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1
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What are the only two things the Buddha said he taught?

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Suffering and the end of suffering

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How many names does clinging have?

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108

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What is sila?

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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.

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What is sila? 2

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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]

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What is sila? 3

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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.

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What is sila? 4

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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]

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Sila = Equanimity?

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What was the unique contribution of the Buddha?

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Three types of wisdom.

1&2 not unique

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

= Bavanapayamanya

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What is the name of the Buddhas unique personal contribution?

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Bhavana-Maya Panna

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What does Bhavana-Maya Panna mean?

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Experiential Wisdom

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What is Vipasana meditation?

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Development of insight

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What does pasana mean?

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

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What does Vipasana mean?

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

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What’s does Vipasana take into sight?

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

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

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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.

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

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Two sticks being rubbed together and fire occurring analogy.

Positive
Neutral
Negative

Sensations are experienced.

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

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The origin and meaning of every sensation within your body.

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What is Vipasana Bhavina?

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

19
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What are the Hinderances?

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Craving 
Aversion 
Sluggishness 
Agitation 
Doubt

Are impeding progress and maintenance of awareness.

20
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What is the strategy when facing one of the Hinderances of either Craving, Aversion , Sluggishness, Agitation, Doubt in meditation?

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

21
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What will you experience through concentration on the senses?

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

22
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What is Anatta?

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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.

23
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What does Anatta mean? (Short version)

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No self

24
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What is another realization that you will have once you understand Anatta?

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

25
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What does suffering begin?

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Simply because of ones ignorance to ones own reality.

26
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What happens when you no longer react to sensations with craving or aversion but meet each sensation with equanimity?

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Each new sensation only give rise to Panna or wisdom.

27
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When you no longer react to sensations with craving or aversion what have you been released from?

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Karma or mental deeds

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What is the meaning of the word Saṅkhāra?

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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]

29
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What happens when we are aware of reaction at the moment when reaction begins?

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

30
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What is the meaning of the word Anicca?

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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.

31
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What is the need for a balance of awareness and equanimity in ones self likened to?

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

32
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What is the difference between Sankara and samsara?

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33
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What is a Kalapa?

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Subatomic particles which arise and pass away.

34
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What are Kalapas as defined by Theravada Buddhism?

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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]

35
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What are the four causes for the arising of Kalapas?

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Food

Environment

36
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What happens when you remove fresh stimulations from the mind?

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

37
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What is the process for triggering the opposite process of samsara?

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Awareness and Equanimity. Stillness. No reaction.

38
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What is Taṇhā?

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

39
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What is the Satipatthana Sutta?

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It is translated as the four ways of establishing mindfulness

40
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What is the Avantamsaka sutra?

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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.

41
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How many Buddhist are the in the world?

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535 million

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