The human personality
Theravada
Theravada Buddhists dedicate their life to attaining enlightenment and The state when Buddhists have achieved understanding and have broken free from the cycle of samsara. Can be called Nirvana. - some are monks and nuns. Theravada Buddhists believe that the human personality is made up of what are called the Five Aggregates (also called The five components or aggregates that make an individual self - body, perception, conception, volition, and consciousness., meaning collections or groups).
The Five Aggregates are:
- Sensation (vedana) - This is emotion or physical pain that comes from our physical bodies touching another form or object.
- Perception (samjna) - This allows people to know and understand what things are. This can arise from previous experience and memory.
- Mental formation (samskara) - This leads a person to do good or bad things. It is a person鈥檚 thoughts, or the things that happen in their mind.
- Consciousness (vijnana) - A person鈥檚 general awareness of things and the wider world around them.
- Form (rupa) - This refers to the sense organs (eg the ears and the nose) and how they experience material and matter.
Mahayana
Mahayana Buddhists are different from Theravada Buddhists as they strive to become enlightened, but they delay nibbana to help teach enlightenment.
Mahayana Buddhists are especially concerned with three concepts:
- Sunyata - This means 鈥榚mptiness鈥. This idea can be understood as meaning that everything depends upon something else. All things lack an A natural part which belongs within someone or something. nature. Basically, everything is empty. Sunyata can be understood as being very similar to anatta (one of the Three Marks of Existence).
- Attaining Buddhahood - This is when a person achieves enlightenment and becomes a Buddha. Mahayana Buddhists strive to achieve Buddhahood through Thinking quietly as a spiritual or religious exercise. Connection of the mind and soul with the Divine using breathing and other techniques. In Buddhism, using one of a set of techniques or exercises for calming the mind, developing positive emotions and understanding the way things are. and Buddhist practice. In their lives, they move away physically and mentally from the distractions in life that would prevent them from achieving enlightenment.
- Buddha-nature - This is concerned with the idea that all beings can attain Buddhahood. Mahayana Buddhists believe that everyone has the opportunity and essence of a Buddha within them. They believe that, once a person has understood the The founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, after his enlightenment. It is a title which means the enlightened or awakened one.Dhamma is Buddhist doctrine about the nature of existence and includes the teachings of the Buddha. Buddha鈥檚 Dhamma, they will become enlightened. The idea of Buddha-nature encourages Buddhists to meditate in Buddhist practice and be generous as this helps to end some suffering in the world.