Intro to Buddhhism

The Buddhas name was Siddhartha Guatama and he was born in Nepal. He came from a wealthy family where his father sheltered him from the outside world. He was protected from all the negative in the world and didn't know it existed. He decided to finally leave the palace in which he saw all that he was being protected of. He say an old man, a diseased man, a corpse, and a holy man. After this experience is when he started his journey to become the Buddha.The three jewels are the Buddha, Sangha, and Dharma and the are the ideals at the hear of Buddhism. Another major teaching is the Threefold Way which is ethics, meditation, and wisdom. The Four Noble Truths are 1.All existence is dukkha, 2.The cause of dukkha is craving, 3.The cessation of dukkha comes with the cessation of craving, and $.There is a path that leads from dukkha. The Noble eightfold path is 1.Right Views 2.Right Intentions 3.Right Speech 4. Right Conduct 5.Right Livelihood 6.Right Effort 7.Right Mindfulness 8.Right Medidtation.

Buddhism Packet Questions

1. Siddhartha Gautama
2. Old man, diseased man, corpse, and holy man
3. Says that a healthy spiritual life depends on a healthy physical life.
4. He ascended through levels of awareness until he could perceive the true nature of the human condition
5. The Buddhist community of monks and nuns
6. Sangha, Dharma, Buddha
7. The universal is eternal, with ages of creation and destruction following one after the other.
8. He dismissed the speculation as being useless for the task of winning salvation
9. Anatta, Anicca, Dukkha
10. Anatta means there is no ultimate reality within and atman is the exact opposite when there is ultimate reality.
11. The energy is whats reborn. Karma, there is one trajectory.
12. 1. Do not take life. 2. Do not take what is not given. 3. Do not use false speech. 5. Do not drink intoxicants. 6.Do not eat after noon. 7. Do not watch dancing or shows. 8. Do not use garlands, perfumes, or ornaments 9. Do not use high or soft bed 10. Do not accept gold or silver.
13. Suffering, frustration, dislocation, discomfort; Its like the word mean that something is off centered or broken.
14. Tanha is desire and it is unavoidable like dukha.
15. 1. Right Views 2.Right Intentions 3.Right Speech 4.Right Conduct 5.Right Livelihood 6.Right Effort 7.Right Mindfulness 8. Right Meditation
16. Buddha has the ultimate experience of Nirvana which is a special status.
17. An arhat is the "worthy one" who has become awakened, is forever transformed, haing experienced through the transcendent stage of enlightenment.
18. "blowing out"; Maybe blowing out means finally getting to full liberation
19. Theravada, Mahayana, Varayana
20. Individual quest for enlightenment
21. The great Vehicle; Its alot of people and they are the major clan
22. They harness energy and turn it against each other
23. Its determined by rebirth
24. Mahayana:China, Japan, Korea/ Theravada:Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand/ Vajrayana:Tibet

Hinduism

1. "Liberation"; a release from this ordinary, finite, limited realm of existence into the infinite ocean of the divine.
2. Monism; "rivers, ponds, lakes, and oceans appear to be quite distinctive, yet they share a common essence: they all are made up of water."
3. Brahman is the essence of all things and Atman is the eternal self and they are both the ultimate reality.
4. Its an accessible point of contact to the divine
5. Its the "wheel of rebirth" or reincarnation
6. Bhagavad Gita
7. Karma is the moral law of cause and effect and Dharama is connected to social order
8. Brahmin are the priests, Kshatriya are the warriors and administrators, Vaishya are made up of producers, and Shudra are composed of servants and laborers.
9. Krishna says that we would be following his karma and that he will only be killing the bodies of the people he loved but not the souls that will reincarnate.
10. Student; intensive study of  the Vedas and other sacred texts. Household; when you take care of your family.  Forest Dweller; when the first grandchild is born and he retreats from the worldly bonds. Sannyasin; the wandering ascetic and when the forest dweller returns to the world but is still detached. 
11. Sensual Pleasure; legitimate aim of life. Material Sucess; artha which completes the desires that the sensual pleasures cant fulfill. Harmony with Dharama; having joy in following your ethical code. The Bliss of Moksha; infinite being and awareness
12. Karma Marga, "The Path of Works" is for the active. Jnana Marga, "The Path of Knowledge" is for the philosophical, Bhakti Marga, "The Path of Devotion" is for the emotional.
13. Vedanta; most faithful to the predominant monism of Hinduism. Sankhya; composed of two distinct categories: matter and an infinite number of eternal selves. Yoga; acknowledges the connection.
14. Vishnu, Shiva, Kali
15. An incarnation, or living embodiment, of a deity. Examples are Krishna and Rama
16. Bhagavad -Gita
17. Household and village rituals, holy places, and cow veneration
18. Mahatma Ghandi changed India and Hinduism with his efforts to stand up to oppression by using non-violence and civil disobedience.
19. Discrimination against different people in the caste system was banned.
20. The burning of a widow and it now forbidden although it still occurs rarely.
21. The Muslim community forced the partitioning of India to form Pakistan.