The Means

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Buddhism

• The Human Condition
• The 3 Marks of Existence
• The 4 Noble Truths
• The 1st Noble Truth (Life is Dukkha)
• The 2nd Noble Truth (Dukkha is caused by Tanha)
• The Life of the Buddha

• The Goals -
• Karma
• The 3rd Noble Truth (You can stop Dukkha by
  stoping Tanha)
• Nibbana

• The Means
• The Three Jewels
• The Noble Eightfold Path / The 4th Noble Truth
• The 5 precepts
• Meditation and Prayer

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The Means

• Three Jewels

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What are the goals?The goals of existence are
to make progress towards enlightenment and
finally to attain it.How are the goals
achieved?Through the Means

• The Three Jewels are part of the means

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The Three Jewels

• The Three Jewels are the Buddha, Dhamma, and
  Sangha
• Also known as Three Refuges.
• The Dhamma could not have been taught without the
  Buddha, and could not have been followed without
  the Sangha, so the three are inseparable.

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• They are known as the Three Refuges, because the
  Buddhist promise of devotion says
• I take refuge in the Buddha,
• I take refuge in the Dhamma,
• I take refuge in the Sangha.

• Taking refuge is making a promise to be devoted
  to the Buddha and his teachings.
• It is also a sign of the support structure of
  the religion a refuge is somewhere you turn for
  security and guidance

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Dhamma

• Can mean teachings / truth / way / etc
• It is sometimes used to mean Buddhism
• Usually seen as Four Noble Truths and Eightfold
  Path
• Scriptures can be dhamma
• Central to Buddhism
• Like a raft to be used to reach enlightenment

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Sangha

• Community of Buddhists
• Specifically monks
• Monks bhikkus
• Can become a monk for life, or just a short time
• Monks live by 10 Precepts and many other rules in
  Vinaya Pitaka scriptures (laity only use 5
  Precepts)
• Differences between monks and laity will differ
  depending on school of Buddhism