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View submission: Why Buddhism?
You answered your own question already .. it gives you inner peace.
Also guess which religious founder invented Mindfulness in the way most people are now using it? Yes .. the Buddha.
Neither the Jain text nor the Brahmanic text by the way dispute that the Buddhist were practicing mindfulness as it is currently practiced and were the ones who introduced it.
The Buddhist text in turn never dispute that metta meditation ( good will meditation ) was in fact already practiced by the Jains ( and the Hindus never dispute that either )
In turn, neither the Jains nor the Buddhist dispute that reflective techniques ( ie:- like recollection of virtues etc.. ) were widely practiced by the Brahmins before the Buddhist or Jains.
So in short, if you are talking mindfulness .. well guess which religion invented it.
Just to tell you, one thing at least noble about the Indian religions is that they do not claim what they did not invent. While Buddhist uses mantra, they admit openly the Hindus were practicing it before hand using beads. While most Vaishnavite religions practices mindfulness meditation, they openly admit it is first taught by the Buddha.
For myself, the Buddhist doctrine when practice makes my life more at peace and more stable.
Comment by AtmosphereLoud4882 at 04/02/2025 at 09:19 UTC
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I also saw that most religions that originated from india don't claim to be the "only" religion that leads to the truth. Instead they claim to be the "preferable truth" or the "more correct truth".