Psychoanalysis and the Gaining of Spiritual Enlightenment in Hinduism and Buddhism For the past century, the search for the true meaning of spiritual enlightenment has been on ongoing struggle for the whole population of the world, no matter what their religion may be. ... The basic start for gaining of spiritual enlightenment in Hinduism is the renunciation of desire. ... This yoga is based on learning, and through this learning and gaining of knowledge, one can truly see the inner self. ... The eight steps allow the individual to gain a full understanding of spiritual enlightenme...

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Our personal lives are often dictated and affected by meaning and purpose gained through knowledge. ... In my opinion, meaning in our personal lives can be gained through a better understanding of our environment, our circumstances or ourselves. ... It gives us a deeper understanding into why we have certain beliefs and gives us knowledge about such beliefs. ... Yet, there is no greater understanding of his surroundings or personal life that could be attributed to the knowledge he has gained by studying business. ... The four truths of Buddhism also give them a better understanding of life , t...

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Through their interaction, together the characters each form an understanding of what it means to be living, and what one's purpose in life is. ... Once she has done this, she gained a certain empowerment to grasp her life and live it to a fulfilling degree. ...

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Human interaction has benefited with perceptual understanding. ... These acts of understanding and working together enhances global linking. ... Human interaction has benefited with perceptual understanding. ... These "chief destinies" are expressed through Sanders perception as a way to gain power in the world. ... Bellah et al. expresses also how to recognize values and gaining personal experiences of one another through communication helps lead to societal bonding. ...

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All the writers view the importance of "Virtue Ethics" as an opportunity to learn Self-Understanding and Critical Awareness from where real freedom is attained. ... These three values are Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem that every society should utilize effectively to gain success. ...

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But with so many reasons to read that book I started to realize the purpose behind reading and understanding. ... You not only have to read the books, poems or stories, you have to understand it to gain something from it. ... This book helped me to gain a more creative imagination. ... The hard part was not reading the book, it was understanding the meaning behind it all. ... All because I decided to read, I created a great imagination within myself because I realized I had to read to build on great ideas and expose bad ones since I had that knowledge and understanding to confront it and deba...

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Hexham ( 1993:171) Phenomenology is a study to gain insight into inner working of religion through the calculated and temporal abandonment of their own view point and the careful use of comparisons. ... The phenomenological principle is the one should not judge a person or a group of people until one have acquired proper understanding of their way of doing things by spending some time studying them. ... Cox ( 1996 : 28) Moreover, even though the observers endeavours to suspend all previous judgements, this is probably impossible since each person brings with him cultural, social and psycholog...

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I understand that action can become a selfish act and that sacrificing something is what makes it selfless, but not every action that is done for personal gain seems evil to me. Plenty of achievement has been gained in a name of one, but has still reached many for better. ... Since "suffering is the fruit of passions " we have to strive for a lucid understanding of the world, for fear that if we do not we must live our lives over and over again with continual suffering and occasional joy. ... I live in this nature with a yearning for gaining and attaining more from life, and I subconsciously f...

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"You must stay here, until you gain strength and wisdom enough to defend yourself from it - -if ever you do" (p65). ... (p148) Ged meets with his shadow finally with the understanding that they are one, and that he could not kill it. ... After his journey to find himself Ged finally gets the understanding of the importance of using his power wisely, and that he must first have the knowledge to use it wisely. ...

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Finding the value of learning things on your own will help you in understanding the value of pursuing what you love. ... Keeping faith would be to gain the question is; what you can learn from it. " I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life " This phrase explains why keeping faith would pull you through in life, by showing us that keeping at it can push us through when things get complicated. ... In the end, keeping faith can get you through so that you do not quit half way through so that you gain experience whether the experience is good or bad. ... You can lose experience i...

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McFadden's review mystifies Brueghel's "The Allegory of Taste" by discussing its upper class background, how the painting itself was specifically tailored towards nobility, and the unspoken but present belief that only those with advanced education and cultural understanding could properly understand and appreciate it. ... When viewing the painting with no other lens, it appears to be a commentary on gluttonous behavior and imperial gains at the expense of their subject's hard labor. ...

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Postman points out that it is necessary to change the curriculum of the educational system so it will be able to provide students with an understanding of the Technopoly process. ... By doing that students should gain a more holistic view of the world they live in (connecting the present with the past) and where technology is leading us. ... An adequate understanding of religion must take into account its distinctive qualities and patterns as a form of human experience, as well as the similarities and differences in religions across the human cultures. ... The placement of "The Lovin...

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(Epictetus pg. 51) These principles are key to living a happy life and gaining the love and respect of God. ... When we read further into the Buddhist text, I gained the understanding of the cyclic existence and that's where I had the most questions. ... From Aquinas's point of view, that practicing faith in Christianity, believing that what you are doing morally is right, and good then you will be gaining the knowledge of the afterlife. ...

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It is a human tendency to try to gain knowledge, understand, predict, and control all that we encounter. ... This results in absurdity because the world, everything that surrounds us, cannot give us the understanding that we desire. ... When he later discusses his plague with Rieux it indicates that there is a better understanding after all that the town has experienced. ...

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Man appreciates and flourishes as a result of these "Fruits for your Sustenance," but he fails to reach a greater level of consciousness by not understanding the true nature of these blessings. ... By sending "From the sky a sign," Allah would be able to enlighten humanity via the means that man truly understands, the literal world, and gain his worship. ... These parables are stories rooted in the physical world so that mankind is capable of understanding them. ...

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Gabriel gains truth from the story and finally understands that through his passionless life and his own faults, he has never truly loved as Michael Furey had. ... In the final lines of "The Dead," Joyce illuminates Gabriel's inward change that causes him to examine both his own life, and human life in general, by complicating his understanding of the living and the dead. ...

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Meaning is gained from a literary text at both a literal and also a symbolic level. ... In the novel, one of the most significant literary devices used by Winton is symbolism, which plays upon the aesthetic sensibilities harbored by the text's audience and provides insight and deeper understanding to the themes of the novel. ...

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"Every explorer names his island Formosa, beautiful. To him it is beautiful because, being first, he has access to it And can see it for what it is. But to no one else is it ever as beautiful Except the rare man who manages to recover it, Who knows it must be recovered." ...

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To conquer one's fears, one must see past them. To fear is natural; to see past them is heroic. Fear is normal additive to life; symbolizing that there are new, sometimes extraordinary things to come, to face. To be able to see these things before they happen is a sign of wisdom. To see past th...

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