Joyful Wisdom For transfer Flashcards
What does the Tibetan word that sounds like ZinPa mean?
It means grasping or clinging to that which is impermanent. Like Killing Butterfly’s.
What does Yongey Mingyur say Buddhism offers as a response to what has been called the age of anxiety?
It offers a third way of dealing with it (what are the other two? Avoidance and Craving?) which is using the negative experiences as stepping stones to authentic human experiences.
How do you apply the stepping stone approach to your problems?
Says this book is a response to that question.
What are the essential principles you must understand to begin working and using the techniques described by the Buddha?
You must understand your basic situation in order work with it and not flail around aimlessly doing a piece of this and a bit of that and accomplishing nothing.
What do Buddhists call the essential situation everyone is dealing with in their lives?
The View
What are the three parts of the book Joyful Wisdom and what path do they follow?
The three parts are
Part 1 - The View (The Nature and Causes of the Various Forms of Unease that condition our lives and Their Potential to Guide us Towards a Profound Recognition of our own Nature)
Part 2 - Step by Step Guide Through Three Basic Meditation Practices aimed at Settling or Minds, Opening Our Hearts and Cultivating Wisdom
Part 3 - Devoted to Applying the Understanding Gained In Part 1 with the methods described in Part 2 to Common Emotional and Physical Problems we experience in our lives
What is the Pali Cannon?
The Pāli Canon (Pali: Tipitaka) is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravadan Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language.[1] It is the first known and most complete extant early Buddhist canon.[2][3]
It was composed in North India, and preserved orally until it was committed to writing during the Fourth Buddhist Council in Sri Lanka in 29 BCE, approximately four hundred and fifty four years after the death of Gautama Buddha.[a]
How is the Pali Canon divided?
The Pāli Canon falls into three general categories, called pitaka (from Pali piṭaka, meaning “basket”, referring to the receptacles in which the palm-leaf manuscripts were kept). Because of this, the canon is traditionally known as the Tipiṭaka (Sanskrit: Tripiṭaka; “three baskets”). The three pitakas are as follows:[5]
Vinaya Pitaka ("Discipline Basket"), dealing with rules for monks and nuns
Sutta Pitaka (Sutra/Sayings Basket), discourses, mostly ascribed to the Buddha, but some to disciples
Abhidhamma Pitaka, variously described as philosophy, psychology, metaphysics, etc.
The Vinaya Pitaka and the Sutta Pitaka are remarkably similar to the works of other early Buddhist schools. The Abhidhamma Pitaka however is a strictly Theravada collection, and has little in common with the Abhidhamma works recognized by other Buddhist schools.[6]
What is meant by the term Basic Hopelessness?
It is the feeling inevitability that sets into people when they do not have time to cultivate inner wealth. When they feel unable to change their habitual responses to their environments.
What is inner wealth?
Equanimity, compassion, patience, generosity
What is the Khuddaka Nikāya?
The Khuddaka Nikāya (‘Minor Collection’) is the last of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the “three baskets” that compose the Pali Tipitaka, the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This nikaya consists of fifteen (Thailand), seventeen (Sri Lanka), or eighteen books (Burma) in different editions on various topics attributed to the Buddha and his chief disciples.
