Midterm Lists Flashcards
What does “recognition” mean in regard to the five skandhas?
“Recognition” is the aggregate “mound” of making coherency/hardened intellectual concepts in reaction to “feeling”
What is “Brahmin” in regard to the Four Castes of Brahminical Society?
“Brahmins” are priests, teachers and preachers.
The Three types of Duhkha:
- Dukkha-dukkha
- Viparinama-Dukkha
- Samkhara-Dukkha
Four stages of life in Brahmanical society:
- Student 2. Householder 3. Retired 4. Renounced
What is “Shudra” in regard to the Four Castes of Brahminical Society?
“Shudras” are laborers and servants.
The Three Jewels:
- The Buddha 2. The Dharma 3. The Sangha
What does “form” mean in regard to the five skandhas?
“Form” is the aggregate “mound” of bodily matter.
Five Skandhas
- Form 2. Feeling 3. Recognition 4. Formation 5. Consciousness
The Buddha’s Four Sights:
- An old man (aging) 2. A sick person (sickness) 3. A dead body (death) 4. An ascetic (the devotion to ending suffering)
The Buddha’s insights during the three watches of the night of Enlightenment:
- Rebirth/Redeath 2. Karma 3. The Four Noble Truths
What is the second type of suffering?
Viparinama-Dukkha - “suffering of change,”
What is “Kshatriyas” in regard to the Four Castes of Brahminical Society?
“Kshatriyas” are kings, governors and warriors.
What does “feeling” mean in regard to the five skandhas?
“Feeling” is the aggregate “mound” of reaction to “form”
What does “consciousness” mean in regard to the five skandhas?
“Consciousness” is the aggregate “mound” of understood existence by which we think the five skandhas are really a unified whole and read in the “self.”
Four Noble Truths:
- Suffering 2. Cause of suffering 3. Cessation of suffering 4. Way to the cessation of suffering
What is the third type of suffering?
Samkhara-Dukkha - “suffering of conditionality”
The Three Afflicted Emotions/Poisons:
- Ignorance 2. Attachment 3. Aversion
What is “Vaishyas” in regard to the Four Castes of Brahminical Society?
“Vaishyas” are ranchers, farmers, and merchants.
What is the first type of suffering?
Dukkha-Dukkha - “suffering suffering,” ordinary suffering everyone experiences.
What does “formation” mean in regard to the five skandhas?
“Formation” is the aggregate “mound” of making full systems of meaning out of the “recognitions”
Four castes of Brahmanical society
- the Brahmins: priests, teachers and preachers. - the Kshatriyas: kings, governors, warriors and soldiers. - the Vaishyas: ranchers, agriculturists, businessmen, artisans and merchants. - the Shudras: labourers and servants
The Twelve Links of Interdependent Origination:
- Ignorance - not knowing the four noble truths of dukka 2. Formation -the mental creation/fabrication we make based on ignorance 3. Consciousness - cognizing/mentally “knowing” the formations 4. Name and Form/Body and mind 5. Senses 6. Contact 7. Sensation 8. Craving 9. Attachment/clinging 10. Karma/Becoming - Becoming a karmic force 11. Birth 12. Death
The Six Realms of Samsara
- Gods 2. Demi-gods 3. Humans 4. Animals 5. Hungry Ghosts 6. Hell denizens
