What happens to us humans once we die? Do we leave this earth and go to heaven or hell or do we continue living on this earth as a new person? Or do we wander this earth as a spirit or a ghost? Or is it just lights out that’s it you’re just six feet under? These are the many questions that I and others have about the afterlife and the answers to those questions all depend on who you ask. If you ask a Christian, they will tell you that there is only a heaven or hell and if you don’t believe in Christ than you’re going to hell. If you ask a Buddhist however the answer is the complete opposite because according to them the afterlife is non existent and that you are simply reincarnated. So that means that the only way to find out what the afterlife
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Buddhism is a two-thousand-year old religion that over three hundred million people around the world believe in. The history of Buddhism starts off with the Lord Buddha born Siddhartha Gotama in Lumbini in 563 BC to a rich family. When Siddhartha Gotama was in his late twenties he wanted to find happiness so he explored many different philosophies and meditated. After six years of meditation and study he became enlightened and was then named Buddha. From that point on Buddha spent the rest of his life teaching Dharma which is the law that the universe follows. During Buddha’s six years he came to the conclusion that death is inevitable and a great awakening called reincarnation takes place. Reincarnation in Buddhism is the belief that the sum of your actions in your current life will affect your next life. The next life is determined by the four noble truths which define what the afterlife will be. The four noble truths include duhkha, karma, samsara, and nirvana. The first noble truth duhkha is defined as suffering. In Buddhism suffering is something that everyone receives and includes hardships, sickness, pain, and death. Suffering is caused by desire and craving something that is not needed. Once you start craving you will continue to crave and it will affect your next life. The second noble truth is karma which means that every action has a reaction. Desire and bad doings cause karma either with visible effects that will affect …show more content…
In North America there are many different Native American tribes that all practice and believe in sacred ideas. Native Americans try to describe the sacred world through space such as north, west, south, and east unlike in other religions. Native Americans believe in a sacred mystery which is a life force shared by all in the world. What makes the sacred such a mystery is how all of the mystery works together. The way that Native Americans try to explain or show the relationship with the scared is through a medicine wheel. The medicine wheel looks like a pie cut into many different slices with stones dividing the slices. Each stone represents the many things that make up the universe such as, animals, humans, and
Buddhism is a two-thousand-year old religion that over three hundred million people around the world believe in. The history of Buddhism starts off with the Lord Buddha born Siddhartha Gotama in Lumbini in 563 BC to a rich family. When Siddhartha Gotama was in his late twenties he wanted to find happiness so he explored many different philosophies and meditated. After six years of meditation and study he became enlightened and was then named Buddha. From that point on Buddha spent the rest of his life teaching Dharma which is the law that the universe follows. During Buddha’s six years he came to the conclusion that death is inevitable and a great awakening called reincarnation takes place. Reincarnation in Buddhism is the belief that the sum of your actions in your current life will affect your next life. The next life is determined by the four noble truths which define what the afterlife will be. The four noble truths include duhkha, karma, samsara, and nirvana. The first noble truth duhkha is defined as suffering. In Buddhism suffering is something that everyone receives and includes hardships, sickness, pain, and death. Suffering is caused by desire and craving something that is not needed. Once you start craving you will continue to crave and it will affect your next life. The second noble truth is karma which means that every action has a reaction. Desire and bad doings cause karma either with visible effects that will affect …show more content…
In North America there are many different Native American tribes that all practice and believe in sacred ideas. Native Americans try to describe the sacred world through space such as north, west, south, and east unlike in other religions. Native Americans believe in a sacred mystery which is a life force shared by all in the world. What makes the sacred such a mystery is how all of the mystery works together. The way that Native Americans try to explain or show the relationship with the scared is through a medicine wheel. The medicine wheel looks like a pie cut into many different slices with stones dividing the slices. Each stone represents the many things that make up the universe such as, animals, humans, and