do buddhists celebrate or believe in christmas?

do buddhists celebrate or believe in christmas?, this is a interesting one that i am not so sure about will there buddhists celebrating christmas 2011 this year, or is christmas or any kind of xmas celebration a part of eastern religions like buddhism.

from what i can tell there is not much or nothing at all really in the buddhist religion about christmas, with christmas being a more northern part of the world celebration and of course because of christmas being a part of the christian religion.

as well buddhism is mostly just about meditation and reaching certain states, and i am not actually too sure if they have many out and out main holidays and celebrations either.

but buddhists can celebrate christmas if they want, as to not celebrate would mean hiding away at around december time every year, which would be silly.

also of note a lot of how jesus spoke and taught has similarity to the buddhism religion as well, and how buddha taught.

buddhists might as well enjoy the christmas period and not be uptight, as there is nothing in buddhism that says they cannot take part in christmas anyway, just continue to do there meditations and reflections and spiritual practices as usual around christmas and enjoy the christmas 2011 holidays.

zen buddhist pictures for meditation and spiritual relaxation 2012 into 2012

zen buddhist pictures for meditation and spiritual relaxation, this is a bit of a montage of images with the buddhist in mind and these images can be good to help induce or inspire meditation.

i find just looking at relaxing type images can be good to help reach a meditative state and also to just relax and unwind.

you also can try to feel what the picture portrays which will help in reaching a relaxed state especially with what can be for some this stressful christmas 2011 period upon us.



zen buddhism in relaxing pictures of buddhists and the culture of meditation from the eastern zen teachings



this is a picture of how the buddhist monks meditate in half lotus posture a difficult to achieve with practice from now you could probably achieve buddhist half lotus meditation posture by late 2012



the buddhist monks also hold and use different hand postures and positions while meditating as can be seen in this picture with the buddhist monks right hand posture while sitting in meditation



as can be seen that it is worthwhile to learn a bit of relaxation technique if you notice the buddhists statues show elements of bliss in there meditations and relaxations, this is what the, or one of the things buddhist statues portray when showing the buddhism tradition, that the buddhist monks attain states of spiritual bliss and power through meditation