Key Terms (Week 3) Flashcards

1
Q
  1. Pain (physical or mental)
  2. Change (things that give us pleasure will eventually become painful)
  3. Conditioning (a constant state of unknown suffering resulting from being conditioned to be susceptible to suffering in the next moment)
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3 types of suffering

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  1. Desire
  2. Hatred
  3. Ignorance (the most serious - thinking there is a self when there is none)
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3 causes of suffering (3 poisons)

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3
Q
  1. Ethics (training body)
  2. Concentration (training mind)
  3. Wisdom (the understanding that there is no self)
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3 trainings

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4
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  1. Killing
  2. Stealing
  3. Sexual misconduct
  4. Lying
  5. Harsh speech
  6. Divisive speech
  7. Senseless speech
  8. Coveting
  9. Harmful intent
  10. Wrong view (not believing in karma)
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10 non-virtuous deeds

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5
Q
  1. Suffering
  2. Origin
  3. Cessation
  4. Path
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4 noble truths

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6
Q
  1. Stream-enterer
  2. Once-returner
  3. Never-returner
  4. Arhat
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Who are the aryans?

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7
Q

Will reach nirvana within 7 lifetimes

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Stream-enterer

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8
Q

Will return 1 more time as a human

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Once-returner

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9
Q

In a special place above Mt. Meru, waiting to achieve nirvana with a little bit of karma left to burn off

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Never-returner

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10
Q

Have burned off all previous karma, existing in the last of their karmic cycle; none exist today

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Arhat

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11
Q
  1. See pain as pleasure
  2. See impure as pure
  3. See impermanence as permanence
  4. See no-self as a self
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4 inverted truths

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12
Q

“First turn of the dharma”

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Buddha’s first sermon

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13
Q

“I have learned there is a middle path between 2 extremes”

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Something the Buddha says, there is a happy medium to be found between pleasure and self-mortification/suffering

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