M4: Transcendence and Limitations Flashcards
The concept of the human person as an embodied spirit involves understanding the dual nature of human existence: the physical and the spiritual
Transcendence and Limitations
what do you call the term when a human being achieved something?
Beyond Human Limits
Refers to the capacity of humans to go beyond ordinary limitations
Transcendence
What are the three (3) factors that transcendence can manifest?
(1) Spiritual Practices, (2) Moral and Ethical Development, (3) Artistic and Intellectual Achievement
Limitation of humans
Limitation
What are the three (3) factors that bound humans to limitation?
(1) Physical Limitations, (2) Psychological Limitations, (3) Moral Failings
This guides individuals in transcending suffering and attaining enlightenment
The Eightfold Path and Four Noble Truths
What are the Four (4) Noble Truths?
(1) Truth of Suffering, (2) Truth of the Origin of the Suffering, (3) Ruth of Cessation, (4) Truth of the Path
What are the Eight (8) Fold Path?
(1) Right view, (2) Right Intention, (3) Right Speech, (4) Right Action, (5) Right Livelihood, (6) Right Effort, (7) Right Concentration, (8) Right Mindfulness
What are the three (3) Transcendence through the Eightfold Path?
(1) Wisdom, (2) Ethical Conduct, (3) Mental Discipline
What are the three (3) limitations?
(1) Acknowledging Suffering, (2) Understanding Causes, (3) Path to Overcoming
Meditation, prayer, and other practices to aim to evaluate consciousness
Spiritual Practices
Striving for cities such as compassion, wisdom, and selflessness
Moral and Ethical Development
Creating art, literature, and engaging in intellectual pursuits that connect to higher ideals
Artistic and Intellectual Achievements
Constraints of the body, including aging. Illness, and death
Physical Limitations
Mental health issues, cognitives biases, and emotional struggles
Psychological Limitations
Tendencies towards selfishness, green, and other vices
Moral Failings
Not everything is pleasure and happiness, there is always suffering
Truth of Suffering
Suffering arises from causes and conditions
Truth of the Origin of the Suffering
There is a possibility of reaching a state where dissatisfaction and
Ruth of Cessation
There is a path for us to follow that will bring us to such as a state
Truth of the Path
Know the truth
Right view
Going beyond our own benefits
Right Intention
Say nothing that hurts other
Right Speech
Work for the good of other
Right Action
Respect life
Right Livelihood
Resist life
Right Effort
Practice meditation
Right Concentration
Control your thoughts
Right Mindfulness
Right understanding, right intention
Wisdom
Right speech, right action, right livelihood
Ethical Conduct
Right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration
Mental Discipline
First noble truth
Acknowledging Suffering; Suffering is the part of a human person
Second noble truth
Understanding Causes
Third and fourth noble truths; There are ends to our sufferings
Path to Overcoming
