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| C - a wise person or role model, conf. Believed everyone should try to be like them, and this way of the sages was the path to moral perfection |
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| C- do as your father did, and respect him. It can be said that if after three years a son has not changed his fathers ways then he was a good son, you must never fail to comply |
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| C - represented the realistic wing, believed human nature to be originally evil, goodness is a result of humans consciously thinking they should act good. It doesn’t come naturally to humans – people will go any length to get what they desire |
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| C - this is what supports an emperor when he is ruling, but only if he is doing for the good of the people, not for selfish means. This is based upon the belief that heaven cares profoundly about humans |
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| C - humans have absolutely no control over it, this is determined by fate |
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| C - believed human nature was inherently good. He thought this because everyone has the same reaction to want to save a child if or when a child should fall into a well |
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| C - the golden rule, treat everybody how you would want them to treat you. This also includes worship of the ancestors, believing not just doing the rituals and sacraments. This is designed to make/ teach individuals how to act well. If we follow this path then we will be saved |
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| H - not only in the world, but it is the world. It is the highest aim of all metaphysical inquiry, totality of all reality. The source of all being, not physical, the very force that sustains the world and created it |
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| H - undefinable, the ultimate self, not autonomous being but part of this large interrelated network of reality. In order to be a sage, one must abandon the ordinary ways and mediate the atman |
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| H - one god in many aspects or forms |
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| H - believes that god with qualities is unreal, Brahman is the only truth and the world is unreal. One should give up the separateness between god and the individual soul. |
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| H - what we want affects what we do and what we do affects what we become, we aren’t free, we are restricted by our own actions |
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| H - attainted through the grace of the lord only when actions are preformed with the idea of propitiating the lord |
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| Cycle of psychological bondage |
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| H - you get something because you want it, but then you just want something else in it’s place…we are psychologically programmed in such a way that under normal circumstances, free action is impossible. We act out of desire which itself is the result of some prior action recorded in the unconscious mind. |
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| H - the process by which the formless takes form |
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B – right action involved in the cultivation of moral, honorable and peaceful conduct in oneself and others
1. not to kill
2. not to steal
3. not to cheat
4. not to engage in illicit sex
5. not to consume intoxicants |
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| B – based off the Pali Cannon, involves very serious monks, who aim for Nirvana with the hope that this is their last life before they do achieve Nirvana. |
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| B – based off of the Lotus Sutra, the highest life is open to all who choose to try and accomplish it. The goal is bodhisattva an enlightened person-model of perfection |
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| B – perfection of wisdom and a lens of compassion, not independent beings, helps others attain the liberation of enlightenment |
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| B – absolute freedom, when the cravings become extinct, then dukkah is gone and the result is nirvana, it can’t be defined by words, the freedom to see things as they really are, emancipated from the limiting distortions of self projections |
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| B – everything depends on everything else, you really can’t think of yourself as an individual or events separated from other happenings |
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| B - is the path for kama, and explains the arising of all things, beings, and states |
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| B – the docterine of no self based on the 5 skandhas |
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B - are all of the components of a person without resorting to the idea of self. This follows the idea that the self consists of sequences of passing moments or of human becomings
1. form – material aspect of thing or person. Includes body and 6 sense organs
2. sensations – psychological process, resulting from contact of form with form there are 3 kinds, pleasant, unpleasant and neutral
3. perception – sensations that are produced lead to recognition of objects. 6 types of mental discrimination resulting from the six senses
4. mental formations – includes our predisposing, impulses, attitudes, and tendencies that make up the unique character of our own personality. Karma is included in this
5. consciousness – moments of awareness. It is dependant upon the condition in which it arises, one’s consciousness is deeply conditioned my mental formations |
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| B – suffering or dissatisfactory, anything that displeases us. There are 3 types, ordinary suffering, suffering produced by change, suffering as conditioned states |
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1. life is dukkha
2. craving causes dukkha
3. dukkha can be stopped
4. follow the 8 fold path which stops dukkha |
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B - is considered to be the middle way, has 8 practices that need to be followed simultaneously
1. right speech – abstain from useless speech, can use silence
2. right action – moral honorable peaceful in conduct toward oneself and others
3. right livelihood – make a living that doesn’t harm anybody/thing
4. right effort – having good thoughts in one’s mind
5. right mindfulness – meditative practice in which one aspires to be diligently aware of one’s body, feelings, mind and thoughts
6. right consciousness – calming the mind and concentrating it on a single part
7. right thought – selfless detachment or loving thoughts
8. right understanding – understanding things as they really are and understanding the 4 noble truths |
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| B – lived a sheltered childhood as a preist, renounced life when he saw suffering, realized the middle way of moderation was the best way after experiencing a life of extreme poverty as a monk. He experienced Nirvana for 7 days and decided to teach others about his experience. |
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P – three part soul which are always in conflict with each other
1. reason – this must be like the charioteer to the others, decisions must be made with reason, not based on anything else
2. sprit – self esteem, how you see yourself and how you see others viewing you. This is also honor and passion
3. appetite – physical things, desires, wants, etc. |
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| P – chained in a dark place these people thought that the shadows were reality, and for them the shadows were. This only became a problem when one escaped and saw the real world, the others wouldn’t believe him. Plato believed that our life on earth is sheltered like the people who live in the cave and only see the shadows |
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P – knowledge involved in understanding 4 main aspects
1. logical of semantic ( has to do with meanings and concepts)
2. metaphysical (what is ultimately real, material things disappear, ideas don’t
3. epistemological ( how we can know) intellectually acquainted with the forms counts as knowledge
4. political ( how we should live) |
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| P – what people in charge want, a well ordered just society will be one in which each class of person plays their distinctive role in harmony with each other, in a perfect society aristocracy ruling results in a just society. |
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