What can be said about the unspeakable? How does one begin to describe the
indescribable? The very act of discussing ineffability questions whether anything can be
truly ineffable in the first place. Religion almost always critically depends on the
ineffability of some experience or entity. This is a widespread tendency, but some would
argue that it is a rule for all religions. That there must be the recognition of something
“beyond,” “transcendent” or “pure.”
Prior to judging Christian or Buddhist beliefs, it is necessary to understand
ineffability itself. Generally speaking, it is unspeakable. Conceptually, it is not attainable.
By our standards, it is beyond our human realm.
To speak is to make distinctions. As soon as you try to explain, it is already not
so. This occurs because language is assumed to be limited. Words are merely inference
and speculation, a construction we make ourselves. Words cannot accurately present
what is true reality. They only give a blurred picture of a filtered reality. We are the
filters to our language. Each of us must experience the world from a different light and a
different bias. Therefore, how can our descriptions be pure?
It may not be possible to faithfully depict the ineffable nor comprehend it truly.
Like language, and possibly with the development of language, our conceptions have also
narrowed to exclude what is ultimately real. There is the conventional reality that is
accepted within a group of people but it is flawed. The application of categories and
frameworks onto what is real doesn’t just make placeholders for thought, but it constrains
thinking beyond (Donahue). For each person, reality is different because “Things known
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This paper is a comparison between two very different religions. Specifically Christianity and Buddhism. Coming from opposite sides of the globe these two religions could not be any farther apart in any aspect. I will discuss who Christ is for Christians and who Buddha is for Buddhists. I will also get into the aspects of charity, love, and compassion in both religions and I will be looking at the individual self and how christians see resurrection where the buddhists feel about the afterlife. One thing to keep in mind is that the two religions are very different but they seem to have a very similar underlying pattern. Both believe that there was a savior of their people, Buddha and Christ, and both believe that there is something good that happens to us when our time is done here on earth. This is a very generalized summarization but in order to go in to depth I need to explain the two religions more to fully convey this theory.
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