-philosophical literature

-Brahman/Atman

-Hinduism

-Queen

-Nihilism

-"Nothing really matters to me"

-'Bizmillah' = In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

• "secret knowledge"
• hymns/sacrifices
• Hunduism (literature)

• One of the epics
• Krishna and Prince Arjuna
• Hinduism (Literature)

• Atheistic Existentialist
• "The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays"
• "One truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide."
• "What is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and wild longing for clarity"
• Quantity of living over quality; most living over best living"

• New Age
• "Know that you are God"
• actress

Victor Frankl

• "Gas chambers prepared by Nihilist doctors" (blamed the holocaust on Nihilism)
• wrote about Nihilism
• holocaust survivor

• Nihilism
• "God is dead and we killed him" (social and cultural sense)
• reality is absurd (no meaning, purpose, or value)
• Master Morality (master of yourself) vs. Slave Morality (humility and service)
• The "Will to Power" (cast away 'stupid' morals) (takes the place of God)

• New Age
• wrote "The Secret"

• Hindu Supreme Being
• character Hindu writing
• Bhagavad Gita (story about Krishna)

• New Age
• "The Moses Code" (universal power you can tap into and do things like Moses did)

• Hinduism
• "For tantra everything is holy, nothing is unholy"
• "Anyone who gives you a belief system is your enemy"
• God has never been born"
• Tantric (sex) yoga

John Cage

• Nihilism
• 4'33" (on a piano)
• "I have nothing to say, and I am saying it."
• "Organ 2/ASLSP" (still playing longest song in the world)

• New Age "channeler"
• channels Ramtha - warrior from Atlantis

• Nihilism
• "Breath" play (Life is brief; comes in a scream, ends in a scream. Inhale and exhale.)

• developed Transcendental Meditation
• "T.M. opens awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone"
• consciousness-based education; school in Iowa
• tap into full use of the brain

• leader of Nirvana 
• Nihilist
• committed suicide

• Theistic Existentialist
• Father of Existentialism
• Rational Philosophies vs. "Cold" Christianity

• Atheistic Existentialism
• "Nausea"
• "Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself"
• "No Exit" (a play - man is totally free and hell is other people)

• Christian cultural critic
• Nihilism = "megalomania, erotomania, drive for power, and pleasure"
• Someone is going to have to take God's place when He is dead.

• Postmodernist
• Pruitt Igoe destruction = beginning of P.M. because the building was supposed to be an answer to all of the problems in St. Louis... = end of modernism

• god of Hinduism
• destroyer

• New Age
• One-world leader of New Age movement
• (For Jews, it was the Messiah, for Christians, it was Jesus, for Buddhists.... etc.)

• Nihilism
• "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (ultimate answer = 42)
• trilogy of 5 books

• Nihilist
• Father = methodist preacher

Jean-Francis

Lyotard

• Postmodernist
• coined the term 'postmodernism'

• Building that, when it was destroyed, symbolized the end of Modernism and beginning of Postmodernism (according to Charles Jencks)
• housing project in St. Louis (modern thing to do; it failed)

• Ideal is Bodhisattva
• focus: community - sense of dependence
• key virtue: compassion
• Buddha: savior
• ideal: Bodhistattva

• acceptance of different religions
• living among all the differences
• we live in a pluralistic society

• sacred phrases
• Om Mani Padme Hum
• OM
• Nam Amida Butsu

• Hinduism/Buddhism/New Age
• action
• rewarded when you die for the good things you did

• blending of religions
• ex: New Age

• Nirvana -> perfect state of enlightenment/peace -> leads to buddahood
• Techniques to reach it... 

1. yoga
2. mantras
3. koans

• reaching supreme consciousness, "OM"

• "from nothing"
• Nihilism

1. All life is suffering (dukkha)
2. Thirst (desire) causes suffering
3. Eliminate desire to cease suffering
4. Follow 8-fold path to eliminate desire: (right speech, right actions, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right meditation, right understanding, right thoughts)

• Hinduism
• order develops good karma
• caste system

• "to join"
• to dispel the illusion
• to root out unconscious tendencies of the modd

• cultures, in fact, differ
• customs/practices
• what is cultural/what is universal?
• descriptive

• sacred syllable of Hinduism
• mantra
• AH = waking life
• OH = dreaming life
• MM = dreamless sleeping life
• OM = supreme consciousness; silence

• oneness of all
• everything is one

• Taoism = Eastern religion
• "the path" or "way"
• Ying-Yang
• balance

• Relativism
• Absolute Truth
• can discover Truth
• Reason and Science
• Certain Foundation
• total objectivity

1. weaker interpretations are influenced by language and perspective
2. stronger interpretations are determined

• false self
• Hinduism

• Islam
• In Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"
• "In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful"

• "Seize the day!"
• Existentialism

• New Age/Eastern Pantheistic Monism
• yoga
• energy centers in your body

• desire to understand the world but we lack the answers
• existentialism

• questions or statements to help achieve enlightenment
• they make no sense... ("What is the sound of one hand clapping?" "What did your face look like before your parents begat you?")

• Buddhism
• self... but kind of non-self since there is no you, trying to get rid of self, a not self
• (think: anatta... anatt-self)

• Hinduism
• idea of physical reality, communicates notion that this world is illusion/not reality
• 'illusion'

• cycle of rebirth
• reincarnation

• Hinduism
• "Athman is Brahman"
• who you really are; your true self

• savior
• ideal in Mahayana Buddhism

• type of yoga
• trying to rid yourself of desire
• helps to access oneness/infinite energy 
• spiritual

• all encompassing divine force
• god of Hinduism (oneness/godliness
• creator
• the One that everything comes into

• Focus: individualistic/self-emancipating
• key virtue: wisdom
• Buddha: saint
• ideal: Arahat (saint)

• no absolute truth
• can't know the truth
• whatever works
• no certain foundation
• objectivity lost
• "Reality" is determined by your perspective

• no universal truths/values can exist
• everything is relative
• no moral criticism across cultures
• evaluative