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Buddhism Questions
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- 1What are the Four Noble Truths?1. All life involves suffering/ is unsatisfactory (dukkha)
2. The cause of dukkha is craving (tanha)
3. The cessation of craving (nirodha) will ring about the cessation of dukkha
4. There is a path (magga/marga) to cut off nirodha - 2What are the Four True Realities?Dukkha (suffering/unsatisfactoriness)
Tanha (craving)
Nirvana (cessation/extinction)
Marga (path/means) - 3What is the difference between Tanha and Chanda?Tanha is desiring more than can possibly be attained and Chanda is desiring no more than can be attained.
- 4What is Nirvana with remainder?When the practitioner has achieved Nirvana but continues to live on
- 5What is Nirvana without remainder?Occurs at death and the person ceases to exist
- 6Give the steps in the eightfold path|Right View. Right Intention |
|Right Speech. Right Action. Right Livelihood|
|Right Effort. Mindfulness. Right Concentration| - 7Give the two types of meditationSamatha
Vipassana - 8What is samatha meditation for?Calm, peace and tranquility.
Seeking out intense forms of concentration and calm. - 9What does samatha meditation use?Madalas or kasinas (visual objects of meditation)
- 10Give the ten kasinas mentioned in the TripitakasEarth, wind, fire, water, blue/green, red, yellow, white, bounded space, consciousness
- 11What does vipassana meditation aim to do?Use real objects to gain insight into the three marks of existence (annica (impermanence), annatta (no self), and dukkha (suffering)
- 12What objects of meditation can be used in vipassana meditation?The hardness of the floor or the warmth of the sun.
- 13How do the two types of meditation provide ways of relating to the present moment?Samatha provides a sense of ease in the present whilst vipassana provides a clear-eyed view of events as they actually occur, in and of themselves.
- 14Is karma the action or the result of a decision?The action
- 15What is bad karma always rooted in?The three poisons of greed (raga), hatred (dvesha) and ignorance (moha)
- 16What are karmic seeds and fruits?The fruit is the visible or invisible effect that is typically seen within the current life. The seeds are invisible effects that transform the agent and affect their ability to be happy or unhappy in this life or a future one.
- 17How do you escape rebirth?Through the Four Noble Truths
- 18What are the six realms of existence?Naraka (Hell)
Preta (Hungry ghosts)
Tiryagyoni (Animals)
Manusya (humans)
Asura (demi-gods)
Deva (gods) - 19What did Gautama Buddha believe about life beyond death?It was pointless speculating beyond the reach of human knowledge
- 20What could the realms of existence be trying to explain?The different ways humans can go wrong.