Wednesday 26 November 2014

What did Jesus look like? Check here and here !
Is God in heaven or in the Universe? Is there a God?  Is God a man? Big questions, ultimate questions !

Wednesday 19 November 2014

HW

Copy of worksheet of open Belief Survey here. No more excuses! (I lost my paper, my dog ate my worksheet, it was damaged in the wash machine etc ).

Friday 24 October 2014

Saturday 11 October 2014

Food for your thought !

Saturday 4 October 2014

The Impact of beliefs in peoples lives

Fact Files: Humanists working for a better world, learn more here.Christians like Martin Luther King, learn more here.

Monday 24 February 2014

BBC The Story of India (2 of 6) The Power of Ideas

@7:00 starts talking the power of ideas, the "Ethics" brought by many in that century (6 Century th Before Common Era!). For example: Confucious in China, Prophets from Old Testament in the Middle East and India, the Buddha.

Buddhism and Ashoka

Note, the clip starts from Hinduism since Siddhartha Gautama grew up a Hindu Prince! In 5:20 it starts talking about Buddhism. It's awesome!

Friday 21 February 2014

The Elephant and the blind Men

You can watch here again the story (parable) of the Elephant and the Blind Men . This short story with a moral, what so called parable, belongs to Hinduism and Buddhism. In this site it is related to Buddhism. Please select and click there. After watching it try to explain in your own words what this story is about. If you can describe in detail you are acting on level 4 because you are describing what it is. If can explain the meaning of it is level 5 because you are evaluating it. If you can, in addition to all, explain what you learn from the story you are evaluating in high level i.e you are acting in a solid level 5! and approaching level 6!
PS: The story sometimes is called "The wise men and the Elephant" and the number of wise men also varies. As we discussed, one of the reasons is because it is a very old story. Hinduism and Buddhism have more than 2.500 years! Hinduism has almost 5.000 years!. Another question is how the story has been passed, it belongs to an oral tradition i.e. it may be more subjected of changes than written stories. It will vary a little bit through time and through cultures. Beware in some cultures animals like elephant are very important (they are considered "sacred") and that's why they come first in the title of the story and in other cultures humans are more important, that's why they come second in the title. 
PS: Prepare questions and interesting facts for next lesson about Introduction to Hinduism. I hope you en-joy it! :-)

Friday 31 January 2014

Diwali story

Read about the story here . You also can read about it here. and test yourself (if you really understood the story completing the worksheet available here