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
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
