Fall Midterm #2

Question 1

suffering stress and anxiety are to be expected in human life

Answer 1

First Noble Truth

Question 2

the cause of stress/anxiety is our desire to control our situation

Answer 2

Second Noble Truth

Question 3

to cure ourselves of stress/anxiety, we must eliminate it’s cause desires that include a hankering of permanence of control

Answer 3

Third Noble Truth

Question 4

we end trishna desires and therefore stress/anxiety as well through the Noble Eightfold Path which consists of containing our stress and anxiety by contemplating the Buddha’s wisdom and by releasing your stress/anxiety through mediation

Answer 4

Fourth Noble Truth

Question 5

when you look deeply inside of yourself, all that is found is a bundle of sensations called skandhas

Answer 5

Doctrine of No-Self

Question 6

center of an infinite butterfly effect that explains that everything that arises does so in response to other factors and all of this will then change other things

Answer 6

Doctrine of Interdependent Origination

Question 7

divine reality of which is infinite knowledge, bliss, etc

Answer 7

Brahman

Question 8

the seemingly in-dissolvable selfish core of individual experience that is both your physical body and soul

Answer 8

Atman

Question 9

fosters ethical action and caring about those with whole we have familial, platonic, or professional relationships

Answer 9

Karma Yoga

Question 10

give up attachment to things. you will achieve perfect peace if you are disciplined enough while those who aren’t will forever be stuck in the cycle of desire

Answer 10

Krishna’s Solution to the Problem of Karma Yoga

Question 11

it contains all of the divine knowledge that can be grasped by human beings

Answer 11

Why is “OM” significant

Question 12

the profane world of waking consciousness

Answer 12

What does the “A” stand for in “AUM”

Question 13

dream world of dreaming consciousness

Answer 13

What does the “U” stand for in “AUM”

Question 14

the absence of worlds that opens up in deep, dreamless sleep

Answer 14

What does the “M” stand for in “AUM”

Question 15

the elision of boundaries between self and world as one “wakes up” into oneness with the divine

Answer 15

What does “AUM” mean?

Question 16

to teach us that we can achieve liberation from samsara through yoga

Answer 16

Purpose of Yoga in Hinduism

Question 17

-means “ the all pervading one”
-regularly incarnates himself in avatars that are usually human, but can also be non-human animals
-the representative of Brahman’s dharma, the divine order or moral law

Answer 17

Vishnu

Question 18

-the benevolent destroyer of the material world
-beloved deity of yogi ascetics

Answer 18

Shiva

Question 19

-the wife of shiva; more powerful than Vishnu and Shiva combined
-goddess is the supreme cause of the material universe

Answer 19

Devi/Kali

Question 20

-the elephant headed son of Shiva and the goddess
-patron of arts, sciences, and new endeavors for which his blessing is sought

Answer 20

Ganesha

Question 21

-monkey headed god who is the model of Rama
-patron of selfless devotion to a cause

Answer 21

Hanuman (Maruti)

Question 22

-residual karma at the end of life sparks a new life for you
-reincarnation continues until the karma returns to zero at which point Atman is reabsorbed into Brahman
-the cycle of karmic action, death, and reincarnation is called samsara

Answer 22

The connection between reincarnation and karma

Question 23

that which has been heard

Answer 23

Shruti

Question 24

that of which has been remembered

Answer 24

Smriti

Question 25

-the original and oldest surviving school of Buddhism
-nobody can help you on the path to nirvana; you are left to your individual efforts
-nirvana is unattainable outside the ordained life

Answer 25

Theravada Buddhism

Question 26

• a greater path to nirvana that more can travel
  -holds that there are supernatural forces of grace
  -become bodhisattva
  -Doctrine of the Three Bodies

Answer 26

Mahayana Buddhism

Question 27

material plane
heavenly plane
cosmic plane

Answer 27

Doctrine of the Three Bodies

Question 28

-a branch of Mahayana
-veneration of celestial bodhisattvas and Buddhas

Answer 28

Pure Land Buddhism

Question 29

-branch of Mahayana
-taking seriously Siddhartha’s refusal to put enlightenment into words
-founding moment: Siddhartha’s Buddha’s “Flower Sermon”

Answer 29

Zen Buddhism

Question 30

-often associated with Tiber, but is prominent in Nepal, Bhutan, and Mongolia
-leader is the Dalai Lama

Answer 30

Vajrayana Buddhism

Question 31

Literal Sense: departure from the immense wealth and political
Figurative Sense: departure from the pursuit of happiness

Answer 31

Great Departure

Question 32

-lost consciousness and awoke and remembered a lesson from a music teacher explaining how to tune a stringed instrument
-strings can’t be too tight but not too loose either
-Siddhartha realized that there is a Middle Way between attachment and world-renunciation

Answer 32

Middle Way