Brigid Dolan's List: Spiritual

• Our world and our experiences are not characterized by separation, but are the continuously generated syntheses between the perceiver and the perceived, an ongoing interplay of mutual dependence. This focus on interconnectedness and interdependence makes personal Buddhist action simultaneously a social action
• we see that they are integral to our world just like ourselves.
• a dead person, a dying person, a decrepit person, and an impoverished person—

• The Upanishadic school asserted:

   
   
  1. the existence of an individual soul (atman)
   
  2. the reality of human consciousness and karma
   
  3. the continuity of one’s personality after death.
• how do human beings alleviate persistent unsatisfactoriness in this world?
• the source of human unsatisfactoriness as perpetual craving and unnatural attachment
• He recognized the alleviation of human unsatisfactoriness as awareness of dependent origination, the process by which all things in this world arise and pass away--known as “causation” in the West
• Buddhism recognizes that the orientations and views humans take stem from particular perspectives, which each yield their own conclusions, dependent on the contingency and present needs of the observer. All human beings are privy to a particular albeit limited perspective of the whole. But by staying mindful of the knowledge that our personal views are limited, and by retaining an understanding that all things are connected, we can contribute to personal and social harmony that acknowledges difference and variety as just unique manifestations of the whole.
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