understanding of each of these terms? | After reading the text‚ how would you redefine each of them? | What differences did you find between the popular usage and actual definitions? | Karma | My personal understanding of Karma is in life you get back what you dish out to others. | The definition of Karma is our actions and their effects on this life and lives to come. | It is basically the same idea just my opinion was it came back in the same life to where the book states it can back in a
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Buddha’s messages‚ “…enable the Buddha’s common followers to commemorate and reflect on his exemplary life (lives)…” and is an object of meditation and/or philosophical analysis. The Jataka tales are all from one common ground‚ the law of karma. The law of karma basically states that if you have done wrong in your lifetime‚ you will reincarnate into another life to work off your wrong doings from your previous life. If you have done good deeds‚ which overweigh your bad deeds‚ you will reach a state
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Strong and Weak Relationships in Stories Relationships in stories are very important‚ to who the characters are and how they act. In the stories that were read the relationships shown were both strong and weak. Depending on how the characters act toward each other‚ it determines their relationship. The stories‚ Forty-five a Month and The House on the Border‚ both have very weak relationships‚ whereas the story‚ The Ch’i-lin Purse‚ has a very strong relationship. In a relationship one person sometimes
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offering these selfless actions to God. That is where the moral virtue Niskamakarma comes along. This virtue literally means no-pleasure-action‚ it is an action done not because you like to‚ but because it has to be done. The Hindus believed that Karma such as Niskamakarma‚ which emphasizes pure‚ selfless and dutiful actions‚ a noble act done for its own sake‚ would somehow help them emancipate their souls from the Samsara (cycle of reincarnation) and attain the liberation of Moksha. Same goes
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Hinduism emphasizes the importance of one’s karma by determining the qualities of one’s rebirth‚ the Buddha/Buddhism shares similar Hindu insights as well. Siddhartha Gautama‚ also known as the Buddha‚ upheld the belief in both karma and rebirth. At the same time he advocated an escape from samsara. One might claim that these religions have common or very similar beliefs‚ however these two religions differ in one aspect. Their belief on the meaning of a human being is drastically different. So the
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Hindus believe “the act of killing is therefore a bad karma with unhappy consequences for those who indulge it‚” (V‚ 2). Hindus believe the act of killing accompanies terrible consequences. They believe killing another living creature will bring them bad karma. This encourages the concept of nonviolence in the Hindu religion. Consequently‚ the ethical notion of ahimsa is beneficial to society as it expresses both compassionate behaviour and good karma. Thich Nhat Hanh is a terrific Buddhist
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Karma as intentional action results in a future rebirth‚ and samsara is the unending cycle of death and rebirth fueled by karma (176). In order to be free from samsara‚ people seek for liberation (moksha) (177). Liberation cannot be explained without the understanding of atman and brahman because liberation derives
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Symbols The main emblem of the Jain religion was decided upon in 1974 on the 25000th anniversary of the nirvana of Mahavira‚ the last Jain Tirthankara. The emblem is a composition of many different symbols‚ all with specific meanings. The emblem’s outline represents the universe and can be divided into the three parts with the upper part representing Devlok‚ the heavens‚ the middle part representing Manushyalok‚ the Earth and planets‚ and the lower part representing Naraki‚ the seven hells. The curved
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“What goes around comes around” they all say. Karma that is‚ some people believe that when you wrong others‚ you will in due time be wronged as well. Karma can be given out by the person who has been wrong‚ or it can be totally natural. In the Greek play Medea‚ Medea sets out to hand deliver karma to the woman Jason cheated with and plans to marry. She makes an intricate plan to give the princess of Corinth a lovely robe paired with a diadem‚ and to these items she laces it with deadly poison. The
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The Indian culture referring to the Seven Dimensions of Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner (THT) In order to explain the Indian culture according to THT´s cultural dimension it is necessary to have some general information in the back of the head. India is a Democratic Republic consisting out of 26 states each having an own government.( Kobayashi-Hillary‚Mark: 2004: 6) India belongs to the Commonwealth of nations due to the fact that it has been a British colony in the 19th century. This association
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