buddhism

• 'I vow to save them'
• 'it was to him like a time of intertwining the sky with knots'
• 'Not until I attain the supreme enlightenment will I give up this seat of meditation'
• Three Marks of Existence

  • Dukkha - suffering
  • Anicca - impermanence
  • Anatta - no fixed self
• Five aggregates (Therevada)

  • Form - bodies
  • Perception - understandning
  • Conciseness - awareness
  • Mental formations - thoughts
  • Sensation - feelings
• Four noble truths

  • Dukkha - suffering exists
  • Samudaya - there is a cause
  • Nirodha - suffering can end
  • Magga - there is a mean to end suffering
• Six perfections

  • Generosity
  • Morality
  • Patience
  • Energy
  • Meditation
  • Wisdom
• Karuna - compassion
• Metta - loving kindness
• Five moral precepts

  • Abstain from taking life
  • Abstain from sexual misconduct
  • Abstain from taking what is not freely given
  • Abstain from wrong speech
  • Abstain from intoxicants that cloud the mind
• Sublime States

  • compassion
  • sympathetic joy
  • peace
  • loving kindness
• three jewels

  • buddha
  • dhamma
  • sangha (community)
• 'by avoiding both these two extremes the middle way is realised'
• three poisons

  • ignorance
  • greed
  • hatred
• 'what i teach is suffering and cessation of suffering'
• 'attachment is at the root of suffering'
• 'the key to a happy and more successful world is the growth of compassion'
• 'wish that all may enjoy happiness' -DALAI LAMA
• 'i am the owner of my kamma'
• ‘fading away and cessation of craving’ four noble truths