Buddhism
Right endeavor, or effort to direct one's Finally, while resting and meditating in a grove of trees,
Like stars, fading and vanishing, At dawn, Like bubbles on a
fast moving stream, Like morning dewdrops evaporating one
blades of grass, Like a candle flickering in a stormy wind,
Echoes, mirages, and phantoms, Hallucinations, and like a
dream - The Buddha
The Eight Similes of Illusion, Pranja Paramita Sutras
 The Eight Similes of Illusion- the concept of reality vs the
unreal.
 Another major tradition is Buddhism.
 Prince Gautama- began searching for answers to the
riddle of life's sufferings.
 He explored Brahminic Philosophies or the learnings
from Brahman.
 The suffering of human is in the mind.
 And the solution is in the mind.
 To end the person's suffering, the mindset shall be
changed.
 Buddhism is followed by Buddha or Prince Gautama.
 Dharma- your attitude on a certain situation.
 Dharma or the law of salvation.
 Your mindset manifest.
 Dharma includes the Four Noble Truths.
The Four Noble Truths:
1. Life is full of suffering.
2. Suffering is caused by passionate desires, lust, cravings
3. Only as these are obliterated, will suffering cease. If it is
removed, the suffering would be cease. This will start
with the right mindset.
4. Such eradication of desire may be accomplished by
following Eightfold Path.
Eightfold Path
1. Right belief in and acceptance of the Fourfold Path.
2. Right aspiration for one's self and for others.
3. Right speech that harms no one.
4. Right conduct, motivated by goodwill toward all human
beings.
5. Right means of livelihood, or earning one's living by
honorable means. Your work should not be illegal, the
source of your money should help other people or is
good.
6.
energies toward wise ends. Follow the
representation of your salvation or Dharma.
7. Right mindfulness in choosing topics for
thought.
8. Right meditation, or concentration to the point
of complete absorption in mystic ecstasy.
They are in the state of renewing the mindset.
 Nirvana (enlightened wisdom or complete
selflessness) in Buddhism is like heaven in
Christianity.
 In Buddhism, they isolate themselves and
follow the ways of Buddha. Ang they will follow
relligously the way of Dharma or Buddha.
Values:
1) Refrain from destroying your life.
2) Refrain from taking what is not given.
3) Refrain from a misuse of senses.
4) Refrain from wrong speech (do not lie or
deceive).
5) Refrain from taking drugs or drinks that tend to
cloud the mind.
Four State of Sublime Condition:
1. Love
2. Sorrow of others
3. Joy in the joy of others, and
4. Equanimity (the state of psychological stability,
where you do not feel too much suffering when
something happens) as regards one's own joy
and sorrows.
 In Buddhism, you change your own mind. You
have a freedom of thought. Because you
yourself will be the one that will have the state
of enlightenment or the nirvana.
 Another major Eastern tradition is Buddhism,
contained in the teachings of its founder,
Siddhartha Gautama or the Buddha.
 Prince Gautama of the Sakya Clan in the
kingdom of Magadha, who lived from 560-447
BC, began searching for answers to the riddle
of life’s sufferings.
 He explored Brahminic philosophies, then tried
the rigors of asceticism, but all to no avail.
he came to clear realization that solution lays in his own
mind.
 From here on, Gautama’s life was devoted to sharing his
“Dharma” or the law of salvation – a simple presentation
of the gospel of inner cultivation of right spiritual
attitudes.
 The way to salvation, in other words, lies through self-
abnegation, rigid discipline of mind and body, a
consuming love for all living creatures, and the final
achievement of that state of consciousness which marks
an individual’s full preparation for entering the Nirvana
(enlightened wisdom) of complete selflessness.
 With single-hearted purpose, this brotherhood of
believers dedicated itself to a life of self-purification, in
total loyalty to the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha
(Order of Monks or Nuns).
1) Refrain from destroying life
2) Refrain from taking what is not given
3) Refrain from a misuse of senses
4) Refrain from wrong speech (do not lie or deceive)
5) Refrain from taking drugs or drinks that tend to cloud the
mind
 The Buddhism practice the four states of sublime
condition: love, sorrow of others, joy in the joy of others,
and equanimity as regards one’s own joy and sorrows.
 Freedom of thought and intellectual independence of
Buddhism are unique in the history of religions.
Christianity
The Biblical God and Humanity
 In the 5th century, Augustine’s writing is considered to
be the most influential in the early medieval period.
 Religious people definitely do not treat God’s existence
as a hypothesis, for God is a constant presence, rather
than a being whose existence is accepted as the best
explanation of available evidence.
 In it’s earliest missionary endeavors, Christians directed
their preaching to Jews who accepted the reality of God.
It was only later when Christian missionaries confronted
a variety of naturalistic philosophy that they felt need to
argue in the existence of God.
 For Augustine (354-430 CE) philosophy is amor
sapiential, the love of wisdom; its aim is to produce
happiness.
 However, for Augustine, wisdom is not just an abstract
logical constructions; but it is substantially existent as
the Divine Logos. Hence, philosophy is the Love of God:
it is then, religious.
 For Augustine, Christianity, as presenting the full
revelation of the true God, is the only full and true
philosophy. However, we can love only that which we
know. When comes this knowledge of God? It begins
with faith and is made perfect by understanding.

As French Poetry laments:

Philosophie
J’ai tout lu I have everything
J’ai tout vu I have seen all
J’ai tout connu I knew all
J’ai tout entendu I have heard all
J’ai tout eu I had it all
Et Je suis.. Un peu perdu I had lost.. I am a bit lost

 It should be taken as a humble acceptance of the fact

that human beings alone, without God, are bound to fail.
 John 15:5
 I am the vine, you are the branches. If you remain in me
and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me, you
can do nothing.
 Psalms 4:
 The thoughts are very deep! The dull man cannot know.
The stupid cannot understand this.
 We must first of all prove that truth is attainable by
reason. Does not knowledge come from sensation, and
does not the sense constantly deceive us?
 For St. Augustine, even if we grant that the senses yield
no certainty in themselves so that we can always doubt
their reports, one thing we cannot doubt, and that is the
fact that we doubt.