Buddhism Guest Speaker Tim Sampson

Question 1

Zazen

Answer 1

Sitting meditation

Question 2

Zen

Answer 2

Mahayana branch

Question 3

Bodhi

Answer 3

Awakening

Question 4

Buddha

Answer 4

Strongly encouraged to read and become familiar with the life of the Buddha

Question 5

Gautama

Answer 5

Real name

Question 6

How to perform zazen

Answer 6

Still, quiet, doing together
Cross legged, chair, kneeling bench

Thoughts feelings sensations will have you taken somewhere else and then return

Not focused on what exactly death is and what it is not

Question 7

Dogan

Answer 7

Zen practice is to be intimate with all things

3 commitment to these practices

Question 8

Death age or sickness

Answer 8

Intimacy 
Marks of existence of everything 
- no self
-impermanence
-suffering

Question 9

Primary concern

Answer 9

What is helpful

Question 10

Posture and breath

Answer 10

Inhale is birth

Exhale is death

Question 11

Human form

Answer 11

In Buddhism you could be born into many different forms
Gods no need
Animals and hungry ghosts - don’t have the opportunity to practice zazen

Leading cause of death is birth
Death cannot be escaped

Question 12

Ceremonies

Answer 12

Absolute: birth and death are mysterious

Relative: children are born, people die tragic beautiful deaths

Question 13

Precepts

Answer 13

Vows

Can be renewed during marriage

Question 14

Precepts order

Answer 14

1. Marks your commitment to the precepts
2. Become a priest
3. Weddings
4. Funerals
5. Birth
6. Hungry ghosts (unsolved karma)

Question 15

Final words of the Buddha

Answer 15

I was but 29 when I renounced the world

Question 16

3 jewels of Buddhism

Answer 16

Buddha
Dharma
Sangha

Question 17

Bodhisattva

Answer 17

Self giving

Question 18

Lotus sutra

Answer 18

Story of a bodhisattva that burned his body

Question 19

Tibetan Buddhism

Answer 19

Dali lama
Dali- ocean
Lama- guru

If he dies his consciousness will awaken immediately
Blend of Indian Mahayana Buddhism and cultural shamanism in Tibet

Take the body 3/4 days after death
Dissect the body
Scavengers to eat it
Body is gone but consciousness is still there