Buddhism Notes

Four Noble Truths

  1. Dukkha: Suffering exists in life.
  2. Samudaya: Craving causes suffering.
  3. Nirodha: Ending craving ends suffering.
  4. Magga: The eightfold path ends craving.

Eightfold Path

    Prajna: Wisdom

  1. Right view: True sight, open attitude, understanding.
  2. Right intention: Intention of renunciation and good will.

    3. Sila: Virtue

  3. Right speech: Do not purposelessly lie, or verbally harm.
  4. Right action: Do not harm others. Follow the five precepts.
  5. Right livelihood: Do not take a harmful job. Appreciate your job.

    6. Samadhi: Mind

  6. Right effort: Abandon unwholesome states, arouse wholesome states.
  7. Right mindfulness: Mental true sight. Avoid biased and unclear thinking.
  8. Right concentration: Concentration; meditation.

Brahmavihara: Four Sublime States

  1. Metta: Loving kindness, hope for someone to be well.
  2. Karuna: Compassion, the hope for someone to not suffer.
  3. Mudita: Sympathetic joy, rejoicing in others' happiness.
  4. Upeksha: Equanimity, evenness of mind despite losses and gains.

Three Marks of Existence

  1. Dukkha: Dissatisfaction, unease, suffering
  2. Anicca: Impermanence
  3. Anatta: Nonself; the "self" is just a name for a collection of parts; there is no central core

Five Precepts

  1. To refrain from killing or destroying life.
  2. To refrain from taking what is not offered.
  3. To refrain from sexual misconduct.
  4. To refrain from lying and gossiping.
  5. To refrain from intoxicants that cause heedlessness.

Four Frames of Reference

  1. Contemplation of body
  2. Contemplation of feelings
  3. Contemplation of consciousness
  4. Contemplation of mental qualities

Four Right Exertions

  1. For the non-arising of unskillful states
  2. For the abandoning of unskillful states
  3. For the arising of skillful states
  4. For the sustaining of skillful states

Five Aggregates

  1. Form
  2. Sensation
  3. Cognition
  4. Mental formation
  5. Conscioussness

Seven Factors of Enlightenment

  1. Sati: Mindfulness
  2. Dhamma Vicaya: Investigation
  3. Viriya: Energy
  4. Piti: Joy
  5. Passaddhi: Tranquility
  6. Samadhi: Concentration
  7. Upeksha: Equanimity

Five Hindrances

  1. Kamacchanda: Sensual desire
  2. Byapada, vyapada: Anger
  3. Thina-middha: Sloth
  4. Uddhacca-kukkacca: Worry
  5. Vicikiccha: Doubt

Ten Worlds

  1. Hell
  2. Hunger
  3. Animality
  4. Anger, selfishness
  5. Tranquility
  6. Rapture
  7. Learning
  8. Realization
  9. Bodhisattvahood
  10. Buddhahood

Two types of meditation

  1. Samatha
  2. Vipassana