A very interesting class last time on hinduism some chanting, we talked to a leader of the hare Krishna Temple about religious experience, achman and brahman being one, the sense of connectedness, working through many different lives, reincarnation in order to find moksha, to find peace. And in this class, were going to look at buddhism, which believe me, folks well be asking buddhism to help us understand the religious experience. But its an even more fascinating set of answers to profound life questions. Maybe one of the most perplexing for the eastern mind is buddhism, and were going to be going through that today. But to make that all important segue between hinduism and buddhism, which of course the segue in history is the buddha himself who makes that connection, one of our top students here, janet, was not here last week because she was in a hindu retreat, and i thought id ask janet i know you were there. Id like to, first of all, get you to do the chant you learned, and tell us
Death in many different forms from parents to friends to what have you, as we all do as we get older, i think the only way that i have overcome my grief is to transcend my limited sense of self, and on the other side of me, find an interconnection with the one who has gone on that you have to come out of a simple egooriented bodily sense of self, and connect at some much more fundamental level, in order to get out of the grief part of it. But thats yet another story, and a difficult one. But on the note of death, let me bring in the role in here on egypt. We went to egypt, as you may know, and it was a very conflicted experience. I mean, who would not want to see the Great Pyramids of egypt . But in many ways, the problem with the situation in egypt, as we got to the pyramids and there was such a difficulty between the impoverishment of the modern time, but the grandeur of the dead time. And i began to see, as we went through the Egyptian Museum, and as we went to the pyramids, that on
Many different lives, reincarnation in order to find moksha, to find peace. And in this class, were going to look at buddhism, which believe me, folks well be asking buddhism to help us understand the religious experience. But its an even more fascinating set of answers to profound life questions. Maybe one of the most perplexing for the eastern mind is buddhism, and were going to be going through that today. But to make that all important segue between hinduism and buddhism, which of course the segue in history is the buddha himself who makes that connection, one of our top students here, janet, was not here last week because she was in a hindu retreat, and i thought id ask janet i know you were there. Id like to, first of all, get you to do the chant you learned, and tell us a little bit, then, about your retreat. [bells chime] [chanting] well, maybe im overly sensitive, but even listening to that in the classroom, theres a change of tone, a change of a feel in that. Thats very beaut
Well, janet, thank you very much for chanting for us. Can i give you a hand . I know you arent chanting this is. Welcome to another session of beliefs and believers. So could you give us a little background on the chant and what it means and what it is . The chant that i just did is a chant of gratitude, a prayer of gratitude to the lord patanjali, who gave to the people the yoga and the grammar and the medicines, so they would be healthy, well spoken, and have wisdom. Well, thank you so much. As you can tell, what a wonderful way to start our first section on an outside world view that you may not be familiar with. Were of course looking at hinduism today in class, and were going to be asking hinduism to help us understand experiential dimension. And since this is i think about the first time weve gone into that, let me just make that point once again were not going to pretend here thanks again, janet in a mere 60 minutes to learn, well, really, very much at all about hinduism, but th