Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Judaism.
Buddhism Siddhartha Guatama was born into a wealthy family in what is now Nepal. Siddhartha's father sheltered him from the harsh realities of the world by surrounding him with only pleasant things. Siddhartha did not know of human suffering, sickness, advanced age or death until he met a man suffering from old age. He soon learned about human disease and of death. These things stayed in his mind and he began to think of them as being inescapable. He gave up on his normal life of distractions and went on a personal search for the life where age and death would not matter. Siddhartha Guatama searched the greatest Hindu masters for wisdom in his search for enlightenment. He learned from them all he could but did not find the answer he was searching for. He tried other things too, but still couldn't find the answers he wanted. This caused him to try another route to his goal of enlightenment, by way of strict thought and concentration. He sat down under a peepul tree (later known as the Bo tree) and with intense concentration and will power he was able to reach total enlightenment and become the Buddha. The teachings of the Buddha reached thousands in his native India. The Buddha, which Siddhartha was now called lived in poverty and begged for food. The Buddha's Four Noble Truths 1.Life is suffering 2.Life's dislocation is desire 3.The cure to desire is to
Ultimate Reality and Spiritual Truths within Buddhism and Judaism
World Religions Ultimate Reality and Spiritual Truths within Buddhism and Judaism An integral part of all world religions is that of an ultimate reality and spiritual truths. Each world religion has its own set of spiritual truths and a belief in an ultimate reality which denotes the underlying cause of all existence and is a ground of being for each follower of the religion. All world religions also have a set of beliefs, or spiritual truths, which encompass the integral teachings of the religion. When comparing each religion's claims about ultimate reality and spiritual truths, similarities and differences arise that question the credibility of these claims. Only under closer examination can the individual understand the validity of these claims when comparing them. All world religions acknowledge an ultimate reality that is unyielding and unchanging. These ultimate realities generally take one of three forms. The first form is that of a personal being, like a loving god, who is a focal point of the religion's belief. The second form is that of an impersonal being as the target of all personal beings and the origin of all personal beings. The third form is an eternal truth or principal that governs the universe (see Valea, 2010). The reason that it is possible for all world religions to make claims about an ultimate reality is to do with the broadness of the term. For a