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    This document provides an overview of some key beliefs in Buddhism, including: - Buddhists believe in karma, rebirth, and impermanence and that suffering can be overcome through enlightenment. - The Four Noble Truths state that suffering is inherent in life, caused by desire, and can be ended by following the Noble Eightfold Path. - The Noble Eightfold Path outlines right view, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration. - Other Buddhist beliefs discussed include interdependent origination, and how Buddhism differs from Christianity in its views of God, the cause and end of suffering, and the cycle of rebirth. The document also provides suggestions for how Christians can reach out

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    This document provides an overview of some key beliefs in Buddhism, including: - Buddhists believe in karma, rebirth, and impermanence and that suffering can be overcome through enlightenment. - The Four Noble Truths state that suffering is inherent in life, caused by desire, and can be ended by following the Noble Eightfold Path. - The Noble Eightfold Path outlines right view, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration. - Other Buddhist beliefs discussed include interdependent origination, and how Buddhism differs from Christianity in its views of God, the cause and end of suffering, and the cycle of rebirth. The document also provides suggestions for how Christians can reach out

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    This document provides an overview of some key beliefs in Buddhism, including: - Buddhists believe in karma, rebirth, and impermanence and that suffering can be overcome through enlightenment. - The Four Noble Truths state that suffering is inherent in life, caused by desire, and can be ended by following the Noble Eightfold Path. - The Noble Eightfold Path outlines right view, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration. - Other Buddhist beliefs discussed include interdependent origination, and how Buddhism differs from Christianity in its views of God, the cause and end of suffering, and the cycle of rebirth. The document also provides suggestions for how Christians can reach out

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    Buddhism

    By: Mallory, Ledger, Ryan, and


    Owen
    Basic beliefs of Buddhists
    - The main principles of this belief system are
    karma, rebirth, and impermanence.
    Buddhists believe that life is full of suffering,
    but that suffering can be overcome by
    attaining enlightenment.
    - Like hinduism, Buddhists also believe in
    nirvana.
    - Their final entry into nirvana is known as
    “parinirvana”
    - Interdependent origination: This means that
    nothing exists apart from anything else.
    Instead, all things depend on each other.
    Each thing exists as “a collection of other
    elements.
    4 noble truths of Buddhism

    1. Suffering is inherent in life

    2. The cause of suffering is desire

    3. There is a way to put an end to desire


    and suffering

    4. The way is the Noble Eightfold


    path.(solution to the problem of
    desire and suffering)
    Noble eightfold path
    1. Right view: seeing things as they are, in accordance with Buddha’s teachings
    2. Right intention: making a commitment to strive for enlightenment
    3. Right speech: addressing others with kindness, while abstaining from lying, divisive or abusive
    speech, and idle chatter
    4. Right action: abstaining from killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct
    5. Right Livelihood: making a living in a way that harms no one and benefits all
    6. Right effort: striving to abandon all thought and action that is harmful to oneself or others and to
    cultivate virtues that benefit oneself or others
    7. Right mindfulness: focused awareness of the body and mind and the phenomena arising within
    and affecting reach
    8. Right concentration: cultivating concentration that leads to equanimity beyond pleasure and pain
    Karma, rebirth, and impermanence

    - Karma: like Hinduism, buddhists believe in karma and how your actions affect your
    afterlife. However, they go into more detail believing that even the intentions of
    our actions that precede what we do also affect our afterlife

    - Rebirth: Buddhists recognise that there is a continuous cycle of life, death and
    rebirth. This cycle is known as samsara. The ultimate aim of Buddhist practice is to
    become free from samsara.

    - Impermanence: all things are always changing. This means that all things are in a
    state of becoming. For example a blade of grass, even tho you dont notice it at
    first that blade of grass is always growing and always changing.
    How Buddhism conflicts with Christianity
    Christianity Buddhism
    1. Christians believe in the one 1. Buddhists do not believe in
    true God any kind of god, although
    2. Believe that suffering is a there are supernatural figures
    result of sin, not who affect people on the path
    desire/temptation towards enlightenment
    3. Believe in heaven or hell, and 2. Believe that the cause of
    that life has a beginning and suffering is desire
    ending 3. Believe in a “rebirth” and
    4. Believe that continuous cycle of life, death,
    and rebirth
    desire/temptation is a
    4. Believe that there is a way to
    human’s response to sin and
    put an end to desire
    that there is no way to
    completely eradicate it
    How can we reach them with the
    gospel?
    We can use the 4 noble beliefs of Buddhism to reach
    them with christianity:
    - Teach them that suffering is a part of human life
    as a result of sin. Suffering was brought into the
    world after The Fall.
    - As previously said, the cause of suffering is sin,
    not desire. As humans we cannot control desire
    but we can control how we respond to it
    - The Noble Eightfold path is not a way to
    obliterate suffering and desire. Again as said
    before these are human responses to sin. Instead,
    as christians we strive to follow the 10
    commandments in order to live as Jesus did.

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