Why BUDDHISTS Don't Believe in GOD? | Buddha's Wisdom 

Growing up I was Christian but became atheist in high school . I joined the military in my 20s and was a meathead with anger issues who loved to drink , party, sleep around and fight. When I ended up stationed over seas in Guam and I was a corpsman working in General surgery/OR , trauma team and occasional morgue duty . I saw a lot of trauma and death and mentally it was becoming a lot and I was having a crisis . I tried talking ti different religions but they just said to pray or they’ll pray for me which isn’t helpful and they didn’t want me asking certain questions . One day I found a Buddhist temple there and my roommate and I checked it out . The first visit and they were immediately so welcoming . The first monk we encountered only spoke mandarin so they grabbed someone else to talk to us about Buddhism , the temple etc and they had us eat lunch with them . We started going more and more because they were so welcoming and because they said “you don’t need to be Buddhist to come here , all are welcome . If you ever need a place to pray , mediate , eat or just a quiet place to think our doors are always open, no questions asked .” And as time went on my roommate and I started going to the services even and since they were in mandarin they had a translator just for the two of us . That temple changed my life forever as it got me more and more into Buddhism and practicing it . What really clicked with me was that they didn’t get angry when I asked difficult questions about it , they were always so happy whenever I had questions and always encouraged me to question the teachings they taught me . I also really liked that Buddhism is all about personal accountability with how only you can save yourself . That was back in 2016 when I first found Buddhism and there’s been many trials and tribulations since but learning how to walk the path has been liberating. I’ve since left the military, deleted all my social media accounts, became a pacifist, have been sober for years , became vegetarian and other changes. Buddhism has changed my life in so many ways and made me a much more mindful , open and present individual. I still have much to learn but learning is a process I’ve truly come to love .

Buddhism does not believe in worshipping God but in realizing it within ourselves .

Buddhism is not a religious belief but just a philosophy of natural humanity

My wife is a Thai Buddhist…I learn a lot from her about Buddhism and love it

I have followed many beliefs searching for a good one. After finding Buddhism I have found it to be the most liberating than anything else.

1) Buddhism teach us to find out solution of problem's, 2) Nothing is permanent, 3) Be your own light. Love from Maharashtra, Great video.

I am a Catholic by birth from Philippines, i started questioning my religion during college days and started joining different Christian sect. Now i am a mother and still wondering about life, death and suffering. And then our beloved dog died last January and everything shattered. The passing of our dog led me to wander, how to cope up with my broken heart, sadness and guilt. Until i stumbled upon some buddhist concept here in RU-vid. From then on i'm yearning to learn more about BUDDHISM. Maybe this is my way.

Im a born muslim, and i always thought my heart was jewish.. Today i found out i was budism all along.. Mind blowing..

If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.” albert einstein

Buddhism is about how we reach our destination safely and peacefully. If you are given a car to drive to your distination, just start driving safely, peacefully. Don't worry about who create the car. It is secondary.

I'm atheist and I found Buddhism out. It's amazing Philosophy. I believe it's the KEY for a long-term Peace of this World.

I grew up in a buddhist household and when I was about 13 years old, I had went to church with a babysitter. I had a buddhist necklace that I used to always wear, and that led a lady in the church to tell me to take that off. I didn't know anything, I just knew I had to go because my babysitter was going. I didn't take it off because my mom gave it to me. I later than told my mom about it and she told me, I could take it off next time I go. I asked her if she was mad and she told me, everyone has a choice and a path. If I decide to be Christian thats my path. I continued to go to church until I was about 19, my mom asked me if I wanted to go to a temple with her and I said yes. Curious. As we were in the car. I asked her about all the Gods, she said Gods are just an ideology and a concept that we should look up to like a role model. When we got to the temple, the first thing I felt there was tranquility. Like I was taking a hike on a nice sunny day. It was peaceful and everyone was so welcoming and nice. When I talked to the monks, the things they preach were nothing about the Gods, but more like life lessons. I came back to the temple again and again, sometimes alone. It became a place I wanted to go at anytime rather than a place I should go every Sunday. The teachings of Buddhism, never told me who to be but to be the best version of myself. To put faith in myself and to never stop following the path of self growth. At the time, I was going through a rough time. Not to get dark but I was SA and it had a heavy toll on my mental health. I started following the teachings of buddhism and learned to forgive and now I am a lot happier, of course it still effects me but I am not in a constant state of turmoil. Fast foward to now, I haven't been to that temple in years but I still remember and follow those teachings those monks taught me. I don't see Buddhism as a religion, I see it more as a spirituality and a way of living. This might be controversial, but I think many take religion and turn it into a set of rules that you have to follow, and to me that's not what religion is for. Religion helps us find meaning in life but it shouldn't limit our growth.

religious leaders took the opportunity to twist Buddha's teachings and made a religion out of it

I like the way Thich Nhat Hanh phrased it. 'Enlightenment is when the wave realizes it is the ocean.'

Im an ex chatolic and had studying Buddhism since 2006 and till now still studying. Im just a lucky person, even till now still hard for me to practice the whole Buddhism practice but i found happiness on my struggling on these practices and studies. Sothi hotu, sabe satha bhavantu sukhitattha.

So i am no atheist. I'm just on the path to enlightenment. I question everything and my mum is always angry at me for questioning our religion. Buddhism is a great concept. Thanks for sharing.

As a Myanmar 🇲🇲Buddhist, we believe in the Buddha teaching and the guidance of him is our way of healing our own mental traumas and life obstacles 🙏😊

I have been a Buddhist all my life and I still learn something here. Thank you.

I'm proud to be Buddhism & Blessed by Buddha Teaching

My wife is a Thai Buddhist and I thought I knew what it was before I met her, but I learn a lot about the culture and how it works and now today I wear two Buddhas around my neck every day

Buddhism doesn't worship Buddha like a god. Buddhism is the way to enlightenment taught by Buddha to escape the cycles. According to Buddhism, There is no creators, Buddha isn't the creator.

THAT IS SO TRUE, BUDDHISM IS EMPOWER FROM WITHIN FINDING YOUR TRUE SELF. RESPECT 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️🇸🇬

As a Buddhist I love how Load Buddha has always encouraged us to question and ALWAYS respect the other religions. In my country we have The bodhi tree where he enlightened and the temple of Tooth

There was a time when I was at the lowest point of my life, it was so bad that i, an atheist, desperate enough to seek god for salvation. I look through many religions to find an answer but all I found was there’s no god. But in all those religions i found Buddhism and even though I don’t follow it because I disagree on many ideologies of Buddhism, it did really save me from ending myself. The idea of seeking inner self to find inner peace is fascinating and beautiful. It help me changing my way of life and moving on. I will always respect Buddhism because of that.

As an atheist, Buddhism is the only belief system I have considered as offering some value. In particular it is non violent.

Buddhism has been in my life for almost 17 years. Defeating the idea of God was the first step in control of your life.

Thank you so much for this. I was seeking salvation from God all this time but didn't find or get any I was fully losing all hope on it for a very long time until now I realized what I shall exactly do. Actually to be precise I was seeking for a religion, faith and teaching that suit me and make senses to me the most and I found it, all this time I was at lost with myself, I lost all faith in God and everything. Thank you so so much for this❤🙏❤

buddha didn't tell anyone to worship him heck, he was just a human himself he taught us the way to escape the eternal suffering

"Neither me nor anyone else can lead you to the path of enlightment"

Buddha spoke about 4 noble truth responsible for suffering and 8 fold path to relieve from sufferings.

👍 شكراً جزيلاً، تحيات من السعودية 🇸🇦 🙏💙🙏💙🙏💙

Buddha is the teacher He left thefamily of wife ,child Parents and the Kingdom to practice Buddhism. He becomes enlightenment. We're only human if we follow his foot steps one day we'll be enlightenment just like he did.

Buddhism taught me to trust myself and my experiences, it does not belittle or devalue my experience of my own life, and for that I have chosen to reaffirm the Buddhist life my parents gave me.

I love Buddha and believe in God I actually respect all religions and people knowledge is amazing but feelings are even more amazing

IN BUDDHISM DOES NOT MATTER WHAT YOU BELIEVE WHOEVER YOU ARE WE ALL HAVE BUDDHA NATURE IN WITHIN EACH AND EVERYONE OF US.🙏🙏🙏🇸🇬

Proud to be a Buddhist ❤️🙏

Both Buddha and Lao Tzu have acknowledge there is something bigger than us, they just feel that trying to name or define it is a futile exercise.

I've heard many descriptions of "Buddhism." This is by far one of the best. Thank You. Hari Krsna.

Buddhism has taught me a lot about myself in the last 5 or 6 yrs. Buddhism is to know yourself and the world you live in. To be aware of the here & now, not the past or future!

Love from Island of Dharma (Sri lanka ) 🇱🇰❤

Lucky to be a Buddhist ❤

Buddhist teachings are very profound, logical and relevant..

I just realized I align with Buddhism beliefs

In a nutshell, Buddhism is all about overcoming of suffering in our lives and liberating from all rootcauses of cycle of rebirth. ( Because rebirth causes suffering; It's inevitable)

Everything hinges on causes and conditions. No need for any divinity to pull the strings. We are the creators of our life experience by our thoughts, words and actions . Namo Buddhaya 🙏🏼📿

Buddhism is not a religion but a philosophy.

Buddhism has given me absolute freedom

Being a born Buddhist , I was learning Buddha’s literature for 9 years, but without actual practice, I didn’t know what’s the actual meaning of Dhamma. But last 1 months, I started practicing vipassana meditation and now i knew literally the core meaning of what is material, what is consciousness and 5 aggregates of mind and matters. By 16 stages of knowing the truth, now I know I ‘m at 4th stage of knowing the truth (the path to the sotapanna, stream enterer) From Myanmar, Burma.

“Believing in” is always trumped by Knowing.

I was raised catholic but I became an atheist and arrived at a Buddhist mindset myself. Only later do I find that someone else already had this mindset and established a religion around it

Buddhism is not a religion, it's an awakening most of us are going through at this universe.

As a Christian Ill worship and love my God and learning everyday how to live better and master my self with Buddhism

Buddha encouraged wisdom based on evidence and experience, not authority of hearsay.

I love this, and I find Buddism as my truth ❤💯

I love Buddha's wisdom. Thank you for every useful videos.❤️❤️❤️

I didn’t know buddhism sounds exactly how i feel 😮 i learned something new. I wouldn’t mind learning more about it.

Proud to be Buddhist ❤ 🇹🇭

buddhism is NOT a religion - it is a SPIRITUAL (consciousness-based) tradition that said, i like this video =)

I am from a Christian Family, but although I'am christian, i have lots of questions about my religion itself and so many unanswered questions are still here with me to this very day. Buddism raised some good points there, who knows maybe someday i'll try convert to Buddism😮❤🙏

Proud to be buddhist love from 🇮🇳

Hearing about the buddha's teachings is liberating and self empowering

Correct me if I'm wrong but the Buddha didn't deny the existence of God. He just said that it is not necessary to believe in God to reach liberation.

Buddha said " I have searched for the house builder and i never found him, i will now break down the frames of this house and never will this house be rebuilt" From the Dhammapada, summed up. Buddha witnessed the world, the evil and the suffering and then knew that the creator has abandoned us or doesnt care and so not worthy of worship or time spent worrying about.

The measure is the good you actually do for your community, and also how good a friend you are.

The images' tone of colors is awesome.

When something exist it's counter part also come to existence. For example, left - right, up - down, day - night, birth - death, cold - hot etc.. if you remove one, it's counter part also ceased to exist. Think about a world there is no left side, then you will never talk about its counter part (right side). Same thing can be applied to things in your mind, happiness - sadness, love - hate, past - future. If you are a person that looking for happiness, that means you are in sadness. In fact they are the same thing because one cannot exist without the other. If you can let go both of them your mind will be in a neutral state which is called Niravana. When you realized this dualism, you mind is in middle path(third state), and you stop arguing or fighting for one side. Most important part is how you make your mind neutralized, in fact it's when you realized that sadness - happiness, love - hate are the same thing, because when something disappear and it counter part ceased to exist, it means they are the same thing. Think about a world where there is no sadness then it will be world where we never talk about happiness.

Now I know why I was so fascinated about this as a child!

I like the tone of voice, and the content is really well written. Your sense of colors and mood also great. Best of luck. This channel is doing important work by sharing these ideas. All the best.

Great summary of a very complicated and nuanced subject. Well done for making it so accessible

Proud to be a Buddhist ❤

🇳🇵Proud to be born on land of buddha ☺️🙏

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu ..words of wisdom

Buddha's teachings, particularly the vipassana made my consciousness awaken. After practicing vipassana with the help of Sila and samadhi, every wholesome thing started coming into my behavior and action and unwholesome started fading away. I'm filled with more joy, thanks to equanimity led by the direct experience of reality of this moment. Thanks to S.N. Goenka and his teacher along with everyone who brought this benevolent dhamma to India that benefitted me and many.

Good one Matt. New to your channel. I'm Buddhist living in Thailand but grow up aboard. I have very shallow knowledge about Buddhism teaching and your video helps me understand his teaching better. Thank you and looking forward for more videos from you. ❤🙏

Doing Meditation is the key that show us how to find a path of free from suffering .

I think the Buddhist perspective is a positive and healthy way to look at life. I am agnostic and looked to science for answers, but I definitely can respect the Buddhist outlook. Unlike many other religions that rhyme their words about love and produce division.

Thanks Matt! .. Very insightful and nice production! .. 🤔👍💕

I love your voice so much, bro. Keep it up. I’m following you for improve my English listening skill.

I am one of the Buddhists in Cambodia who has the largest religious architecture in the world, Angkor Wat. Who has visited the great land with thousands of ancient temples?

This is the best intro video I have seen on Buddhism. Thank you.

After years of meditation and reflection , i came to the conclusion that both everything and nothing are absolute.

Thanks!

"Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity". -Buddha-

Here are some thoughts that I believe the Buddha would say if here today. All wisdom comes from experience but not all experience leads to the truth. Buddha saw in his day many philosophies and many teachings of others he encountered on his journeys. However, he noticed one very important thing and that is that these philosophies or teachings did not all agree. So his question was how could a person know especially in the absence of divine proof? This is where I think Buddha separated himself from a belief in divine worship. To him the most tangible evidence for truth came from his own experiences and his own inner thoughts. I think he believed that he and everyone else, had by default, the ability to truly discover and recognize truth, but it had to come from within. He felt that a belief based on the belief of others was not to be trusted. I totally agree with this even though I personally believe in a higher power. If Buddha never taught there was a higher power or power greater than himself, then he no doubt didn't think divinity wasn't necessary or perhaps shouldn't be necessary to explain them. I suppose he reasoned that without the Divine universally present religions of his day were more likely only teaching some person's views and not God's. Hence trust your own instincts rather than trust another. Very practical thinking I must admit

I am impressed by the clarity and righteousness of this explanation. Thank you

Buddha make me brave in every circumstances.

A monk told me a long time ago that we should worship our parents and love ourselves before any religion and that heaven and hell is already in us all we have to do is choose the path.

I like the Buddhist approach because of the personal responsibility part. Tantra's core is much like this.

Very good, be blessed and the whole Sangha of Buddha, Om mani padme hum.

I am a buddhist love from India ❤

Buddha teaching sound simple but very very few humanity in this world can understand.

MAKES ALOT OS SENSE. THANKS FOR THE ENLIGHTING VIDEO💚❤

Well presented. Thank you.

Buddhism asked that if every individual have the wisdom and compassion to do the right thing, the world will be heavenly! Putting responsibility back into oneself rather than depending on God ? Nothing wrong with that.

IAm lucky in this world,because I'm Buddhist from ❤ bhutan

Thank you for this wonderful video! As beautiful as Buddhism is, it is often misunderstood and misrepresented. I'm glad there is content out there that provides a accurate representation of the Buddha's teachings.

I wonder how many religious and non religious people have a Buddha in their home or garden. I am atheist and have several.❤

« Direct experience over belief » I like that very much.

Lord Buddha is the teacher of the Gods. Even the gods are suffering. Only Buddha found the way to end suffering through mindfullness. Its a very deep teaching. Not everyone can understand this teaching. ❤

Probably the specific idea of god is constructed in the human mind. There are forces in the universe bigger than everything imaginable, you can call that god, forces of the universe or whatever you want, but all the story’s in religion are from the creative human mind. Greece with its gods, Japan with its gods, Africa with its gods, Jews, Christians, Muslims. everything is a cultural phenomenon.