Buddhism A Skillful life

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BuddhismA Skillful life
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Buddhism

• Worlds fourth largest religion
• Religion or philosophy?
• It is a way of life

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Buddhism

• Historians do agree on some facts about the
  Buddha
• He did exist
• Lived a long life
• Taught all over India
• Written accounts of him were done hundreds of
  years after his death

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Buddhism

• Founder Siddartha Gautama
• Born in Kapilavastu
• foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal
• As a Kshatriya Prince around 566 BCE
• If the child stayed at home he was destined to
  become a world ruler. If the child left home he
  would become a universal spiritual leader

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Buddhism

• Father isolated him in palace
• Raised in the lap of luxury
• Never stopped thinking about outside world

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Buddhism

• Tradition states
• Charioteer drove him around his estate four times
• First time saw an old man
• Second time saw a sick man
• Third time saw a dead man
• Fourth time wandering hold man who was at peace

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Buddhism

• Understood this to mean
• Every living thing must experience old age,
  sickness, and death
• Only a religious life offers a refuge from
  suffering

Sleeping Buddha
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Buddhism

• Decided to spend his life searching for the
  answer to
• 1. Why do people suffer?
• 2. How suffering could be ended?

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Buddhism

• Seven years lived as a hermit
• Meditated under a Bodhi tree gained a flash of
  insight
• Visited by Mara, the evil one, who tempted him
• Mara can symbolizes the internal battle on fights
• Siddhartha had achieved an enlightened mind

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Buddhism

• Buddha
• means
• Enlighten One or awakened one

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• Gives speech Setting in Motion the Wheel of the
  Law
• Explained the principals / practices

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Buddhism
Singing Bowl

• Four Noble Truth
• Duhkha There is suffering all people suffer
• People suffer because of selfish desires
• Suffering can end by eliminating selfish desires
• End selfish desire by following the Eight Fold
  Path

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What is this suffering?

• Comes in many different forms
• Better would be impermanence or imperfection
• It is our wanting to hang on or not to change
  that causes our suffering
• It is a feeling of dissatisfaction
• NOT pessimistic and nasty view of life
• Buddhist looks at what IS, does not judge
• It is accepting of what is

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The Five Aggregates of I

• Buddhist say the nature of I is constantly
  changing
• The summative or who we are
• Matter (eye, ears, nose etc)
• Feelings and sensations (sight, sound, smell etc)
• Perception
• Volition (actions) Mental formation
• Consciousness (response)
• You are always changing there is no real you
• Are you the same person you were when you were
  10? 8? 5?
• No permanent self

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Anatman

• No Soul
• Denies the existence of a soul
• There is no heavenly reward
• There is heaven on earth when one reaches
  Nirvana

Tibetan Prayer Flags
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Buddhism
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Buddhism

• Eight Fold Path or The Middle Way
• Uses the word right to mean
• proper, appropriate, or correct
• Right Understanding
• Right Thought
• Right Speech
• Right Action
• Right Livelihood
• Right Effort
• Right Mindfulness
• Right Concentration

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Wisdom Category

• Right Understanding/views
• Know the truth/see thing clearly/understand you
• Right Thinking/Intentions/Thought
• Resist evil/thought need to be clear

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Proper Behavior/Morality Category

• Right Speech
• Talk that is good/say nothing to hurt others
• Right Action
• Good actions/do not cling to the results of
  action/mindfulness of others
• Right Livelihood/Work
• Work for the good of others/work that harms
  others

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Meditation/Mental DisciplineCategory

• Right Effort
• Getting rid of improper attitudes and thoughts
• Right Mindfulness
• Free mind from evil/pay attention to what you are
  doing/do not be ahead of yourself
• Right Concentration
• Become one with the situation/practice
  meditation/needed to develop a calm mind

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• By following the Eightfold Path
• By avoiding extremes
• One can achieve nirvana
• Release form selfishness and pain
• Break the cycle of reincarnation

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Buddhism

• The Middle Way
• Neither too little nor too much

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Calling yourself a Buddhist

• Practice the Five Premises and /or Precepts
• Do no harm to any living thing
• Do not take what is not given
• Do not live in an over-excited way
• Do not do an unkind act
• Do not do things which will cloud the mind

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Calling yourself a Buddhist

• Take refuge in
• The Three Jewels
• The Buddha
• Fully awakened one
• Dharma
• The Path
• Sangha
• Join a community in which one can practice

Buddha gives his first sermon to the first
sanghas.
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Buddhism

• The Five Hindrances
• Doubt
• Lust
• Hatred
• Worry
• Languor/laziness

Pray beads
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Buddhism

• Bodhisattva
• A person who no longer thinks about himself
• Only concern with good of others
• Bodhi wise, enlightened
• Sattva being, exsitance
• 'one whose essence is perfect wisdom'
• Try to live up to the Bodhisattva qualities
• Reaches Nirvana and helps others to reach Nirvana

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Buddhism

• Two sects
• Theravada
• Mahayana

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Buddhism
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Buddhism

• Temples
• Pagodas
• Stupas
• House Buddha relics
• Symbolize the five elements
• of Buddhism
• Earth
• Water
• Fire
• Air
• Wisdom

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Hill of Sanchi, one of the most well known
Buddist stupas, built by Ashoka
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Borobudur Temple, A Buddhist work of stone in
Java, Indonesia
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Another look at the Borobudur Temple
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Cave Temples of Ajanta, India
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Relining Buddha in Wat Pot, Thailand. Gold
Plated more the 150 ft long and 49 ft. high
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The Laughing Buddha

• Buddha Maitreya
• The Laughing Buddha
• one to follow up the historical Buddha
• Waits and will return to earth to teach mankind