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Nirvana, Karma and Rebirth Target: To learn about the key ideas which are important to Buddhists.

LO: You will be able to identify examples of good and bad karma

Starter  What

are the five moral precepts?  Why do Buddhists keep to these?  What are the consequences of them failing to keep them?

Paradise  Humans

dream of finding paradise.  To Christians this would be heaven.  Buddhists believe their ultimate goal is to reach Nirvana.  Nirvana is a state of being reached when we overcome the idea of “self” and become one with the universe.

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We are trapped on the wheel of life. We may be reborn as humans, animals or even plants.

Sometimes we may be reborn as something to teach us a lesson or a quality required to reach Nirvana. A very impatient person may be reborn as a tree!

When you are reborn as a human this opportunity should not be wasted. Only humans achieve enlightenment.

“The chances of being Chances of Enlightenment? reborn as a human being

are the same as those of a blind turtle being able to swim through a ring in a 100 years in a vast ocean�

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Rebirths arise from the result of achieving good or bad Karma.

Karma is the idea that every action has a reaction. If people do good, then good follows.

Results of Karma can be experienced in the present lifetime, even day by day.

It can also follow you into your next life.

Karma determines whether you reach enlightenment or have to live a further 1000 lifetimes of a lesser animal in order to get to the truth.

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Key Words  Karma  Nirvana  Reincarnation

Demonstration

Good and Bad karma  Lending someone money  Saying good morning to a stranger  Helping a friend who is sick  Listening to someone when they have a problem  Saying nasty things about someone  Following school rules  Punching somebody  Doing voluntary work

Why Might You Become These Things In Your Next Life? Plenary  Pig  Dog  Tree

 Hunted

Fox  Poor human being