How do Buddhists deal with life's challenges?

Buddhist practice cultivates very specific human qualities - wisdom, equanimity, compassion, generosity, kindness and so on.

The more deeply that one trains in Buddhist practice, the more these qualities manifest in one's life.

Then, when challenges and problems appear (as they do every day), these qualities naturally shape our response.

The quality of equanimity allows us to stay present in a difficult situation, so that the mind's tendency to flee (or fight) doesn't take control.

The quality of wisdom allows us to see the truth of the situation, without our projections and fantasies, so that we can function responsibly.

The qualities of compassion, generosity, and kindness help us to respond to the challenge in a way that benefits everyone involved.

For most people, these qualities develop over time. At the same time, simply by dedicating oneself to living a wise and compassionate life begins the shift needed to reduce the suffering in the world.

maximum Buddhists honor the 5 Precepts in all themes on the subject of themselves and different participants of society. The 5 Precepts are (the wording of those varies by custom): a million. I vow to abstain from taking existence. 2. I vow to abstain from taking issues no longer given. 3. I vow to abstain from misconduct finished in lust. 4. I vow to abstain from mendacity. 5. I vow to abstain from intoxicants, taken to bring about heedlessness. it quite is not any longer tricky to think of the concrete implications of those precepts. i do no longer misinform human beings. i do no longer kill residing issues. i do no longer scouse borrow. I dodge misconduct (many of the time!). i do no longer drink. it quite is all surprisingly basic stuff. And if greater human beings observed those precepts (or the Christian Ten Commandments), there would be much less suffering contained in the international.