George: Daoism/Shinto Master
Juan - Confucianism
Caitlin - Hinduism
Daoism/Shinto Master: Ohayogozaimasu! Gennkidesuka?
Confused Confucius: What up?
Miss Hinduism: Who is God?
Daoism/Shinto Master: Oh very interesting question! I shall answer this first. In my religion we dont have a specific god necessarily. It’s more based on the ideas of nature. To be precise, “Tao Te Ching” or The way and its power. Tao, in itself, means “way,” making my religion more of a way of life. And in Shintoism, we believe in Kami, or the Spirits. Very natury:)
Confused Confucius: Even though Confucius, me, am a man that believes in ancient Chinese folk Religion, Confucianism, as an ideology, is humanistic and non-theistic, and does not include a belief in a supernatural or godly beings. So... I don’t got one.
Miss Hinduism: In my religion, we do not have just one god. We have One Reality, which can be seen in many forms.
Daoism/Shinto Master: Well what about your other gods? Sun god, creator god, destroyer god? Please elaborate!
Miss Hinduism: We have the Ultimate Reality, which can be Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Shiva the Destroyer. The Ultimate Reality can be seen as many different faces or names, but it is the same One Reality.
Daoism/Shinto Master: Ok, thank you for clearing that up for me. Much appreciated.
Miss Hinduism: In my religion we do not have “enlightenment”. We have Brahman. We believe that in our life, we can work hard and acquire karma, which can be good or bad. At the end of our lives we believe after death we are reincarnated, and according to how we acted in our previous life or next life will either put us in a higher or lower caste system. If you have good karma, you go up in the caste system until eventually you reach Brahman.
Confused Confucius: I really don’t care why they are here. I know that seems a bit blunt, but I think that it doesn’t matter where we came from, we just have to know what we can do whilst we are here. The closest thing I can tell you toward human creation is that, it was made by the Heavens so that humans would be teachable, improvable and perfectible beings which would be achieved through personal and communal interaction. Especially with self-cultivation and/or self-recreation.
Miss Hinduism: My religion believes that we are here to learn and grow, to absorb religious philosophies and concepts, ritual, theology, and the ceremonies of other religions. We are also here to worship our One Reality, and to reach Brahman.
Daoism/Shinto Master: so coming off of the topic of how we all got here, what do you folks think happens when we all kick the bucket?
Miss Hinduism: As I said above, in Hinduism we believe that we are reincarnated based off of how good or bad our karma was in this life. When you have good karma you move up in the caste system in your next life, but if you have bad karma you move down in the caste system.
Confused Confucius: As for me, I just think that the afterlife is just too complicated for humans to ever understand. So why bother? Just live life to what you think is right and promote social relations instead of living purely based on expectations of rewards or punishment in death.
Daoism/Shinto Master : Much agreed Brother. Live life for what we’ve got now! Don’t be looking to the future for things that are uncertain. We don’t know what the future holds. Lets just do the best we can today.
Daoism/Shinto Master: Thanks colleagues. This was absolutely fantastic. A very intelligent conversation!
Confused Confucius: Word. No probs, bro.
Hindu lady: THank you. Namaste.
Juan - Confucianism
Caitlin - Hinduism
Daoism/Shinto Master: Ohayogozaimasu! Gennkidesuka?
Confused Confucius: What up?
Miss Hinduism: Who is God?
Daoism/Shinto Master: Oh very interesting question! I shall answer this first. In my religion we dont have a specific god necessarily. It’s more based on the ideas of nature. To be precise, “Tao Te Ching” or The way and its power. Tao, in itself, means “way,” making my religion more of a way of life. And in Shintoism, we believe in Kami, or the Spirits. Very natury:)
Confused Confucius: Even though Confucius, me, am a man that believes in ancient Chinese folk Religion, Confucianism, as an ideology, is humanistic and non-theistic, and does not include a belief in a supernatural or godly beings. So... I don’t got one.
Miss Hinduism: In my religion, we do not have just one god. We have One Reality, which can be seen in many forms.
Daoism/Shinto Master: Well what about your other gods? Sun god, creator god, destroyer god? Please elaborate!
Miss Hinduism: We have the Ultimate Reality, which can be Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Shiva the Destroyer. The Ultimate Reality can be seen as many different faces or names, but it is the same One Reality.
Daoism/Shinto Master: Ok, thank you for clearing that up for me. Much appreciated.
So Mr. Confucius and Ms. Hindu lady, what, in your views, in the meaning of life???
Miss Hinduism: In my views, the meaning of life is to reach Brahman. Brahman is Ultimate Reality.
Confused Confucius: It is my belief that humans are created by the Heavens and because of that, every human has his or her own “heavenly purpose” to fulfil out in life. That is the meaning of life for me. My idea of Heaven also had a sacred element, being of where the source of life comes from. Therefore, one must respect his or her heavenly mission and see to it that it is completed.
Daoism/Shinto Master: What about Enlightenment?
Miss Hinduism: In my religion we do not have “enlightenment”. We have Brahman. We believe that in our life, we can work hard and acquire karma, which can be good or bad. At the end of our lives we believe after death we are reincarnated, and according to how we acted in our previous life or next life will either put us in a higher or lower caste system. If you have good karma, you go up in the caste system until eventually you reach Brahman.
Daoism/Shinto Master: Ahhhh very interesting. Well you see, for me the meaning of life isnt to reach some location such as enlightenment, but to just live life for what it is. To respect the things around us. The basic principle for my religions is based around Wu Wei. Wu Wei just means to literally let things happen as they would naturally in nature. Not for us to interfere with them, but to let them be, to act in harmony with, and give them a ‘lil respect.
Miss Hinduism: Why do you think mankind exists?
Daoism/Shinto Master: Well for my religions, we believe that things happen naturally, so, i guess that over time, we’ve gotten to where we are base on nature and its response to the things around it. We have no one god who brought us here. We’re just...here, living our life in relationship with our surroundings. For shintoism though, we believe that things were just brought up through the kami -- or spirits. that kami are qualities of nature, growth, fertility, and production.
Confused Confucius: I really don’t care why they are here. I know that seems a bit blunt, but I think that it doesn’t matter where we came from, we just have to know what we can do whilst we are here. The closest thing I can tell you toward human creation is that, it was made by the Heavens so that humans would be teachable, improvable and perfectible beings which would be achieved through personal and communal interaction. Especially with self-cultivation and/or self-recreation.
Miss Hinduism: My religion believes that we are here to learn and grow, to absorb religious philosophies and concepts, ritual, theology, and the ceremonies of other religions. We are also here to worship our One Reality, and to reach Brahman.
Daoism/Shinto Master: so coming off of the topic of how we all got here, what do you folks think happens when we all kick the bucket?
Miss Hinduism: As I said above, in Hinduism we believe that we are reincarnated based off of how good or bad our karma was in this life. When you have good karma you move up in the caste system in your next life, but if you have bad karma you move down in the caste system.
Confused Confucius: As for me, I just think that the afterlife is just too complicated for humans to ever understand. So why bother? Just live life to what you think is right and promote social relations instead of living purely based on expectations of rewards or punishment in death.
Daoism/Shinto Master : Much agreed Brother. Live life for what we’ve got now! Don’t be looking to the future for things that are uncertain. We don’t know what the future holds. Lets just do the best we can today.
Daoism/Shinto Master: Thanks colleagues. This was absolutely fantastic. A very intelligent conversation!
Confused Confucius: Word. No probs, bro.
Hindu lady: THank you. Namaste.
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