The Differences and Similarities between Daoism and Buddhismsmell>闪灵解析
心声的意思1. Introduction
It is well-known that Buddhism was originally a foreign religion and culture to Chine people. Since its entry in China, it has been constantly localized. However, Buddhism still keeps its core doctrines as Indian Buddhism. Daoism is a typical native culture in China, or can be regarded as a local region. Contents of both Daoism and Buddhism are very complex. Compared with Buddhism, Daoism failed to develop a complete theoretical system. As a religion, Daoism has strong folk feature and contains many superstitious ideas. It came from the philosophy of Lao T and Chuang-Tzu, but meanwhile has esntial difference and contradictions, so there are still a lot of conflicts within the Daoism School. Although Daoism is not as mature and complete as Buddhism, the two religions and cultures have veral similarities and differences. This paper will critically analyze the similarities and differences between Daoism and Buddhism, so as to get a better understanding of the two important religions and cultures.
2. Similarities between Daoism and Buddhism
戴安娜玫瑰花语In Chine history, Daoism and Buddhism had once had vere ctarian bias. The two religions had a lot of conflicts and even maligned each other. However, it is obvious that the real masters of the two religions in history could always give up ctarian bias, advocated equality and learned from each other humbly. As a result, in many Daoist and Buddhist works, the authors often mentioned “Sakyamuni said” or “Dao replied”. They prent ideas of the two religions equally and even integrated them to explain the same phenomenon or principle. In fact, Daoism and Buddhism really have something in common. The largest similarity is both the two religions regard mental calmness as a life pursuit, all preaches and practices just aim to make people reach calm. Specifically, both Daoism and Buddhism propo that people should not be restrained or enslaved by their body instinct and require people to control their nsual desires, so as to go back to natural calmness of heart and soul.
In terms of health maintenance, the two religions have a lot of similar ideas. First of all, b
oth of them have inherited and developed the concept of preventive treatment of dia from the Inner Canon of Huangdi, and propod the idea of nature-cultivation. They emphasize on that tho who do well in nature-cultivation can realize preventive treatment of dia. Secondly, both of them advocate spiritual maintenance, namely people should keep calm when suffering from physical dia, so as to recover as soon as possible. Thirdly, both of them encourage people to u dietetic invigoration. For example, they recommend elder people to eat warm, soft and cooked food and avoid having rough, hard and cold food. Besides, they also propo that effect of food to some degree is better than medicine. Fourthly, both of them attach great importance to care in daily life. For instance, they propo that every aspect of people’s daily life should have specific mechanism, so as to keep life balanced. Fifthly, both of them pay certain attention to the support of medicine. Except for dietetic invigoration, people should also properly u medicine to maintain health. Last but not the least, both Daoism and Buddhism suggest people to prerve health according to different asons.
3. Differences between Daoism and Buddhism
First of all, in terms of the view of life and death, Buddhism admires “going beyond the world”, while Daoism advocates “retreat”. According Buddhist idea, reality is just like a “bitter a” for people. People feel powerless in face of the reality, so they have to endure everything and detach themlves from the world. In order to effective endure and detach, they must give up all kinds of desires and pursue the bitter a which creates the eternal cycle of birth and death, and finally get into Nirvana, a pure land without bitterness or sorrow. In a word, Buddhism advocates people to abandon pursuit for realistic material and attach great importance to spiritual cultivation and the yearning for next life. Unlike Buddhism, Daoism believes that improvement of personal cultivation even becoming an immortal just depends on hard work of individuals and has nothing to do with others. Therefore, people are encouraged to leave the crowd and move to a remote place to make pills of immortality and cultivate vital energy. The cultivating way of Daoism also fully reflects the “retreat” idea of this religion. Daoist followers u Qigong and special pills to cultivate themlves from both internal and external perspective. While doing Qigong and having pills are private matters which need to be far from society. As a result, Daoism stands for “retreat”.
Secondly, Buddhism more highlights mental state, but Daoism more emphasizes on the importance of physical condition. Daoism regards life as reality, pursues longevity and becoming immortal with human body. According to Daoist idea, people’s life is consisted of vigor升旗仪式观后感 (Qi), human body is the hou for spirit. If people want to be alive as long as possible, they must cultivate their physical body and spirit at the same time, namely getting refined both internally and externally. On the contrary, Buddhism more often stress mental state. Buddhism’s interpretation to “最有趣的事heart” has veral lays and adopts a lot of metaphors to explain people烤扇贝’s hearts, and further guide people to find out their hearts, make their hearts clam down and purify their hearts. From the perspective of heart, Buddhism sums up everything in the world, and conducts fundamental analysis and annotation of human behavior. As a result, Buddhism has established a t of mature and complete psychological knowledge system. Almost all doctrines of Buddhism are about heart, which can be found out anywhere in many works. All in all, what Daoism advocates is the pursuit for real life, while Buddhism encourage followers to cultivate heart. Moreover, although Buddhism highlights heart and Daoism stress vigor, people
who really want to cultivate themlves need to cultivate heart and vigor at the same time.
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