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Zen Buddhism
Final Exam
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 4
12/01/2013

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Masculine Principle
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Logic, reason, divides world-creates dualism
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Techne of Mind
Definition
technology dealing with matter, self-cultivation, how you deal with problems
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Either-or Logic
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Dualism, makes you one sided, opinionated
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Neither One or Two
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non-dualistic, true sense of non-dualism, not contrasting dualism
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Paramita
Definition
Advice, Perserverence, Energy, Ethics, Wisdom, Meditation, "perfection"
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Bodhisattva
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listens to cries for help, delayed own enlightenment to save others
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Great Mirror Wisdom
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reflects everything without distortion, like amalacitta, leads to paravritti
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Tathagathagarbha
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"thus come thus gone", thus come to this world, gone to enlightenment
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Avalokiteisvara
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Bodhi who appeared in Heart Sutra, can see everything
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Heart Sutra
Definition
dharmas empty in deep meditation (Mahayana Buddhism), homage to perfection, correction
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Logic of Not
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relates to masc/fem principle, A is not A, therefore it is A
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Extra-linguistic
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Unable to be described by language, example is experience, refers to Perfect Reality
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Feminine Principle
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emotion, spiritual, more holistic view
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Psychosomatic Medicine
Definition
emotions cause illness, state of mind related to physical state
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Garbha
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appeared in Lankavatrasutra, 2 senses: embryo and womb
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Person Empty
Definition
no substantialization or essentialization
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Dharma Empty
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events are empty
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Avarana
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obstacles created by karma, zen sickness, must overcome fear of death
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Logos
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divides things, represents masc principle
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Indra's Net
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giant net across universe, each intersection is a diamond-pure mind reflects all
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Amalacitta
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part of Indra's Net, pure mind reflects everything
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Rinzai School
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sudden enlightenment
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Soto School
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gradual enlightenment
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Psychosomatic
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emotions manifest as illness
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Cittramatra
Definition
mind only, how the world appears depends on feeling (Triple World)
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Ki-energy
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spiritual energy, sexual energy, manifests in emotion or physically, life energy
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Mantra
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sound formulation of truth, recitation brings truth to reality
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3 Jewels/Treasures
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Buddha, dharma, sangha
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Vasana
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your habits influence how you view the world, "perfuming"
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Sky
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contains everything without discrimination, metaphor for emptiness
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Parinama
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come to fruition, way things appear is result of vasana
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Manascitta
Definition
ego-consciousness
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3 Poisons
Definition
anger, greed, stupidity, ppl driven by blind passions
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Perfect Reality
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mind is originally transparent
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Alayavijnana
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"mountain that stores seeds of experience", consciousness
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Non-dualism
Definition
seeing the whole, no likes/dislikes
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Dharma
Definition
teaching of Buddhism, truth of teaching
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Sariputra
Definition
Heart Sutra criticizes him, exists prior to Heart Sutra
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Kwanzeon
Definition
Bodhi listens to cries for help
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Klesa daemon
Definition
death of your desires, zen sickness (avarana)
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Manovijnana
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different from manascitta, thought centered consciousness
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Prajna
Definition
wisdom (paramita)
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Vipassana
Definition
mindful meditation, used with samatha-stopping stream of consc.
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Skandha daemon
Definition
one of the avaranas of zen sickness, psychosomatic d/o
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Nous Poetikos
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Aristotle, active thinking, "thought thinking itself"--Beethoven example
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Samatha
Definition

goes with vipassana

stopping stream of consc.

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Death Daemon
Definition
one of the avaranas, obsession with death
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Upaya
Definition
skillful means, Triple World, guides you to truth
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Panta Rei
Definition
similar to impermanence
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Kama Dhatu
Definition
World of Desire
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Koan
Definition
riddles unsolvable by intellect, break barrier of rational thought
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Kwanzeon Sutra
Definition
Kwanz. appears can hear cries for help, appears differently depending on psych state
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5 Skandhas
Definition
  • Rupa-matter, body
  • Vedana-function to receive perception
  • Samjna-imagine what is received
  • Samskara-act out of potential energy
  • Vijnana-discriminatory consciousness
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Aristotle's 3 Laws of Logic
Definition
  1. Identity
  2. Contradiction-2 opposing truth values
  3. Excluded Middle-A has to be true or false (either or)
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4 Noble Truths
Definition
  1. Suffering
  2. Reason for Suffering
  3. Absence of Suffering
  4. Way of Suffering
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Goroku
Definition
recording what the Zen master says, informal language
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Paravritti
Definition
from Lanka., enlightenment experience, radical transformation
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Diamond Sutra
Definition
challenges previous works, illuminates interdependency, demands holistic view
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Self Binding w/o a Rope
Definition
desire leads to suffering, inhibits freedom
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Zero Time/Space
Definition
realm of non-dualism, experience of emptiness
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Lankavatrasutra
Definition
2 ideas: tathagathagarbha and cittamatra
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Crystal Ball Analogy
Definition
  1. Vastly imagined-ball on velvet is perceived as color of velvet
  2. Other dependent-things appear a certain way b/c everything happens in causal matrix
  3. Perfect Nature-crystal ball is transparent-perfect reality
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