This is what I have so far in my badly written rough draft and would hope you can read this and use the info already posted. If that is way too much than please make it a research paper about buddism, how it started, what they do, the 4 noble truths, key concepts from the religion and how it relates to philosophy, put your personal thought and feelings about the subject.
The Appearance and Reality of Ancient India.
Gustavo Gomez
Philosophy 1301: Paper
March, 2021
For the first time ever, I found something in this class that kind of interested me in a way like no other. Something that actually linked to my real life and that is Buddhism. No, I am not Buddhist, but I did kind of hear about it growing up, especially seeing that big fat guy at Chinese restaurants and one of my favorite Tv shows Avatar: The Last Airbender which had buddha temples and people in robes meditating. Besides all that I haven’t known much about them and kind of thought it was fake or something from a long time ago.
Here in my Philosophy class, I learn that it is real and practiced religion.
Recently one of my favorite YouTubers Jidion met a Monk at the airport and didn’t believe they were real people and was so surprised and shocked he wanted to get a picture with the man, which as he did the man spoke to him and invited him to his home in Dallas which I’m a couple weeks he took him up in his offer and visited him.
What this Monk tells to Jidion is a lot of the same things we have learned in Chapter 3, about a prince in the 5th century B.C. He was born to a family of wealth and with that has had a very sheltered life feeling up. The name of this prince was Siddhārtha Gautama.
He leaves the walls of his compound when he is a teenager and is surprised by what he sees. He discovers the instability of life and is shocked so much to his core that he renounces his wealth and leaves the palace in which he is born and raised in.
He becomes a traveling ascetic, a person who practices severe self-discipline and abstention. With this on his journey he tries to find the key to end all this suffering. That’s when he comes up with the 4 Nobles Truths. As stated below
There is suffering
There is origination of suffering
There is cessation suffering
There is a path to cessation suffering
With these the Buddha talks about suffering as something more than just death, disease, and physical pain. It’s something much deeper than that such as fear, anxiety, lack of control, and more things.