RS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mahayana, Chinese Buddhism, Lotus Sutra
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The four sights old man, sick man, dead man, and ascetic. The great going forth leaves his family for the forest to be an ascetic. The great resolution and enlightenment the night he decides to be enlightened. Karma through action, thought, and intention, not social order (hinduism) Pratitya samutpada: co-dependent arising reality is all stuff coming together and then coming apart. Everything is interconnected (e. g. a podium made of wood is traced back to a tree in thailand which only grew because of the rain in a storm, etc. ) (test) Pratitya samutpada is also applicable to us and our souls . The self as a relationship, not an essence. *consciousness and matter are connected, just as energy and matter not distinct things. Even your consciousness came from outside of you. The hub is made up of the three poisons: greed, hatred, delusion.
