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Topic
Reading Due
Work Due
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02/11
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02/16
Buddhism
Molloy Ch 6: Buddhism 248-305
Buddhism
Report
R
02/18
Buddhism
F
02/19
T
02/23
Fieldtrip to synagogue
(extra credit)
Sikhism
Fieser: Holidays 85
Nirvana 93-94
Ordination of Women 99-101
Why the Bodhisattva Works Alone 110-111
Fieser: Lotus Sutra: Burning Hose Parable 114-115
Just War Principles 115-116
The Mu Koan 362-363
Samsara and Nirvana Are One 121
Ace: Heart Sutra (Kapleau)
IHC Docs
Quiz #2
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Chinese Religion:
Molloy: Ch 5: Sikhism pp. 193-203
Fieser: Holidays & Timeline 143-144
Nanak, The First Guru 145-146
Mul Mantra: The Basic Statement 147
The Ecstasy of Mystical Union 151
Justification for the Use of Force 154-155
Molloy: Ch 6: Daoism (and Chinese Religion) 205-227
02/25
Confucianism
Fieser: Holidays & Timeline 191-192
Laozi Becomes Immortal 195
Laozi: Daodejing 195-199
Dreams and Reality 207
Worldly Fame is like a Dead Rat 207
Zhuangzi’s Wife Died 211-212
Announcements:
I am sorry to say
that we missed our day in the Meditation Room,
but you did have the reading
called Instructions for Insight Meditation.
Also, today I can give you a short review
of what I was going to say about meditation
and you can look at the notes
for what woud have been Wk 04T 110 152
which are posted to Ace.
So you shold have enough to go ahead and get started
with your own practice of meditation,
so you can get the report in on time.
Report Assignments Due 02/16
Find instructions on Ace, under Resources
Option 1 = Meditation Practice Report
Option 2 = Congregational Study
Quiz #2: Take it in class Tuesday 02/23
So be sure to get your reading done by then.
I’ll also have a study guide
for the terms you need to know,
which is already posted to Ace Resources.
Curiosities and questions about readings for today
#1. What is the single most important thing
that we need to know about Buddhism?
#2. Why is Buddhism so popular
among Americans and Europeans?
Recommended Film: The Life Of The Buddha
Full BBC Documentary (HQ).mp4
49:57 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfuWXqX1sbE
Molloy Ch 4: Buddhism
Life of the Buddha
Storyline:
Where from
Wealth and Power
Son of a King
Dukkha/Suffering
Where to:
An end to suffering
Find the cause of suffering
Nirvana/Enlightenment
To help others find Enlightenment
Obstacles:
Fathers protection
Wife and family
Craving/desire
Extreme asceticism
Plan
Leave home
Find a teacher
Form a group
Extreme asceticism
Middle Path
Noble Eightfold Path
Meditation
Help
People who help him escape
Gurus
Friends
Woman who nurses him back to health
Sangha
Dimensions of Buddhism
Practical Ritual
Meditation
Monks begging/Alms to monks
Chanting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccy708RQ1DA&feature=relate
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Heart Sutra in Sino-Japanese
English Translation of the Heart Sutra
Heart of Perfect Wisdom (The Heart Sutra)
The Bodhisattva of Compassion
From the depths of prajna wisdom
Saw the emptiness of all five
skandas and sundered the bonds
that caused him suffering.
Know then:
Form here is only emptiness,
emptiness only form.
Form is no other than emptiness,
emptiness not other than form.
Feeling, thought, and choice,
Consciousness itself,
are the same as this.
Dharmas here are empty,
All are the primal void.
None are born or die.
Nor are they stained or pure,
Nor do they wax or wane.
So in emptiness no form,
no feeling, thought or choice
nor is there consciousness.
No eye, ear, nose,
tongue, body, mind;
no color, sound, smell,
taste, touch, or what
the mind takes hold of,
nor even act of sensing.
No ignorance or end of it
Nor all that comes of ignorance:
No withering, no death,
No end of them.
Nor is there pain or cause of pain
Or cease of pain of noble path
To lead from pain,
Not even wisdom of attain, attainment too is emptiness.
So know that the bodhisattva
Holding to nothing whatever
But dwelling in prajna wisdom
Is freed of delusive hindrance,
Rid of the fear bred by it,
And reaches clearest nirvana.
All buddhas of past and present,
buddhas of future time
Through faith in prajna wisdom
Come to full enlightenment.
Know, then, the great dharani
the radiant, peerless mantra,
the supreme, unfailing mantra,
the Prajna Paramita,
whose words allay all pain.
This is the highest wisdom
True beyond all doubt,
Know and proclaim its truth:
Gate, gate (Gone, gone)
para gate (completely gone)
para sam gate (utterly and completely gone)
bodhi, svaha! (Behold the Light!)
Heart of perfect wisdom.
From p. 180-181 of Zen Dawn in the West by Roshi Philip Kapleau
Anchor Press, Garden City, 1980
In what dimension would we put this Sutra:
It depends on the form and the use:
As a sutra: Doctrinal/Philosophical
As a chant: Practical/Ritual
Taking Refuge:
(http://buddhism.about.com/od/takingrefuge/a/takingrefuge.htm)
The formal ceremony of Ti Samana Gamana (Pali),
or "taking the three refuges,"
is performed in nearly all schools
of Buddhism.
However, anyone who sincerely wants
to follow the Buddha's path
may begin that commitment
by reciting these lines:
“I take refuge in the Buddha.
I take refuge in the Dharma.
I take refuge in the Sangha.”
Experiential
Satori
Nirvana
Narrative
Life of the Buddha
The Jakata Tales
The Ten Oxherding Pictures
From The Manual of Zen Buddhism, D.T. Suzuki
by Shubun (15th Century)
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/mzb/oxherd.htm
Doctrinal
Pali Canon
Heart Sutra
Diamond Sutra
Lotus Sutra
Basic Beliefs
Three Jewels
Buddha
Dharma
Sangha
Three Marks of Reality
Contestant Change
No Permanent Identity
Suffering
Four Noble Truths
1. To Live is to Suffer
2. Suffering Comes From Desire
3. To End Suffering, End Desire
4. Release From Suffering is Possible
through the Noble Eightfold Path.
The Noble Eightfold Path
1. Right Understanding
2. Right Intention
3. Right Speech
4. Right Action
5. Right Work
6. Right Effort
7. Right Meditation/Mindfulness
8. Right Contemplation
Anatta
No permanent soul
The Sanskrit word skandha
means "heap" or "aggregate."
The Buddha taught
that an individual is a combination
of five aggregates of existence,
called the Five Skandhas.
These are:
Form
Sensation
Perception
Mental formations
Consciousness
Definitions from:
http://buddhism.about.com/od/abuddhistglossary/g/skandhadef.htm
Karma
#1. Karma is the force created
by a person's actions
that is believed
in Hinduism and Buddhism
to determine what that person's
next life will be like.
#2. Karma is the force created
by a person's actions
that some people believe
causes good or bad things
to happen to that person.
Definitions from:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/karma
Nirvana
In Buddhism
Nirvana is a transcendent state
in which there is neither suffering,
desire, nor sense of self,
and the subject is released
from the effects of karma
and the cycle of death and rebirth.
It represents the final goal
of Buddhism.
Definition from:
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chromeinstant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8 - q=+nirvana+definition
Legal/Ethical
Ahimsa
Non-violence
The Precepts
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Not killing
Not stealing
Not misusing sex
Not lying
Not abusing intoxicants
Not talking about others' errors and faults
7.
8.
9.
10.
Not elevating oneself and blaming others
Not being stingy
Not being angry
Not speaking ill of the Three Treasures
The first 5 precepts apply to all people
All 10 apply to monks
Social/Institutional
SGI (Soka Gakkai International)
Buddhist Church of America
Monastic Order/Sangha
Material
Stupas
Tibetan Style Stupa
Borobudur Stupa
Chinese Buddhist Temple
Paintings
Tibetan Thangka Painting
Statues
Japanese Giant Buddha
Indian Sandstone Buddha
Afghan Buddha (Destroyed by Taliban)
Chinese Matreya Buddha
Chinese Guan Yin: Avalokiteshvara Buddha
Source:
http://www.sanyaweb.com/sight/sanya_nanshan_temple/sight_sanya_nanshan108m-kuanyin-statue.html
Tibetan Buddha
Thai Buddha figurine
Notice the pointed head gear
looks like a stupa
The bump on the Buddha’s head
comes from a top knot hair-style,
brought into India by the Greeks
under Alexander the Great
So we see dissemination
and then adaptation
to make new meanings.
So what have we left out of this description
of Buddhism?