What is bad about Buddhism?

Answer 1

Well, if you ask one Buddhist, he might tell you "Nothing!". Or if you ask a Buddhist who practices closer to what The Buddha taught he might say that the addition of ritual over the centuries takes away from The Buddha's original idea of not being tied to rituals or to practices that are not needed to directly achieve enlightenment.

For converts to Buddhism one issue might be that The Buddha never talked about whether a God or Gods exist, since it was not the problem he was trying to solve, which was suffering.

Answer 2

There is very little "bad" associated with Buddhism. No special diet is required, children are not mutilated by circumcision, conversion programs (missionaries) are not a big item, religious and ethnic purges by Buddhists are not a recurring theme, they don't burn witches, sacrifice animals, or speak badly of other religions.

Perhaps some of the lamas might be corrupt, but no more than, and perhaps less than, the various imams, mullahs, priests, bishops and deacons of other religions.

But perhaps the question meant what do Buddhists regard as being bad. Although bad is not the word. Desire is bad - it leads to all the other suffering in life.

Buddhists might regard these following as being demonstrations unskillfulness in conducting your life. These would include:

* Hate * Lust * Greed * Theft * Anger * Idleness * Murder * Killing * Intemperence

Answer 3

Properly understood, Buddhism is a set of practices designed to ameliorate suffering (dissatisfaction, dukkha). One way to understand nirvana is to understand it to be a state of very alert but thoughtless awareness, in other words, freedom from compulsive thinking (conceptualizing, sorting, classifying, categorizing, evaluating, etc.).

So its goal is not really to gain anything but to eliminate fear of dying and death, fear of old age, fear of illness, and the endless everyday worries and concerns that undermine happiness.

Although letting go of compulsive thinking is simple, but it is difficult. It is not easy to overcome the habits created by the egoic mind over many years. In that sense, the worst thing about Buddhism is that its practices require a lot of serious aspiration and effort to be successful.

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Answer 4

This is a very interesting question, however I think you'd have to define 'negative' in this context. Given the the ultimate goal of most Buddhists is the relative or absolute ending of sufferingit is hard to see the down side.

Answer 5

You don't go to heaven. Life a continual fight to be good, so you can come back as something better. It's unending. You can never be good enough.