Can other religions contain eightfold path?
Can other religions contain eightfold path?
Is that a possibility?
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Re: Can other religions contain eightfold path?
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Re: Can other religions contain eightfold path?
I don't see why not. They can even reach the 4th formless jhana without the Buddha. as evidenced by the fact that Gautama Buddha learned it from someone else.
Re: Can other religions contain eightfold path?
Someone pointed out that the Buddha said other section can reach nibanna if their teaching contain eight fold path. But where is the reference?
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Re: Can other religions contain eightfold path?
Theoretically they could, but I don't think there is one. Jainism comes very close. They contain perhaps 7 of the 8 parts of the eightfold path. Their precepts are virtually identical to the precepts of Buddhism.
https://dhammawiki.com/index.php/Buddhism_and_Jainism
The only one Jainism is missing is Right View, with the Jain incorrect views on kamma and DO. The rest, even Right Concentration, appears to be the same as Buddhism.
https://dhammawiki.com/index.php/Buddhism_and_Jainism
The only one Jainism is missing is Right View, with the Jain incorrect views on kamma and DO. The rest, even Right Concentration, appears to be the same as Buddhism.
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Re: Can other religions contain eightfold path?
The points in which I see great discrepancy are:
Right view - in regard to the four noble truths.
What other religion teaches the pañcakhanda is dukkha, anicca and anattā? Most religions refer to some of the khandas as a soul, like consciousness. This goes against the anattā doctrine.
Other religions also preach the post life eternal (anicca??) paradise or hell.
Sīla - I know a few religions which preach the non-harming of other sentient beings. Christianity says animals are barren of soul and that there is nothing wrong in killing them, for example.
Right Sāti - the whole point of mindfulness is seeing anattā through the four frames of reference. Again, what religion teaches anattā???
Right view - in regard to the four noble truths.
What other religion teaches the pañcakhanda is dukkha, anicca and anattā? Most religions refer to some of the khandas as a soul, like consciousness. This goes against the anattā doctrine.
Other religions also preach the post life eternal (anicca??) paradise or hell.
Sīla - I know a few religions which preach the non-harming of other sentient beings. Christianity says animals are barren of soul and that there is nothing wrong in killing them, for example.
Right Sāti - the whole point of mindfulness is seeing anattā through the four frames of reference. Again, what religion teaches anattā???
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Sutta Nipāta 1.3 - Khaggavisana Sutta
See, Ānanda! All those conditioned phenomena have passed, ceased, and perished. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.
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senses guarded, with protected mind,
not oozing — not burning — with lust,
wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Sutta Nipāta 1.3 - Khaggavisana Sutta
See, Ānanda! All those conditioned phenomena have passed, ceased, and perished. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.
Dīgha Nikāya 17
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Re: Can other religions contain eightfold path?
only buddhism have 8 fold path...
other religion dont even have supermundane right view
other religion dont even have supermundane right view
I may be slow learner but im at least learning...
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Re: Can other religions contain eightfold path?
Yes..
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Re: Can other religions contain eightfold path?
If another restaurant had KFC's blend of herbs and spices for cooking fried chicken it would be a KFC. Similarly, Jesus's students brought complaints to him that outsiders were being seen healing and other miracles in his name. They wanted Jesus to tell them to stop, but Jesus said they were all on the same team. Now you are asking what you call someone who practices Buddha's Dharma.
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Re: Can other religions contain eightfold path?
Regarding right view, the main thing I think which is important there is the view that there one should do good deeds, that reward and punishment for good and bad deeds exists, that the afterlife exists, that morality exists. Buddha specifically pointed out the wrong view as being that which denies good deeds, afterlife, and morality.
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Re: Can other religions contain eightfold path?
I didn't mention this because other religions have more or less the same notion but they include a god in the formula. They fail to understand that everything is a process without a controller.greenjuice wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:43 pm Regarding right view, the main thing I think which is important there is the view that there one should do good deeds, that reward and punishment for good and bad deeds exists, that the afterlife exists, that morality exists. Buddha specifically pointed out the wrong view as being that which denies good deeds, afterlife, and morality.
Eyes downcast, not footloose,
senses guarded, with protected mind,
not oozing — not burning — with lust,
wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Sutta Nipāta 1.3 - Khaggavisana Sutta
See, Ānanda! All those conditioned phenomena have passed, ceased, and perished. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.
Dīgha Nikāya 17
senses guarded, with protected mind,
not oozing — not burning — with lust,
wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Sutta Nipāta 1.3 - Khaggavisana Sutta
See, Ānanda! All those conditioned phenomena have passed, ceased, and perished. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.
Dīgha Nikāya 17
Re: Can other religions contain eightfold path?
The process controls. The law of kamma controls the fruits of happiness & suffering. There is a controller.rhinoceroshorn wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 7:06 pm They fail to understand that everything is a process without a controller.
The above is not part of the Noble Eightfold Path.greenjuice wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:43 pm Regarding right view, the main thing I think which is important there is the view that there one should do good deeds, that reward and punishment for good and bad deeds exists, that the afterlife exists, that morality exists. Buddha specifically pointed out the wrong view as being that which denies good deeds, afterlife, and morality.
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Re: Can other religions contain eightfold path?
I think Taoism can lead to attaining right view
And the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus, saying: "Behold now, bhikkhus, I exhort you: All compounded things are subject to vanish. Strive with earnestness!"
This was the last word of the Tathagata.
This was the last word of the Tathagata.
Re: Can other religions contain eightfold path?
All the above answers got this question wrong. Unfortunately.
We all follow the eightfold path.
Even a child follow the eightfold path.
Every religion teaches an eightfold path.
Buddha only taught the Noble Eightfold Path.
The word missing in the OP question is the "Noble"
We all follow the eightfold path.
Even a child follow the eightfold path.
Every religion teaches an eightfold path.
Buddha only taught the Noble Eightfold Path.
The word missing in the OP question is the "Noble"
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