NEW101H1 Lecture : Socially engaged Buddhism, january 8th 2014.docx
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Reminds everyone that walks in to the temple they know there walking in to a religious environment, in a zen buddhist temple, you wont even find a single buddha image, just a repetition hall it"s a empty room, with not even chairs or tables, maybe on the side by the walls you may find some meditative cushions, the actual belief on many these buddha traditions are different, different in tera vana buddhism and maha yana, there a belief we trapped in samsara, referring to a endless cycle of living and dying, upon death you"ll reincarnate in to another being depending on your karma, this cycle go on and on until you reach enlightenment a liberation from this cycle of suffering samsara, there is a realm of suffering known as samsara, through buddhist practice one obtain liberation upon stage of samsara.
