buddhism beliefs Flashcards
Siddhartha’s birth
-Queen maya dreamed a white elephant came down from heaven and old her she would birth a holy child
-she gave birth to siddharth in the lumbini gardens where she stopped to take a rest on the way to her parents house
-siddhartha was able to walk talk immediantly, he walked seven steps and lotus flowers appereared in his steps and declared that he would not be reborn
-prophecy that he would become a king or a holy man
Siddharthas life of luxury
- king suddhodana wanted to protected sid from hardship siddhartha grew up in a palce surrounded by luxury and his father prepared him to become king
The four sights
- One day he decided to leave the palace where he saw the four sights
-old man
-sick man
-holy man
-dead man
leaving the palace
- wanted to find answers to suffering
-so he left the palace and his life of luxury —leaving his newborn son,-renunciation
Living as an ascetic
- siddhartha followed the ways of the ascetic for 6 years
- he did this by eating one grain of rice per day
- and learning to meditate
‘‘when the great being was practicing austeries for six years’
turning away from ascetiscim
- he realised he was too thin and weak he could not meditate effectively
-learnt discipline and will power but didnt find the cause of suffering
-accepted rice and milk from a girl nearby
Siddharthas meditation
- the demon mara tried to distract siddhartha
-sending his daughters
-sending his armies
-offering siddhartha his kingdom
-questioning siddhartha right to sit at the seat of enlightenment
3 watches of the night
-first watch-siddhartha gained knowledge of his past lives
-second watch- he understood the repetitive cycle of birth death and rebirth
-third watch-he understood taht beings suffer because of desire and attatchment
what is the dhamma
-the truth about the nature of existance as he understood by the buddha when he became enlightened
-the path of training the buddha recommended for anyone who wants to get closer to enlightenment
-a universal law that governs how reality works
the importance of the dhamma
- there are three refuges in buddhism( the buddha, the dhamma, and the sangha
-for a buddhist the three jewels are the central values in their life
-in buddhism rituals it is commen to recite the regues
‘to the buddha for refuge i go
to the dhamma for refuge to go
to the sangha for refuge i go’
What is dependant arising
-the idea that everything depends on supporting conditions: nothing is independant.
-also means that evryting in a constant process of change
‘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 even begin his act’-tenzin gyatso
‘every wave is related to every other wave’
The tibetan wheel of life
- an image that illustrates dependant arising as applied to the birth, death and rebirth
outer wheel 12 links or stages illustrate how human beings are subject to birth death and rebirth
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dukkha- three marks of existance
buddhism teaches that suffering is an inevitable part of life - seven states of suffering
physical- birth
-old age
-sickness
- death
mental- speration from someone you love
- contact with someone or
sometjing you dislike
-not being able to achieve you
desires
types of suffering
-dukkha dukkhata-ordinary suffering- physical or mental suffering
-viparinama-dukkha- caused by losing somethimg good
-samkhara dukkha-suffering due to attachment- dissatsisfaction with life as a result of craving and attachment
Annica- three marks of existance
- impermanance, everything is constantly changing
