Buddhist Beliefs Revision
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- Created on: 13-10-18 19:12
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- Buddhist Beliefs Revision
- Eight Fold Path
- Can be remembered using the following acronym
- U(nder) T(he) S(un) A L(ittle) E(lephant) M(akes) C(ake)
- RIGHT: under-standing, thought, speech, action, livelihood, effort, meditation, concentration
- If you follow the 8 fold path, you can break free from samsara and achieve Nirvana
- Can be remembered using the following acronym
- Three Poisons
- Hatred
- Represented as a snake
- Greed
- Represented as a pig
- Anger
- Represented as a cockerel
- These represent Mara's daughters
- These daughters tempted the Buddha
- When he was under the Bo Tree
- Expressions of tanha (attachment)
- These daughters tempted the Buddha
- Hatred
- Three Marks of Existence
- Dukkha
- Suffering
- Anatta
- No permanent self/soul
- Anicca
- The world always changes
- Dukkha
- Four Noble Truths
- Dukka
- Suffering exists
- Samudaya
- Suffering caused by tanha (attachment)
- Nirodha
- Suffering can end
- Magga
- 8 Fold Path
- Follow magga to end suffering
- Dukka
- Five Aggregates (also Skandhas)
- Skandha means heap or group
- 5 Aggregates make up human experience
- Form, Sensation, Perception, Mental Activity, Conciousness
- F(at) S(eagulls) P(eck) M(e) A(t) C(olyton)
- Realising the 5 aggregates are empty (sunyata) allows a buddhist to cross the 'other shore' and realise Nirvana
- Heart Sutta teaches this
- Nirvana
- Only enlightened beings
- A state of no suffering, and is bliss/peaceful
- Humans have the greatest opportunity to achieve Nirvana as they can make CONSCIOUS DECISIONS
- The wisdom needed to to achieve Nirvana is represented buy the lotus flower
- Samsara
- Cycle of birth, death and rebirth
- If you break free from cycle of samsara you become enlightened
- Material world (this world) full of dukkha
- There is a story which tells the tale of how rare it is to be a human
- It describes how rare it would be for a blind sea turtle to stick its head in a basket in the whole ocean
- Near impossible
- It describes how rare it would be for a blind sea turtle to stick its head in a basket in the whole ocean
- Eight Fold Path
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