Buddhism (YEAR 1 INTRO)

Question 1

What are the three toxins?

Answer 1

1) Greed/desire
2) Hatred/anger
3) Ignorance

Question 2

What are the four sights?

Answer 2

1) Old man
2) Sick man
3)Dead man
4)Holy man

Question 3

What is Rahula?

Answer 3

Bondage or attachment

Question 4

What is karma?

Answer 4

Cause and effect

Question 5

Can having any amount of karma ever lead to enlightenment?

Answer 5

NO AMOUNT of karma can lead to enlightenment

Question 6

What are the
Realms in Buddhism?

Answer 6

1) Deva(God) realm
2)Asura(demi-god) realm
3)Manuṣa(human) realm
4)Tiryak(animal) realm
5)Preta(ghost) realm
6) Naraka(Hell) realm

Question 7

What is Samsara?

Answer 7

The endless cycle of birth, death and rebirth through the laws of karma

Question 8

What did Buddha say about suffering?

Answer 8

‘I teach one thing and one thing only! suffering and the end of suffering’

Question 9

What three things can we be sure that existence has(qualities)?

Answer 9

1)Dukkha=Suffering
2)Anicca=Impermanence
3)Anatta=No permanent or fixed self

Question 10

What are the three types of Dukkha?

Answer 10

1)DUKKHA OF PAIN=Any direct dis-satisfaction due to pain
2)DUKKHA OF CHANGE=Any direct dis-satisfaction due to Annica
3)DUKKHA OF CONDITIONING=Any direct dis-satisfaction due to the belief in a self

Question 11

Results of Asceticism?

Answer 11

1) Without Greed
2) Know how to be contented with very little
3) Really want to get rid of kilesas(negative mental states)
4) Remain calm
5) No longer wish any extra existence in whatsoever world and conditioning
6)But NOT! Enlightenment

Question 12

What do Buddhists refer actions to when discussing karma?

Answer 12

Actions—> ‘tainted with ignorance’

Question 13

Mingyur Rinpoche on karma

Answer 13

-Peoples actions in general cause things
-Two causes: past life karma/early life karma or temporary obstacle
-Due to past life karma everyone has problems

Question 14

What happened during the naming ceremony?

Answer 14

Buddha was to be a king or a spiritual leader

Question 15

What happened with buddha and Mara/battle?

Answer 15

Tempted Buddha during his meditation under the Bodhi tree.
Three daughters
Demon army

Question 16

Where and whom did buddha deliver his first sermon?

Answer 16

Deer park at the resort of seers is where he gave his first sermon to 5 monks upon extreme devotion

Question 17

Quote upon on extremes from buddha?

Answer 17

‘Avoiding both these extremes, I have realized the Middle Path: It gives vision, it gives knowledge, and it leads to calm, to insight, to enlightenment, to nirvana’.

Question 18

What are the three things that we can be completely sure of?

Answer 18

1) We cannot know whether the world was created by God
2)We cannot know whether there is life after death
3) So all we can be sure of is that existence has three qualities(Dukkha, Anicca, Anatta)

Question 19

What did Buddha teach that Dukkha touches?

Answer 19

EVERYTHING-like a mark/quality-