PROFESSOR DAVID LANE
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Post by PROFESSOR DAVID LANE on Oct 23, 2015 23:49:47 GMT
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Post by eferrerburnette on Nov 2, 2015 9:23:57 GMT
The Two Minute Warning: Jainism and the Practice of Ahimsa
From my understanding of the video, two minutes is all it takes for us to cause harm to someone else or to get angry. We should in those two minutes instead, reflect on the situation and consider that violence and anger are not the answer. We need to have more compassion for everything living around us. We need to be able to look outside of ourselves and consider the pain and suffering of others. This day in age we are so self consumed that we do not consider others and the harm we inflict on them. I had heard of Jainism before but was not very familiar with their beliefs. I really like the practice of Ahimsa and what it represents. I think that any religion or lifestyle that advocates peace and nonviolence is definitely a positive one.
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Post by Jenny Ramos on Nov 9, 2015 1:23:53 GMT
The Two Minute Warning: Jainism and the Practice of Ahimsa
This video is based on Michael Tibias book, the Life force which focuses on the practice of Ahimsa, a Jainism religion non violence practice that follows the path that if we just stopped and thought about the pain were about to cause, choosing the option of non violence would be an option and make the difference. Whether it is taking your children to the zoo, or killing a bug Ahimsa believes there is a choice. If we can lesson the pain and suffering of those around us, why not choose that option? How big is our circle of compassion? Can we pause and change our responses? According to the practice of Ahimsa, yes we all can.
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Post by Ken Shih on Nov 11, 2015 23:14:59 GMT
According to the video, this is covered some of the information in the book called “Life force: The world of Jainism” that written by Michael Tobias, and it is about the ancient Jain practice of ahimsa, or non-violence, and how becoming acutely aware of the suffering of others can be mitigated if we just stopped and deeply thought about how much unnecessary pain and suffering we cause to a variety of life forms surrounding us. It surprised me that two minutes of unthinking, unfeeling behavior have been reduced to insanity and pain. Peace is the necessary need to the whole world. I really like the idea of non-violence but it is very idealistic. The video also talks about how big our circle of compassion is. Jainism is the only major world religion that has never engaged in. It reminds me that I have to consider the feeling of people or even animals around us. We have to live with love and compassion.
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Post by jessjord on Nov 12, 2015 21:24:56 GMT
In the Two Minute Warning:Jainism and the Practice of Ahimsa, Professor Andrea Diem-Lane talks about the practice of Ahimsa and how we all could benefit from a world of non-violence. Being able to live in a world of non-violence could happen if we can all just become more aware of the many sufferings of others and just "stopped and deeply thought on how much unnecessary pain and suffering we cause to a variety of life forms surrounding us."(TwoMinute Video)If instead we took those two minutes of unthinking behavior we could see the lessening of pain of those around us. Professor Diem-Lane also suggest that instead of reacting and possibly lashing out on a living form, instead in that brief moment we instead "pause and change our responses"(TwoMinute Video) In fact, Jainism is the only religion that has not engaged in war. Is that not something that we would all want, to have no more wars? I certainly do. I believe the practice of Ahimsa is something we all should take in, so that we all could have the ability "to emphasize with all creatures great or small"(TwoMinute Video)
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Post by marwa on Nov 12, 2015 23:48:12 GMT
Jainism and the practice of Ahimsa
This short film gives a good brief explanation on how Jainism believes in no violence, meaning that they think that no one should be placed into unnecessary pain and torture. Starting from animals, insects, to human beings. Michael Tobias wrote a book named life force, this book unpacks the aspect that living thing should experience any kind of violence from the life we are immersed in. As stated in the film “To empathize with all creatures great or small.”
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Post by Yvette Garcia on Nov 13, 2015 2:31:14 GMT
While watching this short film on Jainism and the Practice of Ahimsa one can see how fast one can turn to violence, harm or anger that can happen in minutes. If one would stop and just take a deep breath it would give that person a chance to think about what they are about to do like hurt any living thing or be angry at certain people or situations. Violence is definitely not the answer nor does it solve anything. one should be more aware of living things and how important they are to the environment. The practice of Ahimsa is definitely one that is very interesting because if we can try to practice this religion of Jainism then I'm sure there would be more peace and compassion for others and living things. This is truly one thing that is good to talk to young ones to help them understand on how one should not turn to violence or anger, but teach them empathy and to be kind to everyone and everything.
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