Articles from General Knowledge Today Gautam Buddha Gautam Buddha founded Buddhism and is known as Supreme Buddha or ammāsambuddha or samyaksaṃbuddha. He was born in Lumbini‚ a little principality of Kapilvastu in modern day Nepal. His childhood name was Siddhartha. He was son of Shuddodhana a leader of the Shakya clan. The capital of this Sakya clan was Kapilvastu and it was not a monarchy but a sort of Republic. Queen Mahamaya was the name of mother of Gautam Buddha. The birth of Buddha is
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Buddhist Meditation • Buddhism is divided into a number of different traditions including Theravada and Mahayana. A key component of the Buddhist religion is meditation. Buddhists meditate because it helps them to understand Buddha’s teaching. The key beliefs in Buddhism are the four noble truths – 1. All of life is marked by suffering 2. Suffering is caused by desire and attachment 3. Suffering can be eliminated 4. Suffering is eliminated by following the Noble Eightfold path All
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The Romanticism was a literary movement that developed mainly throughout the influences of the philosophy of Locke and the causes and consequences of revolutionary spirit of the French revolution. Wordsworth was brought up reading the Augustan´s metric poetry and the neoclassicist’s descriptive complex language which fully expressed the ideas of reasoning over sentiments. Influenced and inspired by the changing ideological atmosphere of the late XVIII and the first third of the XIX century‚ Wordsworth
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message for all of us within these mysteries would be our life fulfilled‚ "Loving Him‚ Knowing Him‚ Serving Him‚ to be happy with Him forever in Heaven." But‚ what is Heaven? It is written‚ "That eye hath not seen‚ nor ear heard‚ neither hath it entered into the heart of man‚ what things God hath prepared for them that love him." 1 Corinthians 2; 9 So again what is Heaven? I don’t know‚ but I do know for sure one point as the Blessed Mother lived on earth‚ she who never had to be forgiven by
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Chapter 5 : Philippine Values VALUES - Comes from the Latin word “valere”‚ which means to be strong or to be worth. -Those standards by which a group of society judges the desirability and importance of people‚ ideas‚ actions or objects. -shared conceptions of or beliefs in what are considered desirable or undesirable. - Something deserving of one’s best effort‚ something worth living for‚ and if need be worth dying for. DEFINITION OF VALUES - Enduring conception of the preferable which influences
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BABY DUMPING...WHO SHOULD BE BLAME?? Baby dumping? What more can we say about this. Almost every day the news about baby dumping fill the space in newspapers. For me it is a worst behaviour and the people who do this same like an animal. Even animal also have a feeling of love toward their child. Where is their feeling when doing this annoying action? Did they do not have feel pity for the innocent baby? Their own flesh and blood so‚ who should be blamed when this happen? The couple? Parents
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turn to dispair." Even when Romeo sees Juliet lying dead in the tomb in Act 5 Scene 3‚ it seems as if Romeo is prepared to die as he looks over his wife’s lifeless body. "Call this a light’ning? O my love‚ my wife‚ Death‚ that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath‚ Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty". Another type of love in "Romeo & Juliet" is the lustful desire that Romeo had for Rosaline at the very beginning of the play. During his first appearance in the play‚ Romeo is love-sick‚ acting
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dearest wife’s bosom. It was as if the deep burning red of the letter set off a fiery passion of anger pulsing through my own body from her unfaithfulness. My heart feels as if it hath been ripped from my own chest and tossed on the ground unwanted. My body is fuming with jealousy! My Hester is an adulteress! She hath betrayed me in the most extreme way! How could she have done this to me? Is it my own fault? Didst I cause this myself wedding a wife of such youth and beauty like herself? Who am
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The Soote Season The soote season‚ that bud and bloom forth brings‚ A With green hath clad the hill and eke the vale; B The nightingale with feathers new she sings; A The turtle to her make hath told her tale. B Summer is come‚ for every spray now springs‚ C The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; D The buck in brake his winter coat he flings; C The fishes flete with new repaired scale; D The adder all her slough away she slings; E The swift swallow pursueth the flyes smale; F The
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mother’s kisses‚ With light upon him from his father’s eyes! See‚ at his feet‚ some little plan or chart‚ Some fragment from his dream of human like‚ Shaped by himself with newly-learned art; A wedding or a festival‚ A mourning or a funeral; And this hath now his heart‚ And unto this he frames his song:” 3. (end) Imagination Explanation: I included the whole last stanza on this one for this explanation for it to make better sense. In this stanza he is remembering back to his life as a child and
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