Since the word "Buddhism" appeared, it has been widely recognized by all walks of life, and almost everyone got the message at the first time, which is not strange at all. This group seems to have existed for a long time, but it has always lacked a suitable unified name. This time, I finally changed my name. Have you ever considered yourself a "Buddhist Sect" or ridiculed others as a "Buddhist Sect"?

It is irresponsible not to seek a solution. It is not too late to have a general concept before classifying personality. The word "Buddhism" first appeared in Japanese magazines, so we don't have to investigate its origin or pay attention to its various extended meanings in the process of popularity, because the word is based on the concept of "Buddha", so Buddha is the source of its culture and basic connotation.

Speaking of Buddhism, China has a tradition of integrating Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and Buddhism is "Buddhism". Confucianism comes from Confucius and Taoism from Laozi, all of which are native ideas in China, while Buddhism comes from ancient India and was created by Sakyamuni. These three thoughts gathered in the transitional period between slavery and feudalism, and finally reached a unified established position after a long process of integration.

In the post-modern society, although people's consciousness and ideas are deconstructed and fragmented by the impact of various phenomena, the explosive spread of every popular word with profound significance has its foreshadowing and brewing. With the popularity of the Internet, especially since the emergence of the media, all kinds of classic discourses have been reprinted overwhelmingly. In common wisdom quotations, Buddhism is not rare, such as "color is empty, and emptiness is color", "a flower is the world, and a leaf is bodhi", and "the sea of suffering is boundless, turning back to the shore" ...

While constantly accepting the reinforcement of memory, many words are catchy, illustrated and pleasing to the eye. In this way, after being instilled in turn for several years, as soon as I heard the concept of "Buddha", I suddenly felt that I had met a bosom friend. These are the cultural, historical and external conditions for the formation of Buddhism. Let's discuss the internal factors or intellectual support for the formation of Buddhism.

On the basis of the Buddhist cultural tradition and the widespread concept of Buddhist popular terms, it is also very important to practice as the basic premise of "Buddha" Because "Buddhism Department" refers not to a developing process, but to Buddhism Department, which is different from philosophy department and literature department.

"Buddha" means that the process of practicing Buddhism has been completed, but it comes from practice, not from learning or epiphany in the words in temples or books.

It is no exaggeration to say that the "Buddhism" group has regarded this way of thinking as the starting point of a daily behavior pattern, but it has not become a Buddha like the legend. Buddha must be omniscient, there is no ignorant Buddha, and there is no half-baked Buddha. Knowledge is constantly updated and cannot be done once and for all. Especially in the era of rapid development of science and technology, the knowledge learned yesterday may be out of date today. Nowadays, the Internet is like a plug-in with unlimited knowledge, which can be carried with you. Its dimensions not only include everything known in human history, but also are constantly updated. It is not limited to macro or micro knowledge, nor to a specific professional or interdisciplinary knowledge.

With sufficient external and internal conditions, "Buddha" has an important feature of Buddhism: it is necessary to realize oneself and others, which is the enjoyment of knowledge in the form of information.

The spread of consciousness is a kind of recognition ability, otherwise most of the uncontrollable information belongs to garbage. This is why "Buddhism" has always been ridiculed as a numb group of "anything can", "can" and "it doesn't matter", but in fact, many times, this is the performance of their comprehensive evaluation of invalid results. This way of thinking that looks down on everything seems negative, but it also has its positive side. Compared with some successful people sharing something without nutrition, "Buddhism" is much more noble in sharing knowledge. From the perspective of Buddhism, sharing is also a kind of compassion, and compassion does not distinguish between high and low.

Another manifestation of "Buddha" is "the unity of knowledge and practice", which is also an important link in practice. It is very important because this is where the three ideological systems of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are prone to differences, and these three ideological systems all have their own different "unity of knowledge and action."

There has been a "dispute between Buddhism and Taoism" about mainstream thoughts in history, which is understandable from different perspectives. In terms of literary works, there are The Journey to the West in Buddhism, a master and apprentice who went through the "81 difficulties" to learn from the West, and Travel Notes in the East in Taoism, where the Eight Immortals crossed the ocean and showed their magical powers. In terms of literary and artistic achievements, the two are not contradictory in essence, and they are both classics.

Today's "Buddhism" is not Buddhism because it is somewhat "thoroughly remoulded". Let's make a dialectical hypothesis: Is it more appropriate to divide the "knowledge" in the "unity of knowledge and action" in the Buddhist system into Confucianism today, Buddhism today and Taoism today?

Engels said in Dialectics of Nature: "Dialectical thinking-precisely because it is based on the study of the nature of the concept itself-is only possible for geniuses and only for people at a relatively advanced stage of development (Buddhists and Greeks)." Obviously, "Buddhists and Greeks" in this passage cannot be understood dogmatically, but dialectically.

The so-called people in the advanced development stage combine the prerequisites of omniscience, omniscience and omnipotence, that is, people whose knowledge, cognition and practice are fully developed. Of course, the above is all nonsense. In the information age, no one or industry will simply apply an isolated concept, and buzzwords like "Buddhism" are just a popularization of past classics.

Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, our ideological field has not only integrated various systems at all times and in all countries, but also added many new things that are being generated. This is not something that can be achieved by the unchangeable methodology, nor by the flowing of literati, but by combining theory with practice step by step. Similarly, the so-called "Buddhist school" is not meditation and chanting Buddha, let alone "being a monk every day", but a way to get along with the changing world in a down-to-earth, fearless and optimistic way.

Therefore, don't despise and ridicule a huge group at will, because this is the cornerstone of building a stable society. We also hope that the so-called "Buddhism" can bring beneficial integration and real development to the world, and hope that all this is not an eternal cycle of simple repetition.