hi steemians; hope you are doing well.
The Buddha was born as Siddhartha Gautama in Nepal around 2,500 years ago, befor the coming of jesus christ. budhha never claimed to be a god or a prophet even we see nowadays a lot of people who still worshiping him as god, and still buddism spread worldwide. buddhism stared with the coming of buddha, and here we have stop for a while to explain the word buddha which means; one who is awake, in the sense of having ,waken up to reality, buddha was a huan being who became enlightened, he understood life the deepest way possible that why a his followers considered him as god.
as we all know that buddhism is concerned much with life than with death, so that it taught us how to live life, as it see that, life as a process of constant change, and th e aim behind practicing life is to take the advantage of this fact. this means that the person can develope himself for the better. and mind is the decisive factor in changing the person, so that buddhism had provided and developed so many methods, ways for working the mind. the most important practice in buddhism is meditations, which is a method to of develope more positive states of human mind which characterised by, concentration, awareness, calm and emotions such as friendliness, love. Using the awareness in meditation it is possible to acheive complet fuller understanding of self, and other people and of life as well.