even in western. Chinese and Vietnamese monks are as well strictly vegetarian and even the lay practitioners try to follow their example though some are not. According to jayaram 1999, the Mahayana Buddhist has these principles of having compassion, kindness and respect to all living beings. They declared that all men should feel affinity with all living beings as if they were in correlated and refrain from eating meat. As what Buddha said “I order the various disciples from today that they…
The interwovenness of kindness in the book of Ruth is unparalleled in any other book of the TaNaKh (aside from the "hesed" or "chesed" of the LORD). Although it appears that Ruth's kindness results in positive rewards, which it certainly does, that is not what the Book of Ruth is about, though. Further, it would be faulty to attribute Ruth to being simply a story of a cause and effect relationship between kindness and positive things. Such as the cause being kindness with results in the effect…
24). These visiting suitors were ungrateful in their ways, relentless in their greed, and unappreciative of their kind hosts that have offered the kindness of Xenia with nothing in return. Penelope offered as much kindness as her grieving heart could handle while the suitors forced themselves upon her, showing no true love or desire to build a loving relationship with her. Eventually they pay the price when Odysseus returns to punish them for their lingering and destruction of the disjointed…
ten-minute speech addressed his biggest regret; "failure of kindness". Saunders first acknowledged his audience by saying the students were “energetic young people, with all of their best years ahead of them”. He then identified himself as “some old fart, with his best years behind him”. As the students as Syracuse University begin their next journey and move into society as adults, Saunders sparked an idea in their minds involving kindness and how humans can spread it more contagiously. In hope…
have in my life. She is loving, independent, and over protective. My auntie Pony is loving. Pony is loving becasue everytime I come to her house she always welcome me with loving arms. She always showed her love on my birthday, christmas, and sometimes out of the kindness of her heart. I remember my senior night for football, and my auntie pony was there cheering for me the whole game. Afterwards she had so many gifts and balloons waiting for me. Pony is not only loving to…
My loving wife Loving is a characteristic trait that I can use to describe my wife. Her name is Carline Stervil Lazarre. She is not only my wife, but she is the best friend I could ever have. If carline were not in my life right now, I probably would not be in school or making other important changes in my life. My wife has shown me love in so many different ways. One of them is the way she treats me with love and kindness every day. She says she loves me all the time, and she listens to me.…
Alexandre Dumas, satisfaction will not come to Edmond after he gets revenge because of his deep moral values that are instilled in his heart. Despite being thrown in prison while innocent, Edmond was still able to maintain his strong morals of kindness and loyalty during the long 14 years. When he started getting to know fellow prisoner Abbe Faria, he interacted in the same way he would have before prison, being kind and thoughtful.…
equal measure. Every person without fail is a combination of various positive and negative aspects. People that behave in a cruel manner that can be construed as evil could be rehabilitated and eventually display good qualities such as empathy and kindness or vice versa. Being good is in my own opinion is the combination of abilities to empathise with others, and the to put others before yourself. This requires a sense of selflessness that many people simply do not have. People by nature are…
Ma’m” Everyone in the world has someone to love or is loved by a person. Those people are most often family members. More specifically, mothers and fathers. Roger, a troubled teen in “Thank You Ma’m” written by Langston Hughes does not that that loving person, and without that guidance in his life he tries to steal Mrs. Jones’s purse, an innocent victim. However, things back fire for Roger and Mrs. Jones decides to bring him home and step in as a mother figure and teaches Roger how to care.…
the eye of the beholder always rings true to me when I think of what beauty really means. Beauty comes from within not from one’s outward appearance. Being beautiful is having the qualities and attributes of being inwardly attractive such as kind, loving, humble, brave, and honest. The term beauty comes from the Anglo-French word beute meaning physical attractiveness, goodness, and courtesy. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines beauty as being only physically attractive. While this aspect of…