RS121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Operation Rolling Thunder, Clean Hands, Peace Action
Document Summary
Ideology creates worlds for us to live in: these worlds seem real and define our actions. Ideology creates hard and sure categories of analysis and generate undeniable truth claims. Ideological thinking stresses the good in our system and the evil in other. Buddhism teaches that this world is an illusion; truth transcends all concepts. Buddhism preaches open-mindedness, flexibility, constant willingness to see bigger truths. Like christianity, buddhism is a founded religion, begun by a single charismatic figure. Buddhism is traditionally divided into 3 main schools: 1) theravada path of the elders; south asia, 2) mahayana great path; east asia, 3) vajrayana diamond vehicle of buddhist tantric tradition; north asia. Buddhism is the second fastest growing religion in america it"s a worldwide religion. Module 9 the illusions of everyday life. Everything is an illusion: rain, engagement rings, grass vs. weed, vegetables. We need to make these categories to organize our world but the categories themselves become the problem.
