HINDUÍSM
The Hinduism is a vast organism social-religious composed for a great number of sects, cults and philosophical systems involving countless rituals ceremonies and spiritual disciplines, as well as the countless gods' adoration and goddesses. The thousand facets of the Hinduism reflect after all the extraordinary complexity geographical, racial, linguistic and cultural of the vast Indian sub-continent. The manifestations of the vain Hinduism from philosophies highly intellectuals, involving reach conceptions and fabulous depth, to the practices ritual ingenuous and puerile of the people. The spiritual source of the Hinduism is found in Vedas, a collection of old texts written by wise persons anonymous, called “seers” Vedics, probably between 1500 and 500 a.C.
The most recent parts of those writings are the “Upanishads” that refers to the practical and philosophical content of the doctrine. Though, the Indian people have been receiving the teachings of the Hinduism not through you Vedics and Upanishads, but through a great number of popular stories, gathered in epics of vast dimensions that constitute the base of the wide and colored mythology of India. One of those epic ones, Mahabharata contains the favorite religious text of India, Bhagavad Gita, beautiful spiritual poem, dialogue among the god Krishna and the warrior Arjuna. With this bottom panorama we would be taken to think that the Hinduism is then a religious system and philosophical polytheist, in other words, that it accepts and scallop multiple gods. But that is only stocking truth. Because all the Hinduism lay down as a principle that all those gods and goddesses, all the beings and objects, the whole Universe finally, is a manifestation of a primordial reality, essence interns of all of the things - Brahman.
Brahman is something intellectually of unfathomable, because that locates for besides all of the concepts. “Brahman, without principle, supreme: in addition what it is, and of what it is not”. However the people want to speak concerning that reality and the Hindu wise persons deified Brahman; they transformed him in a God, father of all the gods and goddesses, and of everything that exists. The popularization need and opening assimilates Brahman, to biblical God (Jehovah) of the system religious Jewish-Christian.
SHINTOISM
The native Japanese people autochthonous religion. Their (Shintoism) origins remount to the origins of the own Japanese people. There is who finds in the languages and habits Japanese roots similar to the one of Altaicos that inhabited Manchuria, Mongolia and Siberia. But a good part of the mystery stays undecipherable.
The Japanese people, that is right, it was an invader. In the islands existed the Ainu that very slowly went being banished, from the South for the North, until that they were completely dominated in the century XVIII a.C..
Xinto (way of the gods) it is a religion that describes mythologically the origin (divine) of the Japanese people. All the ancestors are all gods and as such they should be worshipped. Then Shintô is so linked to the ancestors' cult. The universe is divided in three worlds:
1) The celestial world of the Kami (gods); 2) The humans' terrestrial world; 3) The world of Yomi or of the death.
CONFUCIONISM
Appears in the century VI b.C. in China with Confucius, that slingshot in the small state of Lou the first “education school.” The Confucianism would turn in a group of rules and moral conventions, juridical and linguistics officials of the whole China.
BUDISM
The Buddhism appeared in the century VI b.C. with Gautama Buddha (n 622? b.C. and m. 543? b.C. in the bottom of Himalaya, today called Nepal). Buddha didn't leave written teaching, but the Buddhist monks spread his religion for whole the Far East. The Buddhism enters only in Japan in the century VI a.C. melting easily with the native traditional religion (the Shintoism). In a certain way the Buddhism approaches the modern Western psychological therapies more than the Western religion, structured in the concept of God, the omnipotent creator. It doesn't import the Buddhist to know if God exists or no... imports to determine the causes of the human suffering and to modify the individual's attitude, in way to eliminate that suffering.
BUDISM ZEN
Philosophical root of the Bushi-Do (the samurais' code) and, for consequence, of Budo (the martial arts). The worst way of revealing it would be to give it any definition.
The Zen just practiced and it gets confused with the own practice. Let us remember of the Zen-kutsu-dachi.
