University of South Florida GroundHog Movie Analysis (GroundHog Movie)Please read the directions carefully and complete ALL parts of the assignment. Your d

University of South Florida GroundHog Movie Analysis (GroundHog Movie)Please read the directions carefully and complete ALL parts of the assignment. Your discussion must offer an analytic study comparing and contrasting this week’s reading assignment(s) as it pertains to this week’s movie. Think about this as the question the movie is trying to answer, problem to be solved, issue to be clarified.Identify at least three key terms or concepts related this week’s assignments in your choice, note their meaning, and explain how the movie uses them to develop the storyPlease note that you are not simply summarizing the film. The focus is related to particular elements depicted in the film and their relation to concepts encountered throughout the readings. You must draw on material from this week’s course readings related to the movie as you make the respective connections including note of topic, major scene(s), and underlying themes. For example; Karma, Nirvana, and so on. Sanatana Dharma
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Wishing Tree
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The Human Project
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Hinduism and Buddhism:
The Myths of Liberation and the Art of
Dying
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2000 BCE, Aryan migrations into India, introduction of the
Vedas
800 BCE– 200 CE, Development of the Upanishadic
literature (Beginning of Hinduism) – discovery of Brahmanself (Atman=Brahman)
563-483 BCE, Life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha –
denial of Brahman-self
(Anatta)
300 BCE-300 CE, Emergence of the epic traditions of the
Ramayana and Mahabharata (The Bhagavad Gita is part of
Mahabharata.)
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The Myth of Liberation –
the Common Worldview
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Key Metaphors –The Wheel and Fire
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The Multi-level Wheel of Death and Rebirth known as the Wheel of Samsara
The whole world is burning with desire.
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Life is Unsatisfactory, Life is Suffering
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The cause of suffering is desire which leads to delusion/illusion and
reincarnation.
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Selfish desire produces negative karma that leads to reincarnation, selfless
action leads to positive karma that leads to liberation from rebirth.
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Reincarnation is not a satisfactory answer to the problem of death. The only
satisfactory answer is liberation from the wheel of death and rebirth
(Moksha in Hinduism, Nirvana in Buddhism)
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Samsara
The Wheel of Death & Rebirth
Moksha
Nirvana
Samsara
Desire, delusion , suffering
Human Realm
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Hinduism on the Self
and the Art of Dying
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The true self (Atman) is the same as the universal
unborn/undying self (Brahman/Purusa)
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The fundamental problem is the illusion of
separate self (jiva).
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The metaphor of the self as an ice berg can help us
understand this.
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The Conscious “Ego-Self” is Only
the Tip of the “Ice Berg”
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Tip of Ice Berg = ego or jiva as
illusory atman
(water line)
Sea = Brahman or True Self
Brahman = Atman
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Moksha or Liberation
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Ego-centered desire creates the delusion/illusion of division or
separation. The elimination of selfish desire brings unity or
oneness.
Liberation or Moksha occurs when the self that is created by
desire is destroyed or annihilated by rooting out all desire
through the practice of the four yoga’s:
? Jnana or knowledge
? Karma or caste duty
? Raja or meditation
? Bhakti or love/devotion
The result is universal compassion in this world and eternal bliss
beyond the wheel of death.
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The Hindu Self: Atman = Brahman
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The ego-self (jiva) is illusion. One’s true self (atman) = (is the
same as) Brahman – the universal, unborn and undying self of
all things.
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The body is like a suit of clothes that you change from one
stage of life to the next and from one life to the next.
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The self is always the same and eternal. (The “I” at age 4, 14,
40 and 80 is the same I.)
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Through non-attachment to the ego-self (jiva) we become one
with the universal self (Atman =Brahman/Purusa) expressing
universal compassion.
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Arjuna and Krishna:
The Story of the Bhagavad Gita
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The Gita is a story embedded in the Mahabharata, an epic about King
Bharata and his descendents, king Pandu and his sons, including Arjuna.
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When Arjuna’s father dies, his uncle, Dhritarashtra, takes the throne and his
sons try to cheat Arjuna and his four brothers out of their rightful half of
the kingdom. It is to right this wrong that Arjuna finds himself on the battle
field where he agonizes about whether he should be killing his own cousins.
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Arjuna agonizes because he wants neither to kill or be killed. He is caught in
a double bind because as a Kshatriya warrior his caste duty (Karma yoga) is
to fight injustice but it is also considered immoral to kill your caste/family
members. So he is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. Either way
he accrues negative karma.
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Master and Disciple:
Non-attachment Leads to Liberation
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Now he finds himself engaged in a dialogue with his chariot driver whom
we later learn is really the incarnation of the all-highest deity, Vishnu – Lord
of Life and Death. Krishna assumes the role of spiritual master or teacher
and Arjuna, the disciple.
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Krishna’s task is to help Arjuna see the illusion of the self (jiva) and his true
identity as Brahman or Purusa. This can be accomplished if he will practice
the yogic paths to enlightenment or moksha. If he realizes his true identity
he will realize that his true self, like all other selves, is never born and never
dies then he will no longer fear death, whether it is his own dying or taking
the life of others.
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The essence of Arjuna’s teaching is that as long as he does his caste duty
selflessly, without thought of personal gain, he will not accrue negative
Karma and can still achieve moksha or liberation.
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The Transformation
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The turning point of the Gita, is chapter 11, where Krishna reveals his
true identity by being transformed into Vishnu — a terrifying vision in
which Vishnu appears as a ferocious God with multiple heads and
limbs and proceeds to grind up the bodies of the men on the battle
field between his teeth.
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The lesson of this vision is that it is not he, Arjuna, that determines
who lives and who dies but Vishnu, the Lord of life and death.
Therefore, as long as Arjuna does his duty selflessly, he accrues no
negative karma, for it is not he who is the slayer but Vishnu.
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At the end of the Gita, Arjuna is transformed and stands up ready to
do his duty and fight.
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