Terms

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Buddhist

• Terms

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The Beginning . . .

• Mind
• . . . formless continuum that functions to
  perceive and understand objects.
• Samsara
• The endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth

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Important concepts

• Dukkha
• Suffering
• 8 kinds of suffering
• Birth
• Old age
• Sickness
• Death
• Being apart from
• Being next to those
• Of not getting what
• The scorching

• Five Scandas
• Form
• Feeling
• Cognition
• Formation
• Consciousness

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The Dharma

• The religion, law, truth, reality, knowledge
• Also includes
• 1 - Methods (teaching)
• 2 Reality
• 3 Various divisions

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Karma

• All intentional bodily, verbal and mental
  actions.
• A mental intention that is determination to
  perform an action is a metal action or mental
  karma.

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The Self Ultimate Truth

• Ultimate Truth
• No self in the inherent sense
• 4 ways to prove
• If the I is the body no, it is not
• If the I is the mind no it is not
• Since the I is not the body or the mind then it
  is not a combination of the two.
• It does not exist as separate entity outside of
  either the mind or body.
• The I exist conventionally. The I is merely a
  designation imputed by the conceptual mind upon
  the collection of the body and mind. Gyatso 120