Explain How a Buddhist Might Put These Teachings Into Practice In His Or Her Daily Life

Explain How a Buddhist Might Put These Teachings Into Practice In His Or Her Daily Life The Buddhist principle of the oneness of self and environment (esho funi) means that life (sho) and its environment (e) are inseparable (funi). Funi means "two but not two." This means that although we perceive things around us as separate from us, there is a dimension of our lives that is one with the universe. At the most fundamental level of life itself, there is no separation between ourselves and the environment. "Like the Buddha, we too should look around us and be observant, because everything in the world is ready to teach us. With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly through the ways of the world. We will come to understand that everything in the world is a teacher. Trees and vines, for example, can all reveal the true nature of reality. With wisdom there is no need to question anyone, no need to study. We can learn from Nature enough to be enlightened, because everything follows the way of Truth. It does not diverge from Truth." (Rajah Cha) Buddhists must also beware of getting ill as there are so many medicines that are tested on animals. Buddhists cannot take such medicines as they do not wish to harm animals and they follow "right intention" by abstaining from anything that could possibly hurt the environment or any animals. A Local Buddhist

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Buddhist Views on Marriage

Buddhist Views on Marriage In Buddhism, marriage is regarded as entirely a personal, individual concern and not as a religious duty. Marriage is a social convention, an institution created by man for the well-being and happiness of man, to differentiate human society from animal life and to maintain order and harmony in the process of procreation. Even though the Buddhist texts are silent on the subject of monogamy or polygamy, the Buddhist laity is advised to limit themselves to one wife. The Buddha did not lay rules on married life but gave necessary advice on how to live a happy married life. There are ample inferences in His sermons that it is wise and advisable to be faithful to one wife and not to be sensual and to run after other women. The Buddha realised that one of the main causes of man's downfall is his involvement with other women (Parabhava Sutta). Man must realise the difficulties, the trials and tribulations that he has to undergo just to maintain a wife and a family. These would be magnified many times when faced with calamities. Knowing the frailties of human nature, the Buddha did, in one of His precepts, advise His followers of refrain from committing adultery or sexual misconduct. The Buddhist views on marriage are very liberal: in Buddhism, marriage is regarded entirely as personal and individual concern, and not as a religious duty. There are no

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What are the main differences between Sikhism and Buddhism?

TUTORIAL 6 'BUDDHISM' 26 November 2003 A1: What are the main differences between Sikhism and Buddhism? Buddhism dates back to 530 BC and is thus 2500 years old. Sikhism is the youngest of the world religions. It's history dates back to the year 1469. Most of the world's religions believe in the existence of one Omnipotent reality, called by differing names. Buddhism however talks about self-origination and not the Supreme Reality (No creator, no God). The Sikhs worship only one Almighty God in his abstract form. They are not allowed to worship any idols, images or photographs. This is a sentence from the Guru Granth Sahib and teaches Sikhs a bit about those who believe and do or believe in God; 'By forgetting the Supreme Lord, all the ailments cling to the man. The non-believers in the Omnipresent Lord suffer separation from Him, birth after birth.' (Guru Arjan Dev, Majh, pg. 135) Buddhism is a monastic community known as the Sangha. Sikhism is a theistic path known as Guru Panth holding belief in the teachings of Guru Granth (Holy Scriptures) Siddharta Gautama, known as Buddha was an oral teacher; he left no written body of thought; Later followers codified the Buddha's beliefs and oral teachings some 500 years after his demise.

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"If we need to kill animals for research we should".

R.E Buddhism Coursework - Part C "If we need to kill animals for research we should". Some people would disagree with this statement, especially Buddhists as every year; thousands of animals experience great suffering in the name of research. It could be argued that a tiny handful of these experiments have indeed benefited mankind. But there are countless thousands of instances of humans bringing needless suffering to innocent animals. For example, many cosmetic products and household chemicals are tested for safety for humans using procedures such as the infamous Draize test. In this test, the substance under investigation is put into the eye of a live, healthy rabbit, and left there. The degree to which the eye deteriorates is noted by the researcher, and this data is used to determine how safe the product is for humans to use. Some people do not understand that animals, like humans, are sentient beings. Animals do feel pain. There are many reasons why research on animals should not be carried out, for example an animal's response to a drug may be misleading as animals react differently to some drugs than humans do. Also the stress that an animal can endure whilst in a laboratory can affect the experiment and make the results meaningless. If Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is true then it means that animals are our ancestors and we have no right to kill them. We

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Buddhism and The Buddha.

Buddhism Practice Buddhism is one of the major world state religions. It is also one of the oldest in the world. It began over 2000 years ago in northeast India, with the teachings of Siddharta Gautama the founder, otherwise known as the Buddha. Buddhism has spread all over India and through the Himalayan Mountain passes into China, Tibet, Korea, Japan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, and Vietnam, Europe, USA, and even Australia. The number of Buddhists in the world is estimated to be about 300 million. This is because Buddhism has always adapted well to other cultures and therefore it has developed several distinctive forms in different countries. Buddhists believe that the best way of life is found in moderation. This is called The Middle Way. It is based on the Buddha's discovery that happiness is found neither in self-indulgence nor in extreme self-denial. There is also a strong belief in Karma. The word Karma means deeds but the teaching of karma is a law of cause and effect. Karma influences the way people behave. However unfair life seems, nothing is wasted at any given moment. They say that the present is the fruit of the past and the seed of the future. Thoughts and actions bear fruit in our lives, according to the intentions behind them, though this is not always obvious to other people. The Buddha Siddharta Guatama lived in northern India over

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Buddhism - a philosophy or religion?

Buddhism - a philosophy or religion? Buddhism is one of the major world religions, it is recognized in most countries as a religion, no-one has yet considered that maybe it is a philosophy. We define a religion as having six things, these are: belief in a God, a place of worship, Holy Scriptures or books, rules or guidelines, rites of passage and festivals or special days. So in order to determine Buddhism as a religion we must identify that it has all of these characteristics. However when I do this I find that in theory Buddhism doesn't qualify as a religion as they do not believe in any God and they do not have a place of worship, they do have a monastery but not all Buddhists will visit or live in one and it is a place of study as they do not worship anybody. Some would say that Buddhism is a religion because that's how everyone recognises it and it has many features of a religion, such as the guidelines the Buddha set out, and the rites of passage that monks undergo, such as their ordainment, however not every Buddhist has to become an ordained monk so it is not exactly a rite of passage. However some say that the Buddha is a sort of leader to Buddhists as they follow the guidelines he set out and they have shrines to him and stupa's over his relics, to some people this is considered to be worship, a shrine is there to worship the person, in this case the Buddha. People

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A Review And Analysis Of 'The Matrix' By The Wachowski Brothers, And Its Exploration Of Christianity.

A Review And Analysis Of 'The Matrix' By The Wachowski Brothers, And Its Exploration Of Christianity 'The Matrix', a 1999 film by the Wachowski Brothers, is a psychologically disturbing film that questions the reality of our existence. This film is a story with a moral plot, about a group of renegades fighting a noble battle for truth, and the liberation of the human race. The film revolves around a character called Thomas Anderson (also known online under the alias of 'Neo', a hacker) who appears to be completely normal - he has a normal, dull desk job by day, and at home he leads another life in front of his computer. However, everything changes when a person called 'Trinity' - an apparently quite well-known and infamous hacker - asks to meet with him. The events that follow reveal to 'Neo' that the world he accepts as reality is in fact a computer program. The world has long since fallen to a form of Distopia - Artificial Intelligence reigns as the superior race, using humans as a power source, keeping them restrained in 'pods', sending a computer program of the 'real world' into their brains to keep them content and quiet. With the help of Trinity, Neo meets with the group of renegades and their leader, Morpheus, who have freed themselves of the brainwashing program (called the Matrix). Morpheus tells Neo about the Matrix and Neo joins them in the 'real' world. Morpheus

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There are many cases for the fact that the Buddha was a Shramana because he had agreements with most of them, but he also had his disagreements. Perhaps he wasn't a Shramana or in fact a member of any religious group except for his own.

Robert Hicks 13.10.2005 Homework 4 (A02) Was Guatama a Shramana? At the time of the Buddha there was great upheaval within society, with regards to peoples differing religious beliefs. The Aryan invaders had brought with them Hinduism and this in turn brought about the caste system in which the people were generally unsatisfied and wanted to find out the truth for themselves. The Buddha also believed this; that you have to find and experience life for yourself in order to reach enlightenment. Hedonism and extreme asceticism were at the opposite ends of the spectrum, this is where the Buddha found the middle way, but only after experiencing these differing lifestyles for himself. The Shramana movement (A Shramana was a type of wandering freelance mendicant philosopher who taught alternative beliefs to those taught by Brahmin priests) culminated out of this unrest and is probably the group that the Buddha has most in common with. Different groups of Shramanism taught different beliefs and the Buddha was to have differing opinions with all of them; they were the Materialists, Sceptics, Jainists, Ajivikas, Hindus, Vedic Hindus and Classical Hindus. He shared some of their ideas of rebirth, the quest for peace, karma, meditation, detachment and self discipline but was critical of other beliefs that the various groups practiced. The movement also came from a

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Re synoptic essay.

Re synoptic essay. The initial problem with studying the belief in life after death is that there are a vast number of theories stating what they believe 'life after death' actually is. Therefore in order to effectively ascertain arguments for and against this idea, it is necessary to deal with each individual theory separately. Within this essay I will be discussing and assessing the views of Buddhists and looking at 'life after death' from an ethical point of view. In the teaching of the Buddha, all of us will pass away eventually as a part in the natural process of birth, old-age and death and that we should always keep in mind the impermanence of life. To Buddhism, however, death is not the end of life, it is merely the end of the body we inhabit in this life, but our spirit will be reborn. Where they will be born is a result of the past and the accumulation of positive and negative action, and the resultant karma (cause and effect) is a result of ones past actions. According to Buddhism, our lives and all that occurs in our lives is a result of Karma. Every action creates a new karma, this karma or action is created within our body, our speech or our mind and this action leaves a subtle imprint on our mind which has the potential to ripen as future happiness or future suffering, depending on whether the action was positive or negative. If we bring happiness to people,

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"If we need to kill animals for research, we should Do you agree? Give reasons to support your answer and show you have thought about different types of view. You must refer to Buddhism to your answer

C. "If we need to kill animals for research, we should" Do you agree? Give reasons to support your answer and show you have thought about different types of view. You must refer to Buddhism to your answer Before researchers test drugs in human clinics the drugs are tested on animals. This is to determine the toxicity, dosing and the efficiency of the drug, hence seeing if it is safe for human use. Cosmetics are also tested this way. This process is called Animal Testing or Animal Research. Animal Testing has created a major backlash. Some perceive it as cruel, as it is technically using animals for human gain. An alternative view is that it is simply necessary for medical process. There are many arguments for animal testing. The principal one is that it clears any doubt about the safety of the drug and can help save peoples lives. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution can be incorporated into Buddhism. As a Buddhist would realise everything changes and nothing stays the same. With animal testing, the testing actually can benefit the animals since it helps them become stronger by furthering their DNA. However, a Buddhists view on animal testing is unclear. For example, within Buddhism, Karma and Suffering (Dukka) are two main aspects. Karma is another way of saying "what goes around comes around". This means, someone who gained bad Karma in their past life

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