Buddhism teachings

• Three poisons


  • Greed (rooster)
  • Hatred (snake)
  • Ignorance (pig)
• Five aggregates


  • Form
  • Sensation
  • Perception
  • Mental formations
  • Consciousness
• Form


  Material or physical objects
• Sensation


  Feelings or sensation
• Perception


  How we recognise things based off of previous experiences
• Mental formations


  Thoughts and opinions
• Consciousness


  A person's general awareness of the world around them
• Six perfections


  • Generosity
  • Morality
  • Patience
  • Meditation
  • Wisdom
  • Energy
• Morality


  Live with good morals and behaviour
• Patience


  Learn to endure personal hardship of suffering (accept first noble truth, existence of suffering)
• Meditation


  Develop concentration and awareness
• Wisdom


  Realisation of suffering
• Energy


  Keep going even when things are difficult
• Tibetan wheel of life (samsara)


  Repeating cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth
• By detaching ourselves from all the demands of ourselves we will no longer need to be re-born into a physical body
• We can practice this selfless through meditation but we will permanently break free once we are liberated from samsara
• Four noble truths


  • Dukkha (suffering)
  • Sumudaya (origin of suffering)
  • Nirodha (stopping)
  • Magga (eightfold path)
• Dukkha (suffering)


  Physical, emotional or mental suffering cannot be avoided
• Sumudaya (origin of suffering)


  Caused by desire and craving (keeping humans attached to existence)
• Nirodha (stopping)


  End of suffering, end to craving = end to suffering
• Magga (eightfold path)


  The path to the end of suffering, Buddhists must follow it
• Once broken, they become free from rebirth and will no longer be born into another life of suffering
• Three universal truths/marks of existence


  • Anicca
  • Anatta
  • Dukkha
• Anicca


  Everything changes
• Anatta


  There is no permanent self
• Dukkha


  Everything suffers
• Buddha: 'What I teach is suffering and the cessation of suffering.'
• Four noble truths


  • Dukkha (truth of suffering)
  • Sumudaya (origins of suffering)
  • Nrodha (truth of cessation)
  • Magga (truth of path)
• Dukkha (truth of suffering)


  All life involves suffering
• Sumudaya (origins of suffering)


  Suffering is caused by desire and attachment(craving-tanha)
• Nrodha (truth of cessation)


  Desire and attachment can be overcome
• Magga (truth of path)


  The way to overcome them is the eightfold path
• Five moral precepts


  • Do not kill
  • Do not steal
  • Do not commit sexual misconduct
  • Do not use harmful speech
  • Do not partake in intoxication's
• Do not kill


  • To abstain from taking life
  • Even thinking about killing someone is just as unskillful
  • Controlling your thoughts is as important as controlling your actions if you want to develop good habits which bring good karma, you learn to control your thoughts by practicing meditation
• Do not steal


  • To abstain from taking what is not freely given
• Do not use harmful speech


  • Abstain from wrong speech
• Do not partake in intoxication's


  • Five principles that Buddhists try and follow
• Three poisons


  • Greed
  • Hatred
  • Ignorance
• Greed


  Being unsatisfied with what you have
• Hatred


  Having what we want being taken away from us