What are the central ideas of Buddhism and Taoism?

The central idea of Buddhism is the Four Noble Truths: suffering, concentration, extinction, and path. This is what Buddhism does.

Buddhism Shakyamuni discovered that all sufferings in life are suffering, and in order to achieve the state of extinguishing suffering (nirvana silence), he discovered that suffering is born from ignorance, greed, and ignorance, and thoroughly realized the truth of all dharmas (dependent arising emptiness, selflessness, and impermanence). Dependent voidness is the philosophical support of the Four Noble Truths of Dharma, which is the core of Dharma. Shakyamuni's teachings are not far from this.

The central idea of Taoism: In the Taoist ideological system, Tao is the core of faith, and virtue is the foundation of cultivation, and the two are used in each other. The unity of heaven and man is the basic realm of a cultivator, who pursues perfect harmony between man and the universe, man and nature, and man and society.

Social harmony stems from the crystallization of the wisdom of this thought, and a harmonious society is people's pursuit of a happy life and the ultimate goal of the development of human society.

Buddhism rejects fatalism and believes that man has a destiny, but does not encourage man to resign himself to fate, but hopes that man will create a destiny. Buddhism advocates that all dharmas arise from karma, so fate is also born from karma.

Taoism advocates quiet and inaction, opposes war, and pursues the harmonious coexistence of man and nature and even the universe.

1. Buddhism has been around for more than 2,500 years and was founded by Siddhartha Gautama, a prince of the Kapila Kingdom (in present-day Nepal) in ancient India. It is widely believed in the West that Buddhism originated in India, and India is in fact trying to create an image of a "Buddhist holy land".

2. Buddhism believes that the human body is rare. In the immeasurable reincarnation of sentient beings, the opportunity to obtain a human body is like a "blind turtle worth wood", which is extremely rare. For the study of Buddhism, the immaculate human body and the ten perfections are the best conditions for learning the Dharma.

Whether we repay our parents for their nurturing kindness and pursue a happy life in the world, or we study the Dharma and pursue the benefits of liberation from this world, we all rely on this extremely rare and precious human life.

3. Taoism, which originated in the ancient Chinese Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, is a polytheistic religion that worships many gods, and its main purpose is to pursue immortality, become immortals, and save the world.

4. Taoism regards "Tao" as the highest belief and believes that "Tao" is the origin of all things. In traditional Chinese culture, Taoism is a dominant theoretical doctrine along with Confucianism and Buddhism, and seeks to practice and practice to become immortals.

The central idea of Buddhism: the Four Noble Truths of Suffering, Concentration, Extinction, and Path, and the theory pursues the theory of cause and effect. People who follow Buddhist thought believe that everything has a cause and effect, and that there is a cause and effect, and in their actions and actions, they pursue the emptiness of all things, and regard everything as empty (including their own life), that is, nirvana, which is popularly said to be not afraid of death, believing in reincarnation.

The central idea of Taoism: Taoism advocates nature, Taoist children advocate atheism, advocate quiet and inaction, oppose war, and pursue harmonious coexistence between man and nature and even the universe. In contrast to Buddhism, Taoism pursues the endless life of all things (including one's own life), which is popularly said to be the pursuit of immortality.

Taoism advocates nature, has elements of dialectics and atheistic tendencies, advocates quiet inaction, and opposes struggle; Advocate the Tao of nature, all-encompassing, natural inaction, and harmony with nature.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Lao Tzu collected the great wisdom of the ancient sages. It summarizes the essence of ancient Taoist thought and forms the moral theory of "doing nothing, doing nothing", marking that Taoist thought has been formally formed. It has a far-reaching influence on Chinese philosophy, literature, science and technology, art, health, religion and so on.

Taoism is the root of Chinese science and technology", "Taoist philosophy" is of primary importance to the history of Chinese science", and Taoist philosophy, which is known as the cornerstone of Chinese culture, has also been embodied to varying degrees through Confucianism and Sinicized Buddhism.

Taoism takes "Dao" as the core, believes that the Tao of heaven does nothing, advocates the Tao of nature, puts forward political and military strategies such as Taoism, guarding male and female, and combining rigidity and softness, and has a simple dialectical thought, which is an extremely important philosophical school in the "Hundred Schools of Thought", which exists in various fields of Chinese culture and has had a huge impact on the culture of China and even the world. A large number of Chinese and foreign scholars began to notice and absorb the positive ideas of Taoism, so the scholars said: "Taoist thought can be regarded as the product of the greatness of the Chinese nation."

It is the center of national thought, and it has the spirit of 'benevolence is benevolence when it is seen, and it is known by those who know, and the people use it every day without knowing it'. ”

However, due to the heavy Buddhism of Taoism, Taoism only worships Yuan Shi Tianzun as the supreme god, and Lao Tzu is the grandson of Yuan Shi Tian's disciple (Buddhism's "Righteous Falsehood" and so on are exactly the same as Taoism). There is a situation where Huang Lao Liezhuang is only the nominal patriarch, and all Taoist sects believe in their own beliefs, and the relationship with Taoist thought is not as close as that of Sinicized Buddhism. Taoism uses Taoist thought as the banner to attract catechumens who admire Lao Zhuang, induce a large number of literati who advocate Taoism to enter Taoism, and even Taoism originated from Huang Lao as a convenient method.

Therefore, it is important not to preach that Taoism is Taoism.

The mainstream schools of Taoist thought are: Huang Lao Liezhuang, Huang Lao School, Zongheng School, Xiuzhen School, Legalist School, Metaphysics, and Yang Zhu School may have influenced Zhuangzi. Shen Dao, Tian Wen and other Legalist schools under the tomb of Qi were also developed on the basis of Taoist thought, and the thought of Bingjia was deeply influenced by Taoist thought.

Inaction and non-contention are Lao Tzu's admonition to the king, not to compete with the people for profit. The emperors of ancient times have always attached great importance to Taoism, and all those who govern the country with Taoist ideas will be prosperous and powerful. When modern people talk about Taoism, they think that it is the superficial impression of pure mind and calm qi, natural non-action, or traditional Chinese medicine health preservation, and the real Taoist is far more profound than these superficial impressions.

I'm serious: Buddhism talks about cause and effect, breaking samsara and samsara world, getting out of this samsara world, being reborn in the Western Paradise, practicing again, and achieving the merits of the Buddhas such as Arhats, Bodhi, and so on.

Taoism pays attention to refining the Yuan Infant, cultivating the Dharma Body, surviving the four small tribulations, the nine heavenly tribulations, taking off their own karma, flying to the earth immortal realm, and continuing to practice, but the cause and effect, surviving the killing and tribulation, and cutting off the three corpses, that is, cutting off the good thoughts, cutting off the evil thoughts, cutting off the self, jumping out of the thirty-three days, immeasurable and immeasurable, and achieving the mixed yuan Dao fruit.

However, Buddha is the Tao.

Connecting sentient beings to sanctification.

The Buddha talks about cause and effect, wisdom, and enlightenment; Tao Teaching: Wu Wei, Tao is natural.

Persuade people to be kind, self-cultivation, and cherish blessings.

Buddhism is detachment, birth, old age, sickness, death, suffering, Taoism is repair, gold, wood, water, fire and earth, cultivation and recuperation in the five elements, immortality, shelter and refuge

As a religion circulating in China, the main idea of Taoism should be said to be "human-oriented", that is, to study how people exist in the world, how to establish relationships with nature and society, and how people can live healthily and even immortally.

Ancient Taoism is a school of thought that can be traced back to antiquity. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Lao Tzu collected the great wisdom of the ancient sages, summarized the essence of ancient Taoist thought, and formed a complete systematic theory of Taoism, marking that Taoist thought has been formally formed. His doctrine takes "Tao" as the highest philosophical category, and believes that Tao is the highest truth in the world, Tao is the origin of all things in the universe, and Tao is the basis for the survival of all things in the universe.

Taoism uses the Tao to ** the relationship between nature, society, and the home of life. The representative figures of Taoism include Fuxi, Yellow Emperor, Jiang Shang, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Liezi, Guiguzi, Zhang Liang, Sima Hui, Zhuge Liang, Xu Maogong, Song Lian, Liu Bowen, Yan Zhenqing, Wang Xizhi, etc.

The ideas of Chinese Taoism are mainly:

Inaction. Governing by doing nothing is the main idea of Taoism, and it is also the basic method of its practice. The ideological method of ruling by doing nothing was first put forward by Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu believed that all things in heaven and earth were born from the Tao, and that the movement and changes of all things in heaven and earth also followed the laws of the Tao.

So what is the law of the Tao? Lao Tzu said:"Man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law, and the Tao is the nature. "

Tao cultivation, Buddha cultivation, life is the same, both are used"Cause and effect'To educate sentient beings, the Tao uses the concept of bearing cause and effect, and the Buddha uses the concept of cause and effect in the three lifetimes.

Seventy percent of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism are similar, and the truth rises to a certain height and has commonalities. Whether it is a Buddha or a Tao, it is just a teaching method for those who understand the truth of the universe for those of us who are still in a foolish state, and it is only a formality, such as the Diamond Sutra that says, "The Dharma should be abandoned, let alone illegal." If a person truly realizes the Tao, he will not have the idea of a school or a category.

It seems that there is no communication and connection in the practice.

The Buddhism and Taoism family also influenced each other when they were passed on.

I suggest you read a book "Buddha is the Way"...

Competing with each other and supporting each other, they are all cattle. For example, in Journey to the West, it is a set of Daozu and Buddha to suppress divine power (*both stripped the face of the Jade Emperor and not yet met in battle), otherwise Sun Wukong would have died a long time ago.