compare Hinduism and Buddhism essay
The Buddha first studied and practiced with Hindu teachers, but ultimately found their teachings and practices didn't suffice to reach the ultimate goal. Broadly speaking, these were some of the most important points where he distanced himself from the Hindu teachings In the Hindu system, the ultimate goal was that our individual soul, the true self trapped in the material world, should get liberated from the material world and merge with the infinite and unchanging Divine spirit, the Brahman. In Buddhism, both the individual souls and the Divine spirit are rejected. There are no eternally unchanging "true self’s", neither individually, nor all-embracing. Everything is constantly changing, like the water in the river or the atoms in the body. The similarities are that they both believe in karma and both were originated in India. Both believe that ending desires will end suffering.
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The Buddhist texts are not seen as holy because of some purported divine origin or as a divine revelation, but because they are consistent with reason, logic and experience, and because they have been checked and rechecked, tried out and retried to be effective instructions in how to work with your own mind to become a better person and ultimately attain wisdom and liberation from all kinds of suffering. Hinduism is not founded by a single man whereas Buddhism is founded my Buddha, Buddhists are atheists whereas Hindus are polytheistic, and Hindus believed you could achieve moksha only if you were a Brahmin whereas Buddhists believed you could achieve Nirvana regardless what caste you are in. in Hinduism several of them are important objects of veneration, even seen as emanations of the supreme God (Brahman), whereas they are never objects of veneration or prayer in Buddhism, only seen as deluded sentient beings who will eventually die and be reborn in a new body just like you and