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2. Four primary values of Hindus: wealth, pleasure, duty and enlightenment Wealth and Pleasure are worldly values, but when kept in perspective they are good and desirable. The spiritual value of duty, or righteousness, refers to patience, sincerity, forgiveness, love, honesty and similar virtues. The spiritual value, though, is enlightenment, by which one is illuminated and liberated and most importantly, finds release from the wheel of existence.

3. Buddha set about sharing his discovery with anyone who would listen to him: Four Noble Truths leading to the Eightfold Path to perfect character of arhatship Gautama taught: Four Noble Truths: 1. Life is full of suffering. 2. Suffering is caused by passionate attachment to desires, lusts, cravings; 3. Suffering can be ended by overcoming attachment to desires 4. To end suffering is the Noble Eightfold Path Noble Eightfold Path: 1. Right understanding/belief in the acceptance of the "Fourfold Truth" 2. Right intent/aspiration for one's self and others; 3. Right speech that harms no one; 4. Right action/conduct, motivated by goodwill toward all human beings; 5. Right means of livelihood, or earning one's living by honorable means; 6. Right endeavor, or effort to direct one's energies towards wise ends; 7. Right mindfulness, in choosing topics for thought, and 8. Right meditation, or concentration to the point of complete absorption in mystic ecstasy

4. Buddhism is the life experience and teaching of Prince Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha -he who achieves his aim), a tradition that focuses on personal spiritual development, solutions is lay in his own mind and is famous for its belief in Nirvana; a place of perfect peace and happiness.

5. Buddhism, contained in the teachings of its founder, Siddhartha Gautama or Buddha. The teaching of highborn Prince Gautama of the Sakya clan in the kingdom of Magadha, lived from 560 to 477 B.C, sprang the religious philosophy we know as Buddhism. Turning away from the Hindu polytheism and palace pleasures, searching for answers to the riddle of life's sufferings, disease, old age and death. Gautama's life was devoted to sharing his "Dharma" or Law of Salvation ; a presentation of the gospel of inner cultivation or right spiritual attitudes.

6. Sangha, or Order of Monks and later the nuns also monks, nuns, laymen, laywomen). With single-heart purpose, this brotherhood of believers dedicated itself to a life of self-purification, in total loyalty to the Buddha, The Dharma and Sangha. Committed itself to a life of poverty whose sole aims was the evangelization. The Buddhist practice four states of sublime condition: love, sorrow of others, joy in the joy of others and equanimity as regards one's own joy and sorrows.

7. St. Thomas of Aquinas, another medieval philosopher, of all creatures, human beings have the unique power to change themselves and the things for the better. His philosophy is best grasped in his treatises Summa Contra Gentiles and Summa Theologica. Considers human as moral agent, the spiritual and material and that choosing between 'good' or 'evil' is our responsibility.

8. The way to salvation, lies through self-abnegation, rigid discipline of mind and body, a consuming of love for all creatures, and the final achievement of that state of consciousness which marks an individual's preparation for entering the Nirvana (enlightened wisdom). The Law and Cause and Effect (Karma) are overcome; the cycle of rebirth is broken; and one may rest in the calm assurance of having attained a heavenly bliss that will stretch out into all eternity.

9. Christianity is the religion based upon the teachings and miracles of Jesus where there is only one God. Suffering leads to the Cross, the symbol of reality of God's saving love for the human being and Evil is being disobedient, contradicting the nature of God and distancing to God.

10. For Augustine (354-430 CE), philosophy is amor sapiential , the love of wisdom; its aim is to produce happiness. Wisdom is not just an abstract logical construction; but it is substantially existent as the Divine Logos. Hence, Philosophy is the love of God; It is then religious. Teaching of Christianity are based of love of God. For Augustine's Christianity, the revelation of the true God, is the only full and true philosophy. All Knowledge leads to God, so that faith supplements and enlightens reason that it may proceed to ever richer and fuller understanding.