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HEALTH CARE AND WELLNESS 1 Health Care and Wellness Provider and Faith Diversity Willie Morris Grand Canyon University HLT 302: Spirituality and Christian Values in Health Care and Wellness Dr. Randy Weisberg May 19, 2024,

HEALTH CARE AND WELLNESS 2 Health Care and Wellness Provider and Faith Diversity In the practice of health care and wellness, one encounters various people and situations. One of those things being the patients’ having different or multiple faith or spiritual backgrounds. In these events, it should not change how one cares for these patients but offer the same high-quality care with respect to their situation. This paper will be a comparative analysis of two faiths providing health care in wellness: the first being the Christian perspective, and the second the Buddhist perspective. It will serve as the baseline to understanding the two perspectives as well as bring awareness to those who may face this challenge soon. Basic Worldview Christianity and Buddhism In comparing these two faith perspective, there are several basic questions that I think will allow one to grasp the understanding of the analysis for each. Questions that ask each perspectives the following: their view on prime reality, the nature of the world, what it is to be a human being, what happens after death, their theory of right and wrong, human history. Prime Reality In the Christian perspective is their belief in God being the Almighty, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning, and the End. Shelly and Miller described it as “God is Triune, He is the Father, He is Son, and He is the Holy Spirit; He, being three persons in one, reviews to mankind that there is a community within God.” (Shelly & Miller, 2009). In regards to the Buddhists their views are that they are no such thing “life is both endless and subject to impermanence, suffering and uncertainty” (BBC.com,2014). It is believed with Buddhist that there are multiple gods called “devas,” but there is no God that is considered as the highest or first being compared that to God in Christianity. Nature of the World Around Us When it comes to the questions about the nature of the world around us, the Christian perspective states that the universe and all things are created by God with biblical stories supporting events that have

HEALTH CARE AND WELLNESS 3 taken place and serves both as symbolic as well as (Shelly & Miller, 2009). “Buddhists see the world with emptiness.” (BBC.com, 2014). The Dalai Lama, a well-known respected leader in the Buddhism perspective stated, “It’s not the emptiness of existence, however the emptiness of true or independent existence, which is broken down to mean that everything exists by dependence of other factors” (His Holiness, n.d.). What it is to be a Human Being The understanding of being human is the Christian perspective is referred as “being made in the image of God that bestowed dignity and honor on every person, regardless of social, mental, or physical status” (Shelly & Miller, 2006, pg. 76). In Buddhism, according to the Aggañña Sutta (DN.27), “humans started out as Brahma-like beings reborn from the Ābhāsvara Brahma-realm. They were then beings shining in their own light, capable of moving through the air without mechanical aid, living for a very long time, and not requiring sustenance. Over time, they acquired a taste for physical nutriment, and as they consumed it, their bodies became heavier and more like human bodies; they lost their ability to shine and began to acquire differences in their appearance. (“Human beings in Buddhism - Wikipedia”) Their length of life decreased, they differentiated into two sexes and became sexually active. Following this, greed, theft, and violence arose among them, and they consequently established social distinctions and government and elected a king to rule them, called Mahāsammata, the great appointed one .” (Sutta, DN. 27) What Happens After Death The idea of what happens after death in the Christian perspective is if one accepts God in their heart and try to live a faithful life, they will be rewarded with eternal life in the Kingdom of Heaven. In Buddhism death is viewed as “an essential part of the predicament that humans find themselves in, which is a wheel of life and death, with the possibility of reincarnation for those enlightened individuals who choose to be reborn to help others become enlightened.” (Ratanakul, 2004). If one is granted enlightened have the chance to become reincarnated to continue the process of enlightenment. The question of why it

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