Dharma Flashcards
What is dharmas
Facets(feature) of reality
Individual moments
What’s reality made from
Dharmas
What forms basis of Buddhism
Tipitaka
What mahayana Buddhists focus on
Sutras
What’s vinaya
Model for monastic buddhsits
What’s sutta
Applies to all
What’s abhidamma
Little use to novice Buddhist
Great use to advanced monks
Upaya meaning
Skilful means
What’s heart sutra about
Contemplate psycho physical existence
Theme of heart sutra
Emptiness not nothingness
Things don’t exist as they seem
Shunyata meaning
Emptiness
Wave example for shunyata
We just call it a wave, it’s not what it actually is
We as humans have labelled it this
So it conventional
Flower example
It’s empty of individual existence
It ceases to exist if we removed all the flower elements
It’s a collections of things
That’s all it is
So death ain’t a thing, why fear death
What’s interbeing
If all of my experiences are removed,I would not be who I am
What Stephen hawking say
We exist entirely based on everything around us
Universe is in us and we are the universe
We are just the smoke of the Big Bang
What’s dualistic thinking
Way of viewing world as good or bad
E.g Taylor swift good or bad
No matter what people say it’s just Taylor swift
What’s conventional reality
Non enlightened view
Involves dualistic thinking
What’s ultimate reality
Enlightened view
E.g
Mushrooms are just mushrooms
What’s purpose of heart sutra
Drop all attachments including teachings of buddha
Allows understanding of shunyata
What’s TNH say
Emptiness is the heart of compassion
What’s dogen zensi say
Mountains are mountains but mountains are not mountains yet they aren’t mountains
(Idek)
What else did dogen zensi say
All time is being time
So all time that is right now in the present is time . It don’t exist in future or past only present
What’s the heart sutra say
Form is emptiness and emptiness is form
What’s heart say ab suffering
There is no suffering and no end to suffering
It’s js a label and a mental construct
What’s heart say ab reality
It’s unstable as everything’s impermanent
What’s heart say ab nirvana and samsara
It doesn’t exist it’s just a state of mind
Could u describe reality
No as there’s a inability of language to express the inexpressible
Words can never explain reality
As soon as u try you have already failed to describe it
Is there birth or death
No it’s js a label
Nothing begins to or ceases to exist
Issues of heart sutra
Paradoxical language- hard to understand
Hard to understand if read literally
