General

Question 1

What are the only two things the Buddha said he taught?

Answer 1

Suffering and the end of suffering

Question 2

How many names does clinging have?

Answer 2

108

Question 3

What is sila?

Answer 3

Śīla (Sanskrit: शील) or sīla (Pāli) in Buddhism is one of three sections of the Noble Eightfold Path, and is a code of conduct that embraces a commitment to harmony and self-restraint with the principle motivation being non-violence, or freedom from causing harm. It has been variously described as virtue,[1] right conduct,[2] morality,[3] moral discipline[4] and precept.

Question 4

What is sila? 2

Answer 4

Sīla is an internal, aware, and intentional ethical behavior, according to one’s commitment to the path of liberation. The Sanskrit and Pali word sīla is an ethical compass within self and relationships, rather than what is associated with the English word “morality” (i.e., obedience, a sense of obligation, and external constraint - all of which are quite foreign to the concept of sīla as taught by Gautama the Buddha since 588BC). In fact, the commentaries explain the word sīla by another word, samadhana, meaning “harmony” or “coordination.” [5]

Question 5

What is sila? 3

Answer 5

Sīla is one of the three practices foundational to Buddhism and the non-sectarian Vipassana movement — sīla, samādhi, and paññā as well as the Theravadin foundations of sīla, dana, and bhavana. It is also the second pāramitā.[6] Though some popular conceptions of these ethics carry negative connotations of severe discipline and abstinence, sīla is more than just avoiding the unwholesome.

Question 6

What is sila? 4

Answer 6

Sīla is also wholehearted commitment to what is wholesome. Two aspects of sīla are essential to the training: right “performance” (caritta), and right “avoidance” (varitta). Honoring the precepts of sīla is considered a “great gift” (mahadana) to others, because it creates an atmosphere of trust, respect, and security. It means we pose no threat to another person’s life, property, family, rights, or well-being.[7]

Question 7

Sila = Equanimity?

Answer 7

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Question 8

What was the unique contribution of the Buddha?

Answer 8

Three types of wisdom.

1&2 not unique

3. Was a way to realize truth personally, without assistance of a guru.

= Bavanapayamanya

Question 9

What is the name of the Buddhas unique personal contribution?

Answer 9

Bhavana-Maya Panna

Question 10

What does Bhavana-Maya Panna mean?

Answer 10

Experiential Wisdom

Question 11

What is Vipasana meditation?

Answer 11

Development of insight

Question 12

What does pasana mean?

Answer 12

It means seeing. The normal seeing that you do with your eye.

Question 13

What does Vipasana mean?

Answer 13

It means a special kind of sight. A sight of seeing inside ones self.

Question 14

What’s does Vipasana take into sight?

Answer 14

Vipasana takes ones own bodily sensations into sight. This observation unfolds the entire reality of mind.

Question 15

Why is it through sensations that you can unfold the entire reality?

Answer 15

Because sensations are the only way we are in contact with reality. If something does not trigger a sensation for us then it is not part of reality for us.

Question 16

What is the Buddhas description of something coming into existence through one of the six sensory organ?

Answer 16

Two sticks being rubbed together and fire occurring analogy.

Positive
Neutral
Negative

Sensations are experienced.

Question 17

Through the practice of Anapanasati what will you be able to accomplish?

Answer 17

The origin and meaning of every sensation within your body.

Question 18

What is Vipasana Bhavina?

Answer 18

It is the observation of sensation throughout the body. The moving of that sensation through your own body. (Body scanning I am assuming).

Question 19

What are the Hinderances?

Answer 19

Craving 
Aversion 
Sluggishness 
Agitation 
Doubt 

Are impeding progress and maintenance of awareness.

Question 20

What is the strategy when facing one of the Hinderances of either Craving, Aversion , Sluggishness, Agitation, Doubt in meditation?

Answer 20

You revert back to focus on breath to clarify and purify the mind again.

Question 21

What will you experience through concentration on the senses?

Answer 21

Personal experiential insight into impermanence though the arising and falling away of sensations.

Question 22

What is Anatta?

Answer 22

In Buddhism, the term anattā (Pāli) or anātman (Sanskrit: अनात्मन्) refers to the perception of “not-self”, recommended as one of the seven beneficial perceptions,[1] which along with the perception of dukkha, and anicca, is also formally classified among the three marks of existence.

Question 23

What does Anatta mean? (Short version)

Answer 23

No self

Question 24

What is another realization that you will have once you understand Anatta?

Answer 24

That clinging to something that rises and passes away is clinging and it will lead to suffering.

Question 25

What does suffering begin?

Answer 25

Simply because of ones ignorance to ones own reality.

Question 26

What happens when you no longer react to sensations with craving or aversion but meet each sensation with equanimity?

Answer 26

Each new sensation only give rise to Panna or wisdom.

Question 27

When you no longer react to sensations with craving or aversion what have you been released from?

Answer 27

Karma or mental deeds

Question 28

What is the meaning of the word Saṅkhāra?

Answer 28

Saṅkhāra (Pali; Devanagari: सङ्खार) or saṃskāra (Sanskrit; Devanagari: संस्कार) is a term figuring prominently in the teaching of the Buddha. The word means 'that which has been put together' and 'that which puts together'. English translations for saṅkhāra in the first sense of the word include 'conditioned things,'[3] 'determinations,'[4] 'fabrications'[5] and 'formations' (or, particularly when referring to mental processes, 'volitional formations').[6]

Question 29

What happens when we are aware of reaction at the moment when reaction begins?

Answer 29

We choose not to react to it. Our minds are truly free.

Question 30

What is the meaning of the word Anicca?

Answer 30

Impermanence[1] is one of the essential doctrines or three marks of existence in Buddhism. The term expresses the Buddhist notion that all of conditioned existence, without exception, is transient, or in a constant state of flux.

Question 31

What is the need for a balance of awareness and equanimity in ones self likened to?

Answer 31

The requirement of a bird to have two wings to fly.

Question 32

What is the difference between Sankara and samsara?

Answer 32

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Question 33

What is a Kalapa?

Answer 33

Subatomic particles which arise and pass away.

Question 34

What are Kalapas as defined by Theravada Buddhism?

Answer 34

In Theravada Buddhist phenomenology, Kalapas are defined as the smallest units of physical matter.[1] Kalapas are described as tiny units of materiality, “tens of thousands of times smaller than a particle of dust,” coming into existence and disappearing in as little as a billionth of a second or a trillionth of the blink of an eye.[2][3] Kalapas are understood by some Therevada thinkers as actual subatomic particles and the smallest units of materiality.[4][5]

Question 35

What are the four causes for the arising of Kalapas?

Answer 35

Food | Environment

Question 36

What happens when you remove fresh stimulations from the mind?

Answer 36

Past sensations or experiences will occur. The minds needs to continue consciousness will ensure the chain is not broken.

Question 37

What is the process for triggering the opposite process of samsara?

Answer 37

Awareness and Equanimity. Stillness. No reaction.

Question 38

What is Taṇhā?

Answer 38

Taṇhā (Pāli; Sanskrit: tṛṣṇā, also trishna) is a Buddhist term that literally means "thirst," and is commonly translated as craving or desire.

Question 39

What is the Satipatthana Sutta?

Answer 39

It is translated as the four ways of establishing mindfulness

Question 40

What is the Avantamsaka sutra?

Answer 40

The Avataṃsaka Sūtra (Sanskrit; alternatively, the Mahāvaipulya Buddhāvataṃsaka Sūtra) is one of the most influential Mahayana sutras of East Asian Buddhism. The title is rendered in English as Flower Garland Sutra, Flower Adornment Sutra, or Flower Ornament Scripture. The Avataṃsaka Sūtra describes a cosmos of infinite realms upon realms, mutually containing one another. The vision expressed in this work was the foundation for the creation of the Huayan school of Chinese Buddhism, which was characterized by a philosophy of interpenetration. The Huayan school is known as Hwaeom in Korea and Kegon in Japan.

Question 41

How many Buddhist are the in the world?

Answer 41

535 million