Buddhism

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Buddhism

• Siddhartha

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Four Passing Sights

• 1. an old man

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A Change for a Change Maker

• 2. a sick man who was diseased ridden
• 3. a corpse on the way to being cremated
• 4. a holy man who had no possessions but was at
  peace

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Four Noble Truths

• Embody the idea that craving is the source of
  suffering and the cessation from craving releases
  suffering .

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Four Noble Truths

• 1. Duhkha or suffering is everywhere

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• 2. Tanha or Craving or desire is the source of
  suffering
• 3. Relieving craving ceases suffering--when
  craving ceases entirely through dispassion,
  renunciation, and nondependence, then suffering
  ceases
• 4. The path leading to cessation of suffering is
  the Eightfold Path

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Eight Fold PathThe Way to Inner Peace

• Three Main Goals
• face life objectively
• live kindly
• cultivate inner peace

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Some Things to Remember

• The steps or recommendations are not to be
  practiced sequentially but all together
• The word right might be better translated as
  correct or complete.

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Eight Fold Path

• 1. Right views
• 2. Right intention
• 3. Right speech
• 4. Right action

• 5. Right livelihood
• 6. Right effort
• 7. Right mindfulness
• 8. Right concentration

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Ethical Dimension

• The Five Precepts

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Bodhisattva

• Being who is to become fully enlightened
  (possesses bodhi) especially as applied to
  Gautama, the future Buddha. More generally, in
  Mahayana Buddhism the term applies to those who
  have experience enlightenment(bodhi) but who have
  taken a special vow to continue being reborn into
  samsara"the great run-around"(rather than
  entering nirvana) so as to deliver others form
  their suffering by aiding in the attainment of
  enlightenment.

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Dhama (Dhamma)

• Has many meanings in Buddhist texts, the proper
  one being determining by context and use.
  However some of the meanings are the teaching of
  the Buddha the Truth The Real moral law the
  right duty religion.

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Karma (Kamma)

• Act, action, deed performed by body, speech, or
  mind, which, according to the intention it
  embodies, will have a set consequence experienced
  in this or future rebirth. Good karma are those
  things that are positive bad karma is negative.

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Mara

• Killing, death, "Destroyer," "Tempter," the
  personification of evil or attachment to
  transient conditioned reality (the Wheel of Life)
  or to this world as an obstacle to attaining of
  enlightenment the god of desire and death.

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Nirvana

• "Blowing out, quenching (as of a fire)" the goal
  of Buddhism, the extinguishing of passionate
  attachment or desire (raga) fearful hostility or
  hatred and anger (dvesa), and confusion of
  delusion (moha), the primary causes of karma and
  hence bondage of samsara. It is equal to the
  Hindu goal of moksa (release).

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Sangha

• Buddhist community which consist of four
  assemblies monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen.

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The Development of Buddhism

• The Energetic King
• Ashoka (India circa 250 B.C.E.)

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Inspection after the battle

• He becomes so horrified at the carnage that he
  decides that he converted to the idea of
  nonviolence.
• He spread the the principle of nonviolence
  throughout India as a way of converting people.
• He built stones which had the principles carved
  in them.

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Three Schools of Buddhist Thought Plus One

• Theravada Buddhism
• The Way of the Elders
• Mahayana Buddhism
• The Big Vehicle
• Vajrayana Buddhism
• The Diamond Vehicle
• Zen Buddhism
• Enlightenment through Experience

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The Core of Basic Buddhism

• The Three Jewels (Triratna)
• The Buddha
• Is an ideal whom people should imitate and his
  image of sitting and meditating with self-control
  and mindfulness.
• The Dharma
• is the sum total of Buddhist teachings about how
  to view the world and how to live properly.
• The Sangha
• is the community of monks and nuns.