History Notes From Today

• What are the Major Beliefs of A Religion?
• The End Goal
• How To Achieve The End Goal
• Way of Works: Reach the End Goal of Hinduism
• Following the Vedas, to work up through the caste system, continually being reborn, until you become a male brahman, and you escape Samsara.
• Upanishads aka Way of Wisdom: Reach the End Goal of Hinduism
• You realize that you are apart of the universe, and then you escape Samsara.
• Three Indian Religions
• Hinduism
• Buddhism
• Jainism
• Chinese Religions/Philosophies
• Confucianism
• Daoism
• Buddhism
• Confucianism
• End Goal
• To become one with ultimate reality (Dao)
• You respect everyone in relation to hiearchy
• Practice (How You Get to The End Goal)
• Respect Everyone
• Follow Filial Piety and the Five Relationships
• Be Educated
• Respect the Hiearchy 
• Following Confucianism
• Act for society, not for ourselves.   
• Filial-Piety 
• Five Relationships
• Father and Son
• Ruler and Minister
• Husband and Wife
• Elder and Younger Sibling
• Friend and Friend
• Daoism
• Background
• Was made in response to Confucianism
• Early authors and texts
• Laozi and Zhuangi
• Beliefs
• Don't Compete
• Don't Value Posessions
• Don't Honor the Worthy
• Don't Pursue Knowledge in Books
• Goals
• Get in touch with the Dao by letting one's mind wander freely, and no longer being concerned with the everyday.
• Confucianism vs. Daoism
• Goal of Both
• Get in touch with the Dao
• How Do You Achieve it In Confucianism?
• Moral Action
• Devoting oneself to the government
• Respecting the Hierarchy
• Being Educated
• How Do You Achieve it In Daoism?
• Let your mind wander 
• Don't value posessions and honor people
• Legalism / Yin Yang
• Time Period
• Warring States Period
• Rulers were looking for ways to preserve the states
• Define Legalism
• A way of governing through vigorous/strict laws, contrary to confucius which were based on morality, and it established the bureaucratic government of China.
• Grouped people into Families who made sure that everyone in the family followed the law, because the punishment would be transferred to the whole family.
• If you reported your family members for committing crime, you could get out of the punishment.
• Farmers were given the opportunity to improve, buy, and sell land.
• Define Yin Yang
• Balance that works in harmony.
• Impact, that social and natural phenomenon are caused by an imbalance.
• First mentioned in the Book of Changes, a book on divination.
• Yang
• Light
• Masculine
• Assertive
• Driving Force
• Yin
• Dark
• Feminine 
• Lay People vs Monks
• Monks
• You are professionally religious.
• You take vows that you must follow.
• Lay People
• You have not taken religious vows.
• You are not professionally religious.
• Jainism
• Key Figure
• Vardhaman Mahavira
• Key Beliefs
• End Goal
• Have Your Soul Float Into the Universe
• How to Achieve It
• Good Karma makes you light, which allows you to float
• Self Harm can get rid of bad karma.
• Everything Has A Soul
• Everything is considered to have a soul
• Ahimsa
• Practicing non-violence and compassion.