Why are disabled people ‘disabled’? Come up with as many different answers to this question as you can. What do Hindus believe about Life after Death?

Why are disabled people ‘disabled’?

Come up with as many different answers to this question as you

can.

What do Hindus believe about Life after Death?

Key Words

• Atman• Brahman• Samsara• Moksha• Dharma

What do Hindus believe about Life after Death ?

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/death-in-hinduism/3626.html

“Just as a person casts off worn-out garments and puts on others that are new, even so does the embodied soul cast off worn-out bodies and takes on others that are new.”(Bhagavad Gita 2,13).

The distinction between the body and

the soul makes reincarnation another dualistic account of

life after death.

Reincarnation: arguments against• The arguments against dualism given by Ryle

apply as easily to reincarnation as they do to the immortality of the soul – the mind should not be seen as non-physical.

• Evidence for yoga memory may be flimsy. Stephen Davies argues that contact between families may allow children to account for a remembered ‘past life’ which they have not really experienced. He asks whether some cases of yoga memory are actually deliberate fraud.

• Although Hindu philosophy is very ancient, that does not make it right. Incorrect beliefs may be well established.

People will be rewarded and punished according to their actions.

The Law of Karma is about Cause and Effect

Karma is linked with the belief in Reincarnation

Read through the worksheet on Hinduism/Sikhism (also accounts for Jainism). Do not go as far as the strengths and weaknesses!

Then – in pairs, come up with the strengths and weaknesses of the Hindu idea of reincarnation.

Revise hard for an exam Pass the exam

You get what you deserve!

What do Hindus believe happens to you when you die?

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and a half-decent brain. Some people have not been born like that for a reason.

The karma is working from another lifetime.

Glen Hoddle was sacked as England manager shortly after the interview.

I accept I made a serious error of judgement in an interview which caused misunderstanding and pain to a number of people.

This was never my intention and for this I apologise.

“Glenn Hoddle deserved to be sacked for his comments on the disabled”

Do you agree? Give reasons for and against this statement.

Only spend 5 minutes on this… what do you think?

What other religion believes in REINCARNATION

BuddhismXREAD THROUGH THE INFORMATION ON BUDDHISM, MAKE A LIST OF STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES.

THEN, WRITE AN EVALUATIVE ESSAY PLAN: ‘The concept of reincarnation is incoherent’. Introductory paragraph, topic sentences for each main paragraph, conclusion in full.