martes, 12 de octubre de 2010

Wednesday October 6


Summary of the class

The teacher talk us about the religious institutions.
Today, the christian church does not have the power it once had, like in the middle ages. In the middle ages the religion was the one that had the control. The Inquisition was a Roman Catholic tribunal for discovery and punishment of heresy, which was marked by the severity of questioning and punishment and lack of rights afforded to the accused. The christian church murdered, tortured, mutilated and destroyed millions and millions of lives both directly through the Inquisition and indirectly through all of the wars they incited. But inquisition ends with illuminism and with the end of the middle ages, and people stop believing in God, and start to study sciences, physics, and also other religions appeared. The church began to loose its power.


Buddhism

It is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha. The Buddha lived and taught in India, some time between the 6th and 4th centuries B.C. He is recognized as an awakened teacher who shared his insights to help sentient beings end suffering (or dukkha), achieve nirvana, and escape what is seen as a cycle of suffering and rebirth. He started to realize that there was a lot of pain in the world and he started to suffer and connect that pain with the religious part. He wasn´t living because he was suffering all the time. Suffering doesn´t resolve anything. There was one thing that creates pain: desire.

Samsara: cycle of reencarnations in the Induism and in the Buddhism.


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