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    Nirvana Vs. Heaven

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    final beatitude that transcends suffering‚ karma‚ and samsara and is sought especially in Buddhism through the extinction of desire and individual consciousness; or a place or state of oblivion to care‚ pain‚ or external reality.” Our text provides

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    samsara

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    According to the view of these religions‚ a person’s current life is only one of many—stretching back before birth into past existences and reaching forward beyond death into future incarnations. During the course of each life the quality of the actions (karma) performed determine the future destiny of each person. The Buddha taught that there is no beginning to this cycle but that it can be ended through perceiving reality. The goal of these religions is to realize this truth‚ the achievement of which (like

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    accepted people from all castes and levels of society. It provides a calm environment‚ freedom from external pressures and responsibility. The Buddha founded in Sangha in order to provide such objective conditions. 2. Samsara is a clean escape from the karma-run wheel of birth‚ death and rebirth (samsara). The importance of Samsara is it’s what makes everything work. If there was no cycle of life and death than you would only get one shot to enlightenment‚ and since many people aren’t destined to achieve

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    scientific discovery. Although most buddhists say the world creates and recreates itself millions of times every fraction of a second. After Death‚ as Buddhist would say that there is no transmigration of individual souls‚ but through the law of karma‚ a persons wholesome or unwholesome

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    discussion about Karma and Jñāna. Surēśvara analyses doctrines in detail and with clarity the views of Bhatta and Prabhākara which hold the opinion that liberation can be attained by Karma alone and finally disapproves them. He also analyses the doctrines of Brahmadatta and Maṇḍana Miśra who raise their view that Bhāvana is a must for the attainment of Aparōkṣa- Jñāna along with carrying out of Karma and meditation and finally refutes them. Then he examines the validity of Jñāna-Karma-samuccaya in connection

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    suffers its apart of being human. What can you do with suffering? Is it possible you can alleviate it? One misconception on suffering is that people suffer because of our sins. Take the religion of Hinduism for an example they have a belief called Karma. Karma is the result of actions and thoughts if they are selfish thoughts or actions it’s negative and if it’s selfless it’s positive. Jacob Kinnard

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    Hinduism and Salvation

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    and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell‚ for that means there is a place where God is not‚ and there are sins which exceed his love.” (Hinduism‚ 2008). The Hindu religion focuses on four key pieces that lead one to salvation – personal gods‚ karma‚ reincarnation‚ and moksha (spiritual liberation). In this paper‚ I will demonstrate how Hinduism is a plausible religion‚ and how it compares and contrasts to the Christian faith that I was brought up believing. Hindus believe that there is not

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    Special Revelation

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    Revelation can be defined as “information revealed or information that is newly disclosed‚ especially surprising‚ or valuable” (www.dictionary.com). The General Revelation and the Special Revelation are two ways that God has chosen to show Himself to us. The General Revelation is the general truths that can be known about God through nature. It gives us some idea as to who our Creator is by seeing it through nature. It is a general understanding of who our Creator is and how amazing He is and we

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    1) Explain and evaluate the notions of Karma‚ samsara‚ and Nirvana? a) We know karma to be a chain of causes and necessary consequences in the world of human actions. Karma is the urge we have of doing something based on our previous actions or behavior. I believe the world has negative and positive energy. For example; an individual soul consists of negative and positive energy‚ which for a normal person‚ is balanced out. Therefore‚ what goes around comes around. In life we choose whether to listen

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    Compare and contrast the teachings in the foundation periods of Hinduism and Judaism The foundations of both religions will be compared in a timeline format with contrasts and comparisons highlighted. The main difference to be noted even before the timeline comparison is that Judaism is a monotheistic religion in that it believes in one God as creator and ruler of the universe and the lord of human history. Hinduism is a religion of many Gods‚ some decent and some evil but all worthy of the respect

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