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| Location/Dates Siddartha's life |
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563-483 BC
Indian-Nepalese border kingdom called Kapilavatsu |
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| Born to a wealthy family; father was king; groomed Siddartha to become a great leader |
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There is Dukkhha
Dukkha is caused by attachment
Dukkha can end
The eightfold path leads to the end of Dukkha |
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| Prediction of Siddartha's life |
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| He would be either a great king or great spiritual leader |
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| Siddartha's father's reaction to prediction |
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| raised siddartha in isolation so that he would never see suffering and spiritual ideas |
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| Siddartha's pre-leaving adult life |
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| He marries and has a child |
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| 1. old person 2. sick person 3. corpse 4. ascetic (monk) |
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| Siddartha's response to 4 signs |
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| has genuine existential encounter and leaves his life as a prince and embarks on religious quest as a sramana |
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| studies Jhanas with jhana master |
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| three activities that occupy sramanas |
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austerities: go naked, endure all physical discomforts
Meditation: aimed at producing altered state of consciousness
Philosophy: develop views for justification of this lifestyle |
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| What made siddartha break his asceticism |
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| idea of everything in moderation |
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| Siddartha's enlightenment experience |
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Defeats Mara, who uses desire, hunger, fear, thirst, etc. to break siddartha's resolve to reach awakening under tree
Mara is representation of Siddartha's inner struggles |
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| Siddartha's life as a teacher |
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initially not inclined to teach
Brahma Sahampti (compassion) eventually leads to his teaching |
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| suffering, stress, dissatisfaction, etc. |
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Panna (wisdom) - view, intention
Sila (ethics) - speech, action, livelihood
Samadhi (concentration) - effort, mindfulness, meditation
More of a rough guide than commandments |
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| compassion, frendliness, desirelessness |
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| refraining from false, divisive, hurtful, and idle speech |
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refraining from: harming living beings, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, heedlessness with speech or intoxicants.
Ten courses of unwholesome action |
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| Ten courses of unwholesome action |
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| harming living creatures, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, false speech, divisive speech, harsh speech, frivolous speech, covetousness, anger, and wrong view |
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| not based on wrong speech and action |
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| to prevent unarisen unwholesome states, abandon arisen unwholesome states, and to develop arisen wholesome states |
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| contemplation of the body, mind, feeling, and dharma |
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| Three marks of conditioned existence |
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Dukkha,
Anicca (Impermanence) - everything is changing, nothing is permanent
Anatta (No-self) |
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Lobha-greed, craving (tanha), grasping (upadana), envy/jealousy, obsesssion, lust
Dosa: hate, aversion, fear, anger, anxiety
Moha: delusion, dishonesty, no seeing clearly, ignorance |
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| Three antidotes to Dukkha |
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Dana: generosity, non greed
Metta: loving kindness, non-hatred
Panna: wisdom, clarity, insight |
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| Different kinds of desire |
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Lobha/Dosa (Greed/attachment)
Tanha/Upadana (craving/attachment)
Chanda (desire to do) - cetana
Karma/Kamma conditioning theory - good and bad actions of the body have corresponding results in this and subsequent lives |
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| Craving, cause of suffering because cannot be fully satfisfied |
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Grasping, attachment.
4 kinds of attachment:
1. to objects of sense desire
2. to views
3. to precepts and vows
4. to the doctrine of the self
what causes us suffering is not what we are attached to, but that attachment in itself |
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| volitional impulse preceding/triggering an action - will or intent |
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"action" - the root karma or "action" is considered the mental act or intention; it is an aspect of our mental life
this is the principle that physical actions are based on mental actions which are either wholesome or unwholesome thoughts |
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| "action-fruit" - this is the karmic result of our actions, the engine for the cycle of rebirth |
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| karmic deed rule (not an actual term) |
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| the karmic effect of a deed is not determined by the deed itself, but also by the nature of the person who commits the deed and by circumstances in which it is committed. |
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| literal vs. Figurative - moment to moment vs. spiritual enlightenment |
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| conditioned existence vs. the unconditioned |
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the round of rebirth in which the search for happiness never ends
6 realms of conditioned existence
1.Human
2. God
3. Animal
4. Hell
5. Hungry Ghost
6. Jealous Titan |
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extinguishment of greed, hatred, and delusion
it is an event or experience, it is the ultimate end of dukkha
It is the final condition of the buddha and arhants after death consequent upon the extinguishment of defilements (neither non existence nor existence)
at the moment of awakening, the three poisons go away and you experience the most profound and ultimate truth about the world |
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divine abidings that help to achieve enlightenment
Buddha spread 4 as antidotes to near and far enemies:
Metta, Karuna, Mudita, Uppekka
loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, equanimity |
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| Loving-kindness, wish for all beings to be happy |
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| Compassion - wish for suffering in all beings to cease |
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| Sympathetic joy - the delight in the good fortune of others and the wish for it to continue |
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| equanimity - calm balance within when regarding the suffering and pleasures of all beings, not to be mistaken with indifference |
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| Attachment-love, attachment -compassion, pity, attachment to the happiness of others, apathy |
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| hatred, cruelty, envy/jealousy, craving/aversion |
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States of meditation - form and formless; nirodha Samapatti (cessation of perception/feeling)
4 Rupa Jahanas (form):
1. Rapture
2. Happiness
3. Joy (?)
4. Peace
4 Arupa Jhanas (formless):
5. Infinite Space - movement from 4->5 you lose a sense of the environment around you
6. Infinite Consciousness
7. Nothingness
8. Neither perception nor Non-Perception |
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| very deep state of meditation where no memory is made, occurs after reaching all eight levels of the jhanas |
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| Anapanasati Sutta - Mindfulness meditation |
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being aware of your own mental states and actions
mindfulenss is always in the present moment
presences to what is happening now
clarity ex. mindfulness of breathing |
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| Samatha - Calm/tranquility meditation |
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| one stills and clears the mind and then turns it inward with investigation and insight |
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| Vipassana - Insight Meditation |
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| focuses on understanding that things are impermanent and unstable, unsatisfactory and imperfect, they are no self (anatta) |
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| Metta - Loving kindness meditation |
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unconditional, positive regard
well wishing, genuine warmth of the heart |
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| Nondual awareness Meditation |
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reach past all clouds of perceptions into the experience of the now
goal: freeing ourselves of attachment and egoism |
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| Cognitive reframing techniques |
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| viewing a particular situation in a happier way |
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| using analytic meditation to see that something is empty of inherent meaning |
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form, feeling, cognition, volition, consciousness
they are a word for any given being - there is nothing else besides
answer: what is a being? what is going on? what is there? etc. |
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Bodily Phenomena
Physical world, stimuli |
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labeling or recognizing
mental activity that is a response to physical stimuli |
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| attaching feelings and responses to stimuli and thoughts |
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| my various experiences provoke various desires wishes tendencies |
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| 3 arguments or denial of "self" |
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we have not control over any of the five aggregates
if we hold onto things that are bound to disappear then we will suffer
the term "self" is meaningless |
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there is no denial that there is some complex occurrence, which is CONVeniently explained by the 5 aggregates (skandhas) because everything in this occurrence is changing constantly, what would be the permanent "self" so you are a series of complex physical and emotional flows
*because you in one instant is different from you in the next instant, how can there be a self* |
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| AMERICAN meditation teacher: feel/image/talk - no dukkha, self as thing disappears |
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Phena Sutta- emptiness, general theme
Awareness approach - liberating clarity of perception via mindfulness (nondual awareness)
Analytical approach - liberating clarity of perception via insight (quasi-cognitive) |
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| Two truths: conventional and ultimate |
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conventional: that persons and selves exist
ultimate: that persons and selves are aggregates of fleeting dharmas |
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| Arahant (theravada) Buddhism |
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Arahant: an awakened buddhist saint
free of dukkha, will not be reborn into conditioned existence, experienced nirvana
stages: worldling, stream-enterer, once-returner, non-returner, arahant |
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one path to buddhahood
story of megha
inner generosity, outer generosity, secret genetosity |
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Early:
Theravada; "Hinayana"
Mahayana
Vajrayana
Padmasambhava
gelugpa/ prassangika madhyamaka
emptiness of intrinsic nature/ inherent existence |
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"the great vehicle"
Mahayana is centered on the idea that gautama's awakening was superior to that of his disciples, his path is the Mahayana-or the great vehicle-ending in perfect awakening
THIS is opposed to hinayana, the vehicle of the disciple, ending in arhantship
Mahayana is in China |
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Tibetan Buddhism
Gelupa is Dalai Lama |
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is Tibetan
includes nyingma and dzogchen |
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Longchen Rebjam- Lama Surya Das
concerned with "natural state" emphasizing direct experience
kills dualism |
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| Gelugpa/ Prassangika Madhyamaka |
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analytic approach to emptiness
Tsong Khapa-> dalai lama, founder of this sect |
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