Or at least has studied Buddhism? I recently purchased Thich Nhat Hanh's "The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching", hoping to gain some introductory knowledge regarding the religion. I am having some difficulty understanding the exact concepts of the religion, Hanh seems to be throwing a lot of wordy concepts at you nonstop in this book. If anyone has some basic knowledge and wouldn't mind discussing it with me, I'd be much obliged.
yeah its a discourse to me thats the most important thing to understand if you're going to read it through a book thing of it as a philosphy and not a religion search for buddhist or buddhism though there are plenty of threads discussing this you could read through them and see the conversations
I used to be really big into Zen Buddhism. It taught me a lot. Nowadays I don't follow any teaching or path, but I make my own way and come to my own conclusions, though really my beliefs and practices tend to coincide with buddhism in one way or another.
Nice brother. I used to be judge religions not too long ago and not even notice it, which is totally against what I believe in. After reading Eckhart Tolle, I know I can use some teachings of all religions that resonate with me and apply them to my own path. Like instead of saying Christianity blows, you can take a few a good teachings from Jesus that you resonate with and use them to your benefit. - peace, joy, love, and light
you may find this helpful BuddhaNet's Buddhist Studies: A Basic Buddhism Guide Audio Dharma - Welcome to Audio Dharma
buddhism was a good raft for me to cross over from my "depressed agnostic" phase into what i am now if you know nothing about buddhism yet i would reconment going and picking up a book that tells you the general ideals and practices and beliefs of buddhism meanwhile start doing basic meditations then i would recomend reading the dhampanda and after you have been into for awhile give the diamond sutra a read... most beautiful buddist scipture iv ever read... if your ready for it... it will blow your mind away