Last Thursday we went to the Reuben Museum, which is dedicated entirely to showing off Buddhism and educating the general public about it. I learned some very interesting things which I had not known, although Buddhism had been  covered within my high school world history curriculum. One of the most interesting things which I learned was that within Buddhism’s path to enlightenment there are several approaches. There are some which are done by completely removing yourself from anything that affects you, living a simple life, and removing yourself from pleasure and pain. However, one of the things which I learned from Namit was that the Buddhists considered that there were other worldly approaches to finding enlightenment, such as having an immense amount of earthly pleasure. This at the very least surprised me, and made me want to look more into some of the other things that the Buddhist thought of. Another very interesting thing was the chart that described the different hand symbols used in paintings and sculptures of Buddhist figures. I had never made the connections, and had thought that some figures just had a traditional look, but it turned out that the same figure might be portrayed with different hand symbols. Something I had never thought of.