It explains that when we spend a lifetime wanting and desiring and even more when we desire to continue to exist we are reborn. When we are reborn, we have a body and the body is at subject to injury and disease; it can be exhausted by work; it ages and eventually dies. ... Desires should be diminished. ... Dukkha begins from attachments, craving or desire. ... We may desire physical pleasure, or fine possessions. ...

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The idea of getting killed over night from an animal or dying from starvation was not a tentative option, so people decided to stay together and work with each other so that they would be able to survive. ... Questions, fears and desires represent some of the reasons why people have been looking for answers ever since the beginning of time. Answers about why does it rain or where do we go after we die, represent some of the hundreds of reasons people started to believe that they were not alone and there was someone else that was not only watching over them. ... For instance, we know that we ag...

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Release (moksha) from this can only come from the giving up of all worldly desires during one of your lives. ... As part of dharma, most Hindus are vegetarian, as by doing such they abide by one of their highest rules, to abstain from the desire to injure. ... The temple faces the west, the direction that the dieing face in order to head to their next life. ...

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Samurai And Religion Introduction When speaking about the history of Japanese society, the samurai is a very interesting phenomenon. Although the samurai, as a human being, disappeared at the time when Japan opened itself to the West, much of the mentality of the Japanese people could years later, and can even now be traced back to the lifestyle of that warrior class. This essay is concerned with the role that religion played in the life of the samurai. The central question hereby is: "How is the religion of the samurai expressed in their views towards death?". First, as little intro...

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(Robinson) In Islam, Muslims believe in a resurrection, the rising from the dead were the soul reunites with the body after they die. ... (Afterlife) Heaven is defined in tangible languages as a place where every desire is satisfied. ... When a Hindu dies, they are evaluated in agreement with their karma. ...

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The teachings of Buddhism were basically religious, offering escape from the sufferings of life and endless reincarnation caused by human desires into an indescribable state of no desire known as Nirvana. ...

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