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Buddhism: Practices Flashcards

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Samatha Meditation

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  • Easier starter meditation
  • Calming or stilling meditation
  • Develops mindfulness and mindfulness of Skandha’s
  • Learn about form and breathing
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Analysis of Samatha Meditation

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Significance:
- Has to be learnt before Vipassana Meditation
- Helps calm down and deal with daily difficulties

Links:
- 4 Noble truths
- 8 Fold Path

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Vipassana Meditation

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  • Insight meditation
  • Focus on true reality eg. Anicca and Anatta
  • Requires analytical thinking and deep reflection
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Analysis of Vipassana Meditation

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Significance:
- Helps gain insight which leads to enlightenment

Links:
- 4 Noble Truths
- 8 Fold Path
- Enlightenment

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Importance of Meditation

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  • Helps develop a state of mind that helps you understand human condition
  • Stops or reduces desiring thoughts caused by root poisons
  • Key to enlightenment
  • Helps clear and focus the mind
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Analysis of the importance of meditation

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Links:
- Enlightenment
- Forms of Meditation
- 8 Fold Path
- Samsara

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8 Fold Path

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  • 3 Sections; Wisdom, Morality and Meditation
  • The path to enlightenment
  • Must follow all 3 to stop suffering
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Analysis of 8 Fold Path

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Significance:
- Leads to enlightenment
- Leads to good Kamma
- Less suffering

Links:
- Enlightenment
- Dhamma
- 4 Noble truths

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3 Jewels

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  • I commit is said to formally commit to teachings and practices
  • The Buddha; Founder & Guide and Inspiration. Teachings show the nature of human condition and how to stop suffering
  • Dhamma; the teachings of the Buddha eg. 3 Marks. Shows truth of human condition and must use the teachings in practices.
  • Sangha; The community of Buddhists including ordained monks etc. Must support each other.
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Analysis of the 3 Jewels

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Significance:
- Shows commitment to religion
- Getting support through Sangha can help enlightenment and understanding the human condition

Links:
- Buddhas teachings
- 4 Noble truths
- 8 Fold Path

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Monks and Nuns

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  • Ordained members of Sangha
  • Follow 10 precepts not 5
  • Teach other Buddhists
  • Dedicated their lives to the Buddha
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Analysis of Monks and Nuns

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Significance:
- Provides support to other Buddhists
- easier to resist desire
- Less temptations
- Sense of community makes spiritual training easier

Links:
- Sangha
- 3 Jewels
- Schools of Buddhism

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Lay Buddhists

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  • Ordinary members of community
  • Lead ordinary lives
  • Only follow the 5 Precepts
  • Spread Buddhist ideas and teachings
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Analysis of Lay Buddhists

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Links:
- Sangha
- School of Buddhism

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Dhamma

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  • The Teachings of Buddhism
  • Leading figures of Buddhism
  • Pali Canon, Buddhist texts in Pali
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Analysis of Dhamma

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Significance:
- Following Dhamma leads to less ignorance
- Leads to Enlightenment

Links:
- 3 Jewels
- Path to Enlightenment

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Theravada Buddhism

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  • More traditional form of Buddhism
  • Many lifetimes to achieve
  • Path to enlightenment is one of the Arhat
  • Monks and Nuns are more likely to achieve as they are less affected by craving
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Analysis of Theravada Buddhism

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Significance:
- Importance of Monastic life
- Seen to be the same path as Buddha took to best path

Links:
- Arhat
- Sangha

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Arhat

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  • Part of Theravadan route to Buddhism
  • Enlightened Monk that wont be reborn
  • ‘Way of the elders’ approach thought to be similar to Buddhas path to enlightenment
  • Is an example to others
  • Few able to achieve it
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Analysis of Arhat

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Significance:
- Best way to gain enlightenment for theravada Buddhists
- What Buddha did
- Lay Buddhists find it too difficult to achieve this

Links:
- Nibbana & Enlightenment
- Theravada Buddhism

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Mahayana Buddhism

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  • ‘Greater school’ - more types of Buddhism spread around the world
  • Path of the Bodhisattva (enlightened beings that put off Nibbana to help others gain enlightenment, thus very compassionate beings).
  • Most Mahayana Buddhists believe that Nibbana is something everyone should achieve.
  • Can achieve enlightenment in one rebirth
  • Mahayana school of Buddhism
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Analysis of Mahayana Buddhism

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Significance:
- Seen by many to be an easier and less selfish way to enlightenment
- Enlightenment possible in one lifetime

Links:
- Sangha
- Bodhisattva

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Bodhisattvas

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  • Means ‘enlightened being’
  • Delay their full enlightenment to help others achieve their own
  • Gain great kamma
  • Dalai Lama is thought to be a Bodhisattva
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Analysis of Bodhisattvas

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Significance:
- Not as difficult as Arhat
- Less selfish path

Links:
- Mahayana
- Nibbana/Enlightenment

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