Tuesday we learned about non-western religions, most oriented from China, Japan, and India. The three things that make them different from a western religion was that they are monistic, nonlinear, and praxis. Unlike monotheism, monistic means that it is one non-personal ultimate reality, this was kind of a hard concept to understand considering I grew up in the western religion, having one personal god, who was simulated as a person instead of a thing. When we discussed Hinduism it was very interesting to me that they think of everything as being equal and made from the same thing, called Brahman. The definition I would give karma is definitely not the actually definition of karma, I also found that very interesting.<\/p>\n
Next we talked about how they were nonlinear religions, meaning it has a circular time line. This was crazy to think about that in another life time you could have been a plant or an animal, I like how they believe this because of all the karma that they have over a lifetime. The last thing we discussed was the praxis, or the practices they perform. These religions are all about what they do, not what they say. They believe that the only way they can make good karma is by doing all the practices that they talk about, saying it just isn\u2019t good enough. I learned a lot on Tuesday about non-western religions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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