Tao Te Ching

Tao Te Ching = The Scripture of the Path and the Virtue.

 This is really fundamental to the Taois school of chinese philosophy. the book is mostly of short essays approaching the features od Tao (like the Christ of those people) and the art of following Tao.
 Tao is the supreme goal for Taoists. It include:

• we need to appreciate everything that surround us material or temporal and we must not ask for more than what nature gives us 
• we can talk and think of divinity, but we cannot achieve it. 
• in order to value the world and the things that you have you must know fear
• there is an opposite to everything but we must embrace both sides to triumph and not just focus on 1 things

I have a really bad time reading this because is a relly hard text, im no exactly sure id i get what the autor was trying to tell, because the traslations and some stuff were different from the first text

Tales of Genji

The story is about a Japanese emperor that become father because one of his concubines have a child. This concubine was the one that the he love the most. the concubine die and the child( Genji ) go to his grandma's house to live there. The grandma die and the Genji come to his father house. both the emperor and Genji was really sad. Genji got a ceremony for having the age of an adult. the emperor found a girl that was similar to Genji's mother and present it to Genhi. Genhi and this woman marry and everyone became happy. The end.
I really like this history and it was really easy to read in comparison with other lectures that Mr. Harrys send to us.

The Believers

We read an extract from the Koran for this assignment. The Islam religion is very different from the Catholic religion, but I think that there are some similarities:

1-I understood is that God controls everything and that he could punish you and have no mercy.This reminds me of the old testament in the Bible there are a lot of books that God sends a tragedy to the earth in a way to punish the world.

2-It also says that if you follow the rules of God here on earth God will rewarded you when you die.

the Mahabharata

This storyis one of the 2 biggest stories of ancient india. Im only gonna talk about a little part (Adi Parva) of the history witch is this:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_CDAa-Xug8&feature=fvsr

Now that you’ve seen the video you got an idea of how the story goes. but we have a correction, the goddess first begged the king of the video’s father to allow her to be the wife of his son, and after the king has his firstborn child and he grows up that’s when the goddess returns and the now grown-up kid asks her to marry him.

My Opinion: I really didn't like it because i didn't like the way that they narrate the history I prefer more the romans' stories. An it didn't catch me. but setting that aside it’s still better than a lot of other philosophies and religion I’ve seen… and the fact that they try to have a moral and teach you something it’s appreciated for example how would a mom kill 7kids, god or not that’s insane, so much for setting an example, i don’t think being human is a curse, but just because i have it my mom’s gonna drown me, that’s nuts, period. i mean, i’m going to respect the people that believe all this i’m not trying to offend anyone but it’s just not my thing, i don’t think a god who is supposed to be perfect and should be an example for us would kill their own kids and after that leave their husband/wife in pain and grief.