value.

Anudeep Ravi yup. The west for Ex says the Sindhu-Saraswati existed only between 3300BCE-1300BCE when in reality it existed from 8000BCE-1300BCE

@@NarasimhaDiyasena And the bigger joke is that the assumptions for the dates of bronze age civilisation is literally just from 18th century biblical studies that these supposed scholars are yet to re-examine. So much for the falsifiability.

For me it's not about the dates but the wisdom and understanding you get out from their teachings. That applies to all kinds of religion.

I think we studied this but, in Thailand here, it's currently 2564. I can vaguely remember that the counting in some countries would be a year or so different.

But his teachings were in Bodh Gaya India right? Are there monasteries in Lumbini?

​@@mnd7381that comment said birth place not place of enlitment..

@@mikosora-oz6zh : That's the birthplace of Siddharta Gautama NOT that of the Buddha.

@@Tathagata-eo5tz both are same person he got name buddha in Bodhgaya and name are not born it is given ...it is such a misleading statement ,anyone who will see this statement think that buddha was born in Bodhgaya but no,he got his name buddha in Bodhgaya..

Thailand is a Theravada Buddhist country? I thought it is Mahayana?

a monk in chang mai told me all those shrines around the cities have nothing to do with true buddhism, and said it was from thailand being a melting pot of religious history, so a lot of people have been passed down things from many past religious teachings

That’s what he does!!

Video writer here-- thanks so much! As a longtime fan of Religion for Breakfast, I am so excited to help bring Buddhism videos to this channel!

@@catherinehartmannteachingm9156 Congrats! You both did an incredible job. =)

@@IsraelcomAline yea your so great btw the occupation entity that is Israel is committing genocide against the brave Palestinians enjoy trying to paint over the blood such a fulfilling life you are having

Yes, paganism knows no bounds.

What did you learn?

@@taseenrahman1553 I saw the Bodhisatvas that were considered the most important during that era and for the dynasty that built those monasteries. Padampani and vajrapani. There was also an emphasis on mara (evil) trying to lure Buddha away from his path to enlightenment. There were also some depictions of a miracle that must have been popular then which is the 1000 Buddhas miracle.

So beautiful!

@@catherinehartmannteachingm9156 so beautiful. You should see pictures of the cave paintings. It’s breathtaking

@@tanya292 I've been! They are amazing :)

Buddha is too busy, get your own guitar!

That's right even the God, like Jesus Christ, will still reincarnation into human realm again. Unless, he have achieve the awakening. Then he will be what we called Buddha means there won't be anymore reincarnation. One God day is equal to 72 yrs of human being years. Reincarnation into a God realm is when someone did tons and tons of good deeds. Then that person will have the best karma and born in the God realm.

Idolatry

@@Masterleechan Is not a criticism outside crazy monolatrist minds.

You have to have a God for it to be a religion, there is no God in Buddhism but strangely there are devils.

It's just the Tibetan Buddhism that has these supernatural elements. Buddhism in nepal, india(which can be regarded as purest form) do not have it for the most part where only supernatural elements implied are 1. Buddha's birth, 2. Prophecy of the chosen one and 3. Cycle of rebirth of all living beings(which is one of the fundamental aspect of Buddhism) and how Buddha can see past lives. There are no stories about Buddha doing miracles. There aren't even any festivals dedicated to the Buddha, so it definitely isn't a regular religion.

@@thebangkokconnection4080 This is wrong on both counts. Religions don't require theism and Buddhism explicitly affirms the existence of gods.

@@Rod3ntRat no we wont

@@Rod3ntRat christ is a buddha, you silly goose.

@@LexusFox budah is death GOD is and was always HE is the begining and the end

@@Rod3ntRat find your mom

@@GODiscomingsoonagain 🤡🤡

What happens after one escapes samsara in your opinion?

@@bread8646 he who escapes smasara ceases to exist in all forms, so basically you won't exist anymore and be subjected to constant rebirth.

@@bread8646 you sort become a pantheistic and merge with reality

definitely some abstract cultural mix ins over the centuries, mostly with how it views women. luckily neo-buddhism has slowly approached that the differences between men and women are very arbitrary. the idea that women are born into extra suffering because of the reproductive cycle is easy to justify, but them dying and having to cross a river of period blood with lost fetuses everywhere seems a bit out dated 😥

This all are Mahayana Buddhism full of lies and stupidity. And Jatak Stories was not buddha previous birth stories but moral stories. 😁. People all here are naive to believe this.

You may be interested in the channel Jason Gregory. He focuses on Taoism and has written a few books on Taoist teaching and philosophy. He claims to be a philosopher, and although I can't confirm his academic credentials I have studied a bit of Taoism in school and I think his videos and books are pretty good and accurate.

I would recommend 3 channels for Daoism: 1: George Thompson: a Daoist Tai chi instructor who was thought Daoism in the home of Daoism itself the Wudang mountains 2 Einzelgänger: a good overview channel for philosophy in general but he has a lot on Daoism 3 Jason Gregory: a Daoist focus channel

@@ramengodzilla Great suggestions. I second this.

Just remember that the tao that can be spoken is not the true tao.

Chinese Buddhism has a lot of Taoism within it

Stay away from pagan gods my friend. Their is only the One True God who created the whole universe

Very good, keep finding the Buddhism.

Namo Buddhaya ☺🙏you seem to be an intelligent person☺🙏

How about Hinduism since Buddhism came from it?

It's just a part of hindu teachings ❤

There is a so many books. You no need to believe or need to be Buddhist just research and read. Ask yourself what is right and wrong. Very simple killing animals to offer God is right or saving life.

There were 28 budhha before Gautam Buddha

So like the 27 other Buddhas represent that enlightenment is eternal and timeless also Buddha didn’t write about the 27 Buddhas in his scriptures but it was later on proposed by Buddhist scholars in something AD

Gotta keep the people wanting more!

@@catherinehartmannteachingm9156 Thank you so much for the great content! I definitely want more haha

Indian Subcontinent*

Old Hindu texts predicted his Birth as the 9th incarnation of Lord Vishnu.

​@@herohoni3615india.

"The Beast that shouted love at the heart of the world".

Om Mani Padme Hum 🙏💗🌈

The wheel of dharma is a reference to the older Star of Ishtar which points to the Tower of Babel when mankind united to try to conquer heaven, so that symbolism shows Gautama was an agent of Satan to mislead people into the New World Order of a one world government with a one world religion of so-called peace. "By peace he shall destroy many." I paraphrase.

Have u read islam? U are a Christian so close to us.. u believe in the creator as we do

@@scintillam_dei 🤣 so much toxicity I think your missionary and Pope are busy in Harassment of your devotes

That's great to hear ☺️. It is completely fine to follow the eight fold path this way. You do not have to take refuge in Buddhism to practice it. Buddha had actually given instructions on how non buddhist can practice Buddhism whether they believe in an almighty God or they are aethists. That's the good thing about Buddhism , it's a religion most of the time when it is absorbed by a native culture but a teaching simply as it is. Western society have a done a terrible act by calling it a religion tho.

@@selfpossessed3940 no, I'm catholic which i find more to be about humility and penance than "Jesus loves this is know for the Bible tells me so' I haven't read Islam but I do think middle eastern religions are lovely. It's too bad that it's been so radicalized and oppressive towards women.

I just read a quote from Buddha for the very first time.🤯 thank you,I loved it.

@@joefantasia4111 4 noble truths. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Vjm2zdQ5ll0.html

There is a reason for that. Alot of what people forget is That Prince Sidhartha(buddha) lived in what Biblical literature refers to as the Silent Years. No active prophets, Little to no Temples left from the old world that that actually functioned properly. Basically no spirituality or religious doctrines for him to build on when he himself became spiritually minded. Plese contact me about this on account of your empathy for his story shows that you understand the spiritual anguish and frustration he must have felt with little to no spirit in the world at the time. That is why the more I come to respect him as a person, the more I come to disrespect modern buddhism and vice versa. Considering the lack of example. Im suprised he gained the wisdom that he did. I think it worked for him mostly because his self-discovery was more driven from hatred for the wicked world and it's distractions thaan it was a love/seeking for something more out there. I respect that greatly.

@@saulalifi8262 You do know that Hinduism was alive and well all the way through those years, right? His name is derived from the Sanskrit for "to wake up" for a reason.

@Squirenon 'sanatan dharma' literally means 'eternal dharma'. All religions traditions say that they represent sanatan dharma, its not unique to hindu traditions

Siddharth born in Nepal.Gautam buddha born in india 🥰

@@intelligentakt3918 I don't know why Indian are so eager to make fun of themselves¿ 🤔😂😆

I think it was India, the entire sub continent of India that nurtured Buddha and all the great sages. Man made lines in a God made geography is less significant.

@@priortokaraew7569 yeah yeah..why only entire continent was India, infact whole universe was India.. some Indian are not just living on earth only but also have Settled on Jupiter, March, Saturn etc... Indian also use to rules on Moon once upon a time 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.. Cheap Indian 👈😂😆

@@priortokaraew7569 if you really forget political lines then there was nor India neither Nepal 🇳🇵

สาธุ🙏🙏🙏

They all have names of my friends in india

Why you people are misleading?? Its gautam not gautama

​@@rupeshshrestha1731It's spelled Gautama in Sanskrit.

Both Jainism and Buddhism came from the same group of traditions called the Sramana movement.

@@rumrunner8019 yes, i have long held that Siddhartha's 6 years in strict ascetic practice was actually him following the Jain ascetic path. His later rejection of strict asceticism and success following a less strict "middle way" would be the point at which Buddhism can be said to have started.

That was a time of major religious origination worldwide.

@@lshulman58 Actually, I might not just experienced Jainism but dozens of other religious cults of India which did not give his answers. Finally, he followed his own path and developed doctrine of middle way.

@Xyz xyz Protestants are more mindless zealots though, that's a really poor comparison with the sramanas.

Bhuddism dont have any tradition all were copied from hindusim

@@skullshotskullshot8572 Ok?

@@skullshotskullshot8572 really 😂😂

@Skullshot Skullshot an insecure attention seeking Hindu 😆. BTW Hinduism copied massive stuff from Buddhism, I can list them all here.

Bible and holy church has that all plus more.

Thanks for your comment. I really appreciated seeing it right now. I have been Christian for almost 2 years now and I grapple with things and research anything that does not add up in my mind as I feel it's important to always question things. I feel bad about that at times bc I have seen such large blessings in my life at times of dire need. But you made me feel better by realizing we all should approach things without a bias to understand them better.

Try not to focus on the stories of the Buddha but the teachings. You will find out it is more simple to understand as the stories are made up by disciples and not Buddha. Buddha teaches to first listen to the Buddha if there is no Buddha then teach yourself the dhamma his teachings of the 8 fold paths.

Well done! Happy for you examining things on your own before blindly believing in them. There is such a thing created by minds that is labeled with fancy words like “ religion”, and there is the truth practised and understood by oneself. You will understand the cycle of life as you go through life, if removing the blocks of “ life cycle is from when I was born to when I pass away”, that is just for your ID, try watching it as different states of consciousness

me too

Same Here

As a western convert that has a sangha nearby, I feel you. To me, religion isn't about cultural distinctions or adopting your societies beliefs, it's about the value and truth you find in the teachings. "Be your own light"

@Nix Man I learned it all in a different dialect, but the concept is the same isn't it? You're literally reaffirming my point that corrections and disagreements always stem from something irrelevant like spelling.