4 Noble Truths + 8-fold path
4 Noble Truths in English and Pali
Dukkha-sacca : There is suffering
Samudaya-sacca : There is an Origin to Suffering
Nirodha-sacca : There is a Cessation to Suffering
Magga-sacca : There is a path leading to the Cessation of Suffering = Noble 8-fold Path
What are the 4 Divine Abodes and their Pali names?
1. Loving Kindness (Metta)
2. Compassion (Karuna)
3. Altruistic/Sympathetic Joy (Mudita)
4. Equanimity (Upekkha)
What are the 3 fetters?
Personality, Doubt, Adherence to rules and rituals
What is a foolish and a wise person?
Book
Around how much money (USD) is one Robuck worth?
~ $0.01
What are the five wrong Livelihoods?
Trade in weapons, people, meat, liquor/drugs, and poison.
Who should NOT be sent loving-kindness first?
1. An unloved person,
2. A very dearly loved friend,
3. A neutral person,
4. An enemy
What are the 4 Noble Persons in English and Pali?
1. Stream-Enterer (Sotapanna)
2. Once-Returner (Sakadagami)
3. Non-Returner (Anagami)
4. Arahat/Arahant (Arahanta)
What are 3 Criterions for Rejection?
(Check book for answers)
What year was TBSA founded?
1980
What are the 3 Right Actions?
Abstaining from:
- killing beings
- sexual misconduct
- taking what is not given
What is the order of people you should send Loving Kindness (Metta) in and why?
1. Yourself (to first generate the good energy)
2. Dear/Loved ones (easier to send them loving kindness)
3. Neutral people (neither emotionally easy or hard to send, just indifferent)
4. Enemies (to ease your good energy towards those it is harder to)
What is the difference between the two kinds of Arahant?
One develops insight by the basis of Jhana, while the other develops pure insight without attaining Jhana.
What are the three listed benefits to having the Highest Blessings?
Being sorrowless
Being stainless
Being secure
What is Naylin's astrological sign?
Libra I think
What are the Four Supreme Efforts?
1. Making effort for non-arising of unwholesome states that have not arisen,
2. Making effort for abandoning of unwholesome states that have arisen,
3. Making effort for arising of wholesome states that have not yet arisen, and
4. Making effort for developing wholesome states that have arisen.
Name the 5 unspecified pervasions, 7 specified pervasions, and 10 directions the pervasions can travel in.
Unspecified
Beings, Breathing beings, Creatures, Persons, Who have personality
Specified
Women, men, Noble ones, Worldlings, Dieties, Human Beings, Deprived beings
Directions
North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest, Upper, Lower
What is the difference between the 2nd and 3rd kinds of noble persons?
A once-returner is someone who is reborn to the human world once more, while the non-returner is reborn anywhere in the Pure Abodes to eradicate the higher fetters.
Why shouldn't we accept what has been acquired by tradition?
Just because an activity or information is passed down through tradition does not necessarily mean that it has any truth or substance inherently attached to it; the truth/substance should be something you find and know for yourself.
What are the Swords of Justice?
Cobalion, Virizion, Terrakion, and Keldeo
What is the Noble 8-fold path in English and Pali?
(Check Book)
Name the four different ways/statements you send (The Four Divine Planes) to others.
May all _ be free from enmity, distress and affliction, and may they take care of themselves happily.
May all _ who are suffering be free from suffering.
May all _ not lose the success they have obtained.
All _ are owners of their deeds.
What are the 5 higher fetters and which Noble Person eradicates them?
Non-returner: Attachment to fine material existence, attachment to immaterial existence, conceit, restlessness, ignorance
What are 10 of the 38-fold Highest Blessings?
(Check through the book)
By which process does our sun produce energy and how does it work?
Nuclear fusion. The hydrogen atoms in the center of the sun experience such immense pressure and heat that the forces that keep atoms from spontaneously fusing are overcome, releasing a bunch of energy in the form of heat and light