Buddhism

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Buddhism
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Buddhism

• Based on Siddhartha Gautama- the Buddha (The
  Enlightened One)
• Came to China from India during 1st Century
• Lived during the 5th Century B.C. same as
  Confucius
• He realized that wealth and luxury did not
  guarantee happiness

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Four Noble Truths

• Suffering
• Life includes pain, getting old, disease, and
  death
• Loneliness, frustration, fear, embarrassment,
  anger.
• Explains how suffering can be avoided and how we
  can be truly happy

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Four Noble Truths

• Suffering is caused by craving and aversion
• Suffer if expect others to conform to our
  expectations, if we want others to like us
• Getting what you want does not mean youll be
  happy
• Modify your wants
• Wanting deprives us of contentment and happiness

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Four Noble Truths

• Suffering can be overcome
• True happiness and contentment are attainable
• Give up useless cravings and wants
• Live each day at a time
• Dont dwell in past or imagined future
• Lead to happiness and freedom Nirvana

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Four Nobel Truths

• Noble 8-fold Path
• Being moral through what we say and do
• Focus mind on our actions and thoughts
• Develop wisdom by understanding 4 Noble Truths
• Develop compassion for others

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To The Assistant Prefect Chang

• In the evening years given to quietude,
• The worlds worries no concern of mine,
• For my own needs making no other plan
• Than to unlearn, return to long-loved woods

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To The Assistant Prefect Chang

• I loosen my robe before the breeze from pines,
• My lute celebrates moonlight on mountain pass,
• You ask what laws rule failure or success
• Songs of fishermen float to the still shore.

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To The Assistant Prefect Chang

• Plans to unlearn
• Free himself from desires and concepts
  accumulated over the years

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To The Assistant Prefect Chang

• Symbol of loosening his robe
• Opening himself to nature and beauty of the
  landscape
• failure and success
• Worries of the world
• The worlds are no concern of mine,
• World of human desires

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The Hill

• No one can bee seen on this silent hill,
• But one may hear distant voices.
• The rays of the sun filter through the deep
  foliage
• And fall refreshingly on the mosses.

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The Hill

• Mood
• Pure and simple
• Captures immensity of the natural world
• No one can be seen on this silent hill,/ But one
  may hear distant voices (1-2).
• Details
• The rays of the sun filter though the deep
  foliage/ And fall refreshingly on the mosses.
  (3-4).

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On an Autumn Evening in the Mountains

• How clear are the mountains after the new rain!
• The dusk of the Autumn evening is pouring in,
• As moonbeams filter through the pine trees.
• Cool spring-water flows over white stones.

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On an Autumn Evening in the Mountains

• A lone washing-girl returns homeward by the
  bamboo grove.
• The boatman sails his barge through the lotus
  patch.
• Although Spring is long gone
• Why cannot I linger over this pleasant view?

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On an Autumn Evening in the Mountains

• Although Spring is long gone
• Why cannot I linger over this pleasant view?
• Contrast poets sense of imperfection with the
  beauty of nature
• Joy of Spring and sadness of age
• Shouldnt have desire to enjoy the spring-like
  weather

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The Hill

• Emphasis on silence of landscape
• Vastness and details of nature
• Its simplicity

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On an Autumn Evening in the Mountains

• Quietude in Autumn
• Rustic lifestyle
• Beauty of nature vs. sadness of age