Buddhism

Question 1

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire
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Answer 1

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire
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Question 2

A few well chosen thoughts can save you weeks of suffering

Answer 2

A few well chosen thoughts can save you weeks of suffering

Question 3

Association with the disliked is Dukka. Association with sth which is unpleasant. I don’t like it this way. Therefor there is Dukka…………..When you recognice that: Suddenly the universe was not out of balance anymore - it’s just meeting something you don’t like and you react like that. Like if you have a stone in your shoe it hurts what else do you expect. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG HERE ITS JUST COMPLETELY ORDINARY

Answer 3

Association with the disliked is Dukka. Association with sth which is unpleasant. I don’t like it this way. Therefor there is Dukka…………..When you recognice that: Suddenly the universe was not out of balance anymore - it’s just meeting something you don’t like and you react like that. Like if you have a stone in your shoe it hurts what else do you expect. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG HERE ITS JUST COMPLETELY ORDINARY

Question 4

Sorrow and unhappiness (suffering) comes from the ones who are dear (close) to us

Different ways of love:

Dear = possession / separation (me here and you there tied together with interest in caring). This type of love is always problematic

Metta: loving kindness , compassion ,!sympathatic joy , equanimity

Answer 4

Sorrow and unhappiness (suffering) comes from the ones who are dear (close) to us

Question 5

Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die !!!

Answer 5

Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die !!!

Question 6

Karma

Answer 6

“Intention”

Question 7

What causes an emotion?

Answer 7

A combination of perception, believe, intend and response

Question 8

Your mind almost constantly thinks :

Answer 8

Most of the thinking is about the past or the future.

Remembering
Planning
Phantasising
Rehearsing (Proben)

Question 9

Buddha points out that suffering is product of the mind. He is not offering relief from pain => he is offering relief to the extra mental reactivity that’s causes your misery

Answer 9

Buddha points out that suffering is product of the mind. He is not offering relief from pain => he is offering relief to the extra mental reactivity that’s causes your misery

Question 10

Es gibt zwei Arten auf Suffering zu reagieren: Reactive oder Mindfull

Ajahn Cha: there are two kinds of suffering: one that leads to more suffering and one that leads to the end of suffering

Answer 10

Es gibt zwei Arten auf Suffering zu reagieren: Reactive oder Mindfull

Question 11

Mit der Umsetzung der ersten Noble Truth penetrating Dukka and excepting it just the way it is allows you to Rather Respond to than to react to suffering

Answer 11

Mit der Umsetzung der ersten Noble Truth penetrating Dukka and excepting it just the way it is allows you to Rather Respond to than to react to suffering

Question 12

Realize that Suffering is a sign for practice and not a sign of failure

Answer 12

Realize that Suffering is a sign for practice and not a sign of failure

Question 13

Luke: two types of suffering: one you need to bare (essential) and one you need to abandon (neurotic - inferier suffering)

Answer 13

Luke: two types of suffering: one you need to bare (essential) and one you need to abandon (neurotic - inferier suffering)

Question 14

To understand suffering you must be willing to stand under suffering

You must be wiling to stand suffering as if you are standing under a waterfalll

=> fully standing in life as it is

This choice gives your life meaning and ironically it gives meaning to your suffering too!!

Answer 14

To understand suffering you must be willing to stand under suffering

You must be wiling to stand suffering as if you are standing under a waterfalll

=> fully standing in life as it is

This choice gives your life meaning and ironically it gives meaning to your suffering too!!

Question 15

The ego sees suffering as a personal failure. Based on the wrong assumption that winning in life means no suffering

The ego is under the illusion that the opposite of suffering is happiness

Answer 15

The ego sees suffering as a personal failure. Based on the wrong assumption that winning in life means no suffering

The ego is under the illusion that the opposite of suffering is happiness

Question 16

The ego is not bad!! Don’t leave home without it but let the ego not steer your life!!

Do not expect that suffering goes away!

Answer 16

The ego is not bad!! Don’t leave home without it but let the ego not steer your life!!

Question 17

The way out of suffering is through suffering

Answer 17

The way out of suffering is through suffering

Question 18

All unwholesome desires are based on

Graving
illwill
delusion
greed

Answer 18

All unwholesome desires are based on

Graving
illwill
delusion
greed

Question 19

Simply stated : All grasping leads to suffering (greifen)

Answer 19

Simply stated : All grasping leads to suffering

Question 20

The proximate cause of dukkha is craving, taṇhā, literally “thirst”, the strong desire we have for pleasure. This desire has a positive and a negative side to it, illustrated by “craving for existence” and “craving for extermination”. In its most elemental form these are the cravings we have for pleasant experiences to continue and unpleasant experiences to end. The latter sort we generally call “aversion”.

Answer 20

The proximate cause of dukkha is craving, taṇhā, literally “thirst”, the strong desire we have for pleasure. This desire has a positive and a negative side to it, illustrated by “craving for existence” and “craving for extermination”. In its most elemental form these are the cravings we have for pleasant experiences to continue and unpleasant experiences to end. The latter sort we generally call “aversion”.

Question 21

Just as we looked at how dukkha is produced to understand dukkha, so too we have to look at how craving is produced to understand craving. By the standard formula of dependent arising, craving is produced by feeling (vedanā). “Feeling” here is a technical term; it does not refer to the emotions. Instead it can be defined as something like “feeling tone”: pleasant, painful, and neutral sensations.

The basic idea is that pleasant sensations induce in us a craving for their continuation, painful feelings induce in us a craving for their cessation, and neutral sensations induce in us either dull passivity or a craving for pleasant sensations. It is this move from feeling to craving that the Buddha believed was the weak link in the chain of dependent origination, the place that the saṃsāric process could eventually be broken. So investigating this link is of paramount importance.

Answer 21

Just as we looked at how dukkha is produced to understand dukkha, so too we have to look at how craving is produced to understand craving. By the standard formula of dependent arising, craving is produced by feeling (vedanā). “Feeling” here is a technical term; it does not refer to the emotions. Instead it can be defined as something like “feeling tone”: pleasant, painful, and neutral sensations.

The basic idea is that pleasant sensations induce in us a craving for their continuation, painful feelings induce in us a craving for their cessation, and neutral sensations induce in us either dull passivity or a craving for pleasant sensations. It is this move from feeling to craving that the Buddha believed was the weak link in the chain of dependent origination, the place that the saṃsāric process could eventually be broken. So investigating this link is of paramount importance.

Question 22

Loving kindness is the intention of good will towards you and others

Answer 22

Loving kindness is the intention of good will towards you and others

Question 23

Another reason Buddhism appeals to a broad range of people in recovery is because it is an experiential spiritual practice that empowers us to improve our conscious contact with a Greater Power of our understanding through rational investigation, contemplation, and profound insight, rather than a religion that requires blind faith of its followers.

Answer 23

Another reason Buddhism appeals to a broad range of people in recovery is because it is an experiential spiritual practice that empowers us to improve our conscious contact with a Greater Power of our understanding through rational investigation, contemplation, and profound insight, rather than a religion that requires blind faith of its followers.

Question 24

Albert Einstein said, “Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.”

Answer 24

happiness, then these ways must be the ways to follow.” Buddhism’s sound empirical approach to spirituality may be the reason that Albert Einstein said, “Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.”

Question 25

Do good and receive good - do evil and receive evil.

Answer 25

Do good and receive good - do evil and receive evil.

Question 26

Koan: Does the Sound come to your ear or does the ear come to the sound?

What is he asking / fundamental question:

=> Where is the power? Where is the bondage? Where is the freedom?

So if we hear a sound that’s pleasing we feel pleased (lifts us up) if we hear a sound that’s distracting it puts us down.

And that’s how our live goes: lifted up / lifted down / there is no equanimity there is no peace

But when does it become destructive? Is it destructive if you don’t hear it? Is it distructive if you don’t speak it but it is thought?

Answer 26

Koan: Does the Sound come to your ear or does the ear come to the sound?

What is he asking / fundamental question:

=> Where is the power? Where is the bondage? Where is the freedom?

So if we hear a sound that’s pleasing we feel pleased (lifts us up) if we hear a sound that’s distracting it puts us down.

And that’s how our live goes: lifted up / lifted down /

Question 27

The Buddha realized:

The problem is not in the bell, in the sound, in the insent - not in the green piece of paper with the numbers in the corner. That was never the problem. But when we bound to the object (actually the /our IDEA OF THAT OBJECT) what it is / what it isn’t and most importantly what it can do for me:
Can it make me happy
Can it take away my pain
Can it make me complete
Can it give my live a sense of fulfillment

=> THAT IS DUKKA

There is that we can not perceive with the nose / eyes because we are not attuned. But other ear/eyes are. There are things which can not be Perseus with the senses => let go of the senses!! Listen wit your whole beeing the world at that moment is vast and wide, the world is alive there is no container (it’s not a thing anymore
The minute we

Answer 27

The Buddha realized:

The problem is not in the bell, in the sound, in the insent - not in the green piece of paper with the numbers in the corner. That was never the problem. But when we bound to the object (actually the /our IDEA OF THAT OBJECT) what it is / what it isn’t and most importantly what it can do for me:
Can it make me happy
Can it take away my pain
Can it make me complete
Can it give my live a sense of fulfillment

=> THAT IS DUKKA

Question 28

The Buddha realized ther is no exclusion!!

The moment we say it is this or I’m this => everything I’m not is excluded!! No wonder there is so much conflict. And than it’s just a question on how generous ewe might be to let something inside the gate. But it’s still only inside the gate but not me. This is conflict itself.

But when we realize there is no exclusion (except in our mind)

Answer 28

The Buddha realized ther is no exclusion!!

The moment we say it is this or I’m this => everything I’m not is excluded!! No wonder there is so much conflict. And than it’s just a question on how generous ewe might be to let something inside the gate. But it’s still only inside the gate but not me. This is conflict itself.

But when we realize there is no exclusion (except in our mind)

Question 29

Looking for purpose / looking for meaning is a unique human question!

Good question: we could go through life wit doing all tasks at hand doing our business. But there must be something more. (Which has to include all the tasks)

But We go looking for the answer with OUR THINKING MIND!

Sometimes the desire of understanding is so frightening that we just go on with our tasks, cling to sounds….

And so life goes: The day is filled by tasks one day follows the next our lives passes - an opportunity is lost ….why when the bell rings do you ok on your rope? Just that your life does not collapse??

Answer 29

Looking for purpose / looking for meaning is a unique human question!

Good question: we could go through life wit doing all tasks at hand doing our business. But there must be something more. (Which has to include all the tasks)

But We go looking for the answer with OUR THINKING MIND!

Sometimes the desire of understanding is so frightening that we just go on with our tasks, cling to sounds….

And so life goes: The day is filled by tasks one day follows the next our lives passes - an opportunity is lost ….why when the bell rings do you ok on your rope? Just that your life does not collapse??

Question 30

It does not need to be the perfect situation! Preceived from the assumption that you are in a perfect life now! Congratulations Start there

Answer 30

It does not need to be the perfect situation! Preceived from the assumption that you are in a perfect life now! Congratulations Start there