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'Love thy neighbour'

'Christ Jesus abolished the law.. along with its commandments'

'love is patient, love is pure, it does not envy' Corinthians

Life of the Buddha- symbolic or parable? Avogosha would say God placed them sights there born in Lambuni, part of the Shakya tribe

very compassionate- Story of swan & landscape with Father

The four sights- old man, sick man, dead man, Sadhu wandering man

His renunciation- ascetic practices are very extreme and Buddha believes it is 'pointless suffering' hence finds the 'middle way'

Meditation- peepul tree, same state as a rose tree- 4 stages

6pm-10pm monkey mind & rapture

10pm to 2am- Ready to gain a super knowledge 'heavenly eye' karma

2am-6pm- another super knowledge, destruction of the outlaws, suffering/craving

6pm Enlightenment

significance? extraordinary? jataka? Parable? etc.. prince, slit throat for cubs; was a partridge killed for making a noise, silent-> significance it took a long time

teaching; several days contemplating. God of Brahmin comes, goes to teachers, dead, followers, 'deer sermon' some gain 'dharamavision' arhats

over 61 monks before death & allows nun before creating patimokka

four-fold-sangha, lay women, men, monks & nuns

Harry- harming/ ahimsa

Said- senses

She-stealing

Screamed- speech

Salad-substances

Everyone-eating

Said-singing/dancing

Gosh-garlands and perfume

Calmdown- comfort

Man- money

LINK

4 Noble Truths: Disease-->Cause---->Cure----> Medicine

magga- eightfold path

Samatha- calmness, stop the Monkey mind kapicitta

Vipassana- insight meditation- done by focusing upon the body and itches

zazen- sitting meditation- zen Buddhists

Buddha reached Enlightenment through meditation

The 3 marks of existence

Annata- no self anicca- Impermanence Dhukka- unsatisfactory

Atman-soul Reincarnation- rebirth of soul to new body Moksha- Liberation Hierarchy & caste- not feel sorry

Brahmin, Kashaitriya, Vaishya , shudra, Harijan/ Dalit