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Essays 211 - 240
constant change. In order to achieve spiritual gratification, an individual must learn how to adapt successfully through change, ...
the sun, mountains, lakes, other aspects of nature and even some animals and humans and because of this Shinto is referred to as a...
other part of the Roman empire. Merely associating with non-Jews was believed to make a Jewish person unclean" (Rosser, 1995). How...
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...
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...
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"....
when. Now is the moment to be alive. We may never be alive at all in our entire life. Therefore, the technique, if we have to s...
eternal soul and reap what you sow....Christianity" maintains "the notion of an eternal soul, a single lifetime, and eternal bliss...
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 ...
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...
with the absolute. Nagarjuna disagreed with this sense of absolutism. Nagarjuna philosophy can also be distinguished from mainst...
by way of recognition toward such shortcomings that humanity could overcome this "profound error" (Nehamas, 1994, p. 40), diligent...
into Zen Buddhism, which absorbed much of its metaphysical orientation from Taoist teachings (Suzuki 4). Unlike Indian Buddhism,...
Buddhists believe that the mind is non-physical and is reborn in another form after the brain dies. pragmatism: pragmatic philos...
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...
Because of this syncretism, this merging of major religious philosophies and beliefs, understanding Japanese religion can sometime...
centuries later many of his works were collected together and many oral stories were also collected by Buddhist monks to become th...
To understand paticca-samutpada, annata, and anicca one must consider them within Buddhism as a whole. The first important point ...
BC and embarked on numerous expansionist campaigns. He later turned to Buddhism and, repenting of his earlier policies of violent ...
(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...
and Soul-Making : Understanding Jungian Synchronicity Through Physics, Buddhism, and Philosophy, Victor Mansfield notes how depth ...