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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...
karmic retribution. Zen Buddhists believe that karmic actions result in reincarnation, and that "ones circumstances are the suita...
(4.4.5-6) details how the law of karma determines the birth of the reincarnated soul (Pravrajika, 2001). Vedanta Hinduism views de...
a loved one, we turn inward and find we are more appreciative of the people in our lives. This is not something necessarily taught...
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 ...
with the absolute. Nagarjuna disagreed with this sense of absolutism. Nagarjuna philosophy can also be distinguished from mainst...
notes, in other words, people are constantly changing and re-inventing aspects of themselves in order to adapt to the equivalent c...
the way it was lived" (BBC World Service, 2003). If an individual has lived a bad life, refusing to accept Jesus as Savior and God...
ideas more thoroughly, it helps to look at the precepts of the various religions. First, buddhism is a rather well known ideology...
as by feeding monks, building and maintaining temples, releasing birds and fish, helping the needy and other acts of selflessness ...
eternal soul and reap what you sow....Christianity" maintains "the notion of an eternal soul, a single lifetime, and eternal bliss...
the silk trade in general, laid the groundwork for the spread of religion. One might compare the phenomenon to the Internet today....
Buddha identified Four Noble Truths. They may be briefly stated as follows: Human life is an existence of suffering. Human sufferi...
the balance and harmony which is achieved within it. The circle which surrounds the symbol represents the infinity of the cosmos, ...
one of his most powerful challenges involved religion and his approach slowly evolved into one that incorporated all thoughts, inc...
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...
a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs" (Thoreau 188)....
Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...
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"....
In five pages this paper analyzes Siddhartha's journey in a consideration of the author's life as well as the parallels that exist...
regard to the manner by which they worship only one god. Unlike so many other religions that divide their devotion among several ...
In five pages this paper examines the Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism religions in terms of the concepts of self and reincarnation...
In five pages this paper examines social revolution as depicted in this novel and film. There is 1 source cited in the bibliograp...
of Confucianism and Buddhism. Unlike the primitivism of Shinto, the Chinese religious practices were far more sophisticated, whic...
bits of philosophy. For example, transcendental meditation is thought by some westerners as being a way one opens the door to the ...