- Description of Buddhism The Snelling Sutra What is Buddhism
About? Basically the question is: How can you achieve release
from suffering? The Buddha found that there are certain steps
that can be taken. Buddhism therefore offers its followers
things that they can do rather than things for them to believe.
When people are meditating, they are not frantically caught up
in all the pictures and thoughts that are milling about in their
heads. Rather, they are peacefully allowing these to settle
down. They do not, however, allow their minds to go blank. In
fact, they stay very alert and watch everything that comes into
their minds.