RELI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jiriki, Abhidharma, Upaya
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Jiriki: self-power; everything other than the shunyata is an illusion. Tariki: other power; something (like grace) comes into your life and transforms you. Sutras: history of the life of the buddha. Vinayana: rules that the buddhist monks should follow. Form of buddhism is something useful right now to get you where you need to go, you. Macrocosm in buddhism: says it is all an illusion; don"t study the world, it is not worth. Microcosm in buddhism: people (you) are also illusions; at every moment, you are. Metacosm: shunyata is at the top, gods and goddesses are both useful and not useful. Gods and goddesses are not much different from normal people but they have built up a. Better to believe in something above you than to think you are the center of everything. Suicide is a form of loving yourself too much in buddhism. Buddha is just an illusion, not something to worship.