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1、 旅游英语口语练习：峨眉山The Spread of the BuddhismBuddhism was founded in India around the 16th century BC. It is said that the founder was Sakyamuni. Sskyua was the name of the clan to which his family belonged. Sakyamuni was a prince and was brought up in luxury. In his 20s, he became discontented with the w
2、orld. Every day he had to face with sights of sickness, death and old age since the body was inescapably involved with disease, decrepitude and death. Around the age of 30 he made his break from the material world and plunged off in search of enlightenment.Sakyamuni began by studying Hindu philosoph
3、y and Yoga. Then he joined a band of ascetics and tried to break the power of his body by inflicting severe austerities on himself. However, no matter how he held his breath until his head burst and starved his body until his ribs jutted out, he failed to enlighten himself. Finally Sakyamuni followe
4、d the principle of the middle way in which he would live between the extremities of asceticism on one hand and indulgence on the other. As the story goes, he devoted the final phase of his search for enlightenment to meditation and mystic concentration. One evening he sat beneath a fig tree, slipped
5、 into a deep meditation and achieved enlightenment from his mystic concentration.Sakyamuni founded an order of monks and for the next 45 years or so peached his ideas around 480 BC. Sakyamuni teaches that all life is suffering. Everyone is subjected to the trauma of birth, to sickness, decrepitude a
6、nd death. Real happiness can”t be achieved until suffering is overcome. The cause of unhappiness is ”desires”,specifically the desire of the body and the desire personal fulfillment. In order to overcome the desirs and achieve happiness, it requires the following eight-fold path.1.Right knowledgeBud
7、dhist followers should believe that all life is suffering. It is caused by the desire for personal gratification.2.Right AspirationBuddhist followers should becomw passionately involved with the knowledge of what life”s problems basically are.3.Right SpeechBuddhist followers shousd avoid lies, idle
8、talk, abuse,alander and deceit.4.Right BehaviorBuddhist followers should show kindness and avoid self-seeking and personal fulfillment in all actions.5.Right LivelihoodBuddha considers spiritual progress impossible if one has occupied himself/herself with slave-dea-ling or prostitution.6.Right EffortThe effort os the will to develip virtues and curb paddion.
