Meditation, contemplation, intuition, introspection, and the simplicity of being.
What is Zen?
100
True or False: Buddhists believe in one God.
False. Buddhism has no God, no supreme creator, and no notion of an indestructible human soul.
100
Has no god, no supreme creator, and no notion of an indestructible human soul.
What is Buddhism?
100
This man was a North Indian Prince before he was known as the Buddha.
Siddhartha Gautama
100
True or False:
NDE(Near Death Experience) was coined by Raymond Moody in 1975.
True.
It was coined by physician named Raymond Moody.
200
He was the son of a king in the Himalayas who did not want to become the heir. He left his privileged life behind to starve and understand the suffering of the human condition.
Who is the Buddha?
200
True or False: In Buddhism, enlightenment is freedom from samsara.
True. Samara is the wheel of birth and death.
200
To others, you are a person in the world. To yourself, you are a space in which the world happens.
What is the headless way?
200
This American psychotherapist famously stated, ‘‘you have to be somebody before you can be nobody’’.
Jack Engler
200
True or False:
OBE(Out of body experience) only occurs during sleeping.
False.
People experience it when walking down the street, sitting quietly, or even driving a car.
300
The idea that experience is pure; the understanding of self as the center of experience.
What is the headless way?
300
True or False: Psychotherapy aims to create a coherent sense of self. Buddhist psychology aims to transcend the self.
True.
300
The process can be sudden or gradual.
It is not a state of consciousness like a mystical or religious experience. Everything is just the same, as it always was...
What is Enlightenment?
300
Headaches! No hair at all! Apparently not for this man who says with all due seriousness: i have no head.
Douglas Harding
300
True or False:
Most NDE(Near Death Experiences) are scary and hellish.
False.
Most of NDEs are pleasant and even blissful.
400
DAILY DOUBLE! worth 800 points, from Chapter 25:
Also known as bracketing, it is the philosophical act of suspending judgment about the natural world to focus on the analysis of experience.
What is phenomenological reduction?
400
True or False: Enlightenment is a state of consciousness.
False. Everything is just the same, because everything is inherently enlightened.
400
Also known as the task-negative network, it is a group of areas deep in the cortex that are spontaneously active during wakeful resting, introspection, day-dreaming and other self-absorbed states.
What is default mode network (DMN)?
400
Here’s a little conundrum to meditate on: the first alphabetically vowel; the second largest state in the US. Search for the state's capital that begins with the vowel and you’d get the name of this man who said Zen, ‘‘…is the approach most systematic yet most elusive, the most clearest yet most paradoxical, the subtlest yet most dramatic’’.
James Austin
400
True or False:
James proposed four marks that justify calling an experience "mystical" a)Ineffability b)Noetic c)Transiency d)Passivity
True.
500
What are the similarities and differences between psychotherapy and spiritual practice?
Similarity: They both seek to bring about self-understanding and inner peace.
Difference: Spiritual practice is concerned with the super-sensible, where psychotherapy is informed by empirical data.
500
True or False: Rahula refers to the Buddha as the first bundle theorist.
False. Parfit refers to the Buddha as the first bundle theorist.
500
One who shuns all society and lives in a cave, a teacher who rejects all conventional teachings, or a wild and crazy wise one whose equanimity and compassion shines through their mad behavior.
What is hermit?
500
This founder of the Buddhist Society in Britain says, ‘‘Zen is the apotheosis of Buddhism’’. Here's a hint:Happy Holidays!
Christmas Humphreys
500
True or False:
OBEs are closely related to the temporoparietal junction on the right side of our brain.
True.
All visual, tactile, proprioceptive and vestibular information come into this area to construct our body image.