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The Four Noble Truths

1. Dukkha exists -
   unsatisfactoriness, suffering, discontent, stress (to be Investigated);
2. The cause or origin of dukkha
   is craving (tanha-lit. thirst) or clinging (to be
   Abandoned);
3. Dukkha ceases with
   the relinquishment of that craving (to be Realized);
4. The path leading to the
   cessation of dukkha is the Noble Eightfold Path (to be Developed)

The Eightfold Path (ariya-magga)

Wisdom/Discernment (pañña)

1. Wise or Right
   View/Understanding (samma-ditthi) - Knowledge of the Four Noble
   Truths
2. Wise or Right
   Intention/Resolve (sammá-sankappa) – Renunciation,
   Loving-kindness, Harmlessness

Virtue (sila)

1. Wise or Right Speech (sammá-vácá)
   - abstaining from lying, malicious or divisive speech, abusive or harsh
   speech, and idle chatter
2. Wise or Right Action (sammá-kammanta)
   - abstaining from killing, stealing and sexual misconduct
3. Wise or Right Livelihood (sammá-ájíva)
   - abstaining from dishonest and harmful means of livelihood

Concentration/Meditation (samadhi)

1. Wise or Right Effort (samma-vayama)
   - the effort of avoiding and overcoming unskillful qualities, and of
   developing and maintaining skillful qualities
2. Wise or Right Mindfulness (samma-sati)
   - The
   Four Foundations of Mindfulness
3. Wise or Right Concentration (samma-samadhi)
   - The
   Four Form Jhanas

Three Characteristics of Existence (of Conditioned Phenomena)

1. Impermanence (anicca)
2. Unsatisfactoriness (dukkha)
3. Not-self (anatta) - empty of inherent
   existence; not "me", "myself", nor "what I
   am"

Three Pillars of Dhamma (dharma) or Grounds for Making Merit

1. Generosity (dana)
2. Moral restraint (sila)
3. Meditation (bhavana)
   - consists of Concentration (samadhi) and Mindfulness (sati)

Three Poisons/Defilements (Kilesas - lit. torments of the mind)

1. Greed (lobha) -
   mindfulness transforms this into Faith
2. Aversion/hatred (dosa)
   - mindfulness transforms this into discriminating Wisdom
3. Delusion (moha) -
   mindfulness transforms this into Equanimity

Three Refuges (Triple Gem, Three Jewels)

1. Buddha - both the historical
   Buddha and one's own innate potential for Awakening
2. Dhamma - the Buddha’s
   teaching of liberation and the ultimate Truth towards which it points
3. Sangha - the monastic
   community, those who have achieved at least some degree of Awakening, and
   more recently the community of followers of the Buddhist path
   (traditionally called the Parisa)

Three Types of Dukkha

1. Dukkha as pain (dukkha-dukkhata)
   – body or mental pain
2. Dukkha that is
   inherent in formation (sankhara-dukkhata) – maintenance of body
   and things, oppressive nature of continuous upkeep
3. Dukkha of change (viparinama-dukkhata)
   - pleasant and happy conditions in life are not permanent

Four Bases of Power or Success (Iddhipada)

1. Desire
2. Persistence/Energy/Effort
3. Intention
4. Discrimination

Four Brahma-viharas (Highest Attitudes/Emotions)

Heavenly or sublime abodes (best home). Near enemy is a quality that can
masquerade as the original, but is not the original. Far enemy is the opposite
quality.

1. Lovingkindness, good-will (metta):
   Near enemy - attachment; far enemy - hatred
2. Compassion (karuna):
   Near enemy - pity; far enemy - cruelty
3. Sympathetic joy, Appreciation
   (mudita), joy at the good fortune of others: Near enemy -
   comparison,hypocrisy, insincerity, joy for others but tinged with
   identification (my team, my child); far enemy - envy
4. Equanimity (upekkha):
   Near enemy - indifference; far enemy - anxiety, greed

Four Foundations of Mindfulness

(from the Satipatthana Sutta)

1. Mindfulness of the body (kaya)
2. Mindfulness of feeling (vedana)-pleasant,
   unpleasant, neutral; initial reactions to sensory input
3. Mindfulness of
   mind/consciousness (citta), of the mind-states, moods (greed,
   aversion, delusion and their opposites)
4. Mindfulness of mind
   objects-mental events (dharmas); Five categories of dhammas: Five
   hindrances, Five aggregates, 6 sense bases, Seven factors of
   enlightenment, Four Noble Truths

Four Form Jhanas (rupa jhanas) or
Meditative Absorptions

1. First Jhana,
   characterized by intense pleasure, has five jhanic factors: applied
   thought (vittaka), sustained thought (vicara), joy (piti),
   happiness (sukha), one-pointednesss (ekkagata)
2. Second Jhana, characterized
   by joy, has 3 factors: joy (piti), happiness (sukha)
   , and one-pointedness (ekkagata)
3. Third Jhana, characterized
   by contentment, has 2 factors: contentment and one-pointedness (ekkagata)
4. Fourth Jhana,
   characterized by equanimity and stillness, has 1 factor: one-pointedness (ekkagata)

Four Right Efforts (sammappadhana)

1. Not to let an
   unwholesome-unskillful thought arise, which has not yet arisen-Guarding
2. Not to let an unwholesome-unskillful
   thought continue, which has already arisen-Abandon
3. To make a wholesome-skillful
   thought arise, which has not yet arisen-Develop
4. To make a wholesome-skillful
   thought continue, which has already arisen-Sustain

Four Taints, effluents, intoxicants, fermentations, cankers,
defilements (asavas)

Obstructions to Enlightenment (most suttas don't include the
4th taint)

1. attachment to sensuality
2. attachment to existence/to
   becoming
3. ignorance of the dhamma (of
   the way things are)
4. attachment to opinions/views
   (most Suttas do not include this one-Abhidhamma does)

Five Aggregates (khandhas or skandas or heaps)

Physical and mental components of the personality (ego) and
of sensory experience in general

1. Form/physical phenomena,
   body (rupa )
2. Feeling (vedana ) pleasant,
   unpleasant, neutral. Feelings arise when there is contact between the 6
   internal organs and the 6 external objects: (eye, ear, nose, tongue, body,
   mind & corresponding: sight, sound, odor, taste touch, mental object)
3. Perception (sañña)
   - recognition
4. Mental Formations (sankhara)
   - includes mental states, emotions, volition (fabrications)
5. Consciousness (viññana)
   - grasps the characteristics of the 6 external objects

Five Faculties (indriya) and Five Strengths or Powers

Faith & Wisdom balance each other, as do Energy & Concentration.
The Five Faculties are ‘controlling' faculties because they control or master
their opposites.
The faculties and powers are two aspects of the same thing.

1. Faith (saddha) -
   controls doubt
2. Energy/Effort/Persistence (viriya)
   – controls laziness
3. Mindfulness (sati);
   - controls heedlessness
4. Concentration (samadhi)
   - controls distraction
5. Wisdom (panna)/Discernment
   – controls ignorance

Five Hindrances (nivarana)

1. Sensual Desire
2. Aversion or Ill-will
3. Sleepiness – sloth (thina),
   torpor (midha), sluggishness
4. Restlessness - worry about
   the future, regret of the past, anxiety
5. Doubt (skeptical doubt)

Five Precepts

1. To refrain from killing
2. To refrain from stealing
   (taking that which is not offered)
3. To refrain from sexual misconduct
4. To refrain from lying, harsh
   speech, idle speech, and slander
5. To refrain from taking
   intoxicants that cloud the mind and cause heedlessness

Five Things that lead to Awakening

1. Admirable friends
2. Sila (morality,
   virtue)
3. Hearing the dharma
4. Exertion. Effort in
   abandoning unskillful qualities and cultivating skillful ones
5. Awareness of impermanence (anicca)
   - Insight into impermanence

Six Senses

1. Seeing
2. Hearing
3. Smelling
4. Tasting
5. Touching
6. Thinking

Seven Factors of Enlightenment (bojjhanga)

Three arousing, Three calming, mindfulness is neutral

Neutral

1. Mindfulness (sati)

Arousing

1. Investigation of Phenomena
   (dhamma vicaya)-Wisdom Factor: seeing anicca, anatta, dukkha;
   how mind body operates
2. Energy/Effort (viriya)
3. Rapture, Joy-intense
   interest in object (piti)

Calming

1. Calm/tranquility (passaddhi)
2. Concentration (samadhi)
3. Equanimity (upekkha)

Eight Worldly Dhammas (Conditions, Concerns)

These conditions are inconstant & impermanent.

• Gain and Loss
• Pleasure and Pain
• Praise and Blame
• Fame and Disrepute (status/disgrace)

Ten Perfections (Paramis/Paramitas)

Ten qualities leading to Buddhahood

1. Generosity (dana)
2. Morality (sila)-virtue,
   integrity
3. Renunciation (nekkhamma)
4. Wisdom (pañña)
5. Energy/Strength (viriya)-
   effort
6. Patience (khanti)
7. Truthfulness (sacca)
8. Resolution - determination (adhitthana)
9. Lovingkindness (metta)
10. Equanimity (upekkha)

Ten Fetters (samyojana)

1. Self-identity beliefs
2. Doubt
3. Clinging to rites and
   rituals
4. Sensual craving
5. Ill will
6. Attachment to the form
7. Attachment to formless
   phenomena
8. Conceit (mána,
   literally measuring-as measuring oneself and comparing to others)- (a
   subtle sense of self)
9. Restlessness
10. Ignorance (with regard to
    the Four Noble Truths)

Four Stages of Enlightenment

1. 1. The Stream-enterer (sotapanna)-has
      eradicated the first three fetters; will be enlightened in Seven lives or
      less (cognitive, understanding)
   2. The Once-returner (sakadagami)
      has eradicated the first three & weakened the fourth and fifth
      (affective, emotional)
   3. The Non-returner (anagami)
      has eradicated the first five fetters
   4. The Arahat
      has eradicated all ten fetters. (transcendent-has eliminated attachment
      to altered states)

Twelve Links of Dependent Origination-
Dependent Co-arising (Paticca-Samuppada)

The doctrine of the conditionality of all physical &
mental phenomena; how ignorance conditions old age,disease and death

• From ignorance (avijja)
  come karma formations/fabrications/volitional formations (sankhara)
• From karma formations comes
  consciousness (viññana)
• From consciousness comes
  mind and matter (nama-rupa)
• From mind and matter come
  the six senses (salayatana)
• From the six senses comes
  contact (phassa)
• From contact comes feeling
  (vedana)
• From feeling comes craving
  (tanha)
• From craving comes clinging
  (upadana)
• From clinging comes
  becoming/existence (bhava)
• From becoming/existence
  comes birth (jati)
• From birth, then aging
  & death

Twelve Links of Transcendental Dependent Arising

This continues from the 12 "mundane" links of
dependent origination, the last one being dukkha (or
suffering) instead of "birth, aging and
death".

• Suffering (dukkha)
• Faith (saddha)
• Joy (pamojja)
• Rapture (piti)
• Tranquility (passaddhi)
• Happiness (sukha)
• Concentration (samadhi)
• Knowledge and vision of
  things as they are (yathabhutañanadassana)
• Disenchantment (nibbida)
• Dispassion (viraga)
• Emancipation (vimutti)
• Knowledge of destruction of
  the cankers (asavakkhaye ñana)

37 Factors of Enlightenment or Wings of Awakening
(bodhipakkhiya-dhammá)

The set of teachings that the Buddha himself said formed the
heart of his message.

• Four Foundations of
  Mindfulness (satipatthana)
• Four Right Efforts (sammappadhana)
• Four Bases of Power (iddhipada)
• Five Faculties (indriya)
• Five Strengths (bala)
• Seven Factors of
  Enlightenment (bojjhanga)
• Eight Fold Path (ariya-magga)

Pali Terms

anapanasati: mindfulness of breathing
anatta: not-self
anicca: impermanence; inconstancy
Arahat: Liberated one
bhavana: meditation
bhikku: monk
bhikkuni: nun
bodhi: awakening; enlightenment
bodhicitta: awakened heart-mind
Bodhisatta (Sanskrit-Bodhisattva) A future Buddha
Buddha: an Enlightened being
citta: mind, consciousness
Dhamma (Skt. dharma)-liberating law discovered by the Buddha, summed
up in the Four Noble Truths, the Truth, Reality, natural law, all physical and
mental phenomena
dosa: aversion
dukkha- unsatisfactoriness, suffering, pain, distress, discontent,
stress,
jhana: (Skt. dhyana) meditative absorption, a state of strong
concentration.
kalyana mitta- spiritual friend
kamma (Skt. karma): (lit.-action) The law of cause and effect;
intentional acts
karuna: compassion
khanda (skandha):Five aggregates which form the raw material for one's
sense of self: form/body, feeling, perception, mental formations, consciousness
kilesa (defilements)- greed, aversion, delusion
lobha: greed
magga: path
metta: Lovingkindness, good will
mindfulness (sati) the quality of noticing, of being aware of what’s
happening in the moment, not allowing the mind to be forgetful
moha: (lit.-to be stupified) delusion
nibbana (Skt. nirvana): the cessation of suffering, enlightenment,
liberation
pañña: wisdom
papañca: Complication, proliferation; tendency of the mind to
proliferate issues from the sense of "self."
parami: perfections, virtues necessary for the realization of
Awakening
sacca: truth
saddha: faith, confidence (Lit.-to place one’s heart on)
samadhi: concentration; meditative absorption
sampajañña: alertness
samsára: (lit.-perpetual wandering) ocean of worldly suffering; round
of rebirth; pursuit of renewed existence
samvega- spiritual urgency
sangha: the community of Buddhist monks & nuns; recently: “the
community of followers on the Buddhist path.”
sati: mindfulness, awareness
sila: moral conduct; precept; virtue; moral restraint
sukha: happiness; pleasure; ease; bliss
sutta: (lit. thread; Skt. sutra) discourse of the Buddha or one of his
leading disciples
tanha: (lit. thirst) craving
Tathagata: (Lit. thus gone) an Enlightened person
Theravada: (Doctrine of the elders)- school of Buddhism that draws its
inspiration from the Pali Canon, or Tipitaka, the oldest surviving record of
the Buddha's teachings. Has been the predominant religion of southeast Asia (Thailand, Sri Lanka, Burma)
Tipitaka
(Literally Three baskets)- The Pali Canon- has Three divisions:

1. Sutta Pitaka- discourses of the Buddha, (Five collections-nikayas- 10,000
suttas)
2. Abhidhamma Pitaka- treatises offering systematic treatment of topics in the
suttas
3. Vinaya Pitaka- rules for ordained monks and nuns

upekkha: equanimity
Vipassana: literally, “to see clearly”; insight; insight into the
truth of anicca (impermanence), anatta (not-self), & dukkha
(unstatisfactoriness), to see things as they really are
viriya: effort; persistence; energy

Tipitika: The Pali Canon

The Tipitaka
(Pali ti, "three," + pitaka, "baskets"), or Pali Canon, is
the collection of primary Pali language texts which form the doctrinal
foundation of Theravada Buddhism.
Theravada (Pali: thera "elders" + vada "word, doctrine"),
the "Doctrine of the Elders”

The 3 divisions of the Tipitaka are:

1. Vinaya Pitaka
   : Rules and origin of rules for monks (bhikkhus) and nuns (bhikkhunis).
   There are 227 rules for the bhikkhus, 311 for the bhikkhunis.
2. Sutta Pitaka:
   The collection of discourses, attributed to the Buddha and a few of his
   closest disciples, containing all the central teachings of Theravada
   Buddhism
3. Abhidhamma Pitaka:
   The Buddhist analysis of mind and mental processes; a wide-ranging
   systemization of the Buddha’s teaching that combines philosophy,
   psychology, and ethics into a unique and remarkable synthesis. Consists of
   7 books.

SUTTA PITAKA

The Sutta Pitaka, the second division of the Tipitaka, consists of
over 10,000 suttas, or discourses, delivered by the Buddha and his close
disciples during the Buddha's forty-five year teaching career, as well as
verses by other members of the Sangha.

Grouped into 5 NIKAYAS or collections:

1. Digha Nikaya -
   The "Long" Discourses
   Consists of 34 suttas, including the Maha-satipatthana Sutta (The Greater
   Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness-DN22), the Samaññaphala Sutta
   (The Fruits of the Contemplative Life-DN2), the Maha-parinibbana Sutta
   (The Buddha's Last Days-DN16)
2. Majjhima Nikaya
   - The "Middle-length" Discourses
   Consists of 152 suttas, including the Sabbasava Sutta (All the
   Taints/Fermentations-MN 2), Cula-kammavibhanga Sutta (Shorter Exposition
   of Kamma-MN 135), the Anapanasati Sutta (Mindfulness of Breathing-MN118),
   Kayagatasati Sutta (Mindfulness of the Body-MN119), Satipatthana Sutta
   (Foundations of Mindfulness-MN10), the Angulimala Sutta (MN86)
3. Samyutta Nikaya
   - The "Connected or Grouped" Discourses
   Consists of 2,889 shorter suttas grouped together by theme into 56
   samyuttas.
4. Anguttara Nikaya -
   The Numerical or "Further-factored" Discourses
   Consists of 8,777 short suttas, grouped together into eleven nipatas
   according to the number of items of Dhamma covered in each sutta. (Book of
   ones to Book of elevens)
5. Khuddaka Nikaya
   - The "Division of Short Books”
   Consists of 15 "books" (17 in the Thai edition; 18 in the
   Burmese), including the Dhammapada (Path of Dhamma,) Therigatha (Verses of
   the Elder Nuns), Theragatha (Verses of the Elder Monks), Sutta Nipata,
   Udana, Itivuttaka, Jataka stories, etc.