Sielvieh Tuazon

St. Juliana of Nicomedia

1. Why does man still have to be born if only to suffer and finally to die?
Explain

First of all a man is not born to suffer, it is their own will why they are
suffering. They choose to suffer and it is not because we are born to suffer.
Every man has their own will and some people choose to suffer through physically
or mentally. A man is a human being and suffers means to experience something
unpleasant. Man was not born to suffer; it is man himself that makes itself to
suffer from the doings and decisions that he himself makes. That is why our
brain has the capacity to think and to rationalize in order for our lives to be
good. Man is responsible for its own suffering, its either you do not love
yourself enough and that you cannot confront yourself with your problems that is
why you suffer. And it is true that all man are suffering but it is because they
want to achieve something you and achieving something means that you must put an
effort to it and putting and effort to it is difficult that is why you are
suffering. It is like you are having some troubles today but it will have some
greater use in the future. Those sufferings that we call are experiences that
mould us to become a better person. And suffering is part of every man’s life,
no man in this world did not suffer from any aspects. But we are not born to
suffer.
Second, a man is born to enjoy little things in life and to acquire so that
the learning’s he collects can be passed on through generations. We must enjoy
things in life; we must live to the fullest because at the end we know that we
will not live forever. Not every man knows the same thing, that is why every
person needs to share their knowledge in order to fill in the ignorance of other
people. Always keep in mind that “A frog in a well does not know the great see.”
And this quote is self-explanatory.
Third, a man who is suffering is not living. If a man is stocked on those
suffering, we will not able to see the good in life. He might as well be
considered dead. A man should not stop living just because they are suffering,
they must continue life despite their sufferings, and they should make their
sufferings as a stepping-stone in making their life better. Somebody told me
before “Life is not yet over when suffering hits you so hard”. Sometimes it is
all in our mind that we thought we are suffering and having a hard time that is
why we want to die or we do not do anything for these sufferings to go away and
to keep moving forward.
Fourth, a man has to die. If Man are not going to die, then the world
cannot accommodate us all. As a Chinese philosopher once said: “Death is
relative of life just like night and day, sunrise and sunset.” We cannot
appreciate the beauty of sunrise if there is no sunset; vice versa, and we
cannot appreciate the beauty of night if there is no day and vice versa.
Sometimes man dies because of these sufferings but some dies after their
“sufferings”. If we all think positively, we cannot deny the fact that we are
all going to die at the end. And if you are going to die you should be thankful
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St. Juliana of Nicomedia

because you are done with the sufferings that you are going through with
yourself, the sufferings that you put to yourself is done.
Every man is born with a purpose not just to live, suffer and finally to
die. The presence of this suffering in our lives is to be taken as a challenge
to be stronger than our old selves. In addition, for people to say, “just to
die”, those are the people who did not do something in their lives, they are the
ones who has a lot of regrets, they are very bitter because they did not become
what they wanted to be. However, if you lived that purpose that you were given
with, the world “dying” will mean different to you. Because others said, that
Death is to build or to rebuild a new life
Therefore, Man are not brought to the world in order for us to suffer. However,
to enjoy life and that we are the one responsible for our own sufferings. After
these sufferings we die, it is maybe because we suffered so much that we have to
finally rest or maybe because we suffered so much that that we wanted to die and
finally rest and be born again.

2. Knowledge is from the mind, of the mind, and through the mind alone. Discuss

All learning are passed through the senses. Using all our senses, the sense
of smell, touch, taste, hearing and vision then through the senses the mind
process what have seen smelled, touched, tasted, heard and saw from there the
mind process and make rationalizes what has been the senses intercept then it
makes judgement then that is when knowledge is formed. When the knowledge is
formed, it develops in our mind or it passes our mind and its either it will be
stocked in our mind alone or we share this knowledge to others and their minds
will process what I have said.
If the mind rationalizes and makes judgement out of these senses then the
knowledge is in the mind alone. For example I touched the silk cloth, if my
senses in my mind tells me that it is silk then I know that it is silk because I
am the one who touched it, it is in my mind alone but if you touch it you will
also know that it is silk because the senses that your knowledge had made
judgements too in your minds tells you it is silk. Another example is that if
you are going to take a bath. When the water touches your skin and sense of
touch is present you will be knowledgeable if the water is how or cold and that
knowledge will pass through your mind telling you if it is cold or hot.
Knowledge is an awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or
situation while mind is the element or complex of elements in an individual that
feels, perceives, thinks, wills, and especially reasons. There is a quote from
the Buddha saying “All things preceded by the mind, led by the mind and created
by the mind.” According to the book I have read the mind has two main aspects
Clarity and Knowing; meaning that the mind is clear, formless and allows objects
to arise in it, and that the mind is knowing, an awareness, a consciousness
which can engage with objects.
According to the Aristotle’s philosophy, There are two(2) means to
intellectual knowledge- Induction, or rather than the abstraction obtained
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St. Juliana of Nicomedia

through Induction, and the rational Syllogism. Everything that we know

scientifically we know by the one means or the by other.
We live from the bell, by the bell, and through the bell. From the mind, it
is the basic home of our knowledge from the mind because through the mind
knowledge is passed. Of the mind; because the mind has knowledge and through the
mind alone; because knowledge is passed through it.
Knowledge is from the mind, the mind is creative, and this is pure
intellect. We got the knowledge or information in the mind of the others people
mind and through our mind we passed it. Because we are going to store this
knowledge in our mind and pass it through to others and vice versa.