Week 7

The quotation that best represents the ideas of Siddartha Guatama or Buddha is that ignorance causes suffering, which closes the door to enlightenment, and selfish craving, which

enslaves an individual to desires and passions. This quotation is an accurate representation of Buddha’s idea because ignorance will cause suffering whether it is the individual that is being ignorant or the people around that person that is being ignorant. This idea has been proven to be true many times since its conception. When ignorant people see someone who is old, sick, or dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even though they too will be old, sick, or dead some day.

A quotation that best represents the ideas of Lao Tzu is “To know that you do not know is the best.” The quote is significant because many of the wisest people in the world realize that the most important thing is to know that we cannot know everything because knowing everything means that you are above all others. Many people have spent their lives learning everything that they can because that will make them closer to God or a supreme being. One of his works the Daodejing is the most translated work next to the Bible because of what it has to say in regards to the way that people should live their lives.

A quotation that best represents that idea of Confucius is that a human person is not always good but can become better. This is significant because as it has shown over the course of the world that people are not always good but they can always make themselves better through education or moral considerations. Confucius believed that how an individual should live his live and interact with others.

If one will do things for the benefit of others and meet even those whom he has met often before in a first-time manner, he will have no bad relationships. This is a quotation that best represents of Zen Buddhism because you must always treat others with the respect that you wish to be treated with...