Buddha

       Budha began life in 624 BC in northern India.  The following is an oversimplification of his philosophy but it is core to it.  The basic tenet of  Buddhism is that all living things are born with a quest for peace and happiness and to find a way to avoid suffering.  This is mainly done by looking outside of the self into the world before us to find solutions to the inevitable sadness and sufferings that befall us and the ones we know and love.  Buddha's teachings are to look, instead, within oneself to find the solutions.  Not unlike the existentialists, Buddha seems to have seen that reality is within each of us and so we can only improve our reality by changing the way we see and think about it.  Buddha is teaching that a life worth living is serene, thoughtful and goes with the flow rather than against it.

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