...movies, her first being with her Big Boss partner Ashmit Patel. Recently she showed up in a horror movie named Mumbai 125km. 22. Yashdeep Nain: - Yashdeep Nain is a talented and young Indian television actor. He turned up for the reality show Perfect Bride. He was one of the contestants on the show. Since his debut, he has taken a break from acting, but now is back to the serial Buddha. Reports were there of him dating the gorgeous television actress Parul Chauhan. Both of them came across each other while shooting for the very first episode of the show Perfect Bride. The duo were constantly open about their relationship and never attempted to conceal anything. It was Paul who proposed him and confessed her love. Yashdeep is known for his short temperament nature. On talking about his nature with Parul, she admits of him being a short tempered guy, but on the other hand, she remarks that he...
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...I watched the movie Heaven is for real, based on the book by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent. The movie is about a boy and his family who are having some seemingly bad luck. The boys’ father works multiple jobs he is a pastor of a church, he is a handy-man, and a priest for the dying in a hospital. The boy gets sick and his appendix ruptured. When he wakes up he has visited heaven and met Jesus, he also knows things he shouldn’t such as his dad yelling at god in the hospital chapel. He explains that he saw the doctors working on him and angels singing. My views on religion are very diverse. I was brought up catholic, turned Christian when my mother converted, and now I am unsure. I believe all gods are as possible as another. When I think of gods or the afterlife I picture the Christian version with Jesus, angels, cherubs, etc. Though I subconsciously hope for this outcome, I would accept any outcome be it God, Buddha, Allah, Zeus, Kali, or Osiris. I also see myself as powerless to do anything about what afterlife exists, but I’ll accept any of them. If I died and Buddha was the one to appear in front of me I believe he or any other god would be as forgiving and understanding to all of us. We may never fully understand how the afterlife is until we get there, later rather than sooner in my opinion. For now all we can do is have faith in something and act goodly towards others, as any god would ask of us. I truly enjoyed the movie and the paper for making me think of how I view...
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...I watched the movie Heaven is for real, based on the book by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent. The movie is about a boy and his family who are having some seemingly bad luck. The boys’ father works multiple jobs he is a pastor of a church, he is a handy-man, and a priest for the dying in a hospital. The boy gets sick and his appendix ruptured. When he wakes up he has visited heaven and met Jesus, he also knows things he shouldn’t such as his dad yelling at god in the hospital chapel. He explains that he saw the doctors working on him and angels singing. My views on religion are very diverse. I was brought up catholic, turned Christian when my mother converted, and now I am unsure. I believe all gods are as possible as another. When I think of gods or the afterlife I picture the Christian version with Jesus, angels, cherubs, etc. Though I subconsciously hope for this outcome, I would accept any outcome be it God, Buddha, Allah, Zeus, Kali, or Osiris. I also see myself as powerless to do anything about what afterlife exists, but I’ll accept any of them. If I died and Buddha was the one to appear in front of me I believe he or any other god would be as forgiving and understanding to all of us. We may never fully understand how the afterlife is until we get there, later rather than sooner in my opinion. For now all we can do is have faith in something and act goodly towards others, as any god would ask of us. I truly enjoyed the movie and the paper for making me think of how I view...
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...Finding the Buddha's Light in Groundhog Day “A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again” (Pauline Kael). What this American film critic said in her book illuminates a fact that a good movie does not just entertain people, but also let people learn some of life’s philosophies and enlightenments. It is easy to find philosophies and enlightenments in Groundhog Day, which caused a sensation in the early 1990s and is still popular today. Groundhog Day’s considerable success is about more than just the performance of the humorous and witty plot, but also demonstrates many of life’s philosophies to the audience. These philosophies shown in the film have an enormous resonance to the Buddhist concept that makes people glad to use this film to spread Buddhist philosophies. The key reason for Groundhog Day being a valuable instrument in the teaching of Buddhism is its relevance to the Buddhist philosophies of reincarnation, love, and self-salvation. One key reason Groundhog Day is a valuable instrument in teaching Buddhism is its relevance to the Buddhist philosophy of reincarnation. One aspect of reincarnation in Buddhism is the endless cycle of life which is normally regarded as being reborn into a new existence after death, called Samsara in Buddhism. And Samsara...
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...“This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.” --Buddha IMPERMANENCE The Buddha saw life as a running stream. A trickle running inexorably downhill whose path is comprised of a series of unpredictable twists and turns which join together to create an illusion of steady flow when in reality every pebble causes a ripple. Ultimately the stream will constantly change and alter its course. The stream we see today is most assuredly different then it appeared yesterday and far different than it may appear tomorrow. Such is life; moving from cause to effect, from one state to another constantly changing and evolving from one moment to the next – impermanent. Buddhism teaches that there are three main truths which must be mastered in order to exist in this world; Impermanence (anicca), Suffering (dukkha), and Insubstantiality (anattaa). It is said that our existence can only be understood if these three basic facts are comprehended not only logically, but in confrontation with one’s own experience (Thera 2006). How might one’s individual experiences allow us to understand the Way of Buddhism? As part of his journey to becoming a Buddhist monk, Kamo-no-Chomei, believed minimization through impermanence was the correct path to finding the Way. His rationale being; to live...
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...Bruno Pendola Comparative Religions Movie questions 1. Siddhartha Gautama was born into a Hindu family. Into what caste was he born and what kind of life did he live as a boy and young man? He was born into the top caste because his father was a king. He had everything he could ever ask for when he was a young boy but he was never able to leave the walls of the city so he though life was easy, he was living in a blind world. 2. What was his father's reasoning for raising him the way he did? Do you agree with his father? His father raised him inside the city because there was no reason to leave the city. He had everything he could ever want when he was in the city. Trying to make him believe that everything was easy but then he realized that there is people suffering out there. Is not the fathers fault because he just want the best for his kid so basically I agree with the father because I would do the same if I have a kid just making sure that life is not easy. 3. What experience did Siddhartha have that opened his eyes to the world and made him question his father? Have you had an experience, maybe even a tragic one that has caused you to see the world in a totally different way? What can you say about that experience? Siddhartha saw suffering for the first time when he explored the city and he opened his eyes when he realized all the negative parts of the world, all the suffering. When a friend passed away from a heart disease, she got sick one day and the next...
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...Siddhartha is a book about a young man who goes on a endeavor to reach enlightenment. Through his journey he travels with a group of Samanas and his friend Govinda but when he reaches the Illustrious one (Buddha) he leave’s all of them to find a new way of enlightenment. He travels to a women named Kamala who tells Siddhartha to get a job. A man named Kamaswami gives him a job which allows Siddhartha to have money and the love of Kamala. He later leaves after one two many parties and goes to learn the ways of the river and how to be a ferryman. The book was written by Hermann Hesse who was born in 1877 in Calw, which was on the edge of the Black Forest where he was raised in a missionary household, people believed that he would some day...
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...succeeded in conquering Kalinga in the fatal war in which 100,000 men were killed, 150,000 injured, and thousands were captured and retained as slaves. The sight of the massacre involved in his conquest deeply distressed Ashoka and deeply affected his mind. Overwhelmed by the carnage, he changed his way of life. Brahmanism was the practiced religion of Ashoka, as he abstained from war forever and sought peace in Buddha’s preaching of love and ahimsa. The war developed in him a hatred of all kinds of violence so he gave up hunting and the slaughtering of animals. He became a strict vegetarian. His son, Mahinda, became a Theraveda monk and was sent to introduce Buddhism to Sri Lanka. Ashoka spent time piously retracing the steps of the Buddha and raising stupas inscribed with moral injunctions and imperatives at holy places of pilgrimage,...
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...2013-4” Sequence Analysis Tutorial 13 A) Explain the plot structure and the story duration of the film. To explain the plot structure, we need to break down the five main components of the plot. Breaking down the five main components of the plot structure will allow us to get a better understanding of our film. The five components are: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and the resolution/denouement. I will be using the plot structure that incorporates all five of these components into three acts: 1. Setup, 2. Conflict and Obstacles, and 3. Resolution. Set up Act 1: The protagonist in the film is the little boy/teenager/man. We can look at him as our Luke Skywalker, and the older man (the Master Buddha) can be our Yoda. As seasons pass, the boy turns into a teenager. The master allows the boy to learn many life lessons on his journey to adulthood. A woman and her daughter who happens to be the same age as the boy enter the story line. At this point, we can establish that these three people will be our main characters. A floating temple on a beautiful lake is our setting. The boy, who has never been around a woman, falls in love with the girl immedialy. The film becomes enticing when the boy has a sexual awaking with the girl, and they get caught in the act. After being caught, the master then decides the girl is finally healed and her spirits are high. The boy decides to run to the outside world with her. Conflict and...
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...The City as a Canvas Considered as a city with a multicultural environment and a hub of various cuisines, cultural activities and lifestyle, Melbourne seemed tailor-made for me. As an international student participating in the NU in program, the opportunity of studying abroad at Melbourne, a leading international city and center of sports and performing arts, seemed too surreal. Throughout my time in Melbourne, I was captivated with the numerous culturally significant sites in and outside the city, such as the colorful history and rich heritage of the Victorian Parliament and the natural beauty of Australia’s wildlife at Healesville Sanctuary. However, a site that seems to reflect Melbourne’s status as one of the world’s great street art capitals and unique artistic expressions is Hosier Lane. Coming from a city with a booming street art movement- Bangkok, Thailand- I felt compelled to compare and reflect about the diverse range of street art and the related subcultures in Hosier Lane to the rising street art movement in Bangkok. The traditional definition of street art is usually unsanctioned visual art created in public locations. This particular term gained popularity due to the rise of graffiti artwork during the early 1980s. Nowadays, common art forms of modern street art can be sticker art, stencil graffiti, sculptures and posters. Often, these artworks are considered as the artist’s attempts to communicate their personal feelings or can be perceived as conveying...
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...Iraqi-people-building before nation-building. Finally, we must put freedom ahead of any single idealogy, both domestic and abroad. This means that we must implement security measures without taking away individuals' due process under law, we must not allow any government agency to run amok and terrorize our own citizens. Our mission for freedom must be clear to both our soldiers and people of other nations so it does not appear as if we are fighting for oil and profit. Our mission for freedom must be so pure and true so others are willing to fight alongside with us and not against us. The Buddha and the Terrorist Seaman, Donna. The Booklist 102. 22 (Aug 2006): 14. Turn on hit highlighting for speaking browsers Abstract (summary) TranslateAbstract Kumar, Satish. The Buddha and the Terrorist. Sept. 2006. 144p. Algonquin, $14.95 (1-56512-520-7). 294. Full Text • TranslateFull text • Kumar, Satish. The Buddha and the Terrorist. Sept. 2006. 144p. Algonquin, $14.95 (1-56512-520-7). 294. Peace activist and spiritual thinker Kumar...
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...they are in the presence of the Original Buddha and their founder. Pictures are not allowed to be taken of the Gohonzon, but once the priest closed the doors of the Gohonzon, people were allowed to take pictures of the altar. In the middle of the altar there was the seat for the head priest who lead the chanting session. Also, to the left of the priests, there were drums, which the assistance played while everyone was chanting. I was surprised by how ornate the altar was. The service began with the chanting of the phrase “Nam Myoho Renge Kyo” which is believed to help them clear their minds and reach Enlightenment. After that we watched a short video about the general beliefs of Buddhism. I thought it was funny that clips of the movie of Buddhism that we watched in class were included in the video presentation they showed us at the temple. I thought that the video was very informative and provided a general overview of the religion. Following the video, the Chief Priest taught everyone the correct way to chant and to properly use the Juzu Beads, Buddhist prayer beads. I found the explanation of the prayer beads to be complex, but very intriguing. The prayer beads consist of two long strands joined at either end with two large beads and hanging from the outside of these large beads are two shorter strands on one side, and three on the other. The two large beads are called the father and mother beads and they represent the Buddha. In between the two large beads there...
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...The Beats were a criticism of American complacency and an expression of new forms of literature that has constantly influenced our society and living. The Beat generation started from a group of American writers who emerged in the 1950s. Among many Beat Generation writers, most influential members were Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Gary Snyder. All the writers have contributed to the literature society in their own different and unique way. Here in this essay, I will explore on unique characteristics or contributions that each writer has made on our literature society. Norman Mailer was a predominant writer in 1950s. He is mostly known as the writer of “White Negro”. He contributed on our literature by clarifying who Beat Generations are and how do we define them. In his essay The White Negro, he defined the Beatnik as young white people who like Jazz and swing music so much that they adopted black culture as their own. Beatniks adopted the African American vernacular language to differentiate themselves from the so-called “Mainstream”. The word they use is semantically flexible that words such as man, beat, cool, swing, with it, crazy, dig, flip, creep and hip can mean hundreds different things depending upon context to tone and rhythm. By further defining and exploring the meaning of Beat Generation, he allowed others to see what beat generation is truly about. Without his essay “The White Negro”, people would have interpreted Beat Generation...
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...Not Even On SNL I have read and seen many different television shows and articles written about the shows but not one quite like this. The article that I am referring to is called “Not Even in South Park” by Ross Douthat. In this article he talks about an episode on South Park entitled “Super Best Friends”, in which many of the characters use inappropriate language who looked for help from an unusual team of superheroes. In many cases this wouldn’t have been noticed nor acknowledged if it did not include a Muslim prophet called Muhammad, wearing a turban and a 5 o’clock shadow. Many people saw this as a very offensive clip because of the obscene language and also how it used different religious figures such as Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Mormonism’s Joseph Smith, Taoism’s Laotse and last but not least the Prophet Muhammad. In this time before the terror attack, us Americans were more liberal in what we used and showed but ever since then we are not allowed to use Muhammad at all in the us television shows because of the 9/11 attacks. Comedy Central pulled the skit because of the over whelming threats they have received since they aired it. Once pulled they tried to do it once more but this time not showing Muhammad at all, they shadowed him but using a truck and his identity hidden. They had thought they figured out a way to hide the fact that they were using the prophet again but because of his accent, this gave it away and fired up again because of this skit. Many Muslim...
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...Defining philosophy is an open-ended question; however, we as humans can only attempt to perceive its meaning and unlock perceived views of the meaning of life. This paper is a perspective of philosophy through the affiliation of happiness. The Buddha defines philosophy as "a way of thinking about the world, or a way of leading a more ethical life? Or is it a kind of psychotherapy - a way of helping us come terms with ourselves and with dilemmas that life constantly throws at us? (Kulananda. Principles of Buddhism,2004) ,alias, “The fundamental aspect of philosophy comes clearly to the forefront/ philosophy was (defined) a way of life (Chase, H. Philosophy as a way of life,1995). Conversely, yours and my meanings philosophy differ, evidently...
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