Vocabulary List
“There is no fire like passion,
No grip like hate,
No net like delusion,
No river like craving.”
Dhammapada 251
“Long is night for the wakeful;
Long is a league for the weary.
Long is samsara for fools
Who do not know the true Dhamma.”
Dhammapada 60
“All beings tremble at violence
All are afraid of death.
Seeing their likeness to yourself
You should neither kill, nor cause others to kill.”
Dhammapada 129
Questions:
Difference between solution and how to get there?
Rituals needed to know? As stated previously, please consult the peer presentations, with a focus on theme 1.
I saw some questions on "more info on...." please consult the Power Points that I posted concerning each theme.
Middle Way/Eightfold Path...same thing?
The Middle Path is the Buddha's treatment for the problem of suffering in all of our lives. In the time he spent learning about the cause and nature of suffering he learnt also about its cure and set out to teach it. Buddhists describe the teachings as a formula which is described in simple steps and includes both physical and mental treatment for ridding a person of suffering. Like all Buddhist teachings, this formula, which is called the Noble Eightfold Path, can only work if a person chooses to apply it to their lives, and takes full responsibility for following the steps. (buddhanet.net)
“There is no fire like passion,
No grip like hate,
No net like delusion,
No river like craving.”
Dhammapada 251
“Long is night for the wakeful;
Long is a league for the weary.
Long is samsara for fools
Who do not know the true Dhamma.”
Dhammapada 60
“All beings tremble at violence
All are afraid of death.
Seeing their likeness to yourself
You should neither kill, nor cause others to kill.”
Dhammapada 129
Questions:
Difference between solution and how to get there?
- The Solution (Where are we Going?)
- what are we striving for? What is our destiny based on our understanding of the human condition?
- is it a group journey? is it an individual journey? What is “I”?
- In order be “be one of those” you got to do this
- what the heck am I supposed to be doing in this world to make me worthy to be in some relationship to God?
- Goal of the journey
- How to Get There?
- the “to do” list
- how do we fix problem we encountered in the first question? (what is the human condition)
- the method
- if this (#2 the solution) is going to happen to me when I die, what do I need to do to get there
Rituals needed to know? As stated previously, please consult the peer presentations, with a focus on theme 1.
I saw some questions on "more info on...." please consult the Power Points that I posted concerning each theme.
Middle Way/Eightfold Path...same thing?
The Middle Path is the Buddha's treatment for the problem of suffering in all of our lives. In the time he spent learning about the cause and nature of suffering he learnt also about its cure and set out to teach it. Buddhists describe the teachings as a formula which is described in simple steps and includes both physical and mental treatment for ridding a person of suffering. Like all Buddhist teachings, this formula, which is called the Noble Eightfold Path, can only work if a person chooses to apply it to their lives, and takes full responsibility for following the steps. (buddhanet.net)
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