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which is the state of Moksha or the liberation of the soul from the cycle of birth.
Karmic Cycle
If we ask the question “How does a good person live her life?”, then the answer is to live a life leading to
purification
One must act in a way that does not detract from
insight and enlightenment
One must be careful of doing action, so it does not incur negative(blank )which keeps one imprisoned in the cycle of birth.
Karma
provides a way to understand what a good human being ought to do to come to the fullness of human life.
BUDDHISM
According to Buddhism, life is suffering and the cause of suffering is
desire
The Four Noble Truths
The truth of suffering
The truth of cause of suffering
The truth of the end of suffering
The truth of the path that frees us from suffering
provides a guidepost to acting in this world. If one seeks to act mindful, these signposts are exactly a way to discern if one’s actions are creative and non-destructive to others.
THE EIGHTFOLD PATH
It provides a framework for living in a way that avoids the destructive or evil ways of human beings
THE EIGHTFOLD PATH
THE EIGHTFOLD PATH
Right Mindfulness
Right View
Right Intention
Right Speech
Right Action
Right Livelihood
Right Effort
Right Concentration
is a system of thought attributed to the teacher Confucius (Konqui).
CONFUCIANISM
CONFUCIANISM main teaching is the possibility of building
harmonious and ordered society
He believed that if people were able to internalize or take as their own the ways of virtuous people, then the order of society will be achieved because it would reflect the order of the
Heaven
There is one basic aspiration for any Confucian follower, that is, to be a person who has the
Virtue of Ren
to be a person who has internalized the way of Heaven
Virtue of Ren
held the ancient ways sacred because for him, these bore the wisdom of ancestors who still understood the ways of heaven.
Confucius
These ancestors governed the state and acted in their personal life in ways attuned to the order of Heaven or
Dao
The way to attunement is to focus on traditional ways.
CONFUCIANISM
translated as benevolence, kindness, humanheartedness, humanity
REN
IS TO LOVE HUMAN BEINGS”.
REN
