YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :How Buddhism Came to America
Essays 571 - 600
eternal soul and reap what you sow....Christianity" maintains "the notion of an eternal soul, a single lifetime, and eternal bliss...
and Spain, along with the Paris treaty, had been reviewed for the purpose of showing the relation of the United States to Cuba as...
suffering, and that this suffering could only be escaped through giving up selfish desires. This spiritual "enlightenment" could b...
"Buddhism is horizontal or human-oriented, not vertical or God-oriented"....
home, psychologically, is that all things French are worthy of being known, while anything that is the color black is associated w...
brought us images of war, live and in color. Regardless of whatever political ideologies concurrently exist, no reasonable, think...
Self, in the sense that the term is usually understood, but that everything we are is made up of constructs of reality, interwoven...
represents a threat to those ideals is subject to punition" (Swidler). While the protection of womens morality is common throughou...
Although there are definite directions provided in the Bible as to the follies of splitting into separate religions and sects, mod...
embark upon myriad experiences that would otherwise never have existed. Being introduced to Buddhism by way of India in the 2nd c...
karmic retribution. Zen Buddhists believe that karmic actions result in reincarnation, and that "ones circumstances are the suita...
other part of the Roman empire. Merely associating with non-Jews was believed to make a Jewish person unclean" (Rosser, 1995). How...
works of the time, self-published, and were handed out to Bostonian readers by the twelve-year-old author himself (DuHadaway 34). ...
laborer such as a farmer, a tradesman or one in the military3. Like in any other profession, in order to obtain his goal, a monk m...
Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...
(4.4.5-6) details how the law of karma determines the birth of the reincarnated soul (Pravrajika, 2001). Vedanta Hinduism views de...
the sun, mountains, lakes, other aspects of nature and even some animals and humans and because of this Shinto is referred to as a...
and Soul-Making : Understanding Jungian Synchronicity Through Physics, Buddhism, and Philosophy, Victor Mansfield notes how depth ...
a loved one, we turn inward and find we are more appreciative of the people in our lives. This is not something necessarily taught...
BC and embarked on numerous expansionist campaigns. He later turned to Buddhism and, repenting of his earlier policies of violent ...
similar view of women, when examining Islam the testimony of two women is equal to the testimony of a single man, according to th...
during the seventeenth century, where jurors were disqualified from judging if they had a precious knowledge of that case (Smith ...
by way of recognition toward such shortcomings that humanity could overcome this "profound error" (Nehamas, 1994, p. 40), diligent...
points out that an ideal engine, in optimum condition could theoretically conceive 100 percent efficiency, but that real-world req...
to unite theology and sociopolitical concerns within the framework provided by this school of theological theory. Rather than spea...
that imposed minimum spending formulas on schools, three-strikes sentencing laws, land conservation measures and measures abolishi...
as no one bothered to make sure that things would go well. In the end, the war was just stopped but there were no victories. Ther...
terminal condition she might face. That is the precisely the purpose of a living will - to speak for the person who has been medi...
Canada" (The war of 1812, 2001). All of these various forces found voice in a group called the "War Hawks," a "rising young gener...
best known of the American Indian ballerinas, not only because of her great artistry and beauty, but also because she was married ...