Term Papers on Buddhism

Term Paper Title	Buddhism
# of Words	721
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.88

Buddhism

     As human beings, we sometimes can not synchronize our minds and souls.  When we are at our success of knowledge or intellect, we blind our mind with our ambition which comes with the knowledge or intellect.
Siddhartha, set in India clearly owes much to Indian religion.  The question of the exact nature of Heese’s debt to various aspects of Indian religion and philosophy in Siddhartha is quite complicated.  Elements of both Hindu and Buddhist thought are present.
     The basic teaching of Buddha is formulated in the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.  The First Noble Truth is the fact of suffering.  The Second Truth is that suffering arises from human desire for something, and that this desire can never be satisfied.  The Third Truth is that there is a way to achieve a release from suffering.  Finally, the Fourth Truth is the manner of overcoming suffering and attaining true knowledge.
     The first two steps in the Eightfold Path a person must first discover and experience the Four Noble Truths and then resolve to follow the correct path.  The next three steps are right speech, right behavior, and right livelihood.  These reflect the external aspects of a person’s life, which must not be neglected.  The internal disciplines create the final three steps: right efforts, right mindfulness, and right contemplation.  By this means, the follower of Buddha can never reach Nirvana.
     One critic, Leroy R. Shaw, has pointed out that Siddhartha is divided into two parts of four and eight chapters and proceeds from this insight to interpret the work as an illustration of Buddha’s Truths and Path.  In the first chapter Siddhartha learns the existence of suffering, in the fifth he begins his journey along the correct path.  Shaw, then, comes to the conclusion that at the end “the difference between Siddhartha and Gotama, which had seemed so vast to the seeker at his meeting with the sage, becomes non-existent.”  This is true in one respect; both Gotama and Siddhartha have arrived at the final condition of harmony.  Siddhartha’s way was clearly not of the Buddha.  “The division of four and eight seems to correspond to the Truths and Path...

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