2. Buddhism
is a religion and philosophy
encompassing a variety of traditions,
beliefs, and practices largely based on
teachings attributed to Siddhartha
Gautama, who is commonly known as the
Buddha. The Buddha lived and taught in
the Eastern part of Indian subcontinent
some time between the 6th and 4th
centuries BCE. He is recognized by
Buddhists as an awakened or enlightened
teacher who shared his insights to help
sentient beings to end ignorance, craving
and suffering of dependent origination
and to realize sunyata.

3. Th e D harm achakra re p re s e nts th e N ob le
E igh tfold P ath .
S tand ing Bu d d h a. O ne of th e e arlie s t
known re p re s e ntations of th e Bu d d h a,
1 s t-2nd ce ntu ry C E

4. What is karma?
Karma means "cause and effect", not
fate. Everyone is responsible for his own
life. This understanding allows us to
knowingly collect positive experience
leading to happiness and avoid sowing
the seeds of future suffering. Immature
positive karma can be enhanced by
skillful means Vajrayana, and reduce or
transform the negative into wisdom.

5. What is meditation?
In Buddhism, meditation means "effortlessly
remaining in what is." You realize this state of calm
and insight through the mind, awakening
compassion and wisdom, or work with internal
energies and forms of the Buddhas of light.
The most effective, however, is continuing to identify
with their own Buddha nature and to experience
everything as a Pure Land, as taught by the
Diamond Way. When the perceiver, what is perceived
and the act of perception become one - both during
the meditation sessions, as well as outside - reach
the goal, Mahamudra.

6. What does the "Liberation" and "Enlightenment" Mean ?
Reaching liberation discovers that the body, thoughts and
feelings are constantly changing and therefore we can not
create any real ego or "I". In this way people are no longer
experiencing themselves as to fire, because we do not take the
suffering personally. When we think "there is suffering,"
instead of "I'm hurt," we can no more be hurt and we become
free.
Enlightenment is next and final step. In this state the clear
light of mind radiates through every experience. Past, Present
and Future, "here" and "there", are all an expression of
timeless riches of the mind. An enlightened mind naturally
expresses fearlessness, joy and compassion, and remain free
from effort and spontaneous in whatever happens.

7. The Four Noble Truths
3.Life as we know it ultimately is or leads to
suffering/uneasiness in one way or another.
4.Suffering is caused by craving. This is often
expressed as a deluded clinging to a certain sense of
existence, to selfhood, or to the things or phenomena
that we consider the cause of happiness or
unhappiness. Craving also has its negative aspect, i.e.
one craves that a certain state of affairs not exist.
•Suffering ends when craving ends. This is achieved
by eliminating delusion, thereby reaching a liberated
state of Enlightenment.
6.Reaching this liberated state is achieved by
following the path laid out by the Buddha.

8. Judaism
is the religion, philosophy, and way of life of the Jewish
people. A monotheistic religion originating in the Hebrew
Bible and explored in later texts such as the Talmud,
Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the
expression of the covenantal relationship God developed
with the Children of Israel.Rabbinic Judaism holds that
God revealed his laws and commandments to Moses on
Mount Sinai in the form of both the Written and Oral
Torah. This assertion was historically challenged by the
Karaites, a movement that flourished in the medieval
period, which retains several thousand followers today
and maintains that only the Written Torah was revealed.
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In modern times, liberal movements such as
Humanistic Judaism may be nontheistic.

9. Fundamentals of faith:
1. The existence of the Creator
2. It’s unity
3. His immateriality
4. His eternity
5. Obligation to serve and worship only him
6. The existence of prophecy
7. Precedence over the other prophets
8. Revelation Law to Moses on Mount Sinai
9. Immutability of Law
10. God is omniscient
11. Pays for this and the next world
12. The coming of the Messiah
13. Resurrection

10. Jewish Holidays:
1 . Pascha - celebrated in the spring to commemorate the
deliverance from Egyptian bondage, it takes 8 days.
2.Festival weeks - 7 weeks after the Passover in honor of the
fertile harvest, combined with the adoption of the Law on Mount
Sinai.
Third Feast of Tabernacles - Autumn festival with harvesting
opportunity during which to live outdoors in huts of branches to
commemorate the passage of the Israelites through the desert.
4. Festival of Lights - Winter holiday in honor of ordination by
the Greeks after second temple of Jerusalem by Judas Maccabee
in 165 BC
5.Purim - In commemoration of the liberation from the dominion
of Persia, according to the administration of the Book of Esther.
6. Friends Day - falls on the 10th day of the year. This is the
most important festival is preceded by a 24-hour total for a sign
before God for the sins of their own and society.
7 New Year - celebrated the beginning of autumn religious
calendar begins.

11. Symbols of Judaism:
1. Magen David - Star of
David, also called Shield of
David. This is a six-pointed
star formed by two
interlocking triangles
(hexameter).
2. Menorah - a seven
candlestick made ​of one
piece of metal (nowadays the
basic element of the coat of
arms of Israel).