Buddhist Course

Question 1

The sensory world is a sensitive experience

Answer 1

It means you always expose to pleasure and pain and the dualism of samsara.
Siempre rstamos expuestos al dolor y al placer. El dualism de samsara

Question 2

When we are experiencing anger

Answer 2

We reflect : there is anger or there is pain. Or there is cold. It’s not mine but rather : there is pain
It’s a skilful use of thinking to help us to see things more clearly rather than reinforcing the personal view.

Question 3

Awakening to the true of suffering

Answer 3

Even if we had a pretty miserable life, what we are looking at is not that suffering which come out there, but what we create in our minds around it.

Question 4

This is suffering : we practice by really looking at suffering as an object and understanding : this is suffering .

Answer 4

The point is our reaction to life

Question 5

The three types of suffering

Answer 5

1.The suffering of suffering
2. The suffering of change
3. The suffering of existence - pervasive suffering

Question 6

The 8 types of suffering

Answer 6

The suffering of birth
The suffering of old age
The suffering of illness
The suffering of death
The suffering of encounter what is unpleasant
The suffering of encounter what is pleasant
The suffering of not getting what you want
The suffering of the five appropriated aggregates

Question 7

The 8 types of suffering

Answer 7

1. The suffering of birth
2. The suffering of old age
3. The suffering of illness
4. The suffering of death
5. The suffering of birth
   The suffering of encounter what is unpleasant
   The suffering of encounter what is pleasant
   The suffering of not getting what you want
   The suffering of the five appropriated aggregates

Question 8

The 5 aggregates

Answer 8

Body 1. Form
Mind 2. Feeling
3. Discrimination
4. Compositional factors
5. Consciousness

Question 9

The Four Characteristics of the Truth of Suffering p.42

Answer 9

Impermanence p.42
When phenomena come into being due to causes and conditions, those same causes and conditions that produce them, at the same moment contain the seed of their own destruction. The Bushist idea of that within the very act of creation is the seed of destruction.

Suffering p.44
The beings are dominated by the senses: Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching
Emptiness p.45
Selflessness p.46