What is the solution to this condition? Meditation to get enlightenment to the point of nirvana where all cravings cease so you can be liberated from your cravings or desires that get in the way of becoming in full surrender to a loving, kind, and compassionate lifestyle.
The solution to get to the Buddha lifestyle is through the eight-fold path. Buddhists move from problem to solution best through meditation and right views encompassing intent, speech, conduct, livlihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration. To live this out best you must keep the right views such as in speech, you would stay away from slander and gossip; in your conduct, you would stay away from killing, stealing, lying, unchastity, and drunkeness.
In Buddhism, the belief is that there is no eternal soul, no atman, but that we are made up of heaps of scandas, five in fact: materialism, sensation, perception, moods and thoughts, and feelings.
Buddhism claims that there are Four Noble Truths in this life. The first one declares that life is dukkha - suffering. Buddha asks, "What is causing these abnormal symptoms? Where is the seat of the infection? What is always present when suffering is present, and absent when suffering is absent?" The Second Noble Truth is supposedely the answer: tanha, the drive private fulfullment. The Third Noble Truth is that there is a cure to this disease; overcoming the egosistic drive for seperate existence. The Fourth Noble Truth provides the cure. "The way to the overcoming of self-seeking is through the Eightfold Path. Practice of the eight paths to enlightenment is key.
Nirvana is inevitably an untouchable state for a complete peace and freedom that people try to hold on to but cannot unless they continue to practice the Eightfold Path. Nirvana is not claimed to be their God but that is the life goal to get to because we apparently have no eternal soul.
It is interesting that in Buddhism you tend to have to go in cycle after cycle, work after work, to get to a place of rest when Jesus claims that all who come to Him will be given rest. Christianity is the only religion that people tend to say that something is wrong with it. Christ claims to be the way, the Truth, and the Life. Followers of all other religions claim that they may have a way to enlightenment or self-fulfillment. Jesus said he finished it at the Cross, meaning we don’t have to work to get our freedom. Jesus died for all of humanity as a gift to give freedom and eternal life to all who believe He is the son of God, the one who died and rose again to give Life to His people. Jesus died and rose again to tell you He loves you. He was and is the ultimate sacrifice, the only way to set us free from the disease which we were born into. We are a mess without His Grace. Buddhism recognizes the desires and cravings we have, they proclaim nirvana to make them cease. Christianity proclaims Jesus’ blood once and for all made them cease for all who acknowledges He is the way, the Truth, and the Life.
It is clear that you prefer your Christian faith to Buddhism, but why do you claim that "Christianity is the only religion that people tend to say that something is wrong with it?" You have just told us what is wrong with Buddhism. What do people say is wrong with Christianity? Is not believing in Christianity the same as saying something is wrong with it?
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