re equdas gcse

• adultery- voluntary have sex with someone who is not your spouse whilst married
• divorce- ending of a marriage
• cohabitation- living with someone outside of marriage
• commitment- a sense of dedication to someone or something
• contraception- methods during intercourse to prevent someone from getting pregant
• gender equality- people of all genders having the same rights and oppertunites
• responisbilitys- duties you are expected to carry out
• roles- position or status of a person in society
• good- that which is conisdered morally right
• forgiveness- to grant pardon for wrong doing
• free will- the ability to voluntarily make choices , nothing is predetermined
• justice- fairness, everyone has everyone has equal provisions and oppertunity
• morality- principle's of right and wrong
• punishment- a penalty given to someone for a crime or wrong theyve done
• sin- a deliberate immoral action, against god
• suffering- pain or destress caused by injury, illness or loss, can be mental or physical
• anicca- imperment nature of all things
• anatta- no self
• dukkha- all life is suffering, this suffering is caused by craving
• skandhas- the five elements that make up human beings,

  form, sensation, perception,mental formations, conciousness
• samatha- calmness or breathing meditation
• pratitya- dependent orgin
• dependent orgin- the idea that everything only exists because of something else, everything effects everything
• mettabhavana- development of loving kindess, usally through meditation
• vipassana- insight meditation
• sunyata- mayhana buddhists also believe that all things are empty or without form and only exist because of dependent orgin, there is no perment self
• buddha nature- everyone has the potential to become enlightened
• arhat- someone in theravda buddhism who is enlightened, exist to help others become enlightened, NOT A BUDDHA they believe there is only one buddha in an age
• pure land/ nirvana- the believe that when someone becomes enlightened there is a place for them outside of earth where all enlightened beings go, mayhana buddhists make a promise when they become enlightened not to go until all sentient beings are enlightened. believed that enlightened people can put their mind their whilst meditating
• karma- the teaching of cause and effect, what you do in this live will effect what you are reborn as, buddhists try and build up postive karma
• puja- gaining merit for postive karma through worship
• magga( the eight fold path)- eight ways that buddhists can try and achieve enlightenment, the cure to dukkha

  right understanding, right livelyhood, right speech, right concenration, right effort, right action, right intention
• four noble truths- there is suffering, it is caused by craving, there is a cure, the cure is the eight fold path
• 3 jewels- a support network for buddhists that can support them whilst trying to achieve enlightenment, the buddha, the sanga, the dhamma