Key Terms (Week 3) Flashcards
1
Q
- Pain (physical or mental)
- Change (things that give us pleasure will eventually become painful)
- 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
2
Q
- Desire
- Hatred
- Ignorance (the most serious - thinking there is a self when there is none)
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3 causes of suffering (3 poisons)
3
Q
- Ethics (training body)
- Concentration (training mind)
- Wisdom (the understanding that there is no self)
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3 trainings
4
Q
- Killing
- Stealing
- Sexual misconduct
- Lying
- Harsh speech
- Divisive speech
- Senseless speech
- Coveting
- Harmful intent
- Wrong view (not believing in karma)
A
10 non-virtuous deeds
5
Q
- Suffering
- Origin
- Cessation
- Path
A
4 noble truths
6
Q
- Stream-enterer
- Once-returner
- Never-returner
- Arhat
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Who are the aryans?
7
Q
Will reach nirvana within 7 lifetimes
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Stream-enterer
8
Q
Will return 1 more time as a human
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Once-returner
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
10
Q
Have burned off all previous karma, existing in the last of their karmic cycle; none exist today
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Arhat
11
Q
- See pain as pleasure
- See impure as pure
- See impermanence as permanence
- See no-self as a self
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4 inverted truths
12
Q
“First turn of the dharma”
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Buddha’s first sermon
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