What is the gist of the chapter or essay? The goal out of practicing Buddhism is to become a self-less person. Everything we do in life causes another. Nothing in this world happens independently. In Buddhism the relationship between on thing leading to another is called casual connectedness. This chapter explored the aspects of Buddhism relating to who experiences belong to, what is considered an individual being, and what and who controls the events, which …
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…me to do three deeds for three different individuals. And I decided to adopt a child, pay for one child to go to school in a third world country and gave money to a farming family who was having a hard time, their actions of doing three deeds a piece would continue the cycle. This is an example of the positive affect casual conectedness could have and the power of it reaching around the world.