What Buddhism and Christianity Teach about the Significance, Purpose, and Value of Human Life :: essays research papers

What do Buddhism and Christianity Teach About the Significance, Purpose AndValue of forgiving Life?BUDDHISM" The concern of Buddhism is with man rather than with the real universe.The phenomenal world is held to be without substance and to be in a constant cast of flux. Man himself is no less impermanent than the materialworld."* Human living is subject to Anicca, the law of impermanence. This content that nothing ever stays the same     To be born tender-hearted is a rare opportunity. Buddhists take this vox populi soseriously that a story was written for the sole purpose of illustrating it. Itis called The Turtle and The Yoke. A turtle is described, swimming around inthe ocean, popping up for air every thousand years or so. It is claimed thatthe peril of being incarnated human are the same as that of the turtle puttinghis head with the yoke (which also floats around the ocean) on one of histrips to the top. It follows, therefore, that to waste i t is to waste numberlesslives spent trying to gain this precious rebirth and also the chance ofenlightenment. The law of Karma says All actions will entail consequences inthe next life, so a Buddhists freedom could be said to be somewhat compromised.This law means that, to be reincarnated human, you must live a near-perfect life.Any wrong doing on our part is foolish, because the condition experienced inpresent existence is regarded as having been caused by past deeds. It isbeneficial, therefore, to use the golden opportunity wisely, as you are unlikelyever to get another crack at the apple.     Buddhism and therefore human life is a quest to free us and the worldfrom suffering and to promote happiness.CHRISTIANITY     "Human life is the basis of all values it is the source andindispensable condition for every human activity and all society"     Each human is made in the image of divinity fudge, with power to reaso n and choose.     Therefore every human life should be cherished and preserved and alllives, rich or poor, strong or weak, young or old. Society itself can bejudged by its attitude towards its weaker members.God owns our lives and bodies, or rather he gave them to us as a giftand we must not give it up or call it.     "Do you know that your body is a temple of the holy spirit, which youhave from God? You are not on your own, you were bought with a price. Soglorify God in your body.     Pope Jean Paul II summed up this idea in a statement he issued in 1980.