Saturday, May 16, 2009

Toa and Hindu

Tao is all about being simple minded and just letting things happen the way they are. For example, in one of my one of the poems in my Literature book, it said, (paraphrase) to leave the world as it should be. It's perfect the way it is and don't mess with it or it will get messed up.
I believe that the world is not perfect and we need to fix it up or make it a better world. Also if we let things happen and not do anything about it, then the world would be a whole bunch of chaos, and everything would be out of control or disordered. There are some good lines in the poem that talked about life. For example, there is a time to behind, a time to be a head, a time to be in danger, and other things(not in order), which are kind of true. Everything seems to evolve time and we need to make time if we want our plans to work.

Hinduism is kind of all about earning your way to the next life. People are born in different parts of the cast system. By doing good works, working hard, being the best person, or doing anything that is the opposite of being bad you can earn a good life in the next world.
I believe that there is a heaven a hell but to get to heaven, you don't earn your way there. God sent His son, Jesus Christ to save us all because we can never be good enough to go to heaven. So through Christ and accepting Him into our hearts, we will go to heaven. Some people think that's just too simple but being a Christian isn't easy. How do you depict about your god/gods? I think that it hard to be super good and try to make few mistakes as possible. It's alright to mistakes so we don't do it again. It is too hard to be perfect with the pressure about being good so you can have a good life in the next world. What do you think, how should a person get to Heaven?

Over all I learned some good things from both religions. I learned to take my time and to think things through. I also learned to do my best in everything but it's alright to make mistakes. To become wise, I must take my time to learn to gain knowledge and to learn from others.