Compare And Contrast Nirvana And Heaven

““Worldwide, more than eight-in-ten people identify with a religious group,” says a new comprehensive demographic study of more than 230 countries and territories conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life.” (Harper). Within the top five most popular religions, Christianity if found to be at the top with Buddhism ranked number four. With millions of people from around the world participating in these religions, one may wonder how they compare to one another. Upon exploration of Buddhism and Christianity, many similarities are found such as the importance of a spiritual master, shared values, and the followers strive for spiritual perfection. Although Buddhism and Christianity encompass many similarities within the religions, the fundamental differences in the view of God, salvation, and reincarnation ultimately outweigh their likeness.

In the Gospel of John, Jesus is seen describing Heaven as God’s house that consists of infinite dwelling places for those whom have faith and love in God as well as Jesus (John 14:1-4). Heaven is a glorious and graceful place that heals all wounds, whether it be a physical distortion or sickness, or be it a mental or emotional problem. As seen in Isaiah 35, the glory of the Lord will strengthen bodies, heal those whom are blind, deaf, a limp and other disabilities that may endure in the bodily experience. Heaven is a sanctifying place that illuminates the essence of God and his son Jesus’ sacrifice to crown everyone with everlasting joy. The primary reason for the glorification of Heaven is that one will not be with God at last commit to the highest form of love and faith. While in heaven, one will experience no pain, mourning, tears and everything will be new and glorious (Revelation 21). Upon entering Heaven, there will be complete peace and “they shall build houses and live in them, they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit” (Isaiah 65:

Nirvana is a place of peace, similar to heaven. Benares Sermon was for the followers of Buddha, and was written to open eyes of the followers. Buddha’s words became widespread because they offered guidance to the people. Not everybody had to practice the Eightfold Path, but this did not mean many people chose not to. This showed that the people in this society were afraid to follow the rules in order to get to nirvana. Liberation was the end goal, which is why the people were so willing to obey by these rules. This meant if you followed this got liberated from rebirth. Benares Sermon shows how willing people are to follow somebody's rules.

This is the place the souls of the dead revisit the land of the living and partake in the offerings given to them by their family and friends.

Later on in the book Alexander talks about the core where he saw "[b]ig, puffy, pink-white [clouds] that showed up sharply against the deep blue-black sky" (p. 45). Everyone who thinks of heaven, thinks of clouds. It is not uncommon for anyone to describe heaven that way. It is very stereotypical and made it no different that anyone else's image of heaven. "A sound, huge and booming like a glorious chant, came from above, and I wondered if the winged beings were producing it" (Alexander, 2012, p. 45) is also another stereotype of what people say you'd hear when you're in heaven. Again, not enough proof.

…a place of worship and reverence, sacred to God. But crossing that threshold in the Middle Ages took you into many places at once: a town hall, a social club, even a marketplace, and yet also a temple, a place of authority, and indeed nothing less than a kind of heaven itself.

The word Nirvana means "to extinguish," such as extinguishing the flame of a candle. This "extinguishment" is not understood by Buddhists to mean annihilation, however. Rather, it is thought of as passing into another kind of existence (O’Brien, Barbara).

On numerous occasions, the New Testament shared the concept of paradise alluding to a gathering place for the saints of God. When Jesus was on the cross with the criminal, He turned to him and replied, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise” (Lk, 23:43). From this point, Jesus provided an afterlife concept giving the criminal hope and satisfaction that there was more coming after death.

For us Catholics, heaven is a very beautiful and peaceful place. It is also a place where you live an eternity with happiness, and endless love. In heaven it’s a worry free zone. My dad always says it’s a place where there’s no homework, no bills, no worries. Just living in a beautiful place, for all eternity. Hell is a place where no one wants to be, it’s a place where there is a lot of suffering,

Lastly Suffering or Sorrow. According to the text, this refers to the fact that life, when lived in a typical manner can never be fully satisfying because of its constant change. Even in the midst of pleasure, we are always aware that pleasure is short-lived. The Sanskrit word for this is duhkha. Buddha rejected the notion of a permanent soul but believed in rebirth. Buddhism proposes that certain elements of personality (not necessarily a soul) that make up an individual can recombine and continue from one lifetime to another while karma determines how an individual will be reborn and his/her life’s circumstances. (pages 131-132)

Buddhism’s liberation from samsara is known as "nirvana" which literally means "blowing out" or "extinction," like quenching a flame. In Buddhist teaching, humans are bound to samsara through the flames of anger, ignorance and desire. So when one attains nirvana, one quenches anger (which focuses on the past), ignorance (which focuses on the present) and desire (which focuses on the future). In Buddhism, humans escape life and death by quenching all the anger, ignorance and desire while the physical body may still be alive. This is why Buddhists speak of rebirth rather than reincarnation. Nirvana is

Nirvana opposes reasonable clarification and consistent requesting and thusly can't be taught, just figured it out. Jesus' instructing on paradise, interestingly, was very particular. He taught us that our physical bodies die but our souls ascend to be with Him in heaven (Mark 12:25). The Buddha taught that individuals don't have singular souls, for the individual self or inner self is a deception. For Buddhists there is no forgiving Father in paradise who sent His Son to pass on for our souls, for our salvation, to give the best approach to us to achieve His eminence. At last, that is the reason Buddhism is to be left

Thesis: Each day as the advancements of technology doubles, the world will soon not worry about diseases and health; everyday gene technology will better our minds, bodies, and most future generations, thus making the “Heaven Scenario.”

     Heaven is the place where true peace is always felt. True peace can sometimes be felt on earth, but not understood by the human mind. The mind can only comprehend true peace once in heaven. There will never be peace on earth due to the various forms of corruption. Earth has both forces of good and evil influencing the billions of people that live. In heaven only pure good resides. Heaven cannot be corrupted by evil. With God in control the outside sources cannot influence the forces in heaven.

Their goal is to end this cycle by achieving Nirvana. Nirvana is the state of existence realized by eliminating desire. Nirvana comes at two moments, awakening and enlightenment, and in the Paris Bilbana, when the person 's fire finally flickers (final death). The way to Nirvana is divided into eight categories of fields to avoid bad karma, leading to the regeneration of dangerous difficult forms.