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I keep reading that Buddhism practices discipline from many different sources, and I was reading a wikipedia article on Buddhist Dharma and it also said that. Here are the first few sources:
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Anyone know about this? Do Buddhists literally torture themselves? No pleasure at all?
Religion in India is referred to as Dharma, a word which signifies a particular life-path or lifestyle (see Dharma). Therefore a Jain practises Jain-dharma; a Hindu follows Sanatana-dharma; and a Buddhist practices Buddha-dharma. Each of these formulations signifies that a person is following a particular religious form with its own rules and practises. The word Buddhism was invented by British scholars and Christian missionaries who were trying to make sense of Indian religion during the nineteenth century. Just as Latin and Greek have been the languages of Christian scripture throughout the greater part of Christianity's history Sanskrit has in the main been the medium of transmission for Buddhist scriptures during its spread to other Asian countries (particularly to the North and North-East of India). Throughout these countries what is today called in the West Buddhism has been referred to for centuries as it is today as Buddha-dharma. Since dharma refers to a particular life-path, Buddha-dharma signifies the path of the Buddha (namely the path of disciplined practise that Gautama Buddha undertook and espoused).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_(Buddhism)
The fourth point on the path, right discipline, involves a kind of renunciation. We need to give up our tendency to complicate issues. We practice simplicity. We have a simple straight-forward relationship with our dinner, our job, our house and our family. We give up all the unnecessary and frivolous complications that we usually try to cloud our relationships with.
A Basic Buddhism Guide: Introduction to Buddhism
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Anyone know about this? Do Buddhists literally torture themselves? No pleasure at all?
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