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IDS EXAM #2
Buddhism, Hinduism, New Age, etc.
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Undergraduate 1
05/14/2011

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Upanishads
Definition

-philosophical literature

-Brahman/Atman

-Hinduism

Term
Bohemian Rhapsody
Definition

-Queen

-Nihilism

-"Nothing really matters to me"

-'Bizmillah' = In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

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The Vedas
Definition

  • "secret knowledge"
  • hymns/sacrifices
  • Hunduism (literature)

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Bhagavad Gita
Definition

  • One of the epics
  • Krishna and Prince Arjuna
  • Hinduism (Literature)

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Ramtha
Definition
channeled entity of J.Z. Knight (New Age)
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Albert Camus
Definition

  • Atheistic Existentialist
  • "The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays"
  • "One truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide."
  • "What is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and wild longing for clarity"
  • Quantity of living over quality; most living over best living"

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Shirley Maclaine
Definition

  • New Age
  • "Know that you are God"
  • actress

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Victor Frankl

 

Definition

  • "Gas chambers prepared by Nihilist doctors" (blamed the holocaust on Nihilism)
  • wrote about Nihilism
  • holocaust survivor

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Definition

  • Nihilism
  • "God is dead and we killed him" (social and cultural sense)
  • reality is absurd (no meaning, purpose, or value)
  • Master Morality (master of yourself) vs. Slave Morality (humility and service)
  • The "Will to Power" (cast away 'stupid' morals) (takes the place of God)

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Rhonda Byrne
Definition

  • New Age
  • wrote "The Secret"

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Krishna
Definition

  • Hindu Supreme Being
  • character Hindu writing
  • Bhagavad Gita (story about Krishna)

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James Twyman
Definition

  • New Age
  • "The Moses Code" (universal power you can tap into and do things like Moses did)

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Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Definition

 

  • Hinduism
  • "For tantra everything is holy, nothing is unholy"
  • "Anyone who gives you a belief system is your enemy"
  • God has never been born"
  • Tantric (sex) yoga

 

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John Cage

 

Definition

  • Nihilism
  • 4'33" (on a piano)
  • "I have nothing to say, and I am saying it."
  • "Organ 2/ASLSP" (still playing longest song in the world)

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J.Z. Knight
Definition

  • New Age "channeler"
  • channels Ramtha - warrior from Atlantis

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Siddhartha Gautama
Definition
first Buddha
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Samuel Beckett
Definition

  • Nihilism
  • "Breath" play (Life is brief; comes in a scream, ends in a scream. Inhale and exhale.)

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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Definition

  • developed Transcendental Meditation
  • "T.M. opens awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone"
  • consciousness-based education; school in Iowa
  • tap into full use of the brain

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Kurt Cobain
Definition

  • leader of Nirvana 
  • Nihilist
  • committed suicide

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Richard Gere
Definition
Buddhist
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Soren Kierkegaard
Definition

  • Theistic Existentialist
  • Father of Existentialism
  • Rational Philosophies vs. "Cold" Christianity

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Dalai Lama
Definition
Buddhist leader
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Jean Paul Sartre
Definition

  • Atheistic Existentialism
  • "Nausea"
  • "Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself"
  • "No Exit" (a play - man is totally free and hell is other people)

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Malcolm Muggeridge
Definition

  • Christian cultural critic
  • Nihilism = "megalomania, erotomania, drive for power, and pleasure"
  • Someone is going to have to take God's place when He is dead.

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Charles Jencks
Definition

  • Postmodernist
  • Pruitt Igoe destruction = beginning of P.M. because the building was supposed to be an answer to all of the problems in St. Louis... = end of modernism

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Shiva
Definition

  • god of Hinduism
  • destroyer

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Maitreya
Definition

  • New Age
  • One-world leader of New Age movement
  • (For Jews, it was the Messiah, for Christians, it was Jesus, for Buddhists.... etc.)

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Douglas Adams
Definition

  • Nihilism
  • "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (ultimate answer = 42)
  • trilogy of 5 books

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Stephen Crane
Definition

  • Nihilist
  • Father = methodist preacher
A man said to the Universe, 
Sir, I exist! 
Nevertheless, replied the universe 
That fact has not created in me
The slightest feeling of obligation

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Jean-Francis

Lyotard

Definition

  • Postmodernist
  • coined the term 'postmodernism'

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Pruitt Igoe
Definition

  • Building that, when it was destroyed, symbolized the end of Modernism and beginning of Postmodernism (according to Charles Jencks)
  • housing project in St. Louis (modern thing to do; it failed)

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Mahayana Buddhism
Definition

  • Ideal is Bodhisattva
  • focus: community - sense of dependence
  • key virtue: compassion
  • Buddha: savior
  • ideal: Bodhistattva

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Pluralism
Definition

  • acceptance of different religions
  • living among all the differences
  • we live in a pluralistic society

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Mantra
Definition

  • sacred phrases
  • Om Mani Padme Hum
  • OM
  • Nam Amida Butsu

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Karma
Definition

  • Hinduism/Buddhism/New Age
  • action
  • rewarded when you die for the good things you did

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Syncretism
Definition

  • blending of religions
  • ex: New Age

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Buddahood
Definition

  • Nirvana -> perfect state of enlightenment/peace -> leads to buddahood
  • Techniques to reach it... 
  1. yoga
  2. mantras
  3. koans
  • reaching supreme consciousness, "OM"

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Arahat
Definition
ideal for Hinayana Buddhism; something you try to achieve
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Ex Nihilo
Definition

  • "from nothing"
  • Nihilism

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The 4 Noble Truths of Buddhism
Definition

  1. All life is suffering (dukkha)
  2. Thirst (desire) causes suffering
  3. Eliminate desire to cease suffering
  4. Follow 8-fold path to eliminate desire: (right speech, right actions, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right meditation, right understanding, right thoughts)

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Dharma
Definition

  • Hinduism
  • order develops good karma
  • caste system

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Yoga
Definition

  • "to join"
  • to dispel the illusion
  • to root out unconscious tendencies of the modd

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Cultural Relativism
Definition

 

  • cultures, in fact, differ
  • customs/practices
  • what is cultural/what is universal?
  • descriptive

 

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OM
Definition

  • sacred syllable of Hinduism
  • mantra
  • AH = waking life
  • OH = dreaming life
  • MM = dreamless sleeping life
  • OM = supreme consciousness; silence

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Monism
Definition

  • oneness of all
  • everything is one

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Monotheism
Definition
one God
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Tao
Definition

  • Taoism = Eastern religion
  • "the path" or "way"
  • Ying-Yang
  • balance

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Philosophical Postmodernism
Definition

  • Relativism
  • Absolute Truth
  • can discover Truth
  • Reason and Science
  • Certain Foundation
  • total objectivity
  1. weaker interpretations are influenced by language and perspective
  2. stronger interpretations are determined

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Jiva
Definition

  • false self
  • Hinduism

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Bizmillah
Definition

  • Islam
  • In Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"
  • "In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful"

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Carpe Diem!
Definition

  • "Seize the day!"
  • Existentialism

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Chakras
Definition

  • New Age/Eastern Pantheistic Monism
  • yoga
  • energy centers in your body

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Moksha
Definition
ultimate enlightenment in Hinduism
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Philosophical Suicide
Definition

  • desire to understand the world but we lack the answers
  • existentialism

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Koan
Definition

  • questions or statements to help achieve enlightenment
  • they make no sense... ("What is the sound of one hand clapping?" "What did your face look like before your parents begat you?")

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Anatta
Definition

  • Buddhism
  • self... but kind of non-self since there is no you, trying to get rid of self, a not self
  • (think: anatta... anatt-self)

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Polytheism
Definition
many gods
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Maya
Definition

  • Hinduism
  • idea of physical reality, communicates notion that this world is illusion/not reality
  • 'illusion'

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Samsara
Definition

  • cycle of rebirth
  • reincarnation

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Atman
Definition

  • Hinduism
  • "Athman is Brahman"
  • who you really are; your true self

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Bodhisattva
Definition

  • savior
  • ideal in Mahayana Buddhism

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Kundalini
Definition

  • type of yoga
  • trying to rid yourself of desire
  • helps to access oneness/infinite energy 
  • spiritual

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Brahman
Definition

  • all encompassing divine force
  • god of Hinduism (oneness/godliness
  • creator
  • the One that everything comes into

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Brahmin
Definition
Hindu Priest
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Hinayana Buddhism
Definition

  • Focus: individualistic/self-emancipating
  • key virtue: wisdom
  • Buddha: saint
  • ideal: Arahat (saint)

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Cultural Postmodernism
Definition

  • no absolute truth
  • can't know the truth
  • whatever works
  • no certain foundation
  • objectivity lost
  • "Reality" is determined by your perspective

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Cognitive Relativism
Definition

  • no universal truths/values can exist
  • everything is relative
  • no moral criticism across cultures
  • evaluative

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