Buddhism Flashcards
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire
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A few well chosen thoughts can save you weeks of suffering
A few well chosen thoughts can save you weeks of suffering
Association with the disliked is Dukka. Association with sth which is unpleasant. I don’t like it this way. Therefor there is Dukka…………..When you recognice that: Suddenly the universe was not out of balance anymore - it’s just meeting something you don’t like and you react like that. Like if you have a stone in your shoe it hurts what else do you expect. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG HERE ITS JUST COMPLETELY ORDINARY
Association with the disliked is Dukka. Association with sth which is unpleasant. I don’t like it this way. Therefor there is Dukka…………..When you recognice that: Suddenly the universe was not out of balance anymore - it’s just meeting something you don’t like and you react like that. Like if you have a stone in your shoe it hurts what else do you expect. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG HERE ITS JUST COMPLETELY ORDINARY
Sorrow and unhappiness (suffering) comes from the ones who are dear (close) to us
Different ways of love:
Dear = possession / separation (me here and you there tied together with interest in caring). This type of love is always problematic
Metta: loving kindness , compassion ,!sympathatic joy , equanimity
Sorrow and unhappiness (suffering) comes from the ones who are dear (close) to us
Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die !!!
Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die !!!
Karma
“Intention”
What causes an emotion?
A combination of perception, believe, intend and response
Your mind almost constantly thinks :
Most of the thinking is about the past or the future.
Remembering
Planning
Phantasising
Rehearsing (Proben)
Buddha points out that suffering is product of the mind. He is not offering relief from pain => he is offering relief to the extra mental reactivity that’s causes your misery
Buddha points out that suffering is product of the mind. He is not offering relief from pain => he is offering relief to the extra mental reactivity that’s causes your misery
Es gibt zwei Arten auf Suffering zu reagieren: Reactive oder Mindfull
Ajahn Cha: there are two kinds of suffering: one that leads to more suffering and one that leads to the end of suffering
Es gibt zwei Arten auf Suffering zu reagieren: Reactive oder Mindfull
Mit der Umsetzung der ersten Noble Truth penetrating Dukka and excepting it just the way it is allows you to Rather Respond to than to react to suffering
Mit der Umsetzung der ersten Noble Truth penetrating Dukka and excepting it just the way it is allows you to Rather Respond to than to react to suffering
Realize that Suffering is a sign for practice and not a sign of failure
Realize that Suffering is a sign for practice and not a sign of failure
Luke: two types of suffering: one you need to bare (essential) and one you need to abandon (neurotic - inferier suffering)
Luke: two types of suffering: one you need to bare (essential) and one you need to abandon (neurotic - inferier suffering)
To understand suffering you must be willing to stand under suffering
You must be wiling to stand suffering as if you are standing under a waterfalll
=> fully standing in life as it is
This choice gives your life meaning and ironically it gives meaning to your suffering too!!
To understand suffering you must be willing to stand under suffering
You must be wiling to stand suffering as if you are standing under a waterfalll
=> fully standing in life as it is
This choice gives your life meaning and ironically it gives meaning to your suffering too!!
The ego sees suffering as a personal failure. Based on the wrong assumption that winning in life means no suffering
The ego is under the illusion that the opposite of suffering is happiness
The ego sees suffering as a personal failure. Based on the wrong assumption that winning in life means no suffering
The ego is under the illusion that the opposite of suffering is happiness
The ego is not bad!! Don’t leave home without it but let the ego not steer your life!!
Do not expect that suffering goes away!
The ego is not bad!! Don’t leave home without it but let the ego not steer your life!!
The way out of suffering is through suffering
The way out of suffering is through suffering
All unwholesome desires are based on
Graving
illwill
delusion
greed
All unwholesome desires are based on
Graving
illwill
delusion
greed
Simply stated : All grasping leads to suffering (greifen)
Simply stated : All grasping leads to suffering
The proximate cause of dukkha is craving, taṇhā, literally “thirst”, the strong desire we have for pleasure. This desire has a positive and a negative side to it, illustrated by “craving for existence” and “craving for extermination”. In its most elemental form these are the cravings we have for pleasant experiences to continue and unpleasant experiences to end. The latter sort we generally call “aversion”.
The proximate cause of dukkha is craving, taṇhā, literally “thirst”, the strong desire we have for pleasure. This desire has a positive and a negative side to it, illustrated by “craving for existence” and “craving for extermination”. In its most elemental form these are the cravings we have for pleasant experiences to continue and unpleasant experiences to end. The latter sort we generally call “aversion”.
Just as we looked at how dukkha is produced to understand dukkha, so too we have to look at how craving is produced to understand craving. By the standard formula of dependent arising, craving is produced by feeling (vedanā). “Feeling” here is a technical term; it does not refer to the emotions. Instead it can be defined as something like “feeling tone”: pleasant, painful, and neutral sensations.
The basic idea is that pleasant sensations induce in us a craving for their continuation, painful feelings induce in us a craving for their cessation, and neutral sensations induce in us either dull passivity or a craving for pleasant sensations. It is this move from feeling to craving that the Buddha believed was the weak link in the chain of dependent origination, the place that the saṃsāric process could eventually be broken. So investigating this link is of paramount importance.
Just as we looked at how dukkha is produced to understand dukkha, so too we have to look at how craving is produced to understand craving. By the standard formula of dependent arising, craving is produced by feeling (vedanā). “Feeling” here is a technical term; it does not refer to the emotions. Instead it can be defined as something like “feeling tone”: pleasant, painful, and neutral sensations.
The basic idea is that pleasant sensations induce in us a craving for their continuation, painful feelings induce in us a craving for their cessation, and neutral sensations induce in us either dull passivity or a craving for pleasant sensations. It is this move from feeling to craving that the Buddha believed was the weak link in the chain of dependent origination, the place that the saṃsāric process could eventually be broken. So investigating this link is of paramount importance.
Loving kindness is the intention of good will towards you and others
Loving kindness is the intention of good will towards you and others
Another reason Buddhism appeals to a broad range of people in recovery is because it is an experiential spiritual practice that empowers us to improve our conscious contact with a Greater Power of our understanding through rational investigation, contemplation, and profound insight, rather than a religion that requires blind faith of its followers.
Another reason Buddhism appeals to a broad range of people in recovery is because it is an experiential spiritual practice that empowers us to improve our conscious contact with a Greater Power of our understanding through rational investigation, contemplation, and profound insight, rather than a religion that requires blind faith of its followers.
Albert Einstein said, “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 and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.”
happiness, then these ways must be the ways to follow.” Buddhism’s sound empirical approach to spirituality may be the reason that Albert Einstein said, “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 and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.”
