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The Human Person As An Embodied Spirit
The Human Person As An Embodied Spirit
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The Human Person as an Embodied Spirit
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The Human Person as an Embodied Spirit
➔ The body is
not separated
from the soul,
➔ The point of convergence just as the soul
between the material and is not
spiritual entities. separated from
the body.
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I m p o r t a n c e of E m b o d i e d S p i r i t
➔ It enables us to know our potentialities and
limitations.
➔ It exposes us to a thorough and deeper
understanding of ourselves as a unique
creature united by body and soul.
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SOUL
● The spiritual or immaterial part of a human
being or animal, regarded as immoral.
HUMAN BODY
● Consist of biological systems that carries
specific functions
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EMBODIED
It is being materialized or incarnated
“Embodied Spirit”
● A spirit being incarnated
● Does not necessarily refer to the
incarnation or materialization of
spirit as an immaterial entity.
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HINDUISM
Brahman is Selfhood
Self-hood
➔ The quality that makes a person
or thing different from others.
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Aum (Om)
➔ the most sacred sound
➔ the root of everything that exists
➔ continues to hold everything together
Hinduism
● Human beings has dual nature
○ The spiritual and immortal essence (soul)
○ Empirical life and its trait
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Moksha Brahman
➔ enlightened state, ➔ the One,
➔ one attains true ➔ the Ultimate Reality,
selfhood and find ➔ the
oneself with Brahman: All-Comprehensive
Reality.
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Transmigration or metempsychosis
- A doctrine that adheres to the belief that a
person’s soul passes into other creature, human
or animal.
Transmigration of Soul
- The transfer of soul depending on the person’s
good or bad karma.
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Ultimate Liberation
➔ Freedom from rebirth
➔ Achieved after a series of good acts are done
over a long period, decades or centuries
➔ Escape from the cycle of deaths and rebirths.
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HINDUISM
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BUDDHISM
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Dharma
➔ Law of Salvation
➔ Simple presentation of the Gospel of inner
cultivation or right spiritual attitudes.
➔ Coupled with a self imposed discipline
➔ Bodily desires would be channeled in the right
directions.
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Upanishads
➔ Collection of texts.
➔ Contain some central philosophical concepts
of Hinduism.
➔ Contain utterances about the nature of
ultimate reality.
➔ Describe the character and path to human
salvation.
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Nirvana
● Highest state of enlightenment
● The effects of the law of cause and effect (karma) are
overcome.
● The cycle of rebirths is broken.
● One may rest in the calm assurance of having attained a
heavenly bliss that will stretch into all eternity.
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Buddhism
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CHRISTIANITY
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Atheism
● lack of believe or strong disbelief in the
existence of god or any gods.
Polytheism
● The belief that there is more than one god.
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A. Forgiveness
a. Counseling
b. Talking to God
c. Emmaus method
d. Forgiveness method
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C.VULNERABILITY
● To be invulnerable is inhuman.
● We need to acknowledge the help of other
people in our lives.
● Dependence in others is not a sign of
weakness but being true with ourselves.
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D.FAILURE
● Our failure force us to confront our
weaknesses and limitations.
● Such acceptance of failures makes us hope
and trust that all can be brought into good.
● Even if we have sinned, as Augustine had,
there is trust, hope, and forgiveness.
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E. Loneliness
F. Love
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B. Buddhism: Nirvana
● State which one is free from all forms of bondage
and attachment.
● To overcome and remove the cause of suffering.
● State of perfect insight into the nature of existence.
● He who has perfect knowledge, perfect peace, and
perfect wisdom. - (Aguilar, 2010)
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