Buddhism is not like many of the other religion .Buddhists is a unique way of living and becoming one with the world .This religion is a quite extraordinary by its principal and ethic. It mainly teaches to be focus on the personal spiritual development , they also strive to understand their deep insight into the true nature of life .In Fact Buddhism do not believe in a highly superpower because there is not enough evidence to proven the idea that god really exist , instead their understanding is that everything always depends on everything else for example the present event always sources to the past and then later on become the future event .However personal spiritual development and existence is innumerable because of reincarnation. Neverless Tripitaka is an important literature in the buddhist faith .Tripitaka basically mean Three basket but in the traditional terms the buddhist usually define this by various canons of scriptures . Tipitaka is the teachings of buddha the enlightened one. Tripitaka is a assemblage of holy writing is assemble to comprise material from pail, chinese and tibetan canoes . But in reality the tripitaka is an ethics that mostly contain disciplinary rules, plus the analysis of buddhist psychology .The predominant reason why my self selected buddhism as the religion and tripitaka as my religions text considering that buddhism persist an logical, conscious which develop into the qualities of awareness,kindness , compassion and to emerge wisdom . To believe in a higher powerful supernatural being is not necessary in Buddhism but setting solution to our problem is through self understanding in tripitaka . Buddhism is a fundamental way to follow y...
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...e want true happiness, joy and love we need to first establish the real essence of inner peace and the only way we can experience this is if we remove all of that negativity into a positive aspect with morals , and rules. In Fact Buddhism believe that the world was not created by any divinity because they accepted that the earth had no beginning or ending also the do not believe in god due to benevolence . .There perspective is that people are born then live later on perish and then reborn. The tripitaka consist the standard teaching of disciplinary code which help them set a clear understatement within their daily affairs and moral psychology and that why they believe that a higher powerful supernatural being is not necessary in Buddhism but setting solution to our problem is through self understanding in tripitaka
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