Buddhism

Buddhism Final Essay

Rev. Samuel Fleischer

I have enjoyed the course very much, having provided me with a lot of new and enlightening information. The most significant impact has been the concepts of Impermanence and the Inter-connectivity of all things.

On the Inter-connectivity of all things: I now look at the world with a different eye. It seems a though I am able to look “into” things with greater depth. When looking at a man-made object, I now see that there are people behind the object. Someone had to plan, design, produce, package and distribute what ever it is. Nothing is as simple as it seems. Natural objects also now take on a greater depth of meaning too. Living organisms breathe in their own way. They respire as do you and I. Animals big and infinitesimal all go about a complex process of sustaining life, as seen for the first time by my mind.

This “new sight” gives me a greater appreciation for all living things and their struggle to exist and their dependence on one another

On the Impermanence of all things: The world is consistently changing, undergoing the evolutionary process before our eyes. While I am unable to see the deterioration of an object in this moment of time, alive or not, the impermanence of that object is striking. It will not last. It will change. It will be gone.

I find beauty in the changes.

May blessing be with all of you and may you find new sight in your continued studies.

Respectfully submitted,

Rev. Samuel P. Fleischer, D.D.

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