Buddhism

One of the religions with the greatest number of believers in the world does not attribute its spirituality or its beliefs to any god, it is the most numerous and influential religion of nontheistic.

Nontheistic is a religious definition that refers to spiritual or philosophical currents that does not mention the belief of an absolute cerador but it differ from atheism and accept the belief of the soul in life after death and in the existence of Non-absolute gods that evolve and change.

Like Christianity and Islam Buddhism claims to be a universal faith, its proposal is that knowledge arises from the connection of the human soul with the universe without the intervention of revelation or strange phenomena.

For Buddhism the vacum, the silence, and the world of the manifest are essential, to this day is not known exactly when buddhism was originated, the first record that exist are about 300 years before the birth of Christ when the Indian emperor called "Ashoca" converted to Buddhism and made it the official faith of the "Maurya" empire, the first great empire of India, dating from the earliest written records of the origin of this religion, they spoke about its founder a man called Buddha who lived 5 centuries before christ in northern India and preached there his doctrine.

Buddha was the son of a wealthy Indian family. His name was Siddhartha Gautama. His father surrounded him with an extraordinary luxury for a very noble reason. He believed that in that way he would separate his little boy from all sorrow. So, Siddhartha grew ignoring that there was the possibility of pain, suffering and even death. But the inevitable happened when Sidartha was a teenager, there were four facts that transformed him forever, the first of them an encounter with an elderly weak man, the second with a convalescent patient, the third with the body of a dead man who was taken to his burial.

This is how he understood for the first time that the disease, old age and death itself was a common destiny for all who had life, but the fourth episode was perhaps the one that most affected him, it was a meeting with a religious who was in poverty because he had renounced all luxury and all pleasure to find his spiritual peace.

The admiration was so great that he decided to follow his example, Sidartha abandoned his palace and his family to become a hermit, he spend the following 8 years in a forest punishing and exhausting his body seeking to find his own spiritual peace, but neither the days and Nights without eating or the wounds in his body achieved the goal and he understood.

One night, sitting under a tree and in deep meditation, hw found the lucidity and the truth was revealed to him, Sidartha came to the conviction that both extremes luxury and acestism were far from the path of truth and that the real journey was the intermediate, which leads to the serenity of the spirit.

From that moment his name changed to Buddha meaning awake or enlightened and spent the next 40 years preaching until death met him.