Mahayana Buddhism (Quiz #1)

Types of meditation Aware of what is happening w/out judgement --> increase understanding and derease negativity once developed --> state of not reacting (being calm)

Type of meditation One pointedness of mind hold your mind on one objet (your breath, a picture) Develop - samadhi - unbroken attentativeness & tranquility of thought )

1.) Mindfullness & Concentration 2.) Samatha - calming or centering 3.) Vispassana - Once mind is calm/clear - you can gain insight into reality

-100BCE -Reshaped older way ( but no divide btw buddhist) -New opportunities for monks + lay people -Focus on wisdom + compassion Expansiveness: Both monks + lay ppl can achieve liberation Universality: Less historical/ cultural, more poetic

Expansiveness & Universality -Literature : sutras atributed to the Buddha -Cosmology: Modle of the unvierse (buddha is everywhere) -Buddhology: Conception of the Buddhas & Bodhistattvas Doctrine: key Teachings!!! Methodology:forms of practice

Theory or conception of liberation/salvation The realm of samsara (cycle of rebirth) is not different than the realm of nirvana (liberation) No differene between what is "sacred" and what is considered not. what your experiencing right now is sacred

Buddha is a mythological truth - a template to followers -Buddha is everywhere -cosmology and therefore everything becomes sacred

1.) Bodhicitta 2.) Bodhisattva 3.) Upaya 4.) Shunyata 5.) Devotion 6.) Buddha-nature

#1/6 key doctrines intention to follow the spiritual path for the benefit of all beings (including ones self) take a vow to save/liberate all beings personal sense of relief - broken outselves fre

#2/6 Doctrines The physical act of embodying the bodhicitta path (act of doing) Any being that is on their way to enlightenment, but decides to stay and save other being - sacrifices himself

1.) Giving 2.) Mortality 3.) patience 4.) Energy 5.) meditation 6.) Wisdom

"Skills in means" -Method to instruct people -Expedient means: exp. of father getting his children out of the burning house by lieing in order to save their lives.

Lack of intrinsic existence (Core of teaching) -All factors of existence are "empty" of existing independently - Nothing stands alone -There is not ultiamte truth -There is no inherent essence to a thing or a person -EXP. The body is like a horse drawn cart things have just come together temporarily, there is nothing permanent and nothing unchanging-

Everything is ultimatley inter-realted in the web of mutual conditionality or "inter -being" E.g., It makes not sense for one part of a whole to act in a way that harms any other part - no disconnect of eperation

Not empahzied in early tradition but empahized in buddhismm as a skillfull means - Devotion is a tool to relieve peoples suffering using one the five arhetypes