Buddhism:

Buddhism :

Buddhism is one of the world's largest religions and originated 2,500 years ago in India. Buddhists believe that the human life is one of suffering, and that meditation, spirituality and physical labor, and good behavior are the ways to achieve enlightenment or nirvana.
The Basic Teachings of Buddha which are core to Buddhism are: 
The Three Universal Truths, The Four Noble Truths and The Noble Eightfold Path.

The Three Universal Truths:
1. Everything is impermanent and changing 
2. Impermanence leads to suffering, making life imperfect 
3. Suffering is caused by desire and attachment.

The Four Noble Truths:
1.The First Noble Truth
It is the full understanding of suffering  including awareness of all the ramifications of suffering. It encompasses the very causal nature of suffering, the knowledge of  the obvious aspects of suffering and the subtle aspects. The obivious aspects include  pain or difficulties
Subtle suffering is more difficult to recognize because it begins with happiness. But it changes as it can't go on forever. It  changes into suffering, this subtle suffering is due to impermanence of pleasure. Once we know what suffering is, we must eliminate the causes of suffering; then automatically the effect, which is suffering, is no longer present.
2.The Second Noble Truth
The truth of interdependent universal origination. The truth of universal origination indicates that the root cause of suffering is karma and the disturbing emotions or kleshas.  We might think that happiness and suffering come from the environment,  originates from some source outside of our control. And when we realize that the experience of suffering is a product of what we have done, that is, a result of our actions, eliminating suffering becomes possible. Once we are aware of how suffering takes place, then we can begin to remove the causes of suffering. 
3.The Third Noble Truth
The cessation of suffering by removing the causes of karma and the disturbing emotions. We have control over suffering because  the disturbing emotions take place within us,  we create them, we experience them. What we experience is entirely in our hands. Therefore the Buddha has said that we should give up the causes of the disturbing emotions. Virtuous actions result in happiness and unvirtuous actions result in suffering. 
4.The Fourth Noble Truth
Anatta or non-self or “substanceless
The False Belief in a Self
This belief in a self is a mistaken perception. It's an illusion: it is  anatta, meaning no self. There is no permanent, underlying substance that can be called the soul. Anatta means we don't have self or aham hence no ego. 

The Noble Eightfold Path :
It is made up of eight factors broken down into three sections: 
Paññā (wisdom), Sīla (ethics), and Samādhi (concentration).
The steps of the Noble Eightfold Path are 
Right Understanding, 
Right Thought, 
Right Speech, 
Right Action, 
Right Livelihood, 
Right Effort, 
Right Mindfulness 
Right Concentration.

Buddhists do not believe in supernatural elements with the power to influence humans.

Five Precepts:
1.
Refrain from taking life. Not killing any living being. ... 
2.
Refrain from taking what is not given. Not stealing from anyone.
3.
Refrain from the misuse of the senses. Not having too much sensual pleasure. 4.
Refrain from wrong speech. ... 
5.
Refrain from intoxicants that cloud the mind.

Most Buddhists do not believe in God. Although they respect and look up to the Buddha, they do not believe he was a God but they worship Buddha as a form of respect to show reverence and devotion to the Buddha and to Bodhisattvas.

Buddhism is nontheistic rather than atheistic:
Buddhism is not about either believing or not believing in God. For this reason, Buddhism is more accurately called nontheistic rather than atheistic. The Buddha also plainly said that he was not a god, but was simply "awakened" to ultimate reality. Buddha said  anyone can become Buddha by being awakened.
How to  become a Buddhist?
You will need to take refuge in the Triple Gem and follow a ceremony during which you take a vow to uphold the Five Precepts (to not kill, not steal, not commit sexual misconduct, refrain from false speech and not take intoxicants which lessen your awareness).
They rank garlic, onions, shallots and other members of the Allium genus as the five acid and strong-smelling vegetables, which are just too  strong. And that's why Buddhists don't eat garlic and onions.

Buddha's main concern was of how to liberate humankind from the sufferings of life and the vexations of the human mind. Understand the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering. The ultimate aim is to achieve a state of Enlightenment ( become Bhudda) through meditation and other spiritual practices.
- ✍️Dr Prema Pangi
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