Zen Buddhism

Zen Buddhism

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  Zen Buddhism andKung Fu Bodhidharma – 5th Century CE By Jeff and Stasia
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  Who was Bodhidharma? Buddhistmonk -Lived during the 5th and 6th centuries -The father of Zen Buddhism -Bodhidharma is known to either be; in India, the 3 rd son of Tamil Pallava King of Kanchipurim, Or in Japan, he came from Persia -People are also not sure when he came around. Some think that he arrived during the Liu Song Dynasty in between 420 and 479 BC, others think that he arrived during the Liang Dynasty Between 502 and 557 BC. -He spent most of his time and did most of his work in the Northern Wei Dynasty
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  The Philosophy Zen philosophyis based on the “4 Noble Truths” 1.Life is Suffering 2.Suffering is caused by desire 3.We must stop the desires 4.Desires can be stopped by following the “Eightfold Path” Zen Buddhism is different from normal Buddhism because the monks focus on themselves and their own enlightenment and how they better understand the buddha and what they are meant to do other than worrying about remembering ancient texts and repeating them for others to hear, they focus on themselves.
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  “The Eightfold Path” •Right View: Understand your life and the world. Be aware of your actions and the reasoning behind those actions • Right Intention: resist acting upon feelings of desire, prejudgment, and aggression. • Right Speech: Be careful of the things you say and know that words can make or break lives. • Right Action: Don’t do wrong. Don’t kill people and don’t steal and don’t misuse others • Right Livelihood: Live honestly, and do a job to help out humanity, not to get rich or be harmful • Right Effort: Refrain from helping with or starting things that cause harm to others, and actively help in doing good. • Right Mindfulness: do not judge or interpret, keep an open mind, observe your feelings and body. • Right concentration: to reach complete concentration you need to meditate
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  Bodhidharma Quotes • Themind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included. –Bodhidharma • Words are illusions.- Bodhidharma
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  Applying the Philosophyin Ancient China • Zen Buddhists applied this philosophy by living solely by the 4 Noble Truths and the “Eightfold Path” and meditating until they reached full enlightenment of themselves and the world around them. Unlike normal Buddhism, they don’t need to memorize and repeat ancient texts. They worry about themselves and their own understanding of the Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path
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  Applying the PhilosophyToday By using the 4 noble truths and the eightfold path, people today can learn to respect themselves and the world around them. This could make decision making easier and better because it tells you exactly what is wrong and what is bad and what you shouldn’t do. The eightfold path says to do jobs that help out your community and others in a good positive way not greedily and only helping yourself. If people followed these philosophies today, I think we would have a lot less violence in the world.