~ The Glamorous Prince

~ Went on 6 year journey

~ Awakened to the 4 nobel truths

~ Became the Buddha

~ Old age

~ Sickness

~ Death

~ Withdrawal from this world

~There is suffering (dukkha) in life

~ literal meaning is disjointedness - or difference between how you want things and how things really are

~ obsessive desire

~ cause of suffering

T/F

The cause of suffering is internal, not external to yourself

1.) Desire to get what you want

2.) Desire to avoid what you don't want

Y/N

Do buddhist negate all desires?

 NO

They only negate obsessive desires that hurt you and make you unhappy

~ Suffering can end by blowing out (nirvana) obsessive desires

~ Ultimate liberation from suffering

~ Spiritual state of eternal happiness that trancends this world

T/F

Once Nirvana is reached, you do not return to the cycle of rebirth (samsara)

~ One who has succeeded in blowing out all the flames of obsessive desire while still having a body.

~ Await natural death to reach complete nirvana

~ we can blow out our obsessive desires by practicing the 8 fold path.

1.) Right Path: 4 nobel truths

2.) Right Intent: The personal shift

3.) Right Speech: Practical methods to cool down the flames of tanha

4.) Right conduct: Practical methods to cool down the flames of tanha

5.) Right livlihood: Practical methods to cool down flames of tanha

6.) Right Effort: Forget nirvana and walk the 8 fold path

7.) Right mindfulness: mindfulness of the 3 traits of reality in the everyday

8.) Right concentration: Meditation on the 3 traits of reality, through meditation the buddhist  discovers anatta ( no-self)

1. Dukkha: suffering in life

2. Tanha: obsessive desire

3. Nirvana: blowing out our obsessive desires

4. The 8 fold path

1. Anicca: Impermanence (everything changes)

2. Anatta: An=No, Atta=Self

3. Dukkha

The self

~ 5 ingredients that the self is made of

1.) Body

2.) Bodily Sensations

3.) Consciousness

4.) Thoughts

5.) Feelings

T/F

Accoding to buddhism we have no slef idenity, nothing belongs to you and nothing can harm you because there is no "you"

T/F

Islam is the youngest of the 3 Abrahamic religions.

Allah

This does not denote a different god from the one that jews and christians believe in.

T/F

Muhammad is only a human and not a direct manifestation of god.

Y/N

The Koran is not considered holy and a direct manifestation of God.

NO

The Koran is considered to be a direct manifestation of God ( Allah

T/F

Islam is the loving releationship between humans and God.

False

-Islam is the submissive relationship between humans and God

- The loving relationship is Christianity

- peace and surrender they come together and Islam means

"Entering into a condition of peace through submission of one's will to Allah"

Y/N

All 3 Abrahamic religions are monotheistic?

Yes

All three believe that there is only one God

Y/N

Does Islam oppose the Christian doctrine of the Trinity?

YES

Islam is a strict monotheism

Trinity

In Christianty

There is one God, and he manifest himself in 3 modes: The father, the son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit.

Ex. Water- steam, water, ice are all water

Mono= One

Theistic= Believe in God

-Believes in one god

Y/N

In Islam is it respectful to say we are children of Allah?

NO

It is disrespectful to think of Allah in any wordly or human terms

Y/N

In Islam is Jesus respected as a good man and teacher?

YES

But it is very disrespectful to think of him as the son of God

Fear

-Not a negative fear but a beautiful

Christian Idea

The tendacy to sin is born in all humans

Y/N

Do muslims believe that we are tainted with orginal sin?

NO

Muslims believe that human nature is fundamentally good.

-Life is a test

-The individual soul lives on in paradise if the test is past

1.) Shahadah: Proclamation of faith. "There is no god but God, and Muhammad is his prophet."

2.) Salat: Prayer. 5 times a day.

3.) Zakat: Charity. Annual donation of 2.5% of belongings

4.) Saum: Fasting during the Islamic holy month (Ramadan)

5.) Hajj: Pilgrimage to mecca at least once in lifetime

Considered by some as the 6th pillar of Islam

-The struggle within to not ghaflah

Liberation from fear, guilt, ego through the love of Jesus Christ

Y/N

Do Jews and Muslims accept the doctorine of incarnation?

Sundering between God and Humans, Humans and Humans

To seperate a human from a human or a human from God

Y/N

Do Jews and Muslims not accept the doctorine of atonment as understood by Christians?

Y/N

 Is the Koran (Quran) the direct manifestation of Allah’s words?

Y/N

Is God constituted by more than one person?

Y/N

Do Jews and Muslims accept the Doctorine of the trinity?

Y/N

Is the Judaism releationship with God oppressive?

No

It is a relationship that bestows meaning.

Y/N

In Judaism does everything good or bad happen to us for a reason?

Yes

We are to trust that there is a infinitely good creator that has created us for a good reason, thus everything happens for a good reason, no matter good or bad.

Y/N 

According to Smith, did Christianity begin with the liberation of people from fear, guilt, and ego via the love of Jesus Christ?

Abrham second wife Hagaar, first wife Sarah and Ishmael is his 1st son from hagaar.

Issac is the 2nd son

Y/N

Is there an agreement between Judaism, Christianity and Islam on which son is the true son of sacrifice? 

Islam- "Entering into the a condition of peace through submission to one's will to Allah.

Muslim- Those who adhere to Islam

Allah- Arabic name for God

Y/N 

For the Abrahamic religions, is the relationship between God as the creator and humans as creatures a relationship of meaning that provides good reasons why we are here, and why events in our lives happen to us? 

Y/N

Is Muhammad the founder of Islam?

Y/N

 Is he (muhammad) considered as the last prophet by Muslims?

 Y/N

Is it true that according to Smith, Christians believe that trapped within our ego is love, which can be truly released only through the divine love of Jesus Christ? 

Y/N

Is the belief that Jesus Christ is simultaneously completely (100%) human and completely (100%) God the doctrine of incarnation?

Y/N

Is it true that according to Smith, God in Christianity is defined in terms of the Trinity which is composed of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit? 

-Essence of

-Love is relation

-There must be at least 2 persons for love

-Thus God must be understood as essentially constituted  by more than one person.

-Thus God is constituted by more than one person (three)

Y/N

Is it true that according to Huston Smith, revelation is a key concept through which G-d is understood in Judaism?

-Disclosure is action

-Disclousure in words

Yes, some are

Right speech

Right Conduct

Right livlihood

. Which one of the following does not describe the state of Nirvana correctly?

-Nirvana is a state of ultimate liberation from suffering. 

-It is a state where all the flames of obsessive desires have been completely blown out. 

 -Once nirvana is reached, there is no return to the cycle of rebirth (samsara). It is a spiritual state of eternal happiness that transcends this world. 

-When all the flames of obsessive desires are blown out, nothing remains. 

-Relevation in action

-Devine intervention/miracle

Good liberated an unorganized, enslaved people from the mightiest power of the age, was not even launched the Israelites as a nation.