Eastern enlightenment religions have been gaining popularity throughout the western world for the past few decades‚ with many people attracted to a "different" way of experiencing religion. As with many other enlightenment religions‚ Buddhism requires disciples to understand concepts that are not readily explainable: one such concept is that of no-self. In this essay I shall discuss the no-self from a number of modern perspectives; however‚ as no-self is difficult to describe I shall focus on both
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Evil And Uniqueness of God For a theologian or an ordinary person concerned with the problem of theodicy‚ human suffering appears to be inconsistent with the notion of a God who is all-powerful and good. It is rationally inconceivable to claim belief in such a God when people are faced with senseless suffering in their day-today-life. How do we respond to the events of suffering that challenge our relationship with God and call into question our whole identity as human beings? A friend
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After experiencing immense suffering‚ a human is put in the state of mind in a state of no external desires‚ leading to contentment with just the basic necessities in life. Happiness in one’s life is vital to living a meaningful life. Without contentment inwith one’s life‚ there will always be something unsatisfied in their conscience. Frankl suffered gravely while in the concentration camps‚ and he finds an analogy to suffering‚ “If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber‚ it will
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Human Suffering My great-grandmother passed away last month. She was an unbelievable woman who carried a special place in my heart. It was hard to handle the anguish I felt when I first heard about her death. Her passing left me with an empty feeling inside. The sad‚ empty‚ and painful feeling I sensed was my suffering. Human Suffering is a hard concept to grasp‚ but suffering is a part of everyone’s lives‚ not just mine. Everyone experiences a form of human suffering at one point or another in
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The Inevitability Of Human Suffering Life is not always fair. There are ups and downs and as humans we must learn to get through them. Even though we might think someone has a perfect life and you want to be him or her‚ his or her life is not as great as it may seem. In life‚ I believe that human suffering is inevitable. Someone’s life may be perfect but I believe at some point in his or her life they may suffer. Suffering may come in many different forms. It may be from a death‚ bad news or simply
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Permanence of Impermanence Imagine a snowflake falling down from the heavens‚ from at least 3‚000 feet above the ground to eventually land on some foreign surface unbeknownst to the flake. The plight of this single snowflake depends on many things – will this flake collide with other falling flakes? If they collide‚ will they stick together and form a larger mass of snow – or will they bounce off each other and maybe alter each other’s form due to the force of the collision? Or‚ if the flake does
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The Suffering of Frankenstein Frankenstein makes clear of Frankenstein’s innocence before everything becomes tragic. The reader is shown his largely happy and privileged childhood‚ his blameless obsession with knowledge‚ and how he arrived at studying what would soon become his downfall. When Frankenstein creates the monster the immediate effect is his disappointment and exhaustion. He is sickened by his own work and regrets the creation from the moment he saw it in the way everyone else will see
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Licia Canole May 9‚ 2013 Period: 8 Suffering Reflection Throughout our lives we all experience suffering. It is one of the many things that make us human. If we never experience suffering‚ we would never be able to relate to others or learn to be compassionate. No one wants to be with someone that they cannot relate to on some level. For some people‚ a time of suffering makes you closer to your faith‚ but for many others it causes a strain and makes us want to pull away from God. This brings
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is that it’s a person right to decide when they die. If a person feels their life will not get any better and they are having difficulty coping and being able to live with their condition or disease they should be able to decide when to end their suffering. For example if a person relies on help everyday and cannot do anything for themselves and is immobile and they feel they don’t want to continue life they should be given the choice to end their life. However one reason to oppose the use of euthanasia
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Everyone knows Buddhism and how it was founded by the Buddha‚ a.k.a. Siddhartha Gautama‚ to become a major world religion. But how does Buddhism‚ using Ninian Smart’s 7 Dimensions of Religion‚ answer the human’s search for meaning in life? It is believed through 3 of those dimensions in particular‚ Ritual‚ Experiential and Doctrinal‚ Buddhism explains that to end suffering and reach Nirvana (escaping rebirth and anatta) is the ultimate answer‚ but it takes the 3 Jewels of Buddhism (the teacher‚ the
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