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Why I created ? Somebody Please Help Me to Explain It.
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Why I created? I really hope I never created before so I didn't have to live this life game. I know nirvana is the way to stop this life game. But, i didn't even want to created. Can Buddhism explain why humans created? For what we were created?
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why buddhism doesn't address the why part? i think i must kill my curiosity before to believe in one thing. I enjoying what Buddha teaches to us but until now i still didn't get the answer about cause of the emergence of life in Buddhism perspective.
But, I also didn't believe in God. I just thought maybe there is a reason why humans exist today? Because if there isn't a reason, for what we are exist today?
So your life as you know it is created by your past thoughts and actions. I don't think there is a purpose for it in Buddhist thought but there is a solution, a cure for it.
Nirvana is the ceasing of Self grasping Ignorance and it cuts the very root of our suffering and experience of Samsaric death and rebirth.
Examine your life right now. This is where all your answers are. It isn't conceptual but is a constant unfolding of mystery. If intimacy with this is known then all your question cease to matter and the real knowledge is recognized.
Thus your best chance is to find a real teacher who can transmit this knowledge through acting like a mirror to your true condition. And then your awakening will be similar to all the buddhas, yet it won't look like anyone else's awakening because it will look like your life as it is.
No one on here can answer nor fulfill that deep question. The only thing you should do is to trust your immediate experience. If this isn't possible then one must devote their life to the dharma because the dharma in essence is the only thing that will bring any sort of fulfillment. If one cannot see that then one must live life following their conceptual desires and realize for themselves that this external rat race is a dead end. After this the path and teacher will show themselves and all you must do is to say yes to just this.
Best wishes friend.
Everybody is looking everywhere for purpose but that is truely where the creation aspect comes in handy, no?
Purpose comes from within and is not something that is found but rather made.
Just my honest opinion.
We don't have to find what what we are meant to do. We just need to do. Our interaction with the world will always produce a workable situation like manure that is recovered to promote growth. Open to possiblities and your mind will find its path. Let go of good and bad and turn towards whatever IS here.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/index.html#nidana
Supposedly words from the Buddha.
Three steps to this;
1. One has to understand the 'English'
2. Then one has to understand the meaning of the written sentences
3. Most importantly, one has to really realise the meanings, no mean feat this.
Good luck
But that's really 'how', not 'why'.
The truth is no-one knows why. Why does the universe exist? It just does.
I bet you can't find one. If you can, I'll either eat my hat or I'll just apologise.
Why would you hope you were never created before? Are there aspects of this manifestation that you find so undesirable that you would not wish it repeated or perhaps never to have taken place at all?
The fact that you have no memory of seeking creation may lead you to gratitude - gratitude for this chance to experience what you didn't seek - to see the universe from this particular angle in this particular time.
The Buddha was reluctant to have his teachings written down for this very reason. He knew that dogmatic people would grasp onto them and use them instead of using their own experience. I asserted my own belief and you can accept it or not, that is up to you. But I do not accept it is invalid because it isn't quoted from some ancient text.
I've had the realization and experience of Oneness or the sense of one consciousness experiencing the world as one consciousness.
It is a perception attainment in Buddhism. This means that it is a good way to look at the world as it cultivates the positive in ones life, but ultimately speaking it is still ignorance and still conditions the individual mindstream into dualism thus suffering.
Buddhism deals primarily with the ending of suffering, thus to put bluntly oneness isn't buddhism.
The equality of oneness found in buddhism some times is the submerging of everything as luminous clarity of beingness. But this is a mistaken view/perception. The true equality lies in the ungraspablity and unborn quality of everything.
Your line of thinking and experience and possibly realization may line up with Advaita Vedanta.
So one must respect Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism. Though they may seem similar they are not.
I can tell you this from personal experience, but take it for what its worth.
You say that's not much of an answer? But you have lots of answers already at your fingertips. Every religion has an answer to why you're here. I'm sure you've heard other answrs. If those didn't satisfy you, what makes you think what we say will make a difference?
You're asking the wrong question, that's all. What you need to ask is, "What am I? What is being reincarnated?" and once you understand that, then "Why?" will answer itself. Until you know what you are, no answer to why you're here will satisfy.
To get you started, let's take two possible truths. Let's say "you" came into being when you were born in this life and grew to consciousness. You don't remember anything before that because "you" didn't exist. Now, let's say "you" are reincarnated in some way. You obviously have a new body, and have to learn everything all over again, and at the most you have an occasional scattered memory of something in the past that doesn't really mean anything to you.
Now, what's the difference?
In Zen, we ask "What was your face before you were born?" and we're asking the same thing.
So who is asking the quesion?
That's why the Buddha gave us the suttas/sutras... to guide us on the path.
He gave the simile of walking on a path through a dense jungle... as long as we are on the path we are fine, but if we step off the path and wander around in the jungle, not only do we risk getting lost and wasting precious time, we also run the risk of not being able to find the path again, and being killed by something in the dark.
The suttas are the map to the path.
Buddhist - one who follows the teachings of Buddha.
I'm telling you as a Buddhist that Buddha's teachings of Sutra and Tantra are guidance for Buddhists from a person of Genuine insight and accomplishment of what is actual.
The sources of accomplished Masters who hold the traditions of knowledge and insightful wisdom are always in line with what the Buddha taught. Your point of view is not one of Buddha's nor would I attribute it to any genuine Buddhist teacher it sounds more like the insight of someone who is in to Advaita Vedanta, Arising from one consciousness in order to bring consciousness into the world is not something that is found within Buddha's teachings or Buddhism, Nor does it sound like anything to do with Buddha Nature.
Your entitled to your opinion but do not pass it off as being of Buddhist Origin this is deceptive.
Re the OPs question, is the general opinion here that the Buddha did not know the answer to it?
http://thebuddhistblog.blogspot.co.uk/2006/08/teaching-of-poisoned-arrow.html
Dhammapada Chapter 12, Self
Verse 160. One Is One’s Best Saviour
Oneself is refuge of oneself,
who else indeed could refuge be?
By good training of oneself
one gains a refuge hard to gain.
Verse 161. The Unwise Person Comes To Grief On His Own
By oneself is evil done,
it’s born of self and self-produced.
Evil grinds the unwise one
as diamond does the hardest gem.
Verse 165. Purity, Impurity Self-Created
By oneself is evil done,
by oneself defiled,
by oneself it’s left undone,
by self alone one purified.
Purity, impurity on oneself depend,
no one can purify another.
http://www.buddhanet.net/dhammapada/d_self.htm
Well you have been. Better get used to that. Not happy? Ah well you could try Buddhism . . .
In Buddhism, the well known system of arguing
and the even better known system of creating harmony, we attempt to create conditions of generating a better creation or life
for ourselves and ultimately those around us.
That me be a good use of our creation? :clap:
the only way to know these things, if there is any such way, i think it shall be only by going inside in our inner world in meditation. everything else, which we think about by analysis and reasoning through our brain, would be - i think only guess-work based on our belief and our thoughts of our memory, leading to another thought in our mind, which again we may believe to be answer to the above queries - but shall not be the actual answers to the above queries.
Again, the above are also my thoughts - so do not know whether it is correct or false.
She replied, "Yes you did. It was one o'clock in the morning. You woke me up, demanding to be born, and wouldn't take no for an answer."
Buddhist - one who follows the teachings of Buddha.
Buddha =awakened one
We're here because we're here! Now what are we going to do about it?
I think the Arrow Sutra (is that right?), the one where the Buddha tells the story about a monk getting shot with an arrow and who will not accept medical help until he knows who fired the arrow, what his family are like, who made the arrow, etc, explains it very well.
I also think Buddhism teaches such questions are unanswerable.