It could be concluded from an emanationism point of view, that all actions and creations by a deity are simply flows of divine energy ( the flowing Tao in conjunction with qi is often seen as a river ; Dharma ( Buddhism ) the law of nature discovered by Buddha has no beginning or end.

In this view, God's word is revealed through a series of messengers: Abraham, Krishna, Moses, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, and Bahá ' u ' lláh ( the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith ) among them.

The Buddha said ( in DN1-the Brahmajala Sutta or The Net of Views ) that their view of being the creator of the world is a misconception, and that these Brahma-gods actually have a cause which lead their origination ( taking birth as a Brahma-god ).

Within Theravada Buddhism emerges the view that the Buddha was human, endowed with the greatest psychic powers ( Kevatta Sutta ).

Statements from modern Theravadins that the Buddha was " just a human " are often intended to contrast their view of him with that of the Mahayana, and with Christian views of Jesus.

For example Nichiren Shu school has the view that “ the title Buddha ” is reserved for Shakyamuni ”.

This view of Buddhism as a trick to test people is less common in modern times ; many Hindus still believe that Buddha was an incarnation of Vishnu.

Many followers of the former consider its 19th-century founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, to have been a prophet, as well as such other religious figures as Krishna and Buddha, despite the mainstream Muslim view that Muhammad was the last.

The view which was taught by Gautama Buddha states that all things which happen must have a cause, either material or spiritual, and do not occur due to luck, chance or fate.

In this view, the intention of the teaching of Buddha nature is soteriological rather than theoretical.

According to this analysis, the Buddha did not make the metaphysical assertion that nibbana is not self, but neither did he hold the metaphysical view that it is self.

Although Aesop and the Buddha were near contemporaries, the stories of neither were recorded in writing until some centuries after their death and few disinterested scholars would now be prepared to make so absolute a stand about their origin in view of the conflicting and still emerging evidence.

Some teachers take the view that all teachings that stem from the fundamental insights of Buddha constitute the Buddha's speech, whether they are explicitly the historical words of the Buddha or not.

The Dhammakaya Movement of Thailand, and the Tathagatagarbha Sutras of ancient Indian tradition, view the Dharmakaya as the true Self of the Buddha, present within all beings.

: A view of Buddha and a view of Dharma are the two enclosing mountains of iron.

Some opted for a degree of flexibility ( some would argue liberality ) whereas others took a conservative view believing that the rules should be kept just as the Buddha had framed them.

"... the Buddha taught the biological view of life 2, 500 years ago showing how the consciousness associates itself with the germ cell in the mother's womb, and how evolution takes place week after week of the dying man ceases only to be reborn by the force of karma in another life ..."

Guang Xing also assesses the view of the Buddha given in the as being that of the Mahāsāṃghikas.

Guang Xing also assesses the view of the Buddha given in the as being that of the Mahāsāṃghikas.

The scripture, which was extremely influentially by way of clarification of the Tathagātagarbha-Buddhist view of Śūnyatā ( Emptiness ), insists that the ultimately correct understanding of Emptiness is that the Tathāgatagarbha is empty of all knowledge that is not Liberation, whereas, in contrast, the qualities which characterise a Buddha are not empty of inconceivable virtues.

In mapping the threefold training to the noble eightfold path, paññā is traditionally associated with right view () and right resolve () which the Buddha defined:

an integration of the mathematical world view of modern physics and the mystical visions of Buddha and Krishna.

In his view, there were three possibilities: ( 1 ) Korean did not belong with the other three genealogically, but had been influenced by an Altaic substratum ; ( 2 ) Korean was related to the other three at the same level they were related to each other ; ( 3 ) Korean had split off from the other three before they underwent a series of characteristic changes.

He embraced a subordinationist Christology ( that God did not have a beginning, but the Logos did ), heavily influenced by Alexandrian thinkers like Origen, which was a common Christological view in Alexandria at the time.

But Sapir had since become influenced by a current of logical positivism, such as that of Bertrand Russel and the early Ludwig Wittgenstein, particularly through Ogden and Richards ' The Meaning of Meaning, from which he adopted the a view that natural language potentially obscures, rather than facilitates, the mind to perceive and describe the world as it really is.

Bryozoans ' evolutionary relationships to other phyla are also unclear, partly because scientists ' view of the family tree of animals is mainly influenced by better-known phyla.

On the Reckoning of Time ( De temporum ratione ) included an introduction to the traditional ancient and medieval view of the cosmos, including an explanation of how the spherical earth influenced the changing length of daylight, of how the seasonal motion of the Sun and Moon influenced the changing appearance of the New Moon at evening twilight, and a quantitative relation between the changes of the Tides at a given place and the daily motion of the moon.

This view is heavily influenced by modernization theory, but is also strongly influenced by indigenous sources such as the notion of " shijie datong " or the Great Unity.

Den was influenced by Mao Tse-Tung ’ s view of peasantry, so he thought drumming was rooted in the bodies that physically worked the land.

Einhard made numerous references to himself as a " sinner ", a description of himself that shows his Augustinian influenced world view.

In the early 1960s Bruner went to Africa to teach math and science to schoolchildren, which influenced his view as schooling as a cultural institution.

Lewis's tale appalled some contemporary readers ; however his portrayal of depraved monks, sadistic inquisitors and spectral nuns, and his scurrilous view of the Catholic Church was an important development in the genre and influenced established terror-writer Anne Radcliffe in her last novel The Italian ( 1797 ).

The mass media has made reports that have influenced the public view that goths, or people associated with the subculture, are malicious ; however this is disputed and the goth subculture is often described as non-violent.

William Fairfield Warren, in his book, Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole presented his belief that humanity had originated on a continent in the Arctic, called Hyperborea, this view influenced some of the early hollow earth theorists.

Ronnie Ellenblum claims this view was influenced by French imperialism and colonialism ; if medieval French crusaders could integrate themselves into local society, then certainly modern French colonies in the Levant could thrive.

The ideal of chivalry as the ethos of the Christian warrior, and the transmutation of the term knight from the meaning " servant, soldier ", and of chevalier " mounted soldier ", to refer to a member of this ideal class, is significantly influenced by the Crusades, on one hand inspired by the military orders of monastic warriors, as seen retrospectively from the point of view of the beginning Late Middle Ages, and on the other hand influenced by Islamic ( Saracen ) ideals of furusiyya.

Since medical literature began to describe homosexuality, it has often been approached from a view that sought to find an inherent psychopathology as the root cause, influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud.

He recounted its influence in a documentary on Italian neorealism, and commented on how Bicycle Thieves alongside Paisà, Rome, Open City inspired him and how this influenced his view or portrayal of his Sicilian genes.

* Perhaps Spengler influenced Charles Lindbergh's view that Western nations should put aside their political differences and form an alliance against " foreign races " instead of fighting amongst themselves.

Though this usually goes unacknowledged, Optimality Theory was strongly influenced by Natural Phonology ; both view phonology in terms of constraints on speakers and their production, though these constraints are formalized in very different ways.

Lewy's conclusion was that " the Pope and his advisers – influenced by the long tradition of moderate anti-Semitism so widely accepted in Vatican circles – did not view the plight of the Jews with a real sense of urgency and moral outrage.

In Markham's view, professionalism was considered less praiseworthy than " unforced aptitude ", and possibly Scott was influenced by Markham's belief.

Both Halonen's mother and her stepfather influenced her world view extensively.

The traditional view of Gregory is that he was an orthodox Trinitarian theologian, who was influenced by the neoplatonism of Plotinus and believed in universal salvation following Origen.