takes thousands of lifetimes to reach a state of happiness‚ and these lifetimes often strongly contradict with each other. All of this depends on the Buddhist idea of Karma. Similar to other Eastern religions‚ Karma is the idea that all actions are the results of former actions which have generated either positive or negative karma. This idea plays a substantial role in the Buddhist religion‚ as the nature of one’s rebirth
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Buddhism and Catholicism Introduction to World Religion 2300 Buddhism and Catholicism are two main world religions that great populations believe in. Catholicism and Buddhism differ in teachings as well as holy books‚ life after death or reincarnation‚ and forgiveness of one’s sins. . They differ greatly in their belief systems‚ yet have similarities in the time they established their churches as well as the spirit
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speaking‚ karmic obstacles emit black threads which trigger obstruction and are attached to your karmic creditors; while karmic rewards emit white threads which generate support and are derived from your karmic debtors. This‚ in essence is the Law of Karma. The greater the karmic obstacles or karmic rewards‚ the thicker the threads will be‚ and the respective obstruction or support will be greater too. Prior to our birth‚ our parents who are tied to this ’karmic net’ start repaying their debts. After
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Arjuna and Beowulf vs Larger Society When looking at literature from the past‚ one can see the essence of what it meant to live back then. The text paints a portrait of the past‚ and lets us see some intricacies of their society. By looking at the individual characters specifically we can conclude a lot about the ideal person of that society. Much of ancient literature portrayed the main character as the perfect individual‚ and is a guide as to how people of the day should live. This
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Hindu ideas about karma and reincarnation strengthened the caste system. If a person was born as an upper-caste male-a Brahmin‚ warrior‚ or merchant-his good fortune was said to come from good karma earned in a former life. However‚ a person who was born as a female‚ a laborer‚ or an untouchable might be getting the results of bad deeds in a former life. With some exceptions‚ only men of the top three varnas could hope to achieve moksha in their present life. The laws of karma worked with the same
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reading the material discussed in the chapter‚ I gathered some information to compare and contrast their religious teachings. Hinduism and Buddhism both ordinated in the north India‚ believe in the concept of wheel of carnation and both believe in karma. Some differences are Buddhism believe in in no gods‚ while Hinduism believe in many gods‚ Hinduism also believe in the caste system while Buddhism don’t believe in the caste system. Hinduism and Buddhism both ordinated in India. It all begun about
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helping us cook food‚ it can be evil by burning down homes and destroying lives. It depends upon the condition. Related to the concept of good and evil is the concept of karma in Hinduism. Karma is a very important concept and not just one’s life‚ but his afterlife too depends on his Karma. In general karma means ‘doings’. The law of Karma in Hinduism is that as you sow so you reap. Just as your doings are‚ so your life is. If you do good‚ you get good in return in this life and in later lives too. You
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The Upanishads - refer to teachings passed on from a teacher to a follower(disciple) - Samsara or the endless cycle of birth and death is their way of understanding the problems that human beings face. - Karma‚ the law that every action has its effect is tied with the endless samsara cycle. In short‚ what one does causes consequences to happen. - According to the Upanishads‚ it is knowledge of the Brahman(the one‚ the real) that brings moksha(freedom) for the atman from the cycle of samsara
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were already existed‚ so it was not possible to pin point when or who was founder of Hinduism. Hinduism’s teaching are based on the doctrines of samara and Karma‚ this pretty much stands for that one’s actions directly determines their life now and one’s future lives. They also believe in cycle of death and rebirth‚ so if one compile bad karma by doing evil actions and they will have hard future in their existing life and hard time in their future lives. Most of Hindus believed in cosmos and spiritual
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I am sending an attachment. Its my request to read with patience. A person by name Mr. Laxmaiah is a teacher‚ working in Zilla Parishad School in a village called Karepally‚ near Khammam in Andhra Pradesh. Laxmaiah garu stays with wife‚ mother‚ two kids‚ and with 50 HIV orphaned children. He is spending all his salary of Rs 25‚000 /- per month by taking care of these HIV affected orphaned children. His wife Kalpana Rani‚ an Aeronautical Engineer‚ sacrificed her career and is doing a tremendous
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