• Teacher of the noble path 

• The teachings of the path 

• Monastic community
• Role models that can help provide a formula for the path 

• Physical body

• Body of teachings 

• Buddha + Dharma + Sangha = 3 Jewels 

• Buddhist scripture, "pithy discourse" 
• Begin: "Thus have I heard..."  

• "Collections" of sutras in the Pali Canon

1. At Rajagriha, 3 month after Buddha died
2. At Vasali, 100 years later
3. At Pataliputra, 3rd c. BCE

1. Sutra (discourses)
2. Vinaya (monastic code)
3. Abhidharma (further teachings) 

• "The noble truth of suffering" 
• Birth, aging, sickness, death = suffering 
• Our life cycle is characterized by suffering

• "The noble truth of the origin of suffering" 
• Craving = source of suffering
• Craving for sense pleasure, existence, and non existence 

• "The noble truth of the cessation of suffering"
• Relinquishing craving, liberating oneself from craving 

• "The noble truth of the path leading to the cessation of suffering" 
• The noble 8-fold path 

• Craving

• Suffering

• Impermanence 

• No-self 

• Duhkha (suffering)
• Anitya (impermanence) 
• Anatman (no-self) 

Define: Prajna (noble 8-fold path)

Name: parts in path (2) 

• "Knowledge" 
• Right View
• Right Intention 

Define: Shila

Name: 3 parts in 8-fold path 

• "Conduct"
• Right Speech
• Right Action
• Right Livelihood

Define: Samadhi

Name: 3 parts in 8-fold path 

• "Meditation"
• Right Effort
• Right Mindfulness
• Right Concentration

• Aggregates that make up our notion of "self"

1. Form - physical world, the body
2. Sensations - pleasure, pain, neutral
3. Perceptions - classifications of sensory stimuli
4. Formations - thoughts, intentions, emotions
5. Consciousness 

• "Wheel of existence" 

• "Dependent origination" 

1. Ignorance - blind grandmother
2. Formation - potter's wheel
3. Consciousness - monkey
4. Name/form - man in boat
5. 6 senses - house w/ 6 windows
6. Contact - married couple
7. Feeling - man w/ arrow in eye
8. Craving - man drinks milk/honey
9. Grasping - gathering fruit
10. Becoming - couple making love
11. Birth - woman giving birth
12. Decay/death - corpse 

• The lord of death - holds the wheel of existence 

Define: Klesha

Name: Klesha's place on wheel of existence

• Affliction, negative emotion
• Innermost circle on wheel 

Define: Karma

Name: Karma's place on wheel of existence

• Literally "action" 
• Circle #2 (inner) on the wheel of existence

Define: Phala

Name: Phala's place on wheel of existence

• Result 
• Outermost circle on wheel of existence

• Literally "to wander through, undergo transmigration" 

1. No killing
2. No stealing
3. No sexual misconduct
4. No lying
5. No sowing discord
6. No harsh speech
7. No idle chatter
8. No covetousness
9. No harmful thoughts 
10. No wrong view

1. Intention
2. Execution
3. Completion
4. Rejoicing

1. Fully ripened effect - place of rebirth
2. Effect similar to cause - types of experiences
3. Conditioning Effect - one's environment
4. Proliferating effect - habitual tendencies