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• anatta


  no self no soul
• consciousness


  collection of awareness
• karma


  intention and action consequences
• samsara


  The cycle of life, death, and rebirth
• craving


  desire to hold onto what we have and more
• intention


  matters in all you actions and thoughts
• anicca


  impermanence
• dukkha


  suffering
• 8 steps in buddhas life


  life as a prince

  sees the 4 sights

  leaves the palace

  meets the ascetics

  memory of festival under bodhi tree

  mental attack by mahra

  earth says he is worthy, truth doesnt have desires
• the 4 sights


  old man, sick man, dead man, holy man
• enlightenment


  not craving anything and releasing yourself of suffering
• three watches on the night of buddhas enlightenment


  sees his past and understands

  understands the cycle of samsara karma and anatta

  why we suffer and how to overcome it
• sangha


  Buddhist community
• buddha


  one who is awake one who has all awareness
• ascetic


  someone who denies themselves all desires
• bodhi


  the tree he sits under
• dhamma


  buddhas teachings

  refers to the principle of dependant origination

  one of the three jewels
• tibetan wheel of life information


  A symbolic representation of samsara

  6 stages / realms

  the process of dependant arising in relation to human life
• what defines the realm theyre reborn into

  their kamma
• what is the ultimate aim of buddhists


  to break free of the cycle of samsara
• nibbana


  a state of liberation peace and happiness
• the three marks of existance

  Anatta, Anicca, Dukkha
• the three refuges

  Buddha, Dharma, Sangha
• dependant origination / paticcasamappada


  Buddhist belief about the nature of reality : everything arises and continues, dependant on conditions

  nothing is independent of supporting conditions, nothing is eternal

  everything in a constant process of change
• 12 Nidanas


  12 factors that illustrate the process of birth, death and rebirth
• what are the 12 nidanas


  ignorance, will to action, consciousness, psychophysical existence, six organs of sense, contact, sensation, craving, attachment, becoming, birth, old age/death
• the three refuges second name


  3 jewels
• in what 3 ways might the sangha be understood


  community of lay buddhists

  the enlightened ones

  the monks
• where does our suffering come from


  our wrong perspectives /perceptions
• how do we remove our wrong perception

  meditation
• Eternalism/Nihilism


  soul exists
• Nihlism

  belief in nothing

  once youre dead you are dead
• nirvana


  wants to get rid of Nihilism and eternalism
• what started to build the sangha


  buddhas early life
• 4 noble truths


  Dukkha, Samudaya, Nirodha, Magga
• painful experiences

  Dukkha-dukkha
• suffering caused by impermanence/loss

  viparinama-dukkha
• all pervasive suffering caused by thought and mental activity

  sankhara-dukkha
• 1st noble truth


  Dukkha- the truth of suffering

  there is suffering
• 2nd noble truth


  samudaya - truth of the origin of suffering

  cause of suffering