Karma

The story of “Shen Xiu Causes Seven Deaths with One Bird” is about the main character, Shen Xiu, who’s bird literally causes seven deaths. The story begins in the third year of the Xuanhe regin period under Emperor Huizong of the Song dynasty. A weaver named Shen Yu lived with his wife named Yan by the New North Bridge, outside Wuilin Gate, in the prefecture of Ninghai. The couple had an eighteen year old son named Shen Xiu who was not yet married. “The father made his living by weaving fabrics,…

To start off, I want to say that I loved this film. I never had an exact preconceived attitude towards this film other than hearing it was one to watch. Also, I absolutely adore Michael Cera and knowing what goofy characters he has played in the past helped me quickly accept and relate to the quirky characters we see in Juno. It is obvious that the explicit meaning of this film is the story of a teenage girl who gets pregnant. However, as she furthers her journey into pregnancy and realizes the…

In my World Religion Class, I have recently been given the assignment to write a couple two-page papers on the Holy Trinity of Hinduism and Karma. To be able to write these papers I decided it would be helpful to read through the Hinduism chapter of the World Religions Textbook. The video, “How to Read Your Textbooks More Efficiently – College Info Geek” by Thomas Frank outlined some tips for reading textbooks for a reason other than just to look over a certain amount of pages in a certain…

Zac’s youtube videos was made to expand his experience to others who are foreign to the following religions: Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism. Zac’s purpose is for the viever to gain further understanding like he did. I learned key concepts in each faith and pieces that caught my attention that helped in understanding their beliefs and way of life. The video gave me an insight to key informations about Judaism. First, I learned about the Mezuzah. It is a scribe where part of the Torah is…

Many people wonder why it is that even with a god that evil still exists. No one can truly answer this, but there is a moral lesson to be learned from having such evils in this world. H. J McCloskey states, “Surely a good, omnipotent being would have made a world that is free of evil of any kind. Either God cannot abolish evil or he will not; if he cannot, then he is not all-powerful; if he will not, he is not all good.” (H. J McCloskey) Despite the constant bad things, we continue to have faith…

Jainism and Buddhism are two ancient religions that emerged on the Indian peninsula approximately 2,500 years ago. Jainism is believed to have appeared between the seventh and fifth century BCE in the Ganges basin of Eastern India (Britannica) and its philosophies are widely based on the teachings of Mahavira (The Great Hero), considered the twenty-fourth and last of the Tirthankaras or “fordmakers of the current cosmic cycle” (Fisher, 2014). Buddhism emerged between the late sixth century and…

They trust that the world experiences different cycles that are unending in creation, safeguarding, and disintegration. They additionally put stock in karma whereby an individual makes his or her own particular fate as indicated by his activities. In Hinduism, there is soul resurrection where the birth happens a few circumstances till all the karma is made…

The word ‘Moksha’ is derived from ‘moksh’ which can mean emancipation or liberation etc. Sometimes it might also refer to salvation but salvation may not do justice to the word since it has a kind of Christian connotation to it rather than a Hinduism one. But it is frequently used to translate the word moksh. So instead of it meaning only freedom from sin, it includes freedom from the human life itself. In soteriological terms, moksha means freedom from samsara, the cycle of birth and death.…

that are similar to the Christians, such as infant presentation, no infant baptism, the choice in autopsy, cremation, and organ donation. There are also differences, like the fact that suffering is inevitable, an individual’s illness is caused by karma, which is an individual’s destiny or fate due to their actions good or bad. Special beliefs to this religion include the Tipitaka (Tripitaka) meaning the three baskets pertaining to their various canons of scripture, and the emphasis on…

group in India that are well known as the ‘untouchables’ and seem to define Hinduism as an oppressive and underpinning social system. This is because the Dalits do not understand the framework of Hindu worldview but only understand the beliefs of karma since they are born into Hinduism. The main aspect of what the Dalits desire is cognizance and thus view Christianity as most appealing. They believe that Hinduism led to their broken social lives and have thus turned to western cultures in order…