Religions of the East
A few years ago many well-known people came to the East to study the Asian
reli- gions. They were curious about how the Asian people put peace, joy,
happiness, even (1) ______ into their lives in terms of religious.
(1) ______
It is said that Hinduism is one of the (2) ______ Asian religions.
Hinduism teaches (2) ______ that men are not really happy with
pleasure, success, power or fiches; what they really want is to be alive and
to be (3) ______ of life as deeply as possible. Man has to over- (3)
______ come any (4) ______ in his life.
(4) ______ Hinduism recognizes four ways to
achieve this goal: --by (5)______ , attained by questioning and
thinking.
(5) ______
--through love and adoration. --through forgetting
oneself. --through (6) ______ that tame both one’s body and
one’s soul.
(6) ______ The Buddhist religion has
over 165 million (7) ______ . Like the Hindus, Buddha
(7) ______ believed that one becomes (8) ______ when one is able to
overcome selfishness, sor- (8) ______ row, and sin
and is able to (9) ______ self-control, humility, generosity, mercy and
(9) ______ love for all people. All of the
Eastern religions believe in (10) ______ , which means the soul goes
(10) ______ from one body to another until it is able to
be united with God.