Reli 100 Test #2

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Exoteric/Esoteric:

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Exoteric: the outer aspect of something formal

Esoteric: An inner aspect of something informal; your conscious

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Analects

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A collection of sayings supposedly written by Confucius followers.

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5 Confucian Classics:

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1. The Odes: A collection of 305 poems divided into 160 folk songs, 105 festal songs sung at court ceremonies, and 40 hymns and eulogies sung at sacrifices to gods and ancestral spirits of the royal house.
2. The Documents: A collection of documents and speeches alleged to have been written by rulers and officials of the early Zhou period and before.
3. The Rites: Describes ancient rites, social forms and court ceremonies.
4. The Changes(I Ching): The book contains a religious answer system
5. The Spring and Autumn Annals: A historical record of the State of Lu, Confucius's native state, 722–481 BC.

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Filial Piety

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Ritualized action (xiao) nothing is outside the ritual. Literally means the piety of the son towards the father.
** Parent symbolizes responsibility and child symbolizes obedience **

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Li:

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1) Propriety the way things should be done legal action/ the outward action. A right way to do everything to reach wiseness.

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Jen

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Human heartedeness, the virtue of virtues, involves feeling of humanity towards others and respect for oneself, public prompts untiring diligence, private life expressed in courtesy and selfishness, empathy

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Wen

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the final concept music, art, poetry and the arts of peace.

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Juchia

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“the family of scholars” plus community, family and scholarship.

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Chun Tzu:

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the opposite of a petty person. Put others at ease. A point of profundity.*A profound person*

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Tao:

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The way of ultimate reality. Refers to the ways of human reality. You must hide your assertiveness means you need to show humility

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Lao Tzu:

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Founder of Taoism “Grand old Master” for endearment and respect

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Tao Te Ching:

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The Virtuous Way Treaties; does not speak of people or places philosophical text not interesting in Human society. The image of justice and duty it is proper.

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Yin/Yang:

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1) Yin: is black/ passive reality
2) Yang: is white/ active reality
 When the movement of yin and yang is blocked, it is dis balanced.

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Wu Wei:

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in action/ action less action; by acting without any desires for the result of your desires.

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Sharpness/Abstraction in Taoism:

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In Taoism you must not show your assertiveness because you have to be humble. The books ask for you not to be assertive.

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Symbol

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: A form in this world and a reality to bring together.

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Wankan Tanka:

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the great mysterious “the great spirit” the name for the supreme reality

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Animism:

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the worship of animals

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Black Elk’s great vision:

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When Black Elk was nine years old, he was suddenly taken ill and left prone and unresponsive for several days. During this time he had a great vision in which he was visited by the Thunder Beings (Wakinyan), and taken to the Grandfathers — spiritual representatives of the six sacred directions: west, east, north, south, above, and below. These "...spirits were represented as kind and loving, full of years and wisdom, like revered human grandfathers." When he was seventeen, Black Elk told a medicine man, Black Road, about the vision in detail. Black Road and the other medicine men of the village were "astonished by the greatness of the vision. He would be able to heal people.

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Horse Dance:

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Horsetail dance is a dance emulating a horse riding into battle, a Northern Plateau dance. Most of the Interior Salish tribe dance along with the Yakima and Walla Walla's and Nez Pierce.

To the Flathead tribes we substituted horse tails as bustles in the late 1800's because the government took our eagle feathers and banned our dances.

Don't know the Sioux and Oklahoma ways on the dance, need to ask a Kiowa and a Sioux.

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Sun Dance:

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An image of spiritual journey in June or July where they beat down an area of grass into a circle. Take cotton a cotton wood tree and put it in the center. Fast dance on the edge of the circle and the mean attach ropes and tie eagle claws/ loops. An example of an anthological connection to the center. Rite of passage for males.

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Sweat Lodge:

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digging a hole in the ground putting water and then you lay animal skin to enclose the space so that there is no light and outside the lodge you make a fire and heat stones and then throw them into the water and this represents the womb from which we are born again. ***Going back to the origins, devolving***

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White Buffalo Calf Woman
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she was the woman who gave him the calumet and taught them how to use it and she showed them the connection between the great mysterious and themselves.

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Calumet:

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aka the peace pipe. There holy altar, given to them by white buffalo calf woman. Has four feathers they each represent the 4 direction of space.

 Black (West): b/c that’s where the dark rain clouds come from. Brings divine attribute: Mercy. Human Attitude: Divine Love
 White (North): b/c that’s where the snow comes from. Divine attribute: divine purity. Human Attitude: detachment from all that is un pure.
 Red (East): b/c this is where the sun rises. Divine Attribute: divine knowledge. Human Attitude: Knowledge seek the truth not falsehood.
 Yellow (South): with the power of growth b/c of the warm winds. Divine Attribute: Power- brigs active participation in the good-. Human Attitude: commitment

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Vision Quest:

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Leave tribal area create a prescient marked with 4 stones/sticks. Do not leave. You fast. Call upon wanka tanka. Can’t leave until you have a vision.