Differences Between Eastern And Western Religions

Religions around the world can differ in various ways. What one religion believes and practices may be the opposite of what another believes. The Eastern and Western traditions especially differ. Not only what they believe in but also how they do it can sometimes be on opposite ends of the spectrum. Hinduism and Buddhism are religions of the east. In both religions, you have to go deep inside yourself and worship inwards in order to find enlightenment. They believe that suffering is caused by attachment to materialistic things and getting caught up in the physical world. Hindus and Buddhists believe in a spiritual world after death in the physical world, to them the time is a circle, the soul keeps thriving. Hindus try and receive Moksha
and become one with everything in the universe; Buddhists stride for Nirvana by detaching from everything until nothingness remains.

The quote from the Three Pillars of Zen, "At my first dokusan[interview with the teacher] harada-roshi drew a circle with a dot in the center. "This dot is you and the circle is the cosmos. Actually you embrace the whole cosmos, but because you see yourself as this dot, an isolated fragment, you don't experience the universe as inseparable from yourself You must break out of you self-imprisonment, you must forget philosophy and everything else, you must put your mind in your hara and breathe only mu in and out...The center of the universe is the pit of your belly!", describes the spirituality of hinduism and buddhism.