Comparitive Religions

[gandalfglamdrin.livejournal.com]

Good evening, and welcome to the class tonight.
I hope you have your homework from last class done, and a large thank you again to Rogue, for handling that for me.

Sit, enjoy the food, please...

and we will discuss the basic tennents of Buddism.

Can anyone tell me what those are?

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[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

You mean learning the Four Noble Truths and following the path of enlightenment? Sorry, I find Buddhism fascinating--I see it as being very close to how I have been taught.

In Buddhism, they believe that life is unsatisfactory because of cravings--attachments to things. To make life better, you must cease your attachment to all things material.

This is very similar to Jedi beliefs, sir.

[gandalfglamdrin.livejournal.com]

tell me about how the purpose of suffering plays into this, then...

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.

Suffering is a reminder, I guess, that you're too attached to something or someone.