Buddhism

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Buddhism
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For your consideration

• Why do people suffer?
• Is all suffering bad?
• What did the Buddha believe was the cause of
  suffering?

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Buddhism

• 563 BCE
• Siddhartha Gautama
• 360 Million followers
• Gods?
• No God
• Mahayana Sect
• The Buddha is God

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Siddhartha Gautama

• Where practiced?
• India, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan
• Monotheistic
• No / Yes
• Religious Book?
• Three Baskets of Wisdom

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• Place of Worship?
• Temple
• Religious Leader?
• None
• Monks are most spiritual

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Buddhism

• Sects
• Theravada
• Monks
• live ascetic life
• No god
• Mahayana
• Buddha is God
• Holy City
• Lhasa, Tibet

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• Buddha Day
• Birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha
• Symbols
• Buddha
• The Wheel (8 Fold Path)
• Lotus Flower

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Rules and Laws

• No Caste System
• Karma
• The FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
• 1. Suffering exists
• 2. Desire causes suffering
• 3. Suffering ends when attachment to desire
  ceases.
• 4. Practice the Eightfold Path to end desire
• 8 Fold Path
• Compassion, understanding, kindness and truth

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Life After Death

• Reincarnation rebirth
• NIRVANA
• Enlightenment
• Free from suffering from ones own desires

The Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya, India. The
tree under which the Buddha attained
enlightenment. Major pilgrimage site
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Miscellaneous

• Missionaries
• spread Buddhism throughout Asia
• Dalai Lama
• Leader of Tibetan Buddhists

14th Incarnation
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5 Hindrances

• Lust
• ill Will
• Worry
• Doubt
• Laziness
• Which is the most difficult for you?

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BUDDHISM

• "Buddhism has the characteristics of what would
  be expected in a cosmic religion for the future
  it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and
  theology it covers both the natural spiritual,
  and it is based on a religious sense aspiring
  from the experience of all things, natural and
  spiritual, as a meaningful unity"
• Albert Einstein

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Visual Analysis
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Zen Koans

• Zen koans are paradoxical statements used as a
  meditation device. People must go beyond the
  words and their perceptions in order to
  understand the meaning of existence.
• SAMPLE If a tree falls in the woods and no one
  is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
• 1 - What is the sound of one hand clapping?
• 2 - What is your original face before you were
  born?
• 3 - What is the color of the wind?

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Zen Koans

• 4 - One day as Manjusri stood outside the gate,
  the Buddha called to him, "Manjusri, Manjusri,
  why do you not enter?" Manjusri replied, "I do
  not see myself as outside. Why enter?"
• 5 - A monk asked Master Haryo, "What is the way?
  Haryo said, "An open-eyed man falling into the
  well."
• 6 - One day Chao-chou fell down in the snow, and
  called out, "Help me up! Help me up!" A monk
  came and lay down beside him. Chao-chou got up
  and went away.

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Zen Koans

• 7 - Two monks were arguing about the temple flag
  waving in the wind. One said, "The flag moves."
  The other said, "The wind moves." They argued
  back and forth but could not agree. Hui-neng,
  the sixth patriarch, said "Gentlemen! It is not
  the flag that moves. It is not the wind that
  moves. It is your mind that moves." 8 - A monk
  asked Zhao Zhou to teach him. Zhao Zhou asked,
  "Have you eaten your meal?" The monk replied,
  "Yes, I have." "Then go wash your bowl," said
  Zhao Zhou. At that moment, the monk was
  enlightened.

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Zen Koans

• 9 - As the roof was leaking, a zen Master told
  two monks to bring something to catch the water.
  One brought a tub, the other a basket. The first
  was severely reprimanded, the second highly
  praised.
• 10 - Once Ma-tsu and Pai-chang were walking along
  and saw some wild ducks fly by. "What is that?"
  the Master asked. "Wild ducks," Pai-chang
  replied. "Where have they gone?" "They've flown
  away," Pai-chang said. The Master then twisted
  Pai-chang's nose, and when Pai-chang cried out
  in pain, Ma- tsu said, "When have they ever
  flown away?"