EAS 160A1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Four Noble Truths, Dukkha, Noble Eightfold Path

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: East Asian Studies
• Course: EAS 160A1
• Professor: Takashi Miura

Document Summary

Suffering due to biological causes: viparinama-duhkha. Suffering can have an end: nirvana. There is a path that leads to the end of suffering: the eightfold path. Wisdom (prajna) - right view accepting noble truths, laws of karma: morality. Anatman- selflessness, no self: there is no unchanging, eternal soul. 5 aggregates- 5 ele(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts that (cid:272)o(cid:374)stitute the (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)tio(cid:374)al se(cid:374)se of (cid:862)self(cid:863: material form (rupa, feeling and sensations (vedana, perception (samjna, mental formations (samskara, consciousness (vjana, the basis of our karma (actions) The goal is to direct actions towards nirvana: eightfold path, cra(cid:448)i(cid:374)g arises (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:449)e (cid:373)isi(cid:374)terpret (cid:862)desig(cid:374)atio(cid:374)(cid:863) as (cid:862)su(cid:271)sta(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) 3 marks of existence: impermanence, suffering (duhkha, no-self (anatman) Questions of king milinda: a king in charge of a greek kingdom called bactria, met with a monk named nagasena. 2: dialogue concerning the concept of anatman. Emptiness (sunyata: expansion of the concept no-self, emptiness all reality, a doctrine that asserts all reality is devoid of permanent existence. Dependent origination: also expressed as non-duality.