Questions about Buddhism and Taoism.

There are great differences between Taoism and Buddhism. In practice, the purpose of Taoism is to live a long life and ascend to heaven, rather than enlightenment and nirvana of Buddhism. Later, Quanzhen school also imitated Buddhism and put forward the concept of detachment, but generally speaking, it did not break away from the pursuit of longevity and long knowledge. People who think that Buddhism is illusory are generally people who have never practiced. If you practice for a period of time, you will know that every step of Buddhist practice is down-to-earth, and only laymen who try to reach heaven in one step will feel illusory and unstable. The afterlife in the girl's mind is only a part of practicing Buddhism, not the whole thing. In addition, to put it bluntly, things are different, who can be sure whether to arrive first tomorrow or in the afterlife? Without a clear understanding of this aspect, we will not cherish secular practice.

In addition, the teachings of Taoism are very mixed and confusing, which is not very good compared with Buddhism, but the difference is obvious.

Compared with the cause and effect of Buddhism, Taoism originally had a similar view, that is, "burden." The so-called "commitment" can be understood as follows: the god of heaven and earth pays attention to the conduct and behavior of the world and will reward or punish it at a specific time. If a family often does good deeds, it will be blessed; if a family often does bad deeds, it will be disastrous. In addition, people's good and evil can offset each other, their merits can be compensated, and rewards and punishments can be extended to future generations. This view is contrary to the "cause and effect" caused by Buddhism itself. Buddhism believes that after a person has done evil things, all he gets is to bear it himself. This process is driven by karma, not by gods. For example, if we throw a stone to the east (homework), the stone will naturally fall to the ground (reward), and no God will take it away and put it on the ground. And good karma and bad karma can't offset each other. Similarly, we use the analogy of throwing stones eastward. Even if we throw a thousand stones at the west, we can't stop the stones from falling from the east.