How to live
A Buddhist Lifestyle
How to Practice Buddhism! (The Complete Guide)
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what is up and welcome to toys corner a
channel for personal and spiritual
growth
I'm coy and spiritual life means a life
of betterment and growth but not just
for our own ego needs but for the needs
of others our community and planet at
large so it's easy to see why a
philosophy and practice such as Buddhism
might be something many people turn to
or want to pick up and act out for it is
a religion and philosophy that picked up
over 2,500 years ago and has split into
many different schools and branches such
as tera vaada Mahayana Zen Buddhism and
so forth all of which focus mainly are
not just compassion and living in daily
life but also on cessation of suffering
in this human manifestation but doing
such things take steps in the same way
completing any task takes steps to
prepare us for it or to enact it so with
that being said let us get into how to
live a Buddhist life or how to be a
Buddhist now I know I've done many
videos on Buddhism before a few of which
you can find up here but this serves as
a kind of end-all-be-all
single video essentially the core of
what you need to know and practice to be
a Buddhist now in Buddhist philosophy
and in the Pali Canon and in all the
suitors of Buddhism there are hundreds
if not thousands of precepts terms ideas
and so forth that comprise what Buddhism
is but this is the core of what you need
this is pretty much the outline basis
that virtually all schools of Buddhism
not only adhere to but teach so first we
must sit back and think for a moment and
question what about us wants to be a
Buddhist where does our notion of living
a Buddhist life come into the picture
what part of you as a specific human
being wants to be but is it being done
to maybe branch or distance yourself
from your past religion is it
an Eastern philosophy that you might
think is retro or cool or interesting
where is this need or want to be
Buddhism stemming from isolating this is
our first step and we want you isolate
it realize that if that can't change and
if you can't grow past that reasoning
for being a Buddhist you will never be
able to fully live a Buddhist life
because one of the core tenets of
Buddhism is transcending our need
wanting and attachment to being not only
somebody but living as somebody being a
Buddhist having a name place upon us as
a Buddhist especially the term Buddhism
itself or being called a birth itself is
paradoxical in the sense that we
shouldn't allow it to define us because
the core of Buddhism is focused on the
liberation of self the detachment the
escape from the eye so it's important to
know going into Buddhism that even
utilizing the label of being a Buddhist
is something that one day you will need
to transcend and if you can accept this
and know that you will have to change
eventually and grow out of this ego
identification well then we can move on
to the next step so now that we realize
that we are not trying to be a Buddha
that we are not trying to achieve
something with Buddhism that the ego is
not the fundamental goal of Buddhism but
merely to practice the teachings of
Siddhartha Gautama it makes the pressure
that is on us to be a successful or a
good Buddhist or a productive Buddhist a
little less daunting because instead of
the ego late and focus on Buddhism being
the primary foundation for our practice
we can turn inward to the heart and
allow the heart center or a loving place
to be our foundation essentially we are
practicing the practice just to practice
the practice because we love practicing
the practice and it works for us because
any good Buddhist or I should say any
true Buddhist knows that they don't have
to be referred to as a Buddhist to be
one they know these label conceptions
are just there to describe things
without on a universal level they don't
flow describe the practice itself quite
frankly you can be a Buddhist without
ever calling yourself one at all so with
this out of the way we can move in
to the core tenets of this board
philosophy and the daily steps we may
take to practice what is living and
again while this will be a quick and
simple efficient synopsis of Buddhism as
I said before I have many many videos
listed above that go into much greater
detail on these topics so the first is
that of the three jewels the Buddha the
Dharma and the Sangha these are the
pillars if you will of Buddhist life and
Buddhist practice they are pretty much
just a reiteration of trusting the
process or essentially having faith and
is why these three jewels are labeled
when described as seeking refuge in so
we seek refuge in the Buddha we seek
refuge in the Dharma and we seek refuge
in the Sangha the first case is seeking
refuge in the Buddha which is seeking
refuge essentially in Siddhartha Gautama
himself as our teacher and knowing that
we too can awaken this inner Buddhahood
that exists not just for the desert
Gotama but within every human being on
earth the second jewel is seeking refuge
in the Dharma or seeking refuge in
throughout the Gotama
teachings the same way that if we come
from a Catholic foundation we can seek
refuge in the words of God written in
the Bible
well in this case for Buddhism we seek
refuge instead of to be Thomas core
tenants and the core things he taught
and the core steps he use or realize I
should say to awaken and if we take
these steps as well that this awakening
has a potential of occurring within us
and the third is seeking refuge in the
Sangha or in the spiritual community
that surrounds us with our Buddhist
practice basically the people we
interact with on a spiritual day-to-day
life and the community we surround
ourselves with that also shares and
practices similar views and this is why
it's important if you are truly getting
into Buddhist living the same way
anybody getting into any devoted truly
devoted spiritual or religious practice
you want to seek out churches or
foundations or places of worship or
practice that revolve around again what
you are practicing that way you can
surround yourself with like-minded
individuals who can
help you not only understand we were
practicing more but help you stay in the
realm of that thought process so once
this is down we move on to the most
popular and well-known aspect of
Buddhism which encompasses the Four
Noble Truths of Buddhism and the
Eightfold Path that follows first of all
truth is that there is suffering or
dukkha is a way of of translating it
more so frustration that there is
frustration in life in this essence
conditioned life a expected way of
living a way of living that we are
conditioned to view and in this notion
the second noble truth is that this said
suffering is caused by our desires and
our attachments to life being a certain
way or things being a certain way that
means wanting a movie to end a certain
way a certain person to like us a
certain promotion to occur for us a
certain food to taste a certain way all
these desires and attachments have the
potential to lead to suffering if we
have an expected or wanted outcome the
third noble truth is that since we have
suffering stemming from attachments and
desires there is also a way to cease
this attachment desires and therefore
cease suffering therefore through
cultivating detachment from our wants
and our desires we have the ability to
attain nirvana which leads into the
fourth noble truth being the attainment
of Nirvana as something done or awakened
through following was known as the
Eightfold Path or as many Buddhists call
it the Eightfold Path of compassionate
living and in brief the Eightfold Path
is essentially how we can live with
compassionate non-attachment
in each in any moment by perfecting each
of the methods to come when we do this
we have the ability to see suffering
completely no matter how it may arise
and upon ceasing our attachments in any
format we fall into a state of Nirvana
which is blissful acceptance of the
world as it is in every single moment
with no lingering attachments to it
being any certain way and the Eightfold
Path is as followed first we have ripe
or compassionate view second is right or
compassionate intention third is right
or compassionate speech fourth is right
or compassionate acts
fifth is right or compassionate and
livelihood sixth is right or
compassionate effort seven which is
right our compassionate mindfulness of
the body feelings in mind nourish Chaya
Madonna and cheetah respectively and
eight is right for compassionate
meditation which is mostly done and
mostly practice in Buddhism as viana or
single pointed meditation a single
source of focus completely one pointed
with its origin and nature that we can
use enter the state of attachment loving
detachment and finally in order to
practice all that we have learned so far
we must understand the five skandhas or
the five aggregates of Buddhism that
lead us to identifying as an individual
and expecting an accepting life as
something played out with separateness
as an inherent part of nature
essentially the i living the dualistic
scenario of me in the universe or me
verse the universe or koi and everyone
else where ultimate reality is actually
utter oneness these five aggregates take
us out of pure utter awareness and hold
us kind of hostage in this ego box and
it's a prison of eyeness of meanness
specifically which being something we
try to define will always lead to us
cultivating suffering and therefore not
allowing any of the steps before to
really function as fully as they should
essentially by reminding ourselves and
staying acutely aware of these five
aggregates in daily life we can learn to
see their illusory nature and by
accepting them as illusory we see
through the illusion of the separateness
completely so these five aggregates are
as followed number one is a Rupa or
physical form which usually applies to
us identifying as just our body as who
we are or what we are being contained to
the material extremities that we possess
in a human form we have to see that this
too is not just that we are not just the
body
number two is vadhana or emotions and
feelings as we talked about with a
step of the April path this can create
problems because we identify with our
emotions and that locks us in to a
subjective box we identify with being a
sad person or a happy person or an
anxious person and any of these
identifications create a conceptual
outline foundation of what we consider
ourselves to be and therefore limit us
we have to see that we are not just what
we feel there is much more to it than
that and to define ourselves as just
this will always somehow lead to
suffering arise
number three is sums not or perceptions
essentially how we perceive and deduce
life to be by perceiving life in any
physical way as the only way I am dis
looting myself because I am forgetting
that I am only seeing not only one
wavelength with my eyes but also that
what I'm seeing is not always that for a
great way to visualize this is that we
know a cloud to be a cloud when we see
it but we don't think about the fact
that it is only a quote-unquote cloud as
we see it now in reality that is just
water vapor condensing and moving and
morphing and forming if we kept our eyes
on it long enough we would watch
dissipate come back together dissipate
in the same way that waves rise fall and
crash we know that the way it was only a
way if we perceive it as such we have to
do this with all of life and see
everything is just a manifestation of
totality in a specific or conceptual
form for a certain amount of time but in
reality it is much more fluid and much
more temporal by doing this we stop
identifying with everything as directly
what we perceive it to be and see it's
fluid nature so moving on number four is
samskaara or a mental construct which
mainly means how we choose to react and
act in regards to the way our mind
thinks essentially our reactions are
based on past experiences emotions and
ideas that might not always be logical
or helpful so a good way that to combat
this is to just act as purely as you can
all the time in all of waking life to be
the best you can
compassionately which
along with step number two in the
Eightfold Path right action just being
as as loving of being as you can at all
times no matter what is going on and by
doing this we see through these mental
constructs that our ego likes to form
around us and the fifth and final
aggregate is there's none on which is
consciousness itself which is hard to
quantify but basically just that
consciousness is nothing but a a
collection of sensory experiences
everything we think the fact that we
have consciousness is a collection of
our thoughts sight what we hear what we
feel what we remember all these sensory
and tactile experiences are what
collectively create what we understand
our framework of consciousness to be so
it's important that when we see this
when we see that what we are is is a
combination of what we know and what we
have experienced it helps us to stop
identifying with consciousness at some
specific way of being that it is just as
fluid at the ocean itself essentially
not to identify with any of these things
that arise consciously but to flow with
them to just flow with it all instead of
identifying or obsessing over a certain
way or a certain conscious mode of
living or thinking so with all this in
mind if we can practice all of these
things be mindful of them read about
them every day memorize them to start we
can truly start to live a Buddhist life
because these are mainly the core tenets
of all Buddhist practice no matter what
school of Buddhism you fall into
well in Zen it might get a little more
philosophical and drop off much quicker
through tera vaada and Mahayana Buddhism
is practiced in both of these and has
been for thousands of years
and if we do this with loving detachment
with love for all of it the way it is
but accepting the temporal nature of
reality we cease to suffer because we
don't expect life to be any certain way
and one's expectations fall away we fall
into a blissful state known as Nirvana
so meditate daily it is healthy and as
harmlessly as you can abstain from
stimulants that take us away from the
ultimate experience such as drugs and
any other actions you prime
early partaken that are used to define
you in a very egoic and selfish way this
can be sex this can be really anything
that takes you away from allowing things
to form and rise and fall as they may
again like I said a Buddhist doesn't
care whether or not he defined as a
Buddhist and the same way a true but
doesn't identify with anything he does
specifically and doesn't allow them to
define him so that is really the
complete guide to being a Buddhist
everything else beyond these steps is
again just extra stuff you can use to
better your practice which I would just
say do as much research as you like
into what is it find what else works for
you but this is what's been taught and
was taught by throughout the Gotama and
is most primarily and fundamentally
known and expressed in Buddhist
philosophy so hopefully that video can
help you guys out if you have any
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next time
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