Asian Behavior and Thought 10/16/12 Study Guide 7 – Mahayana Buddhism 1. What are the four sublime states? 1. Boundless love is related to friendliness. Buddhists cultivate love that is unconditioned and unlimited‚ based on the knowledge that all are one in the ocean of love. 2. Boundless compassion is the intense fellow feeling one should have for all living beings who suffer through pain‚ anxiety‚ ignorance and illusion. 3. Sympathetic joy- moves one to seek out happiness
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In the story Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway‚ a man known as the American and his girlfriend are waiting for a train to Madrid. They are forced to make a very hard decision before the train arrives‚ on whether or not the girl should abort her pregnancy. The overall theme of hard choices are symbolized in different forms such as the setting. Hemingway uses the setting of the train station and the landscape that surrounds it‚ to help emphasize this overall theme of difficult decision
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How Much Land Does A man Need? The main character of "How Much Land Does A man Need?” is a clear example of an insatiable desire for possessions and wealth which at the end destroys the person. Pahom was living a life "free from anxiety" as his wife said and "without time to let any nonsense settle in his head" according to Pahom’s words. As the story develops it reveals Pahom’s real problem was inside him because he was never content or please with the land and the possessions he had. At
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Day 7 - The Negative Effects of Idolatry Negative Effects of idolatry If we look to some created things to give us the meaning‚ hope‚ and happiness that only God Himself can give‚ it will eventually fail to deliver and will break our hearts! Like all sin‚ the long-term effects of idol worship are not immediately seen. At first‚ the idol seems to meet all of our deepest longings. But in the end‚ the effects of idol worship are devastating‚ both to us as individuals and to the community around
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"The literal definition of pornography is taken from the ancient Greek porne‚ meaning female sexual slaves‚ and graphos‚ meaning writings or graphic depictions thereof" (Stock). As time has went by there have been many depictions of pornography‚ but the real quarrel started in the 1600’s. "Danish criminologist Berl Kutchinsky traces the beginnings of of modern pornography to the 1650s‚ when three pornographic classics appeared." (Anonymous). Pornography is found to be not only destructive to people
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culture. Fueled largely by advertising and the current credit system‚ America’s consumer culture is depleting our planet’s finite natural resources and polluting our environment. Consumerism has instilled in Americans an artificial‚ ongoing‚ and insatiable desire for mass-produced and marketed products‚ and the money with which to buy them‚ with little regard to their actual usefulness or necessity. This constant desire to acquire more possessions is poisoning the planet‚ as it can never be sated
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that life is meaningless apart from a relationship with God. In this book Solomon pursues satisfaction to overcome emptiness; purpose of life; and wisdom for life.
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Morals.’ In discussing the Metaphysics of Morals‚ I will discuss Allan Wood’s article in Mark Timmons’s volume Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals: Interpretative Essays; Woods presents a thoughtful interpretation that might be a clue for our discussion of emptiness charge. By examining each of the two major doctrines of Metaphysics of Morals‚ that is‚ principle of right and the class of juridical (or coercively enforceable) duties‚ Woods argues it will help us more clearly understand Kant’s implication. Wood
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living above in a heavenly realm. According to the Mahayanas‚ nirvana and samsara are the same. The Theravada tradition disagrees with this in saying the two are not the same. The Mahayanas also believe that emptiness or no-self is everywhere. The Mahayanas believe that the five skandhas are emptiness and are equivalent to nirvana. They deny any distinction between true and false‚ good and bad‚ and therefore nirvana and samsara. They make this distinction to prove the point that
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characters in the novel follow traditions that get rejected because they seemed to be empty. In The Great Gatsby‚ that tradition is the American Dream. Gatsby himself is an example of one of those characters. Nick‚ however‚ is the one who sees the emptiness in those traditions. Fitzgerald uses inner monologue from Nick as a technique to show how the American Dream was rejected. As the narrator of the novel‚ the inner monologue from Nick is frequent. Nick constantly judges all the characters and
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