Buddhism Beliefs – Teachings

Buddhism Beliefs – Teachings Don’t forget references to key Buddhist teachings – ahimsa, Karma, Dhamma, right action etc. (from Noble Eightfold Path), or quoting ‘The Three Marks of Existence’ or ‘The Five Precepts’ etc. can all be worth credit as ‘teachings’ if applied correctly. Dharma /nibbana Three Marks of Existence ‘One who abides in Dhamma, who delights in Dhamma, who Pleasure is the binding force in the world. Rolling thought processes contemplates Dhamma, who memorises Dhamma does not lose are its ever-changing base. With the complete eradication of craving, the way’ – Dhammapada The state called nibbana is attained – Buddha ‘Just as the water of river plunges into the ocean and merges with In brief, to be reborn is dukkha, not to be reborn is sukha (happiness – the ocean, so the spiritual path, the Noble Eightfold Path, plunges Venerable Sariputta into Nibbana and merges with nibbana’ - Buddha All conditioned things are impermanent. All conditioned things are inherently lacking. All realities are devoid of an abiding self – Dhammapada 277-9 Four Noble Truths Noble Eightfold Path ‘Suffering I teach, and the way out of it’ – Buddha ‘The Noble Eightfold Path is the most honourable way – Dhammapada 273 ‘He who has gone for refuge to the Buddha, the teaching and his Order, penetrates the transcendental wisdom of the Four Noble ‘If you walk the path, you will arrive at the end of suffering’ – Buddha. Truths – suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the Noble Eightfold Path leading to the cessation of suffering’ – Dhammapada 190-191 Human Destiny – Arhat Human Destiny – Bodhisattva Pure Land ‘Disciples of the Buddha are fully awake dwelling both day and ‘Just as all the previous Sugatas, the Buddhas…So will I too, for the night in contemplation of the Awakened One…of reality…of the sake of all beings, Generate the mind of enlightenment And true nature of the body…taking delight in compassion…in accomplish all the stages Of the Bodhisattva trainin’ – Bodhisttva Vow cultivating the heart’ – Dhammapada 296-301 ‘Namu Amida Butsu (I return to Amitabha Buddha)’ – Pure Land ‘You yourselves should make the effort; the enlightened ones are Buddhist mantra only teachers’ – Dhammapada 276 Human Personality – 5 Skandhas Human Personality – Sunyata Buddha nature ‘The skandhas are also related to blockages of different types — We and all sentient beings fundamentally have the Buddha-nature as spiritual ones, material ones, and emotional ones’ – Chogyam our innermost essence – Sogyal Rinpoche Trungpa Rinpoche If you want to find Buddha-nature, love someone and care for them – ‘Avalokiteshvara while practicing deeply with the Insight that Dainin Katagiri Brings Us to the Other Shore, suddenly discovered that all of the five Skandhas are equally empty, and with this realisation he overcame all Ill-being’ – Heart Sutra Paticcasamuppada ‘One who sees paticcasamuppada sees the Dhamma. One who sees the Dhamma sees paticca samuppada’ – Buddha ‘When this is, that is; This arising, that arises; When this is not, that is not; This ceasing, that ceases’ – Majjhima Nikaya The Buddha – Birth and life of Luxury The Buddha – 4 Sights ‘I am chief of the world, Eldest am I in the world, Jataka 075 describes Siddhattha Gotama seeing the Four Sights Foremost am I in the world. This is the last birth. There is now no more coming to be’ – Siddarttha Gotama’s words ‘Thus, he realised the triviality of the mundane life, which is bound to when born crumble, because if one is born one would undergo the process of ageing, sickness, death and all kinds of suffering… ‘I was very spoiled…I had a palace for the winter, one for the summer and one for the rainy season’ – Buddha The ascetic’s resolution to renounce the worldly life in quest of the truth infused greater happiness in his heart and inspired him to lead the life of an ascetic.’ The Buddha – Ascetic Life The Buddha – Enlightenment and Teaching ‘I will perform the uttermost penance’. He brought himself to live ‘If today I shall become a Buddha, let this pot go up the stream; if not, on one seed…, or one grain of rice, and even to fast …. By this let it go down the stream’ -Siddhartha Gotama before enlightenment fasting, however, he became as thin as a skeleton ; the colour of (it went up stream against the current) his body, once fair as gold, became dark ; and the thirty-two signs of a great man disappeared’ – Jataka Tales ‘May skin, indeed, and sinews, and bones wilt away, may flesh and blood in my body dry up, but till I attain to complete enlightenment ‘He perceived that penance was not the way to enlightenment’ – this seat I will not leave’! – the Buddha’s vow to become enlightened Jataka Tales ‘To Nirvana my mind has gone, I have arrived at the extinction of evil desire’ – Buddha on enlightenment Why do I have to learn these???? Learn them as they are needed across the whole exam Impress your examiner with your knowledge They don’t have to be written word for word. Ignore the references Different colours to help your brain remember Using Mind maps - maybe put these into single A4 Revision Sheets to go with each topic .

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