The West vs The East
Hey!! Whats up? Hows it going? So for our last blog, we talked about the psychological perspective of the self and how important it is to take care of ourselves and the different ways we perceive our identity through different concepts the psychologists offered for us. Now lets talk about the western and eastern concepts of self. Now it is safe to say that beliefs creates an identity for each individual. For me for example, I believe that God exists and he brought us his son Jesus Christ. He sacrificed his own son for the sake of the worlds sin. And he was soon resurrected and he seated at the right hand of God, his father. For us Roman catholics, if people accept him as our saviour by praying and sacrificing everything for him then we will be accepted into heaven. But for those who don’t, then they'll burn in hell for eternity. Some people get skeptical, but that is why it is important for us Christians to have faith. Some people in the Eastern part of the world believes in many things. They believe that their God is a cow, they believed that we are an extension of the cosmos, not of social relationship, and others believe that we must give up all material possessions to achieve inner peace. Now western thought favours a Rational-empirical approach over magical and superstitious explanation of things, including the self that is why conflict of beliefs are not so uncommon for many people these days. Some countries even raged war because of this. However, religion shouldn’t be the centre of our lives, it is through faith that could save us. We should all just accept that different people have different beliefs. My favourite part is the law of karma that explains the most important doctrine of Hinduism which implies that individual actions will lead to either good or bad outcomes in ones life. And that’s all for today, I hope you enjoyed reading this. Please share and stay tuned for more blogs. Peace!!