Friday, May 4, 2012

BUDDHA DHARMA

THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH

This is the path the Buddha taught to those seeking liberation.
1. Right understanding
2. Right thought
3. Right speech
4. Right action
5. Right livelihood
6. Right effort
7. Right mindfulness
8. Right concentration

 THE FIVE PRECEPTS

An ethical life is founded on these standards of conduct.
1. To refrain from killing
2. To refrain from stealing
3. To refrain from sexual misconduct
4. To refrain from false, harsh and idle speech
5. To refrain from intoxicants that cloud the mind

 THE SIX WHOLESOME AND UNWHOLESOME ROOTS OF MIND

The mind is always under the influence of one of these states.
1. Generosity
2. Love
3. Wisdom
4. Greed
5. Hatred
6. Delusion

 THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS

This was the Buddha’s first and fundamental teaching about the nature of our experience and spiritual potential.
1. The existence of suffering
2. The origin of suffering
3. The cessation of suffering
4. The path to the cessation of suffering

 THE SIX SENSE DOORS AND THREE FEELING TONES

Sense Doors
Everything we experience comes through these portals.
1. Eye (Seeing)
2. Ear (Hearing)
3. Nose (Smelling)
4. Tongue (Tasting)
5. Body (Touching)
6. Mind

Feeling Tones
Each moment of experience is felt as one of three feeling tones.
1. Pleasant
2. Unpleasant
3. Neutral

 THE FIVE HINDRANCES

These are the classical hindrances to meditation practice.
1. Desire, clinging, craving
2. Aversion, anger, hatred
3. Sleepiness, sloth
4. Restlessness
5. Doubt

 THE THREE KINDS OF SUFFERING

The Buddha taught that we can understand different kinds of suffering through these three categories.
1. The suffering of pain
2. The suffering of change
3. The suffering of conditionality

 THE FOUR BRAHMA-VIHARAS

These four “best abodes” reflect the mind state of enlightenment.
1. Lovingkindness
2. Compassion
3. Sympathetic joy
4. Equanimity

 THE EIGHT VICISSITUDES

According to the Buddha, we will experience these vicissitudes throughout our lives, no matter what our intentions or actions.
1. Pleasure and pain
2. Gain and loss
3. Praise and blame
4. Fame and disrepute

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