level by means of listening to sermons (dharma talks)‚ reading‚ studying‚ and sometimes reciting Buddhist texts and engaging in discourse. Once the conceptual understanding is attained‚ it is applied to daily life so that each Buddhist can verify the truth of the Buddha ’s teaching at a practical level. Notably‚ one could in theory attain Nirvana at any point of practice‚ whether deep in meditation‚ listening to a sermon‚ conducting the business of one ’s daily life‚ or any other
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Winning the heart of a long-lost lover‚ a dream only achieved by a lucky few. To forget the past and rekindle affection long forgotten‚ the romantic hopes of a passionate imaginary‚ too far removed from reality to face the truth. Yet Jay Gatsby (of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby) longed for more. Gatsby‚ born James Gatz‚ not only wish to reconnect with a lover of his past‚ Daisy‚ not only wished to have her fall in love with him again‚ but wished to erase five years of lapsed time
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Sarah Janicki Janicki Grade 8 Science Mr. Loewen 3 February 2017 Period 7 Sugar Coating The Truth What if I told you that sugar was the leading cause of heart disease? You’d say “No‚ fat is.” well scientists have been lying to you. Researchers found out that scientists have been paid to publish false information. They’ve been told to make it seem like fat is the leading cause of heart disease while sugar is fine. For almost a century‚ heart disease has been the most common cause of death
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Set 4 22 January 2013 Midterm Essay Sometimes the truth has the ability to imprison one’s self; other times it can set one free. Either way‚ the truth is something that can decide one’s fate. Society often decides what is true and what is false; however‚ sometimes these truths are indeed a lie. In order to come to the realization that what was once perceived true is actually a lie‚ one must embark on a trek to discover the genuine truth. As evidenced by Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451‚ Arthur
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The Truth about 911: The Different Ways To tell a Story ENC 1102 Web Evaluation May 30‚ 2013 The Truth about 911: The Different Ways to Tell a Story Introduction The event that happened in September 11‚ 2001 will forever be emblazoned in the minds of the USA nation. The terrorist attacks on that day robbed the people’s peace of mind and had millions living in terror. Even though‚ we caught the group of terrorist that was involved in the attacks‚ there has always been a mystery over
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Truth and Power In this essay‚ Foucault’s principal interest is how power diffuses itself in systems of authority and how it affects of truth are produced within discourses which in themselves are neither true nor false. Truth itself is the product of relations of power and of the systems in which it follows‚ it changes as system changes. There are certain systems in society. So‚ the system is formed of many individuals‚ so it is a group power. Therefore‚ he doesn’t focus on any individual
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Incompatibility of Happiness and Truth - Dystopia Brave New World is full of characters who do everything they can to avoid facing the truth about their own situations. The almost universal use of the drug soma is probably the most pervasive example of such willful self-delusion. Soma clouds the realities of the present and replaces them with happy hallucinations‚ and is thus a tool for promoting social stability. But even Shakespeare can be used to avoid facing the truth‚ as John demonstrates by his
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Jonathan smith Mrs. Cox English II 11 November 2013 The Truth Behind Zombies America’s most feared icon of the 21st century is none other than zombies. Most people think of zombies as horror fiction characters that mutilate humans and take over the world but there is more to them than meets the eye. There is even true logical and scientific reasoning behind this possible phenomenon. there are several explanations of how zombies could become a reality like voodoo rituals‚ mutating diseases‚ and
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In Fiona Ross’s Truth and Reconciliation we get to examine the results of the new government’s attempts at making reconciliations with some of the wrongs that the people of South Africa had endured during apartheid by means of “truth commissions” vis-à-vis people’s testimonies to the level of personal victimization they had endured. However‚ not all people chose to portray their involvement (however they want to define it) in apartheid as pure victimization. If one chose to recognize their involvement
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The Importance of Rewriting Storm Water Regulations Danielle Nielsen Goochland High School Abstract This paper observes the negative and harmful effects of water pollution and storm water runoff on the environment and the surrounding community. The most common form of water pollution is sediment runoff. It then goes on to explain the research and effectiveness of Best Management Practices (BMPs) and their positive effects. BMPs are conservation practices that can preserve or improve
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