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Christianity
- Suffering leads to the Cross (symbol of reality and God's saving love for the human being

Buddhism
- Gives rise to the compassion  for suffering humanity

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Distinguish the Limitatations and possibilities for Transcendence

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Distinguish the Limitatations and possibilities for Transcendence

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Hinduism and Buddhism:
- It is the spiritual that endures and is ultimately real
- There is preoccupation with the inner life
- There is an emphasis on the non material oneness of creation
There is the acceptance of direct awareness as the only way to understand what is real
-There is a healthy respect for tradition, but never a slavish commitment to it

Christianity
- Principle of  the conjunction of faith and reason
- Calamities are part of natural evil
- Moral evil: virtual inevitability from the inherent imperfections of the universe
-Metaphysical evil: inevitable imperfections are the source of evils that occur in it

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Recognize the Human Body Imposes Limits and Possiblities for Transcendence

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Recognize the Human Body Imposes Limits and Possiblities for Transcendence

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A. Hinduism: Reincarnation and Karma- reincarnation of souls (karma) where everything in this life is consequence of actions done in the previous life.

B. Buddhism: Nirvana- the state in which one is absolutely free from all forms of bondage and attachment; overcoming and removing cause of suffering

C. St. Augistine and St. Thomas Aquinas: Will and Love-  physically we are free, yet morally bound to obey the aw; humanity must do well and avoid evil

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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
b) The Beauty of Nature
c) Vulnerability
d) Failure
e) Loneliness
f) Love

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-Human beings have the unique power to change themselves and things for the better
-Summa Contra Gentiles and Summa Theologica (treatises)
- We are both Spiritual and Body elements
-Our spirituality separates us from animals
-Choosing between 'good' or 'evil' is our responsibility

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"Man is a rational substance consisted of soul and body."
-Soul retains its proper entity
-Soul apart from body
-Only the pure in heart shall see God

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1) mere being
2) living being
3) rational being

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-There is only one God
-(amor sapiental) : Love of wisdom

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Love
Sorrow of others
Joy in the joy of others
Equinamity

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-Order of Monks
Steps:
1) Refrain from destroying Life
2) Refrain from taking what is not given
3) Refrain from a misuse of the senses
4) Refrain fro wrong speech
5) Refrain from taking drugs or drinks that tend to cloud the mind

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- self abnegation
- rigid discipline of mind and body
-consuming love for all creatures
Preparation for entering the Nirvana (enlightened wisdom)
The effects of Karma are broken

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1) right belief and acceptance of the 'Fourfold Truth'
2) right aspiration for one's self and others
3) right speech thaat harms no one
4) right conduct,human beings
5) right means of livelihood
6) right endeavor
7) right mindfulness in choosing topics for thought
8) right meditation

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- Leads to the "Eight fold Path" to perfect character (arhatship)
1) life is full of suffering
2) suffering is caused by passionate desires, lusts, cravings
3) such eradication of desire may be accomplished only by following the eight fold path of earnest endeavor

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- Life experience and teaching of Prince Siddhartha Gautama  (Buddha)
-Came to realization that the solution lays in his own mind
- Shared his 'Dharma' (Law of Salvation)

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1) Wealth
2) Pleasure
3) Duty
4) Enlightenment
- Wealth and pleasure are worldly values
- Duty and Enlightenment are spiritual values
- Enlightenment finds release from the wheel of existence

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Upanishad/Vedanta: last chapters; highest purpose
-True Knowledge (vidya) consists an understanding and realization of the individual's real self (atman)
-Oneness of reality
- Only Brahma is real, everything else is an illusion

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- Endless series of births
-Soul is temporarily encased in his body
- Humanity's basic goal in life is liberation (moksha) of spirit (jiva)
- Continuous cycle (samsara)
- Good life: soul goes upward the scale
- Bad life: body of an animal
- No end unless true self-hood is attained

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1) spiritual and immoral essence (soul)
2) empirical life and character
- It is the soul that is ultimately real
- The existence of the body is considered an illusion ; obstacle to an individual's realization of one's self

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- The most sacred sound in which the universe arose from and was the first thing God created

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-Human being's quest for absolute truth
-Brahman or Atman (soul) might become one

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"There is no other way for us to find who we are than finding in ourselves the divine image."
-A continual movement away from idols and toward union with the desert God of his Christian faith.

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Climbing or going beyond

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Hinduism
Buddhism
Christianity