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Chapt. 17 Zen Buddhism
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- 1Daisetz Teitaro SuzukiOften credited with singlehandedly introducing Zen Buddhism to the West
- 2Zenthe school of Buddhism that claims to represent the purest essence of Buddha teachings
- 3Origins of ZenTrace back to the story of Siddartha Gautama born about 53 B.C.E in northern India to a king.
- 4How were Buddha teachings preserved?Preserved initially through an oral tradition and were eventually written down in the form of three collections or "baskets" known as Tripitaka.
- 5HinayanaSanskrit for "small vehicles" a designation for the southern schools of Buddhism concerned with personal liberation
(one of the two major divisions of Buddhism) - 6TherevadaPali for "the teachings of the Elders" the form of Buddhism dominant in Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. (Sometimes referred as Hinayana)
- 7MahayanaSanskrit for "great vehicle" one of the two major divisions of Buddhism, concerned with the liberation of all sentient beings.
- 8What tradition does Zen belong too?Zen belongs to the Mahayana tradition, developing from roots in India through the filter of Taoism in China, passing to Korea and Japan.
- 9What is the primary difference between Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism?The primary difference lies between their ideals of personal development
- 10BodhisattavaA person who vows to dedicate life to salvation of all sentient beings, not accepting full liberation until all others are free from suffering.
- 11AtmanSanskrit for soul, self, or ego
- 12One Extreme about humansA person's soul continues eternally
- 13Second ExtremeAnnihilationist position is postulating that a human being is completely destroyed at death
- 14Buddha discovers a solution between the two extremesDependent Origination
- 15Dependent OriginationInterconnected causality
- 16Middle WayAdvocating for a life style that avoided the extremes of self-indulgence and self-mortification
- 17DharmaDoctrine, law, or truth
- 18Buddhist DharmaDependent origination is a low of causality that says: "this is because that is; this is not because that is not; when this arises that arises; when this ceases, that ceases"
- 19Nothing is ever truly independent or separate from everything else. Why?For every emotion, every perception, every thought, there are necessary casual conditions without which they would not have come into being. Everything exists if only the necessary conditions are there.
- 20the three characteristics areAnicca, Dukkha, and Anatta
- 21Aniccaeverything is always changing, impermanence
- 22Dukkhathe dissatisfaction and distress that results from both attachment and aversion, suffering
- 23Four Noble Truthsthe essence of practical teaching of the Buddha, specifying the nature of suffering, its cause, its cessation, and the path to accomplish liberation from suffering
- 24First Noble TruthDescribes the problem of suffering, tje universal dissatisfaction that characterizes human existence
- 25Second Noble Truththe application of dependent origination to the problem, identifying the casual conditions of which suffering depends.
- 26Third Noble TruthA solution through the application of the same principle
- 27Fourth Noble Truththe way to stop suffering is through the Eightfold Path
- 28Eightfold Path1. Right understanding
2. Right thinking
3.Right speech
4. Right Action
5. Right livelihood
6.Right effort
7. Right mindfulness
8. Right concentration - 29Eightfold Path Meaningthe first two: related to wisdom
following three: moral conduct
last three: mental discipline - 30SkandhasThey are form, feelings, perceptions, impulses and consciousness
- 31Nirvanathe ultimate goal to reach, a mental state in which all cravings, desires, and dualistic ideas have been completely extinguished thought the complete realization of anicca and anatta
- 32Manaswhere the information is given further cognitive processing through memory, evaluation, conception, and imagination
- 33When Zen Buddhism migrated to China what did it adopt>It adopted expressions from Taoism which helped convey Buddhist ideas.
- 34Yin and YangYin: the feminine, receptive, internal, negative aspect of nature
Yang: the masculine, active, external. positive aspect - 35Eastern Psychology do not regard the body and mind as separatebut as intimately interconnected to the point that once could more properly refer to "body-mind" than to body and mind
- 36Five Basic Approaches to Zen PracticeBompu Zen
Gedo Zen
Shojo Zen
Daijo Zen
Saijojo Zen - 37Bompu Zenpracticed for a profit, such as mental health, stress management, improved sports performance, inner peace or effective salesmanship
- 38Gedo Zenpractice unconnected with the Buddha teachings
- 39Shojo Zenis zazen practiced for the sake of one's own liberation from suffering or for one's own personal enlightenment
- 40Daijo Zenpracticed for the sake of liberating all sentient beings seeking enlightenment ot help others
- 41Saijojo Zen"great and perfect practice" is zazen practiced for the sake of practicing zazen with no idea of gains or expectations
- 42Satorienlightenment that cannot be communicated with words any more than words could communicate their experiences of color
- 43Western Psychopathyin its efforts to heal the neurotic individual attempts to strengthen ego or to foster the development of a stronger "self" yet it is the very notion of self that Buddhist psychology sees as the root cause of human suffering
- 44Morita Therapydeveloped by the Japanese psychiatrist Shoma Morita in the early 1900s
- 45What does Moritist's method requireRequires patients acknowledge their feelings and take full responsibility
- 46Naikanintrospective therapy emphasizes the development of a sense of responsibilty and obligation in the patient, consonant with the principle or dependent origination stressed in all Buddhist schools as well as with the sense of societal and parent
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