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What is Human Being?

Embodied spirit is the living animating core within each of us, the driving force behind all that we
think, say and do.
Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies -- all these are private and, except through symbols and at
second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the
experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.
Human Being as an Embodied Spirit
What is Embodied Spirit?
"Every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude"
The human being is a complex matter and many believe that just trying to understand life and what
it means to be human is a futile undertaking.
--by Aldous Huxley
A human person is an embodied spirit (a "soul") whose nature has numerous bodily, affective,
cognitive, volitional and gender capacities, the expression of which may lead by freedom to
flourishing in a harmony with one's nature or dysfunction against one's nature, ultimately shaped by
and finding their relational telos in the love of neighbor and union with God, relationships made
possibly by our nature but realized only by the ministry of the indwelling Spirit of God.

for St. Thomas:


his own total vision of man would be
"embodied spirit".

A human being is by nature a finite embodied spirit, in search of the Infinite, in social solidarity with
its fellow human beings, on an historical journey through this material cosmos towards its final trans-
worldly goal, a loving union with God as the infinite fullness of all goodness.

for Aristotle:
A human person is a personal being possessing its intellectual nature as joined in a natural unity with
a material body.
this unity called "man" as "a rational animal."

Conclusion
The Human Being as an Embodied Spirit is one which is expressed fully, shining for all the world to
see. It is our right and responsibility to give our Spirit its fullest expression in this body. The
opportunity to become embodied and whole begins at birth and continues throughout life.
A human being is a biosocial being and represents the highest level of development of all living
organisms on earth, the subject of labour, of the social forms of life, communication and
consciousness.
Spirit VS Soul
Spirit
it consist of our mind, will and emotions.
it is our personality, thoughts, attitudes, and what makes us unique.
immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal.
soul is mortal, meaning it dies.
Soul
the real person inside us.
it is our life force
it gives life to the body.
has no feeling and cannot think
the part of us that never dies, that is eternal, infinite and limitless.
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Battery
Where does the spirit go after death?
Speaking about mans death
The dust returns to the earth just as it happened to be and the spirit itself returns to the true God
who gave it.
- Ecclesiastes 12:7
Christian:
Islam:
the Angel of Death or Izraeel comes to take the spirit out of the body and puts it in a place called the
"Barzakh".
Transcending in the Global Age
According to Thomas Merton (1948), a Trappist monk, there is no other way for us to find who we
are than by finding in ourselves the divine image. We have to struggle to regain spontaneous and
vital awareness of our own spirituality.

EVALUATE OWN LIMITATIONS AND THE POSSIBILITIES FOR


THEIR TRANSCENDENCE
A. FORGIVENESS
When we forgive, we are freed from our anger and bitterness because of the actions and/or
words of another.
B. THE BEAUTY OF NATURE
There is perfection in every single flower; this is what the three philosophies believed. For a
hug, for every sunrise and sunset, to eat together as a family, are our miracles.
C. VULNERABILITY
To be invulnerable is somehow inhuman. To be vulnerable is to be human. The experience that
we are contingent, that we are dependent for our existence on another is frightening.
D. FAILURE
Our failures force us to confront our weaknesses and limitation. When a relationship fails,
when a student fails a subject, when our immediate desires are not met, we are confronted with the
possibility of our plans and yet, we are forced to surrender to a mystery or look upon a bigger world.
E. LONELINESS
Our loneliness can be rooted from our sense of vulnerability and fear of death.
F. LOVE
To love is to experience richness, positivity and transcendence. Life is full of risks, fears and
commitment, pain and sacrificing and giving up thing/s we want for the sake of the one we love.

DISTINGUISH THE LIMITATIONS AND POSSIBILITIES FOR


TRANSCENDENCE
A. It is the spiritual that endures and is ultimately real.
B. There is the preoccupation with the inner life the road to enlightenment that stretches not
outward but inward.
C. There is an emphasis on the non-material oneness of creation.
D. There is the acceptance of direct awareness as the only way to understand what is real.
E. There is a healthy respect for tradition but never a slavish commitment to it.

Evil and Suffering


Suffering is close to the heart of biblical faith. In comparison with the Buddha, who saw life
in suffering and tried to control it instead of cursing it, Job, of the Old Testament, did not just
complain.
In, Christianity, suffering leads to the Cross, the symbol of reality of God's saving love for the human
being. Suffering, in Buddhism, gives rise to comparison for suffering humanity.

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