Culture and Religion in Eurasia/North America
- China was among one of the first civilizations. There were different point of views in religion: legalist answer, the confucian answer, and the daoist answer.
- The legalist answer believed that the rules were the rules and strictly enforced. The confucian answer believed Confucius’s Principles. The ideas impacted China in the way people think and operate. The daoist answer is the opposite of Confucian answer, founded by Laozi, that worship many different gods. It was a way to connect with nature.
- The cultural traditions of India and cultural development were different in which “Indian elite culture embraced the divine and all things spiritual with enthusiasm and generated elaborate philosophical visions about the nature of ultimate reality”(174).
- This was interesting to me because Hinduism didn't spread like christianity to different regions, but it was more like associated with a certain type of people and region. To me, I can see the analogy in this with schools and their cliques. This is the same with social classes in this country and how people label each other.
- The section about Buddha was by far the most interesting religion to red about. Buddha is known as the Enlighted One. As he says, “I teach but one thing, suffering and the end of suffering.” Buddha believed that the suffering was part of someone’s life and it’s and was the central and universal feature of human life. When I read this, I imagine it is more of a practice for peace in yourself and everything. Buddha’s teachings demonstrates to me that it is one of the mos incredible forms of practice and I love finding my inner peace.
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