Buddhism Flashcards
karma
every action has a reaction which leads to rebirth
- tibetan buddhism holds that there are two ways that someone can take rebirth after death. The first is to be reborn involuntarily, under the sway of karma, drawn back to life by destructive emotions and desires. This is the fate of most of us. A few, select others, are believed to be able to choose their place and time of birth as well as their parents.
the universal connection
we are everywhere and everything
the 3 jewels
- buddha- ideal spiritual potential
- dharma- teachings of the buddha/moral law
- sangha- community of believers
practices- the 4 noble truths
- all life is suffering and pain
- the cause of suffering is desire or craving
- suffering and desire can be extinguished with enlightenment
- the way to enlightenment is the 8 fold path
the 8 fold path
wisdom:
1. right view/understanding
2. right thought/ resolve
morality:
3. right speech
4. right action
5. right livelihood
Meditation
6. right effort
7. right mindfulness
8. right concentration
buddhism is the ______ largest religion in the world and is is also a _________ religion meaning that we find Buddhists in every country in the world.
4th, transnational
most buddhists would think of themselves as belonging to one of ___ schools of buddhism. Theravada Buddhism, which we find in South and Southeast, Asia Mahayana Buddhism which we find in East Asia and Vajrayana Buddhism which we find in Tibet and Mongolia
three
Buddhism really starts with the story of _____ who was born in present-day Nepal 2500 years ago. When he was born a great sage came down from the mountain and told his father the king that your son will either be a great Emperor or a great spiritual teacher. The king was determined that his son would become a great emperor so he vowed to shield his son from the _________ of the world and kept him inside the palace walls where he lived a life of luxury and hedonism
Prince Siddharda
suffering and misery
when prince Siddhartha was thirty years old he such outside the palace walls and saw for the first time, _________ and he vowed not to return to the palace until he had solved the problem of human suffering. Over the next six years he spent wandering through forests in India looking for truth until he finally came across a tree in northern India and he vowed to sit under that tree in ________ until he became enlightened. Forty-nine days later he became enlightened and he was known as the _______ which in Sanskrit means the one who has _______
human suffering, meditation, buddha, awakened
buddhism is different than the other major world religious traditions because it is not oriented around god but oriented around _______. what buddha taught is that we create our own suffering and the path out of suffering lies ___ us. we can alleviate suffering by changing our perception of ___ in our world.
man, with, ourselves
buddha taught that we suffer because we ____, because we’re focussed on ___ and because we assume things are_______ when they’re actually ______. for buddha the way not to suffer is to recognize that everything is impermanent, even ourselves and to recognize the transitory nature of all things. Once we do that, then we can achieve _____
crave, ego, permanent, impernanent, nirvana
buddhists believe we’re ____ enlightened buddhists and we just have to realize that ourselves and for buddhists this is because the focus isn’t on God we can transform ourselves to become enlightened we can understand the world in a particular way where we see the truth of our own natures. In that respect buddhism is a _____ religion that many people gravitate towards because it doesn’t necessitate that they worship any particular deity or engage in any other type of ritual other than meditation contemplation.
already, self- empowering
many _______ practice Buddhist meditation following the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Christians
