Hinduism vs Buddhism - The Core Differences Simply Explained By A Buddhist Monk

your friends are scrolling through short content but you my friend you're here to learn welcome to the honest clips beginning with what you said about uh Hinduism and Buddhism being similar yet very different I'd like to know um I think it will not be fair on my part to say that I can compare both religions or both faiths uh because Buddhism I know a fair bit Hinduism I know I don't know that much but from what limited knowledge that I have and some of the swamis and the gurus and pandits that I know um the

main difference would be that in Buddhism and I may be wrong but one of the main difference would be in the intention and the motivation of why we do certain things like hawan for example uh fire Puja agniag uh chanting mantras going to a temple or even like eating drinking sleeping and you know just breathing in Buddhism the idea is that um samsara is full of suffering the nature of samsara itself is suffering and samsara is the deluded state of mind that's what we call a samsara samsara is not a physical place like you can

say juhu or you know uh kalaba it's not like that samsara is when your mind is confused and deluded and your default emotions are that of ego ignorance anger attachment jealousy greed the negative emotions so if your default emotions are negative that's samsara and if your default emotions are purified and is that of patience compassion love generosity so on then is nirvana so in a nutshell that's how we describe it so in Buddhism especially in the Buddhism that we practice we wish for all sentient beings all beings living beings uh to be rid of suffering

and to find Everlasting happiness and that's what we call enlightenment to basically wake up from this Matrix we yeah like the simulation of material ISM around us yeah because if I may expand upon it from a Buddhist perspective some uh whatever we experience whatever we see what do we feel has two modes one is appearance and one is his nature we are caught up in the mood of the appearance we don't we don't go beyond appearance and we don't see things for how they really are we only see and feel things for how they appear

it's like a small child when he or she sees a movie and then see and then cries at the end daddy you know the dog has died and the daddy will say no no no don't worry this is a movie dog hasn't died daddy sees the parents see the movie The appearance but they also know the nature the real side of it the background the child doesn't know so we are like children we're caught up in the display and we don't see the real nature of how things actually are we only see things for how

they appear if you remember these two modes tomorrow when you have a meeting when you go to the beach when you play football when you go to the gym when you interview somebody else anything things start to make so much sense and you don't get caught up with the mirror only the mere appearance the Maya you go beyond that and you understand everything is impermanent everything is subject to change people are not bad by Nature temporarily yeah they get angry and all that so it's okay and sometimes it's okay not to be okay you learn

YouTube perspective changes so in Buddhism our ultimate motivation is that all beings sentient beings be free from this kind of delusion and to see the you know the real nature of phenomena and to be free from confusion and so on what are the two Mayan and vajrayan what are the differences um so basically in Buddhism there are three different uh Vehicles we call them Vehicles they're like three different paths that you can go on um there is a therawada path which is mostly practiced in some parts of India I think Maharashtra is practiced quite a

lot and you have in Thailand Cambodia you've seen those monks orange robes Barefoot and all that they practice a very Orthodox and very traditional form of Buddhism and based very much on discipline uh and their motivation and intention is mostly centered around themselves and their own small community now in mahayan uh it is expanded to all sentient beings not only to yourself and to your monk Community but is included including all the beings because no being no living being wants to be sad and every living being whether it's human dog insect want to be happy

that's why ants carry all that breadcrumbs that's why dogs wag their tails it's just there in nature so Mayana recognizes that but it's like the turbo version of it with the Nitro so it's a very shortcut fast path towards Enlightenment like how we have Tantra yeah and we practice Tantra uh we practice like different kinds of practices we practice so we have uh included a lot of practices and traditions from different faiths also also from Hinduism we have adopted a lot of things also from like you mentioned at the beginning born or Shaman tradition they've

employed a lot of things um yeah it's with the goal of Nirvana yes not only for yourself but for all beings so that might be the biggest difference I think between uh Hinduism and Buddhism yeah yeah Fair I mean there is a thought in Hinduism about thinking for the welfare of society but I've not come across or too many Hindu Scholars at least on the show who've spoken about complete General uh Universal Universal positives uh when you're a good person when you do good deeds you do accumulate a little more when you pray it's a

little more karma when you meditate intensely it's a little more when you do certain Tantra rituals it's even more it's a volcanic amount of karma therefore you are able to move down the path of uh Enlightenment faster when you do certain rituals am I right okay yes uh in the world of Hindu Tantra there's a big uh significance of deities which is basically a format of God so you have the universal God which is parabram and then you have a version of it which is understandable for the human mind that same God expresses itself as

durgama or Krishna or Shiva or Hanuman it's God but expressing itself in a version that would be helpful to you based on your subjective reality and path okay now what I understand is that in um certain parts of the world and practice Buddhism even you have deities yes like Tara yes uh you want to give us a little bit about the Buddhist angle on deities and how does Buddhism generally look at deities because the Assumption about Buddhism is that we pray to the Buddha when we talk about Buddhism like that is Shiva I'm assuming you

know like for a lot of Hindus shivas the ultimate yes but a lot of Hindus Krishna is the ultimate so I would assume that for Buddhist Buddha is the ultimate but then where is there a room for deities okay so Buddha when we mention the Buddha Buddha we are talking about Siddhartha Gautama who was a prince in Ancient India and so on we look at him as an inspiration we look at him as a guide as a sort of like a prophet one who showed the path at least in this Eon in this kalpa in

our age um so we pay homage to him but we don't see him as a god that is against Buddhist ideal so we don't actually believe in a Creator and a destroyer we believe in um the accumulation of positive Karma and negative Karma deities like Tara avul Pani manjushri we have a mirrored amount of deities some peaceful and some wrathful really yes so by by wrathful do you mean evil no but we don't mean I don't mean evil I don't mean angry by wrathful I think the one way to put it would be to use

the Indian anecdote of I love this word feels yeah Fierce fears you know we just use the term wrathful but not angry they're not angry at you it's like when a parent Scrolls you when your parents call you it's not that they hate you they want to harm you they want to help you they want to guide you but at that time you're too naughty so you will only understand the language of uh air pulling if you're lucky and a tight slap if you're not that lucky so in Buddhism we have wrathful in peaceful deities

um and deities we see them as okay now if you talk about the highest level teachings of Buddha they are manifestations of your own true nature in a nutshell there are certain manifestations of your own true nature a reflection of your own truly deities yes likewar is the compassionate nature in a human form of your own true compassion Tara is a manifestation of your true Nature's activity manjushri wisdom vajrapani power and so on uh and then some of the deities they the similarities are very vague and very similar but then the story the differences are

very similar but basically that's how we see deities are we don't see them as external beings residing somewhere and just blessing us we try to um invoke them by chanting their mantras by visualizing them and in doing so we're not connecting with someone who's out there we're connecting with our own primordial true nature which is what we which we feel is enlightened so our true nature itself our core is good it's clean it's enlightened it's just a wrapping it's wrapped up it's like a diamond Kohinoor wrapped up in a rag if you have a rag

over there nobody would know there's a Kohinoor inside so it's a bit like that so God is inside you yes you can call it God you can call it Buddha nature you know the Buddha nature you can call it Enlightenment yeah okay um you've witnessed a deity in front of you in the human form yes like he's already 14 Dalai Lama he's we considered him to be a human manifestation of bhagwan abulakateshwar of the deity my own Guru he's all you know he's already we consider him to be the manifestation of different deities but usually

they are the manifestation of our kiteshwar because of we feel that the true nature of compassion manifests in human form in our society not only as a Buddhist but can be a Muslim can be Hindu can be an atheist can be a scientist can be anything so if you enjoyed this video make sure you check out this playlist for more videos just like this it's the artist clips [Music] thank you [Music]