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Human beings have a dual nature:

1. one is the spiritual and immortal essence (soul)

2. empirical life and character.

The existence of the body is considered as nothing more than an illusion and even an obstacle to an individual's realization of one's real self.

Hindus generally believe that the soul is eternal but bound by the law of Karma (action) to the world of matter.

Transmigration or metempsychosis is a doctrine that adheres to the belief that a person's soul passes into some other creature, human, or animal.

Moksha is an enlightened state wherein one attains one's true selfhood and finds oneself with the One, the Ultimate Reality, the All-Comprehensive Reality: Brahman.

Samsara - Cycle of life and death; a state of "nothingness"

The goal of human life is conceived by the different Upanishads is to overcome congenital ignorance. The Upanishads or sometimes referred to as Vedanta, the concepts of Brahman and Atman (soul, self) are central ideas in all the Upanishads, with "Know your Atman" as their thematic focus.

For hinduism, one's whole duty is to achieve self-knowledge in order to achieve self-annihilation and absorption into the Great Self.

Hinduism is one of the oldest Eastern traditions, practiced by hundreds of millions of people for about 5,000 years.

Brahman is real; everything else is illusory manifestation of it.
Atman, no self, is a correlative belief.

Four Primary Values:

1. Wealth

2. Pleasure

3. Duty

4. Enlightenment

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"FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS"

1. Life is full of suffering

2. Suffering is caused by passionate desires, lusts, cravings

3. Only as these are obliterated, will suffering cease

4. Such eradication of desire may be accomplished only by following the Eightfold Path of earnest endeavour

"EIGHTFOLD PATH"

1. Right belief and acceptance of the "Fourfold Truth"

2. Right aspiration for one's self and for others

3. Right speech that harms no one

4. Right conduct, motivated by goodwill toward all human beings

5. Right means of livelihood or earning one's living by honourable means

6. Right endeavour, or effort to direct one's energies toward wise ends

7. Right mindfulness in choosing topics for thought

8. Right medication, or concentration to the point of complete absorption in mystic ecstasy

The way to salvation, lies through self-abnegation, rigid discipline of mind and body, a consuming love for all living creatures, and the final achievement of that state of consciousness which marks an individual's full preparation for entering the Nirvana.

- Jary Brillante

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RECOGNIZE THE HUMAN BODY IMPOSES LIMITS AND POSSIBILITIES FOR TRANSCENDENCE

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RECOGNIZE THE HUMAN BODY IMPOSES LIMITS AND POSSIBILITIES FOR TRANSCENDENCE

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A. HINDUISM: Reincarnation and Karma
Essential Hinduism is based on the belief in karma and has its first literary expression in Upanishads. Everything in this life is a consequence of actions performed in previous existence.For the Jains, there is nothing migthier in the world than karma; karma tramples down all powers.

B. BUDDHISM: Nirvana
Nirvana means the state in which one is absolutely free from all forms of bondage and attachment. It means to overcome and remove the cause of suffering. It is also who is unencumbered from all the fetters that bind a human being in existence.

The Buddha's silence is due to his awareness that nirvana is a state that transcends every mundane experience and cannot be talked about. Nirvana is beyond the sense, language and thought. This way of life conforms to Buddha's teaching that wisdom consists in treading the Middle Way, avoiding the extreme of asceticism, inactivity and indifference on the one hand and that of frantic activity and mindless pursuit of pleasure on the other.

- Lala Ona :)

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"Like stars fading and vanishing at dawn, Like bubbles on a fast moving stream, Like morning dewdrops evaporating on blades of grass, like candle flickering in a stormy wind, echoes, mirages, and phantoms hallucinations and like a dream." - The Buddha

Buddhism, is a major Eastern tradition, contained in the teachings of it's founder, Siddharta Gautama or The Buddha. The teaching of Buddha has been set forth traditionally in the "Four Noble Truths" leading to the "Eightfold Path" to perfect character or arhatship, which in turn gave assurance of entrance into Nirvana (enlightened wisdom) at death.

- Jary Brillante

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the root of the universe and everything that exists and it continues to hold everything together.

-Colleen Gonzales

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EVALUATE OWN LIMITATIONS AND THE POSSIBILITIES FOR THEIR TRANSCENDENCE

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EVALUATE OWN LIMITATIONS AND THE POSSIBILITIES FOR THEIR TRANSCENDENCE

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A. FORGIVENESS
When we forgive, we are freed from our anger and bitterness because of the actions and/or words of another.

B. THE BEAUTY OF NATURE
There is perfection in every single flower; this is what the three philosophies believed. For a hug, for every sunrise and sunset, to eat together as a family, are our miracles.

C. VULNERABILITY
To be invulnerable is somehow inhuman. To be vulnerable is to be human. The experience that we are contingent, that we are dependent for our existence on another is frightening.

D. FAILURE
Our failures force us to confront our weaknesses and limitation. When a relationship fails, when a student fails a subject, when our immediate desires are not met, we are confronted with the possibility of our plans and yet, we are forced to surrender to a mystery or look upon a bigger world.

E. LONELINESS
Our loneliness can be rooted from our sense of vulnerability and fear of death.

F. LOVE
To love is to experience richness, positivity and transcendence. Life is full of risks, fears and commitment, pain and sacrificing and giving up thing/s we want for the sake of the one we love.

-ALYSSA G. MANINGAS

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DISTINGUISH THE LIMITATIONS AND POSSIBILITIES FOR TRANSCENDENCE

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DISTINGUISH THE LIMITATIONS AND POSSIBILITIES FOR TRANSCENDENCE

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A. It is the spiritual that endures and is ultimately real.
B. There is the preoccupation with the inner life the road to enlightenment that stretches not outward but inward.
C. There is an emphasis on the non-material oneness of creation.
D. There is the acceptance of direct awareness as the only way to understand what is real.
E. There is a healthy respect for tradition but never a slavish commitment to it.

Evil and Suffering
Suffering is close to the heart of biblical faith. In comparison with the Buddha, who saw life in suffering and tried to control it instead of cursing it, Job, of the Old Testament, did not just complain.
In, Christianity, suffering leads to the Cross, the symbol of reality of God's saving love for the human being. Suffering, in Buddhism, gives rise to comparison for suffering humanity.

-ALYANNA G. MANINGAS

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This section looks at the reasonableness of beliefs in Gods existence . We shall treat the statement that "God exists" as a hypothesis, which we call the theistic hypothesis. For Augustine, Christianity,  as presenting the full revelation  of the true God is the only true and full philosophy.

-Sheyne Concibido

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God in Christianity is the eternal being who created and preserves all things. Christians believe God to be both transcendent and immanent (involved in the world). Christian teachings of the immanence and involvement of God and his love for humanity exclude the belief that God is of the same substance as the created ...

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At the heart of hinduism lies the idea of human beings' quest for absolute truth, so that one's soul and the Brahman or Atman (Absolute Soul) might become one.

-Colleen Gonzales

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Introduction: Transcending in the Global Age

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Introduction: Transcending in the Global Age

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According to Thomas Merton (1948), a Trappist monk, there is no other way for us to find who we are than by finding in ourselves the divine image. We have to struggle to regain spontaneous and vital awareness of our own spirituality.

-Colleen Gonzales