REL-B 210 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lie, Noble Eightfold Path, Four Noble Truths
Document Summary
Two forms of meditation: calm/tranquility (samatha, type of meditation, purpose is to still the mind and train to concentrate. Insight (vipyasyana: type of meditation, wisdom/mindfulness; pay attention, meditation involving clarity and precision. Three refuges / three jewels: the buddha, the teaching (dharma, the community (sangha) Three baskets: a textual canon, incorporating three kids of texts: vinaya monastic discipline", sutra stories" / dialogues" / discourses", abhidharma further doctrine" / lists. Three watches of the buddha: battle with mara recollection of past lives, recollection of other past lives, meditation on the nature of the world. Four signs/sights seen by siddhartha on his chariot ride(s): an old man (age, a sick man (sickness, a dead man (death, an ascetic (a striver) representative of the answer/promise/release from suffering. Four noble truths and how they relate to one another: dissatisfaction is caused by selfish craving, suffering, origin of suffering, cessation of suffering, nirvana, path to cessation of suffering, must follow the eight-fold path.
