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I found this to be the most interesting module so far, very fascinating beliefs and practices throughout the eastern religions.There are a lot of differences I could have chose from. In the end, I chose to talk about the spiritual duality that the western religions have faith in (i.e. the afterlife) and the idea that the spiritual world and reality are singular which is what the eastern religions believe.

I had always heard of the possibility of being reincarnated, as a matter of fact I can remember being asked on many occasions if I do believe in it. I always kind of knew what it meant: the idea of when you die your soul is reborn into another body and you live again.This has always made more sense to me then heaven and hell, for what ever
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