Buddhism Flashcards
“Your objective is to attain total alertness, heightened sensitivity and a full, unblocked experience of the motion of walking.”
Power of meditation
Monks do walking meditation and power it gives you over your thoughts
Use for questions about meditation, enlightenment, eight fold path.
“To the Buddha for refuge I go
The the Dhamma I go
To the Sangha i go”
Dhamma- teachings of the Buddha
Sangha- Buddhist community
Go to Buddhist for guidance
Go to dhamma for teaching
Go to sangha to worship
Use for questions about worship, Buddha, the three jewels
“Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness.” The Dalai Lama
Compassion is feeling the same as others, want to stop their suffering
Loving kindness means you want someone to be happy and joyful
Use for questions about suffering, four noble truths, discrimination, poverty, war and peace.
“Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts…
Remain in the simplicity of the present moment”
Focus on the present and do not over complicate anything
Use for questions on eightfold path, themes
“The truth of suffering is like a disease, the truth of origin is like the cause of the disease, the truth of the cessation is like the cure of the disease, and the truth of the path is like the medicine.”
Everyone experiences suffering but you have to get through it and by doing this you will be better
“Even if my flesh and blood were to dry up, leaving only skin and bones,
I will not leave this place until I find a way to end all sorrow”
“All events and incidents in life are so intimately linked with the fate of others, that a single person on his or her own cannot begin to act”
You have to work with others you can not do anything on your own
Can be used for questions on eightfold path
“However innumerable sentient beings are; I vow to save them”
“Whoever destroys life, utters lies, takes what is not given, goes to another man’s wife, and is addicted to intoxicating drinks- such a man digs up his own root even in this world”
Murder, lying, stealing, adultery, drinking
Deserves what they get
Use for questions on 5 moral precepts
“It is craving which leads to renewed existence… the noble truth of the cessation of suffering is the remainder less fading away and cessation of the same craving”
