Jainism

helloween_metal · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject:

you know if you can speak american english in india then you can earn lot of money.like my brother Laughing

my accent sucks Sad

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Moloth · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:04 pm Post subject:

helloween_metal · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:05 pm Post subject:

in an indian outsourcing company. call centres basically
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CET · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:06 pm Post subject:

CET · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject:

helloween_metal · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:08 pm Post subject:

i always love to read about different races...america is really filled up with lots of different races...here in india you find only 2 race Sad

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CET · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:12 pm Post subject:

Moloth · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:15 pm Post subject:

CET · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject:

Damn you helloween_metal! I'm looking at ESL teaching websites now. I've got a good job, I'm going to start back to school in January to finish my business degree, and I'm really getting connected to my family and girlfriend. I don't need to be pondering the idea of running away to India right now!

*sigh*

Damn my adventurous spirit!
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Aupmanyav · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:21 am Post subject:

Compassion for all life, human and non-human, is central to Jainism. Human life is valued as a unique, rare opportunity to reach enlightenment. To kill any person, no matter their crime, is considered unimaginably abhorrent. It is the only religion that requires monks and laity, from all its sects and traditions, to be vegetarian. Some Indian regions have been strongly influenced by Jains and the majority of the local non-Jain population is vegetarian.

Anekantavada, a foundation of Jain philosophy, literally means "The Multiplicity of Reality", or equivalently, "Non-one-endedness". Anekantavada has tools for overcoming inherent biases in any one perspective on any topic or in reality in general. Another tool is The Doctrine of Postulation, Syadvada. Anekantavada is defined as a multiplicity of viewpoints, for it stresses looking at things from others' perspectives. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekantavada#Jain_doctrines_of_relativity)

I am sorry that Haloween_Metal is so much against the atheistic religion in which he was born. I respect Mahavira as a great thinker. His views were far advanced of his time. I take 'Ahimsa' (non-violence) in Indic religions as a gift of Jainism. Mahavira was a radical. There was no middle way for him. If he was for non-possession, he even discarded his clothes. If it was non-violence, then he did not react even when village boys stoned him or put nails in his ears. If it was spurning comforts of life, then he wanted to be reminded by pulling of his hair rather than having it tonsured by a barber. He was a revolutionary.
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Aupmanyav · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:22 am Post subject: Re: Jainism

Shiranu · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:30 am Post subject:

Jainism is one of the few religious sects I admire. They may have their reasoning wrong, and have flaws (but dont we all, atheists included?), but in the end I respect alot of what they do.

I dont get the hair part or tourturing ones self. Life is life, rather its some one elses or your own. By not taking care of your own, the meaning is lost.
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Aupmanyav · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:40 am Post subject:

You see, Shiranu, taking out hair by hand was not for laity. It is meant for renunciates. What is accepted for laity and renunciates is 'Santhara' for old people. 'Santhara' is embracing death by abandoning food and water intake and thinking about philosophical questions of life. Not that I would recommend that for any one, but ideosyncracies of this religion. Not that everyone would do that, but that some people do changes the concept of life for others.
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Aupmanyav · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:48 am Post subject:

Aupmanyav · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:10 am Post subject:

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