Focussed Teachings Flashcards
The Three Refuges recitation
To the Buddha for refuge I go
To the Dhamma for refuge I go
To the Sangha for refuge I go
Skandhas
The Five Aggregates
The Five Aggregates
Form, sensation, perception, mental formations, consciousness .
Six perfections
Generosity, morality, patience, energy, mediation, wisdom.
Bodhisattva vow
However innumerable sentient beings are, I vow to save them.
Anguttara Nikaya
Describes how the Buddha was ‘delicately nurtured’.
Three watches of the night.
- recalled his past lives
- understood nothing is permanent
- discovered the law of dependant arising
Nidanas
12 factors which illustrate samsara (found on the Tibetan Wheel of Live).
Seven states of suffering.
Physical: birth old age, sickness, death.
Mental: separation from someone you love, contact with someone you dislike.
Three types of Dukkha
1) ordinary suffering
2 suffering through change
3) suffering through dissatisfaction or attachment
Sunyata
Emptiness; the concept that nothing has a separate independent self or soul.
The Pure Land
‘Rich in a great variety of flowers me fruits, adorned with jewel trees… frequented by flocks of birds with sweet voices.’
Five practises to reach the pure land.
1) reciting scriptures
2) mediating on Amitabha and his paradise
3) worshipping amitabha
4) chanting amitabha’s name
5) making praises and offerings to Amitabha
The Buddha in the Samyutta Nikaya - Tanha (craving)
‘Now this… is the noble truth of the origin of suffering: it is this craving which leaves to renewed existence…’
The Buddha in the Samyutta Nikaya - Nirodha
‘… the noble truth of the cessation of suffering… is the remainder less fading away and cessation of that same craving.’
Four noble truths.
Dukkha, Samudaya, Nirodha, Magga.
Dependant arising; Dalai Lama
A single person in his own cannot even begin to act
Dependant arising; Sogyal Rinpoche
Every wave is related to every other wave
Dukkha; the Buddha
what I teach is suffering and the cessation of suffering
Anicca: Kisa Gotami
My own sorrow is part of the sorrow of all people, the platter of life for everyone
Anatta; Shantideva
If all the harm, fear and suffering in the world occur due to the grasping on to the self, what use is that great demon to me?
Arhat; Buddha
I have no teacher and no one like me
Arhat; Buddha
I am the Teach Supreme I alone am a Fully enlightened one Whose fires are quenched and extinguished.
Bodhisattva
Not until the hells are emptied will I become a Buddha
Bodhisattva; Mahayana schools of Buddhism
Beings are numberless, I vow to save them, I vow to end them, I vow to enter them, I vow to become it
Bodhisattva
May I be a protector to those without protection
Four noble truths; visuddhimagga
The truth of sufferings is like a disease…
Samatha Mediation; Thich Nhat Hanh
Breath is the bridge which connects like to consciousness, United your body to your thoughts
Death and mourning; Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
At the hour of death, the king and the beggar are exactly equal
Karuna; Dalai Lama
The key to a happier and more successful society is the growth of compassion
Metta; the sutra nipata verses
Loving-kindness to all the world
The five moral precepts; the Buddha
That person digs up his own root here in the world
