Buddhism

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Buddhism

• Follow the Noble Eightfold Path
• The Middle Way

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Fundamentals

• Siddhartha Gautama
• Types
• Theravada
• Mahayana
• Tibetan
• Zen
• Modern
• Beliefs
• Reincarnation
• Four Noble Truths
• Eightfold Path

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Siddhartha Gautama

• Born in Royalty
• Miraculous Birth
• The visions/journeys
• Moderation Meditation
• Under the Bodhi Tree
• The Dharma

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Theravada

• Southern Buddhism
• Scriptural inspiration from the Tripitaka
• Monastic life
• Intellectualism
• Meditation and Concentration
• Bodhisattva

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Mahayana

• Effort to bring Buddhism to the people.
• The greater ox cart
• Vow to continue reincarnating until suffering
  ends
• Enlightenment through patient discipline,
  meditation, right living, and compassion for all
  life.

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Differences

• Intense time-consuming effort to attain
  enlightenment
• Goal Reach Nirvana
• Wisdom first
• Meditation Monk/Nun
• Teaching or Philosophy
• Primarily moved South and West
• Primary Texts in Pali

• Regular life with spiritual involvement
• Goal Be reborn to help all sentient beings reach
  Nirvana
• Compassion first
• World/Community
• Higher beings/Religion
• Moved North
• Primary Texts are in Sanskrit

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Chaan (Zen)

• China, from Mahayana
• Japan
• Dhyana
• No-Mind- Wu-hsin
• Simply Observe, but not label
• Non-symbolic
• Abandon theory and systems

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Basics

• SilaVirtue
• Equality
• Reciprocity
• Samadhi
• Meditation
• Prajna
• Wisdom

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The 4 Noble Truths

• Dukkha
• Suffering Exists
• Samudaya
• There is a cause
• Nirodha
• There is an end
• Magga
• Eightfold Path

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The Five Precepts

• 1. Do not Kill
• 2. Do not steal
• 3. Do not lie
• 4. Do not misuse sex
• 5. Do not consume drugs or alochol.