This sounds simple enough, but if you've ever been dumped by someone, you know that it is not that easy to just stop desiring. 4. So how do you do it? By following the Eightfold Path, which, as you may suspect, is a set of eight prescriptions on how to live that we don't have time to talk about because oh wait, look, Thought Bubble! You put some learning in our learning so we can learn while we learn! Thanks, Thought Bubble. So as a religion, Buddhism involves a lot of meditating and moderation, and there aren't that many fun rituals, and if you're a Buddhist monk, you don't get to have power like most holy people do.