Transcript Document 7442704

BUDDHISM
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION…
 Why
 Is
do people suffer?
all suffering bad?
 What
did the Buddha
believe was the cause of
suffering?
BUDDHISM
563 BCE
 Siddhartha Gautama
 360 Million followers
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Gods?
 No God
 Mahayana Sect

 The
Buddha is God
SIDDHARTHA
GAUTAMA
Where practiced?
 India, Tibet, Nepal, &
Bhutan
 Monotheistic:
 No / Yes
 Religious Book?
 Three Baskets of
Wisdom
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Place of Worship?
 Temple
 Religious Leader?
 None
 Monks are most spiritual
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BUDDHISM
Sects:
 Theravada:
 Monks
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 live
ascetic life
 No god
Mahayana:
 Buddha is God
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Holy City:
 Lhasa, Tibet
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Buddha Day:
 Birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha
 Symbols:
 Buddha
 The Wheel (8 Fold Path)
 Lotus Flower
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RULES AND LAWS
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No Caste System
Karma
The FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
1. Suffering exists
2. Desire causes suffering
3. Suffering ends when attachment
to desire ceases.
4. Practice the Eightfold Path to
end desire
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8 Fold Path:
Compassion, understanding,
kindness and truth
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LIFE AFTER DEATH
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Reincarnation: rebirth
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NIRVANA
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Enlightenment
Free from suffering from
one’s own desires
The Mahabodhi temple in
Bodhgaya, India.
The tree under which the
Buddha attained enlightenment.
Major pilgrimage site
Missionaries:
 spread Buddhism
throughout Asia
 Dalai Lama:
 Leader of Tibetan
Buddhists

14th Incarnation
MISCELLANEOUS
5 HINDRANCES
Lust
 ill Will
 Worry
 Doubt
 Laziness
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Which is the most difficult for you?
BUDDHISM
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"Buddhism has the characteristics of what
would be expected in a cosmic religion for
the future: it transcends a personal God,
avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both
the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a
religious sense aspiring from the experience
of all things, natural and spiritual, as a
meaningful unity"
 Albert
Einstein
VISUAL ANALYSIS
ZEN KOANS
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Zen koans are paradoxical statements used as a
meditation device. People must go beyond the
words and their perceptions in order to understand
the meaning of existence.
SAMPLE= If a tree falls in the woods and no one is
there to hear it, does it make a sound?
1 - What is the sound of one hand clapping?
2 - What is your original face before you were
born?
3 - What is the color of the wind?
ZEN KOANS
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4 - One day as Manjusri stood outside the gate, the
Buddha called to him, "Manjusri, Manjusri, why do
you not enter?" Manjusri replied, "I do not see myself
as outside.
Why enter?"
5 - A monk asked Master Haryo, "What is the way?”
Haryo said, "An open-eyed man falling into the well."
6 - One day Chao-chou fell down in the snow, and
called out, "Help me up! Help me up!" A monk came
and lay down beside him. Chao-chou got up and went
away.
ZEN KOANS
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7 - Two monks were arguing about the temple flag waving in
the wind.
One said, "The flag moves."
The other said, "The wind moves."
They argued back and forth but could not agree.
Hui-neng, the sixth patriarch, said: "Gentlemen! It is
not the flag that moves. It is not the wind that moves. It
is your mind that moves."
8 - A monk asked Zhao Zhou to teach him.
Zhao Zhou asked, "Have you eaten your meal?"
The monk replied, "Yes, I have."
"Then go wash your bowl," said Zhao Zhou.
At that moment, the monk was enlightened.
ZEN KOANS
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9 - As the roof was leaking, a zen Master told two monks to
bring something to catch the water. One brought a tub, the
other a basket. The first was severely reprimanded, the
second highly praised.
10 - Once Ma-tsu and Pai-chang were walking along and saw
some wild ducks fly by.
"What is that?" the Master asked.
"Wild ducks," Pai-chang replied.
"Where have they gone?"
"They've flown away," Pai-chang said.
The Master then twisted Pai-chang's nose, and when
Pai-chang cried out in pain, Ma- tsu said,
"When have
they ever flown away?"