What has buddhism done for you?

Have you learned anything?

It has lessened my attachment to everyday things, significantly decreasing the sadness I feel for the loss of material possession and people passing into and out of my life and increasing my comfort with change. It has greatly increased my sense of empathy towards others' feelings and ability to understand other people's emotions. As a result, it's improved the way I treat other people.

Is is. Growth in acceptance and compassion, the better parts of me. Yes, the practice has been worth it for the past 35 years. I don't ask why anymore.

I've found life coming from a center of calm, of mindful self-awareness. In most situations I do not remember this, but when I do I find I can always live with the facts. And then I forget again. Buddhism is a practice and we in the west can be very undisciplined. Some of my actions do not submit to this calm. Some things I would go out on a limb for, in the interest of fair play in society, where my own wants will crash and burn. The calm center of my Self is a reference point, whether it is actually felt or just remembered

it has allowed me to focus my Ki when practicing tandoori

Buddhism is a group of viruses that exist on earth. People of religions are infected by viruses and all types of bacteria. These live viruses put there by flies, ticks, lice, mosquitoes, mold and other bacteria affect the way people behave. People don't worship anything, but what live in them, which called themselves "spirits" worship the bacteria outside because the internal bacteria need the external bacteria to guide them. What the internal bacteria do to mankind is to make them grow old faster to kill them. Why? Mankind was taken over by bacteria and bacteria create a world of stench to live in because bacteria are born in stench. Mankind is clean but come to think that bacteria are part of their environments because of the bacteria living inside them that turned them into puppets.

So, religious books exist to teach the viruses how to live in people without being noticed. But as they are vermin's like worms, roaches, and such, they can't live in people without killing them and making them behave erratically. So religious people are viral infected people, which have aliens in the form of worms, maggots, roaches, and other vermin's living inside them, that behave erratically like a defected computer.

Buddhism is one of the viral religion. Underlying all religions is viruses. So going from one religion to another makes you acquire different types of viruses which make you worse than when you had one religion because the other viruses have to be demoted to give place to the new ones, which create conflict and put the life of the hosts in danger.

Buddhism is a virus religion that takes care of Buddhist viruses and only do things for them. But since all religions have a common denominator: humanism, which makes all religions the same, even though with different cultures, so if you are not aware that you are taken over by aliens, then Buddhism is good for you.

My answer was to the actual person and not the Buddhist viruses. Think about antler fish. The little worm is the innocent one used by the antler fish to trap its victims. I am talking to the innocent person that religious vermin's dwarfed. You can fight the vermin's in you.

i had major depressive disorder with psychotic side effects and had suicide attempts because i had no compassion for myself. I used to beat the crap out of myself with my negative thoughts. with hard core time and effort in training in mind fullness practice meditation and the cultivation of new morals and valuing love and happiness i was able to go to a new psychiatrist three years later and without DRUGS that never worked and made it worse I can honestly and whole heatedly say that the doc deemed me a major depressive disorder in remission.
you could say it exercised my inner demons and it wasn't easy facing them in meditation either but accepting that part of me changed me. accepting that i had a dark side to me gave me the power to free it

It saved my life and changed my happiness meters and now i enjoy every minute of life and want life when before i hated life and thought is was cruel and punishing to be alive.
i dint want to die anymore now Ive become afraid to die as i love life..what irony in the end for me!

Well, since I'm not Buddhist, it's helped me by you asking this question, and then me typing this answer, therefore earning 2 points.

it's all about the middle way . .. . .it is easier to get downstream by floating in the middle of the river than it is to bump along the banks.

Buddhism has made me realize how little I do know in philosophy. It also has helped me not be so attached to thoughts that have caused me so much useless misery.

I have learned that if i should meet Buddha on my way i should kill him.

I have learned to be light unto myself and not believe what anyone says just because they say it is so.

Hence killing him..(metaphorically speaking) lest he get in my light.

I don't think there is enough space here to write in it all. I will be brief. Peace of mind probably covers it as much as possible. No Worries.