The Four Noble Truth
- Created by: Ashlie Chapman
- Created on: 07-05-13 14:08
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- The Four Noble Truths
- The Second Noble Truth
- The cause of suffering whihc is Tanah
- The First Noble Turth
- The truth of suffering (Dukkha)
- The Third Noble Truth
- The thruth of the cessation (end) of suffering which is Nirvana
- The Fourth Noble Truth
- The truth of the path to the cessation of suffering which is the eigthfold path
- Tanha
- Three types of Tanha
- Kama Tanha
- Sensuality or sensual pleasure/ objects
- E.g. wanting sex
- E.g. Wanting an ipad
- Bhava Tanha
- Beocming or Existence itself (the desire to be someone else)
- E.g. Not wanitng to die
- E.g. Wanting to be famous
- Vibhava Tanaha
- No beocming or non-existance or extermination
- E.g. wishing you were not born
- E.g. Craving to be skinny (anorexic)
- Kama Tanha
- This is Craving for anything
- Three types of Tanha
- How Tanha leads to suffering
- Drive/ instinct
- Tanha and Anicca
- Tanha and Anatta
- Emotion caused by Tanha
- Tanha = Karma which leads to rebirth
- Arhat or Arhant
- Is a person that is enlightened
- Nirvana
- Freedom from Samsara, whihc means leaving Samsara to place free form Dukkha
- Four ways thta Nivrana is descirbed
- Negative ways
- E.g No suffeirng
- E.g. No rebirth
- Positive description
- E.g. Perfect
- E.g. Heavenly
- Symbolic description
- That it is just a metaphors to help us to understand the impossible
- Paradoxical description
- Samsara and Nirvana are the same thing
- Negative ways
- The Doctor Analogy
- The Buddha is described as a doctor in this teaching
- The first Noble turth - Doctor assesses a patient as the Buddha assesses life (Dukkha)
- The Seocnd Noble truth - Docotr diagnoses the cause of the prolbme as the Buddha diagnoses the cause of Dukkha in life (Tanha)
- The Third Noble Truth - the Docotr offers hope of a cure as the Buddha offers hope that Dukkha in life can be cured (Nirvana)
- The Fourth Noble Truth - the Docotr offers treatment as the Buddha offers a treatment for the ending of Dukkha in the eightfold path
- The Buddha is described as a doctor in this teaching
- The poison arrow story
- One day a man was shoot in the eye with a poison arrow, he went to the hosptial and wouldn't get treatment until he know a lot of answer to quesiton such as what wood was the arrow?, who it was? etc. so he died
- This show thta you shouldn't ask piontless question just following the eightofld path which is the treatment to get out of Samsara
- Two path to get to Nirvana
- Theravada
- Mahayana
- Enlightenment = Bodhisattvas = complete Buddha hood (full enlightenment/ Nirvana)
- The Second Noble Truth
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