¶ … Muslim and Buddhists. There are four references used for this paper.
There are a number of religions throughout the world. It is important to examine the Muslim and Buddhists to determine the variety of human needs that religious practices and doctrines try achieve.
Theravada and Mahayana Buddhists
Buddhism is divided "into two main schools: the Theravada or Hinayana in Sri Lanka and SE Asia, and the Mahayana in China, Monogolia, Korea, and Japan." Mahayana Buddhist considered themselves the greater than the Theravada.
The main "philosophical tenet of the Mahayana is that all things are empty, or devoid of self-nature. Its chief religious ideal is the bodhisattva, which supplanted the earlier ideal of the arahant, and is distinguished from it by the vow to postpone entry into nirvana (although meriting it) until all other living beings are similarly enlightened and saved."
The Theravada beliefs are "generally accepted as representative of the early Buddhist doctrine. The ideal of early Buddhism was the perfected saintly sage, arahant, or arhat, who attained liberation by purifying self of all defilements and desires."
Toward Transcendent Bliss
Buddhists believe "freedom from 'fetters' obviously cannot be achieved by negative means only. By living toward the attainment of the right or truly liberating and joy-bringing desires that one attains the supraconsciousness, the bliss, that completely transcends and erases from everyday consciousness the kinds of desire that produce suffering."
Eightfold Path
Buddha employed the principle "desires whose indulgence will not result in increase of misery but rather in a decrease of it (or in entire doing away of misery) are desires that conduct steadily to salvation, the ultimate state in which all desires are swallowed up, even the desire for no desire" to devise the Nobel Eightfold Path, which is known as "the path that leads to no desire."
The eight steps for the path are "as follows:
Right belief; that is, belief in the Four Noble Truths and the view of life implied in them.
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