Buddhism Beliefs Flashcards
How did siddhartha reach the Path to enlightenment
- Recall all is past lives
- Understood paticcasamuppada
- Understood suffering
- Extinguish three poisons
The four sights
Old man- aging
Illness
Death
Holy man
Dhamma
The entire law od buddhism, is to understand the true nature of all things
Paticcasamuppada
Chain of existence that causes rebirth, everything depends om everything else
Samsara, what is it and the teachings from it?
The wheel of life
Teachings-
1. Cycle of birth and death
2. Remind actions take many lifetimes to work through,
3.everything has kammic value
Nirvana
Enlightenment
No longer affected by the wheel of samsara
Will not be reborn
Three marks of existence
Dukkha
Anicca
Anatta
Dukkha
Suffering
Everything causes suffering
Anicca
Impermanence
Growth and change in the world
See through the illusion of permanence -> enlightenment
Anatta
No permanent self
We constantly change
Four noble truths
- Dukkha/diagnosing problem
- Tanha/working out cause of problem
- Nirodha/realising cure
- Magga/prescribing cure
(Dont Take Nicole’s Mother)
The Noble Eightfold Path/ three fold way
Is the prescription/magga
Take actions to follow the wheel, alter behaviour-> become closer to nirvana
Skandhas
What makes up a person
1 body
2 sensations
3 thinking
4 decision making
5 conciousness
Sunyata, Three marks of existence
1 pain leads to suffering (dukkha)
2 impermanence/anicca, leads to change and decay
3 Anatta/ no permanent self
Buddhahood
We are the seed to becoming a Buddha(=enlightened)
Make right effort to dissolve sense of self-importance and move towards nirvana
