Religion and Morals

What are the Connections Between Morals and Religions?

Morals and Religions are very connected with one-another.

Religions are based on morals or suggest and provide morals to live by. In Buddhist beliefs, they center and focus their religion on the moral of being kind and respectful to all. In Hindu beliefs, they focus on the moral of kindness and non-violence. Most all rules to follow in a religion are to follow certain morals. Morals are the rules and guidelines for being a good and ethical person. Most religions believe that is important to live and lead a good life in order for good things to happen to you after death (karma). All religions have some sort of goal they wish to reach, this can also only be reached if a person has lived a moral and good life. Religion relies on morals. Religious Followers use the morals in their religion to guide them and to help them in their lives. They follow and refer to these morals when they make choices and decisions.

This I Believe

This I Believe is a site that has various voice recordings and essays about personal experiences connected with peoples beliefs. We were asked to reflect and write about a recording we watched.

The name of the recording I listened to was called A Duty to Family, Heritage, and Country recorded by Ying Ying Yu at the age of 13. The Belief being discussed was responsibility.

Ying Ying Yu has lived her whole life being pressured by her parents and teachers to do well in school. In China, her home country, grades mean more to them than the compassion and caring given by a family. Teachers were strict and beat students when they got a bad grade. Her life was based on her parents dreams of her becoming a lawyer, even when she hoped and wanted to be a gardener. She felt that she had no choice than to follow her parents dream. She thought that she could not let all her parents and teachers hard work to get her where she is now, go to waste. Even though people have also told her to follow her heart and wants, she thinks that it is her duty to become a lawyer and follow her parents and teachers wishes. She wants to make them all proud. Ying Ying Yu talks of how she believes in duty and how "duty can bring her to something greater than herself".

This appealed to me because she was at an age close to my own. It made me feel lucky that I am not beaten when I get a bad grade and that I am not pushed and have choices in what I want to do with my life. It makes me wonder how so much pressure can be pushed on one person, especially when your just 13.

Domi-Know Profile

We were learning about our domi-know profiles today in humanities and what they can teach us about our learning. and learning styles. Here are some of the things I learnt.

I learn best when I am focusing visually and studying the details of information. I need to see the details in order for me to learn. I learn best visually and kinesthetically. I may need to learn something visually, the learn the same thing kinesthetically.

I need to work on being able listening to, remembering and being able to write down the details in an organized fashion after seeing the details.

Some strategies/activities that would help me include reading out loud, listening for the words of a song and following along and doing activities that involve both sides of my brain such as drawing and knitting. It may also help me to doodle or play with something such as clay, during class.

I want my teachers to know that doodling helps me relax and de-stress. My Domi-know profile suggests I doodle as it would be beneficial to me.