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- 851: Impermanence, Selflessness, and Dissatisfaction
- Impermanence, Selflessness, and Dissatisfaction Buddhism is neither a religion nor a philosophy, but rather a way of life. This does not imply that Buddhism is nothing more than an ethical code: it is a way of moral, spiritual and intellectual training leading to complete freedom of the ...
- 852: Buddhism
- ... Christ's Sermon on the Mount. Beginning as a religious movement within the important Brahman tradition of the day, Buddhism quickly developed in a strange direction. The Buddha not only abandoned important conditions of Hindu philosophy, but also questioned the priesthood, denied the importance of the Vedic scriptures, and rejected the sacrificial cult. Also he opened his movement to members of all castes, denying that a person's spiritual worth is ...
- 853: Religions
- ... of violence, and one notices when looking at world religion on a whole, one finds that Islam was no more violent than any other religion. In fact, not only is Islam not a fundamentally violent philosophy, but we can also see that many other religions normally considered "non-violent," such as Christianity or Hinduism, have been spread through bloody conquest. Thus, in searching for a universal constant of history, we ought ...
- 854: "Woe be to thee, O Constantinople, seated on seven hills, thou shall not continue a thousand years"
- ... For eleven centuries it has been the center of this magnificent civilization of Bizantium which has preserved the legacy of the Ancient world and gave the world the priceless knowledge of Roman law, Greek literature, philosophy and learning. The Byzantine Empire did not fully extinguished--its political and spiritual traditions survived and still live. The effects of this significant cultural contribution can be observed even today. The material environment that has ...
- 855: The Transcendental Movement of 1830s
- ... Massachusettes, Transcendentalism was recognized as having an "underlying relationship to the Romantic movement as a whole."4 Three of the most obvious or well known sources or origin of Transcendentalism are neo-platonism, German idealistic philosophy, and certain Eastern mystical writings which were introduced into the Boston area in the early nineteenth century."5 Transcendental beliefs focused on "the importance of spirit over matter."6 Ralph Waldo Emerson, a well known ...
- 856: Brief history of Buddhism
- ... the purify the sangha of the false monks and heretics who had joined the order because of its royal associations. During the council, the compilations of the Buddhist scriptures (Tipitaka) and the body of subtle philosophy (abhidharma) to the dharma and monastic discipline were completed. Missionaries were sent forth to many countries as a result of the council. King Kanishka patronized the fourth council in 100 AD. Historians are not sure ...
- 857: Analysis of Stephen Crane's "War Is Kind"
- ... in 1918. To paraphrase the present thinking in the armed forces, our all-volunteer military is focused on preventing conflicts rather than seeking glory in it. If this brilliant anti-war poem contributed to this philosophy then I certainly cheer and admire his bravery in writing it during that period of our history. Stephen Crane, wrote "War Is Kind" a year before his untimely death in 1900, at the age twenty ...
- 858: Song of Myself: Divinity, Sexuality and the Self
- ... poetry, Whitman's "Song of Myself" makes the soul sensual and makes divine the flesh. In Whitman's time, the dichotomy between the soul and the body had been clearly defined by centuries of Western philosophy and theology. Today, the goodness of the soul and the badness of the flesh still remain a significant notion in contemporary thought. Even Whitman's literary predecessor, Emerson, chose to distinctly differentiate the soul from ...
- 859: The Lives and Works of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
- ... In the face of the variety of subject matter which their work offers us, and the shifting point of view from which it is treated, it is a puzzling task to arrive at their true philosophy or view of life,” says Irving Stone. (Lovett xxv) Elizabeth Barrett Browning received fame and credit while alive for her many wonderful literary works. On the other hand Robert Browning has gained a devoted body ...
- 860: "A Dream Within A Dream"
- ... to vanish. He realizes that everything he holds of value is quickly slipping away from him as, "Grains of golden sand [through his fingers.]" He reexamines his thoughts from the previous stanza and restates his philosophy as a puzzling question. " Is all that we see or seem, but a dream within a dream?" This poem appeals to the reader's emotions and intellect. Often in life we feel that we cannot ...
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