All Buddhisms
Purpose of Life
When you’re equanimous, you can begin to see cause and effect more clearly over the long term, without being blinded by your knee-jerk reactions....
Other religions
In some religions, moral laws are believed to have come from God, and breaking those laws is a sin or transgression against God....
Nirvana
Definition: To Extinguish, “blowing out” or “quenching” of the activities of the worldy mind and its related suffering. Nirvana is the goal of the Buddhism path, and marks release from worldly Suffering and rebirths in saṃsāra Nirvana is not a place, but rather is a state of being beyond existence and non-existence....
Karma
Karma means action, work, or deed. The term also refers to the spiritual principle of cause and effect, often descriptively called the principle of karma, wherein intent and actions of an individual (cause) influence the future of that individual (effect): good intent and good deeds contribute to good karma and happier rebirths, while bad intent and bad deeds contribute to bad karma and bad rebirths....
Happiness
The usual happiness that common people are interested in is when a particular hunger or want is satisfied. This is the typical understanding of happiness (Happiness of slavery)....
Enlightenmnent
The English word enlightenment sometimes refers to heightened intellect and reason, a quality that can be cultivated or possessed. But enlightenment in the Buddhist sense is not a quality, and no one can possess it....
Emptiness
Source: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/integrityofemptiness.html Wisdom on all levels is wise because it works, and to work, it requires integrity: the willingness to look honestly at the results of your actions, to admit when you’ve caused harm, and to change your ways so that you won’t make the same mistake again....
Desire
The Second Noble Truth teaches that the cause of suffering is craving or thirst (tanha). This doesn’t mean cravings should be repressed or denied....
A solution to the Paradox of Desire in Buddhism
seeing that there is no way out of the paradox of desire, under-standing that, as Madhyamika Buddhism puts it, there is no way to nirvana, no goal to be desired or achieved, then one “lets go” of the way and the goal....
Samsara
Saṃsāra (Sanskrit, Pali; also samsara) in 🧠 Buddhist Philosophy|Buddhism and Hinduism is the beginningless cycle of repeated birth, mundane existence and dying again....