Origins of Buddhism
Old age, sickness, death, and an ascetic.
What are the Four Sights?
A way to commit to the path of enlightenment.
What are the Three Jewels of Buddhism?
What is the Eightfold Path?
To avoid lying and harsh words.
What is right speech?
The root causes of suffering, greed, hatred, and ignorance.
What are the three poisons?
What is Samsara?
The teachings.
What is the Dharma?
The cause of suffering.
What is desire/craving?
Not killing and/or not stealing.
What is right action?
A person's actions influence their future experiences.
What is karma?
Achieving enlightenment.
What is Nirvana?
Members of the Sangha.
Who are monks, nuns, and lay followers?
The end of suffering.
What is nirvana?
Actively trying to let go of negative thoughts and cultivate positive ones.
What is right effort?
The belief that attachments leads to suffering, so one must let go of desires to find peace.
What is impermanence?
The Buddha.
Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
Preserves and spreads the teachings of the Buddha.
Who are monks and nuns?
There is suffering
What is Dukkha?
Paying attention to your thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations in the present moment.
What is right mindfulness?
Buddhism that include additional texts, emphasizes bodhisattvas, and has diverse traditions. Buddhism that follows the Pali Canon and focus on monastic practice.
What is Mahayana Buddhism, Theravada Buddhism?
The tree where Siddartha achieved enlightenment.
What is the bodhi tree?
The role model.
Who is the Buddha?
A method to see through patterns of avoidance and distraction.
What is meditation?
Understanding the Four Noble Truths, recognizing the impermanent nature of things.
What is right view?
The enlightened being who delays their own nirvana to help others achieve enlightenment.
Who is Bodhisattva?