Sentences with phrase «rebirth cycle»

Animals become humans under the watchful eye of the moon; humans become augmented creatures under the precise knife of the surgeon, and love, death and rebirth cycle constantly around us.

Between a day job and running the Geek Mart, he writes supernatural stories, including «A Death in the Family», and reimaginings of Irish folklore in The Rebirth Cycle.

In general it is a system whereby the individual, by his own unaided efforts and following the middle path taught by the Buddha in his first Sermon at Benares and expressed variously in other discourses, attains to Nirvana or the end of the rebirth cycle in which man finds himself.

So much in Christianity had me seeing these kinds of things only in the light of demons and evil and satan, that when I started reading and understanding more (when I was in junior high school) and comprehending the concept of the birth - life - death - rebirth cycles, and how there needs to be death and decay for their to be birth and growth... it really made a huge impression on how I saw the world.

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There is, however, no «endless cycles of birth and rebirth» as taught by Hindus.

Simply put, from a Buddhist perspective, everything in the Universe, including the Universe itself, has undergone countless cycles of birth, death and rebirth, with no anthropomorphous divine being necessary.

At any point in its life cycle, churches can turn around and find rebirth.

Yet the attainment of moksa or realization takes a person out of samsara, the cycle of rebirth, and beyond the realm where karma operates.

The mass of living beings still remains stuck in the cycle of rebirth and suffering.

He viewed Christianity as a form of teleological and ethical monotheism, in contrast with those Eastern religions which view existence as a cycle of rebirths from which the individual seeks escape.

Conscious union with Brahman was said to provide final deliverance from samsara, the cycle of rebirths in nature.

And in contrast to Christianity, religions such as Buddhism or Hinduism believe existence is an endless cycle of rebirth; true change comes only with enlightenment and escape from the cycle.

According to the Hindu tradition it is avidya that keeps us stuck in the «vicious cycle» of life, death and rebirth.

This Sanskrit term, which literally means «wandering by» or «flowing through,» refers to wandering from existence to existence, flowing through the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, and suffering horribly along the way.

This is a common Kundalini mantra that describes the cycle of life: «sa» means infinity, «ta» is life, «na» is death, and «ma» is rebirth.

Individually, each taste bud goes through a constant cycle of birth, death, and rebirth that lasts about two weeks.

Buddhists believed humans are bound to a cycle of birth and rebirth.

Without the threat of the U.S., China will revert back to its ancient role and will continue its endless cycles of dynastic decay and rebirth.

In the latest installment to the saga, the authors of this interpretation have found a way to turn that single clash into a never - ending struggle that rears its fiery head every trillion years or so, making our universe just one phase in an infinite cycle of birth and rebirth.

Everything moves in cycles: life, death, rebirth — the moon is a monthly reminder of that... but sometimes we resist those cycles, and that invariably leads to pain.

The Doctor is old and tired, far past his normal regeneration cycle and so this rebirth is the start of a new cycle.

It's «life» in quotation marks rather than anything actually lived, which is perfectly fine and often quite lovely, a cycle of life and death and rebirth as a kind of modern folk tale.

If the deer is able to find a mate, his offspring will act as extra lives, continuing the hunter's cycle of rebirth.

[click here] Well, in that cycle their was a two keys aspect relating to replaying games: the «I'm bored» phase or the «Rebirth».

Farrell's title, however, goes back to the awareness that Ukiyo is a homophone with the Japanese term for «Sorrowful World,» which is how Buddhists describe the never - ending cycle of rebirth, life, suffering, death, and rebirth from which they try to escape.

Decay, rebirth, and eternal cycles of the seasons, nature, and eclipses recur throughout Kiki Smith: Wonder in works that illustrate Smith's ability to move fluidly between materials with vastly different characteristics and properties.

It is a surface that has been dug into, poured, splashed, pushed and pulled in a myriad of directions, as well as strewn with what is, for Kiefer, a perennial symbol of the cycle of death and rebirth and of macrocosm and microcosm: sunflower seeds.

Decay, rebirth, and the eternal cycles of life recur throughout her work, often linking the body with the natural world and spiritual realm.

«I was trying to play with this idea of things being both reverential and gestural,» says Ward, who punctuated geometric patterns into each panel, referencing traditional Congolese «cosmograms,» an ancient prayer symbol that represents the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.

Resolving the multiple meanings of this sculptural piece, it could be a metaphor for the human tragedy and the cycle of rebirth, but also indicates the strength of the Jewish tradition that has been threatened throughout history.

Created for a production of Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde, Viola's video employing slow, archetypal imagery in service of these themes such as transcendence and agony as it meditates on life cycles and notions of rebirth and healing.

Turning his attention to epic themes of the life cycle — birth, struggle, death, and rebirth — he began employing fragments that appeared to have been unearthed on archaeological digs.

The temporal, spatial, and iconographic juxtaposition of the resurrected old man and the young celebratory couple begs the viewer to consider birth, rebirth, and the numerous possible permutations, stages, and cycles of life.

Ward has also punctured geometric patterns into each panel, which reference traditional Congolese «cosmograms,» an ancient prayer symbol that represents the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.

The exhibition will feature six new works that explore the cycle of life, death and rebirth.

In looking at what can be born out of a Black Hole, rather than what can die within it, this artist offers an alternative to life and death: a cycle of rebirth which is entirely optimistic.

The exhibition is inspired by Hart's media ballet «The Dolls,» based on the notion of the «eternal return,» or the idea that history renews itself endlessly through a cycle of decadence, decay and rebirth.

Founded on a belief in cycles of death and rebirth, these were marked by a holistic world view that placed mankind in a more harmonious relationship with our surroundings.

The piece Satori alludes to the Japanese Buddhist term meaning enlightenment, in Buddhism the state of having siritual knowledge and awareness, which frees the person of the cycle of rebirth.