Life is beautiful and happy from the teaching of buddhism. Buddhism teaches equality as it directly resides on the peaceful harmonious heart of all races in the world instead of buddhists per se.
For Buddha, the path to happiness starts from an understanding of the root causes of suffering. Those who consider Buddha a pessimist because of his concern with suffering have missed the point. In fact, he is a skillful doctor — he may break the bad news of our suffering, but he also prescribes a proactive course of treatment. In this metaphor, the medicine is the Buddha’s teachings of wisdom and compassion known as Dharma, and the nurses that encourage us and show us how to take the medicine are the Buddhist community or Sangha. The illness however, can only be cured if the patient follows the doctor’s advice and follows the course of treatment — the Eightfold Path, the core of which involves control of the mind.
Precisely. Shurangama Sutra provided a more elaborated breakdown of sufferings, rehabilitation, recuperation and recovery from a patient to become a nurse and doctor. Eight fold path is a good habits of mind that when become natural, is full omniscient mind and body
in fact eight fold path is Shurangama sutra. When one practice eight fold path, it couples with its deluded mind that elaborated in Shurangama sutra, and once this mind and body are completely penetrated, it is the excellence methods achieved by those who revealed its attainment mentioned in the shurangama sutra. However, the attainment is purely based upon own ability, it would be much conveniently and easily achieveable to rely on buddha amitabha vow, in current dharma ending age. In this dharma ending age, it is also known as a "subtracting" era, which means human age is in decreasing in average due to much lesser blessing as compared to the increasing era after 6-7 thousands years later. Thus in this dharma ending era, if you would to learn buddhism, congratulation, but do be with a few seriously good buddhists to work on it together happily & relaxly. Buddhism is your inherent happiness, and basis of happiness is recreationally relax. Only through recreationally relax in meditation, your inherent eight fold path will prevail. However, those that have a superior God or Allah is better not to delve deeply in meditation like buddhists as it's easily go into the hand of mind demons and it too serious, go insane. Buddha appears kills buddha, Allah appears kills Allah, God appears kills God.
May all be safe and joy in journey of enlightenment. Together we can schieve
Eight Fold path is happiness and joy. It concise version is four noble truth. When one undergoing eigh fold path, it balance mind and body. In eight fold path, the mind or spirit is omniscient and its disposition is pleasant joy. In eight fold path, one six senses does not read or judge the bad or good of others, it stays compassionately pleasant, loving and joy in all encounters, as it needs two hands to clap or conflict, and eight fold path is absolutely in the serene pleasantness of oneself and others. Which means when others conduct otherwise, is their karma issue that has nothing to do with eight fold path. Tremendously awesome, magnificently beautiful mind and body of all