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  • 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