World View. Ideas Have Consequences.

World

View

Ideas Have Consequences

World

View

First CauseFirst Cause

• Matter• Higher Power

–Impersonal–Personal

• Matter• Higher Power

–Impersonal–Personal

What

is

Humanity?

How Can I Fix Me?

Atman is Brahman

As salt dissolved in a jar of water can be tasted but not found in the bottom middle or top of the jar so it is

Brahman is present in everything that exists

“If you meet Buddha on the road, kill him” Lin Chi—Famous 9th century Buddhist Master

“Truth is one; the wise call it by different names.” Rig Veda

Joshua ben Joseph

PROBLEM OF EVIL

• Learned• Setting• Nature

What

of

Morality?

• Extinction• Part of the Whole• Judgment

• Extinction• Part of the Whole• Judgment

What

of

History?

Meaningless

Cycle

Linear