9 11 15 Buddhism Buddha awakened one Birth of Siddhartha Says our unwillingness to experience the world as one makes us asleep Suggests that we already know everything its about remembrance Cult leader founder o Siddhartha was originially hindu Buddhism is a cult movement out of Hinduism Argues his religion Hinduism is not right Siddhartha is impatient as a hindu is born into second to highest caste Wants moksha wanted all to have access to enlightenment Raised in culture of darsan to see the gods Says moksha is all around us Queen Maya Siddhartha is born from illusion Rips open his mothers side lands on two feets walks takes 7 steps lotus flowers grow under his feet he talks Says This is my final birth original turning of the wheel of dharma Destroys all of hindu history Prophecy made by hindu ascetic Asita o Says Siddhartha is going to be 1 Worlds most powerful king have everything OR 2 Worlds most famous renouncer or Ascetic or Sannyasin have nothing The King wants to use his resources to make sure his son gets everything Castle metaphor o 1 Literally raises kid in a castle with the best everything so he will never want to leave home o 2 He builds a castle for Siddhartha s mind mental metaphor of your world view taught him everything he could ever want to know In his mid 20s is married and has a son stage 2 of classic hindu system householder Son s name is Rahula Siddhartha hears the sound of a woman screaming in pain sadness suffering Has never actually heard suffering in his life His friend Channa was assigned to Siddhartha the day he was born his best friend as well as secret service to the king Sid says to Channa WHAT IS THAT SOUND Channa says that is the sound of suffering What is suffering Before you die you will come to realize that everything in the universe will suffer You ve now told me something I know nothing about tell me more Go get my horses we re leaving the castle METAPHOR for anytime anyone in this room left home began process of leaving your parents world view considering other cultures possibilities world views Leaves looks closely past the happy people his father set up sees sight 1 4 Passing Sights when the door to ones mind and perception opens about to experience o 1 2 old men grayed hunchbacked canes toothless babbling old age Sid asks Channa if old age 1 will happen to him and 2 His parents All the money and luxury wont stop aging all people get old o 2 Sees woman covered in boils puss screaming in pain and sickness Asks channa if that will happen to him his parents get sick suffer Sickness comes regardless of wealth or gender o 3 Begins taking his clothes off metaphorically getting rid of his past starting to renounce impatiently walks down to river and sees a dead body DEATH Rahula means Fetter to tie something Goes into the woods and denies himself everything goes to having nothing for 6 years Perfect jain asceticism Pratitya samutpada the philosophy of dependent origination Any THING that exists is part of an infinite process of things that came before therefore dependent on origination An atman Things do not exist Four Noble Truths 1 Dukkha suffering Anicca all things are impermanent 2 Tanha attachment desire wanting clinging 9 16 15 3 Nirvana non attachment to self things relationships a The experience of non self to experience nirvana you cannot experience nirvana no self to experience it b The problem is that its impermanent c To experience nirvana you cant want to experience nirvana we endure Dukkha because we re so focused on I self which Siddhartha says does not exist Buddhism to wake up to the impermanent nature of dharma Siddhartha s Temptation by Mara mara is the manifestation of ignorance self scares sidd throws lightning beautiful women to try and break concentration hand up in nonviolence puts other hand down to gesture the earth becomes Buddha asks himself should is stay or should I go teach or stay and be in nirvana decides to teach Parinirvana ability to know where when and why you will die only buddhas can experience He ate pork knew it would be bad cause hes the Buddha ate it anyway cause he didn t want the cook to suffer karmic consequences Before he dies o 1 Be a lamp unto yourself know thyself o 2 Know yourself study yourself you don t need anything o All things are impermanent Observe this carefully constantly 9 21 15 if you re an orthodox jew God is too big for human conception or expression Upaya Indra s Net Indra is a hindu God king takes every cosmological node and brings them together everything is infinitely reflecting everything else Metta love or compassion if it means love what would that entail and mean The only way to love another human being in this context you have to love yourself you can have compassion if you recognize the entropic nature of all things entropy disorder breaking down falling apart losing organization A sun that is currently organized into a thing will eventually lose its organization all things are running out of energy becoming disorganized An atman I am not a thing because my body is constantly changing Existence is fragile things are constantly changing falling apart If this I the case you can only trust 3 things 3 refuges triple Gem You may take refuge in 1 The Buddha his existence 2 Dharma his teachings 3 Sangha community of monks that follow teachings of Buddha Theravada Buddhism Vipassana Meditiation 3 marks 1 Existence of suffering dukkha 2 Object in which suffering happens anatman nothingness 3 Impermanent nature of that object anicca impermanence 5 skandas similar to 5 senses 1 Materiality 2 Sensation of material things 3 Perception 4 Particular moods towards the table as you experience it 5 Thoughts of what said material is All an illusion 5 qualities that make all of us mistakenly believe in and get attached to things all about your relationship to things atman 4 foundations must practice Sustained awareness apply this to all 4 things 1 Your body be aware always of your body 2 The sensations of your body 3 Your mind 4 The sensations of your mind For this Buddhist practice if nirvana is going to happen it has to be sustained hold on make it last longer and longer 9 23 15 Tao Dow indefinable Chi qi power energy spirit Cannot ever separate Taoism and Confucianism Loa tzu and Confucius The Warring State Period 6 BCE to late 5 BCE everything is chaos out of balance out of harmony I Ching book of divination 3 ideas 1 Way or path out of chaos Li patterns shen kuei Shen male gods or