Tian Tan Buddha

Consolidation of the Mind, Being, and God Just as Descartes uses triangles as a powerful tool of proof, a triangle can be created between the concepts of mind, being, and God. That is, these three notions have significant connection to each other. For the purpose of this paper, imagine that the mind, being, and God are each the vertex of a triangle with lines connecting them. The purpose of this triangle is not to add a mystical element to this paper but rather to use it as a tool to organize…

Through the content from Kupperman, the article “Happiness in the Garden of Epicurus”, Hesse’s Siddhartha, and my personal experience, I believe something worth pursuing in life is determination towards someone or something for long lasting happiness. While worth seeking in life is searching for something for temporary short pleasure. All these sources discuss happiness vs pleasure and to what extend people would go through to find their good life and enlightenment. To begin with, pursuing…

How Siddhartha is going through Nietzsche's Three Metamorphoses For many years intellects from around the world have wondered what the key to true enlightenment is. They have wondered how people can balance their physical and spiritual life, and lead a moral, and satisfying life. With his 1922 novel, Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse addresses these concerns, and through narrating the story of the young prince, tries to answer to these wonders. On a journey of multiple lessons, Siddhartha experiences…

The Buddha described ‘right mindfulness’ in one of his principal teachings, the Noble Eightfold Path, more than 2500 years ago. Buddha was a great psychologist we can say because the whole philosophy originated in an attempt to understand why people suffer and like psychotherapy the solution that is proposed involves internal…

Buddhism homework See my Buddha analysis in ‘What’s God got to do ….’ https://books.google.com/books?id=UvASBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Proceed and do the following: (a) Tell the story of the Buddha’s enlightenment. Buddha was born into wealth and his mother was a virgin. She had a dream that she was touched by an white elephant with an lotus flower and a baby appeared. He didn't see poverty, when he was young, he was full of wealth. Until,…

Face is not outside of us: it is right beneath your feet. Zen speaks of shedding light on what is under one’s legs, and this simply indicates that the Original Face is the fundamental place right where you are” (140), and his radical affirmation of Buddha nature shifts the focus of Buddhism entirely. This development in Chan Buddhism creates an individualistic, meditation centered practice, as every individual is simply attempting to access a deeper level of their self that acknowledges its own…

wonderful place to live. I would have lived in the Mauryan Empire and I think you would’ve too. The Mauryan Empire in India had its ups and downs, but it was overall a great place to live. Religion was everywhere in India which they worshipped the Buddha. “Some scholars believe that it was in this period of ancient India, especially under Asoka, that Buddhism became established as a major religion within the Indian sub-continent.(Time Maps)” With Ashoka converting himself and everyone around him…

The religion of Hinduism has no founder. Hinduism is a collection of other religions that slowly merged into one. In Hinduism, there are traces of the Vedic Religion. The founder of Buddhism is Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha was born into a noble family where his family was told that if Siddhartha stayed at home, he will be a world ruler. If Siddhartha leaves home, he would become a universal spiritual world leader. Siddhartha’s father tried to keep him at home but Siddhartha decided to leave…

and Hindus may seem like they live completely different lifestyles, but there are some ways that they are alike. When they worship, they both worship in temples, but buddhists don't reply on gods so they only pray on their free time to get closer to Buddha. They also originated in the Indian subcontinent. The religions spread rapidly around India. They also refused to eat meat because they…

Jainism originated in India, and to this day only four to five million people in India believe in this religion(Jainism video). Jainism is said to not have one single founder, however they do believe in Tirthankaras. Tirthankaras were the twenty four revealers of truth; the word means ford finder. Tirthankara will only appear on earth when there is a need for renewal of the good teachings that have been abandoned. The last known Tirthankara was known as Mahavira, he lived approximately from…