Buddhist View Of Life

In modern society,people attach more importance and concern to life than in the previous era,especially with the proposal of animal rights,people have different concepts of life.Different cultures have different interpretations of life,and this diverse view of life can provide a beneficial vision for the harmony and development of modern human society.As an Indian religion,after entering Chinese society,Buddhism blended with Chinese traditional culture.After a long period of development,it has become a part of Chinese culture and influenced the Chinese people’s concept of life.The study of the Buddhist outlook on life is helpful to promote the in-depth development of Chinese philosophy at the level of life philosophy,and it is also helpful to understand the problem consciousness and the relationship between different theories within Buddhism.Studying the Buddhist outlook on life can also provide a new vision for the outlook on life in modern society.The Buddhist view of life contains three dimensions.The first dimension is the flow dimension of life,which is expressed in Buddhism as Dependent Origination.Although the Buddhist concept of dependent origination is sometimes described as the concept of everything arising from conditions,the concept of dependent origination mainly describes the flow of life,which mainly clarifies how life goes from birth to death,and what is the driving force and conditions that trigger this process..Like ma:ignorance,formation,consciousness,name and form,six senses,contact,feeling,craving,grasping,existence,birth,old age,any other concepts of Buddhism,it has developed and expanded since the time of Sakyamuni.The Buddha’s discovery that human existence and the world containing it are in a state of constant change is at the heart of Dependent Origination.The sequence of dependent origination from ignorance to old age and death is not always present in the nicoye,it is usually presented in abridged form,and there have been nine and ten dependent origins.However,Buddhism’s concept of dependent origination usually consists of twelve branches,namely ignorance,formation,consciousness,name and form,six senses,contact,feeling,craving,grasping,existence,birth,old age and death.Ignorance usually refers to ignorance(Avijja)of the Four Noble Truths.Avijja means misunderstanding or deception;it makes us confuse the false and unreal with the real and real.Sankhara means kamma(action)in Pali.Vinnana is a Sanskrit word meaning "consciousness".Consciousness begins with rebirth-consciousness in the next life,which is the result of good or bad karma in previous lives.Consciousness-related name and form,where the name represents the field of consciousness,but the consciousness here is different from the previous consciousness of rebirth,and it is manifested as a functional basis for cognition.This leads to six sense organs,which are the six five sense organs,which are important channels for obtaining external stimuli.This channel leads to touching,which is the encounter of our senses with the outside world or thoughts and feelings,and once touched,it will trigger a certain feeling,either pleasure or pain,or neither pain nor pleasure.In this feeling of feeling,we trigger a thirst for pleasure,and a thirst for pain avoidance,which is love(Tanha).Love means "persistent hunger".It desires sensual objects or more of what it has.Tanha also refers to a predilection for having pleasure in sight,hearing,and other bodily organs.Driven by love,we want to acquire the object that triggers the craving,and this is Upadana,a Pali word that combines the words upa(intensive,excessive)and adana(grasp,take),which means It’s "hold on firmly" or "strong,obsessive craving." Because of this new connection of spiritual attachment,man becomes a slave to desire.Under this kind of attachment,we act to create karma and thus form the seeds of the next life.All karma that produces new existence is called karma existence.Thus we have a new birth due to karma,and we continue the process into death,and so on.This is the basic Buddhist description of the flow of all life.From the perspective of dependent origination,Buddhism’s understanding of life is that life is not only samsara,an endless cycle,but also that this cycle of life is determined by the inherent physiological characteristics and acquired actions of life.Caused by the individual’s ignorance of the nature of the cycle of life.In this sense,Buddhism uses Dependent Origination to explain where life comes from,where it goes,and why.It is generally believed that the concept of dependent origination is the religious theory that distinguishes Buddhism from any other religion.The descriptions of life in many religions are based on the Creator,who created life,and the ultimate destination of life is to return to the Creator.But Buddhism does not follow this logic at all,but seeks the answer from life itself.As we have seen,the twelve Dependent Origination is nothing but the aggregation of the physical and psychological factors of life itself.Buddhism has discovered the causal relationship among them.This description is even somewhat like a description of modern psychology,rather than a description of religion.The only aspect of Buddhism that reflects its religious specificity is the recognition of the reincarnation of life,which is beyond the scope of modern psychology.But in any case,the Buddhist concept of dependent origination does have a psychological quality.The second dimension of life in Buddhism is the theory of the six realms.The six realms are the six life forms identified by Buddhism,namely heaven,asura,human,animal,evil ghost,and hell.These six forms of life are called the six paths because life uses them as channels to circulate among these six forms,and no life has a definite form.Among these six life forms,there are distinct characteristics of high and low value.It is generally believed that the first three belong to a good way,and the last three belong to the evil way.The distinction between good and evil is here a description of a situation as a life-form,with the good being the environment good and pleasant,and the bad being the opposite.The life forms that life enters into different levels of value are considered to be entirely determined by their karma.If you do good deeds,you will enter the good realm,otherwise,you will enter the evil realm.Of the six realms,although the celestial world is the most pleasing level,there is described as little suffering and life in good condition.However,Buddhism does not advocate or encourage all living beings to cultivate the heavenly realm,because a too comfortable environment there cannot help practitioners to progress.Generally speaking,the human realm is considered to be more suitable for cultivation.There are good and bad things here,which can help practitioners.Quickly enter Nirvana.Also,it’s worth noting that,according to scientific research,plants respond negatively to pain,but they don’t feel the same way as humans.The writings of the early Pali canon are mostly silent on the role of plants in the existence of reincarnation.Later Buddhist scriptures more explicitly state that plants are not considered sentient beings.Buddhism’s discourse on the third dimension of life is the concept of the Four Noble Truths,especially suffering and nirvana,which are the fundamental definitions of the value of life.Suffering is the English translation of the Sanskrit word "dukkha".Many Western writings have been translated as "pain".But pain is not just pain.Even happiness,or the feeling of happiness-when accompanied by attachment-can be a source of suffering.Dukkha can be understood as a subtle,perhaps barely discernible quality of being on the one hand,and severe mental or physical suffering on the other.In the Buddha’s view,even "happy" moments have an overtone of suffering.There are various descriptions of suffering in Buddhism,some are superficial and some are deep.For example,the common understanding of suffering is suffering,pleasant suffering and bad suffering.The last kind of suffering is also considered to be fundamental.,is the root of all suffering,and can also be expressed as "impermanence is suffering".The whole life activity is described as suffering,which often creates a pessimistic impression,but this description is not true of Buddhism but the whole Indian religion.Some Western scholars have done a lot of research on this phenomenon,but they have not given any order.Convincing conclusion.In short,the existence of life is suffering is the premise of the entire Indian religion,including Buddhism.Under this premise,Buddhism proposes a plan to get rid of suffering,and finally achieve a state of no suffering,which is the state of Nirvana.Nirvana means "go extinct"(as in a lamp or flame)or "to cease" in Pali.Those who have attained Nirvana are completely free from suffering.However,when the Buddha was alive,his disciples kept asking questions about what the state of Nirvana was,but the Buddha always kept a negative answer to this,a state of ineffable.In this sense,Nirvana is a state that is beyond what we can describe,because any state that can be described is based on our six senses,and once this state is entered,then Nirvana is any state in which life exists.At a certain stage,it is not beyond the life cycle,so Nirvana is indescribable.This indescribable state is the complete denial of life,a state of no longer entering the flow of life.Thus,Nirvana may not be a high-value state,or even an abomination,for those who are attached to sensual pleasures.In this sense,how the value of Nirvana is understood depends entirely on how we view the meaning of life itself.Therefore,Buddhism’s assessment of the value of life is that everything is suffering,and only by perceiving this is it possible to perceive the value of Nirvana.In general,the Buddhist view of life mainly includes three dimensions.The dimension of dependent origination clarifies the factual dimension of life,that is,how life occurs and flows.The dimension of the six realms clarifies the existence dimension of life that is,how life exists and the difference between the conditions of existence.The dimensions of suffering and nirvana in the Four Noble Truths illustrate the value dimension of life,which is,how to evaluate the phenomenon and existence of life,and how to find the best state of existence for life.This view of life in Buddhism is different from other religions in that it does not describe the source and destination of life based on some kind of creator,but describes the operation state of life from a near-scientific,especially psychological perspective..Of course,Buddhism’s evaluation of the value of life and the definition of the ultimate destiny of life still reflects the characteristics of Buddhism as a special religious culture.This description of the concept of life provides a new perspective for modern people to understand Buddhism.At the same time,Buddhism’s concept of life circulation and six realms provides a certain theoretical basis for the concept of oneness between human beings and other life around them.