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religion |
to knit or bind together |
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jnana yoga |
reflective spiritual personality; thinking type; path to God through knowledge; impersonal |
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bhakti yoga |
feelings are more real than thought; path to God through love; personal |
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karma yoga |
active spiritual personality; path to God through work; doing service to God through actions |
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raja yoga |
scientifically minded personality; psychophysical exercises; meditation |
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satyagraha |
nonviolent resistance |
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Vedas |
Hinduism's writings that are the most ancient in any world religion |
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Four things wanted on the Path of Desire |
pleasure, wealth, power, and fame |
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what do we really want? |
being, consciousness, and joy |
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Moksha |
liberation |
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Atman |
personal connection to the infinite already deep within us |
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Brahman |
the personal expression of the All; Hindu word for the God behind all the gods |
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yoga |
Hindu term for binding, making whole |
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ennui |
sense that this is not enough in life |
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Nirvana |
Buddhist goal of liberation or fulfillment |
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sanga |
group of devotees |
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samsara |
eastern word for continual rebirths |
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8 developmental stages of life |
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The 4 Noble Truths |
dukkha, tanha, overcoming selfish craving, The Eightfold path |
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dukkha |
One of 4 Noble Truths of Buddhism; usually translated as "suffering"; the pain of all finite existance; misery |
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six pinpointed moments Buddha gave of life's dislocation |
trauma of birth, pathology of sickness, phobia of death, to be tied to what one dislikes, to be separated from what one loves |
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skandas |
life components: body, sensations, thoughts, feelings, and consciousness |
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tanha |
the cause of life's dislocation, usually translated as "desire"; the desire for personal fulfillment |
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The Eightfold Path |
Right Views, Right Intent, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration |
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Right Views; Eightfold Path |
Intellectual orientation |
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Right Intent; Eightfold Path |
What our hearts really want; passionate about one thing in life; people who seek liberation with single-mindedness of this order |
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Right Speech; Eightfold Path |
Take notice of language, how often we deviate from the truth and why we did so; resolve to never speak an unkind word; watch one's speech to become aware of motives that prompt unkindness; speak charitably |
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Right Conduct; Eightfold Path |
To understand one's behavior more objectively before trying to improve it; reflect on actions and the motives that prompted them (Generosity or self-seeking?); proceed to selflessness and charity |
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The Five Precepts |
The Buddhist version of the second or ethical half of the Ten Commandments: Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not lie, Do not be unchaste, Do not drink intoxicants |
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Right Livelihood, Eightfold Path |
Engaging in occupations that promote life instead of destroying it; joining the monastic order for those intent enough on liberation to give their entire lives to the project; occupations conducive to spiritual progress |
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Right Effort, Eightfold Path |
earnestly and steadily thinking of the Way; immense exertion of the will; steady pull not quick spurt |
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Right Mindfulness, Eightfold Path |
awareness of experience in full operation; liberation from unconscious, robot-like existence, achieved by self-awareness; witness all things non-reactively: moods and emotions, neither condemning some nor holding on to others; steady awareness of every action taken and every content in one's stream of consciousness; allot for undistracted introspection/complete withdrawal |
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Right Concentration, Eightfold Path |
meditation technique similar to raja yoga's; deepening of enlightenment; regeneration into one with direct perception |
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yanas |
rafts or ferries; two Buddhist outlooks claimed to carry people across life's sea to the shores of enlightenment |
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Mahatma (The Great Souled) |
Gandhi |
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maha |
great |
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Mahayana |
The large raft of the 2 Buddhist outlooks; compassion most important feature of enlightenment; Humans are more social than individual; love is greatest thing in world; Buddhism for the people; laypeople, bigger boat |
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Hinayana |
The little raft in the 2 Buddhist outlooks; seek wisdom, "Be Lamps unto yourselves"; Buddhism seen as a full-time job; Nirvana the central object of those who become monks |
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Theravanda |
The Way of the Elders; little raft Hinayanists; seek wisdom; claim to represent the original Buddhism taught by Gautama; progress is up to the individual; humanity is on its own in the universe; self-reliance is only recourse |
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Pali Canon |
Earliest Buddhist texts; support the Theravanda position of seeking wisdom |
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Mahayanists |
those of the Big Raft; compassion; fate of the individual is linked to that of all life |
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bodhi |
wisdom; the profound insight into the nature of reality |
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4 Noble Virtues |
loving-kindness, compassion, equanimity, and joy |
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karuna |
compassion |
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sangha |
The Buddhist monastic order |
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Arhat |
the perfected disciple who strikes out alone for nirvana (Theravadins ideal) |
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boddhisattva |
one who's essence is perfected wisdom; one who having reached the brink of nirvana, voluntarily renounces the prize and returns to the world to make nirvana available to others (Mahayana ideal) |
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sattva |
one's essence |
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paranirvana |
entrance into nirvana at death |
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Dalai Lama |
the bodhisattva who was awarded the Peace Prize; known in India as Avalokiteshvara; In China, Goddess of Mercy Kwan Yin; In Japan as Kannon; Chenrezig to Tibetan; has incarnated himself for the last several centuries |
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Vajrayana |
The Diamond Way; Third way of Buddhism; the way of strength and lucidity; strength to realize Buddha's vision of luminous compassion; Tibetans perfected this path; its essence is Tantra |
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Vajra |
originally the thunderbolt of Indra, the Indian Thunder God mentioned in early Pali Buddhist texts; Mahayana turned it into Buddha's diamond scepter |
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Tantras |
texts that focus on the interrelatedness of things; Hinduism pioneered, but Buddhism gave them pride of place |
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Tibetan Buddhism |
Tantric Buddhism at heart; enables one to reach nirvana in a single lifetime; impresses all of human make-up (those of body included) into the service of the spiritual quest |
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Tantric sex |
Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany with the provision that it is such when joined to love |
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Tibetan meditation |
lamas prostrate themselves; weave stylized hand gestures; pronounce sacred syllables; intone deep-throated chants; audibly and visually, something is always going on; bodies are always moving; channel physical energies into currents that carry the spirit forward instead of derailing meditation concentration |
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upayas |
skillful means |
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William James |
American pragmatist: defined religion as the region of experience in which we "encounter the 'More' in life" |
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Paul Tillich |
Famous mid-century figure; defined religion as "the state of being grasped by ultimate concern" |
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satori |
Zen Buddhist term for enlightenment, also known as kensho |
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Ch'an |
Zen in Japanese |
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Zen Buddhism |
not interested in theories about enlightenment, it wants the real thing; minds must be sprung from their verbal bonds into a new mode of apprehending |
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Zen essence |
transmission of Buddha-mind to Buddha-mind |
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inka |
given in Zen to those confirmed as Zen masters |
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roshis |
Zen masters |
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zazen |
seated meditation taken to seek awakening the Buddha-mind |
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koan |
Zen mental problem: cross between a riddle and a shaggy dog story; breaks the logical cage of the mind so it can surpass basic reasoning |
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sanzen |
Zen monks' brief meeting with the master in private consultation concerning meditation |
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Diamond Raft |
Zen raft for crossing to enlightenment |
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dharma |
the vehicle of transport |
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Prajnaparamita |
Perfection of Wisdom sutras in Buddhism |
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The Perfection of Wisdom |
our wordy life is an activity of Nirvana itself, no distinction between them |
