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Don’t forget references to key Buddhist teachings – ahimsa, Karma, Dhamma, right action etc. (from Noble Eightfold Path), or quoting ‘The Three Marks of Existence’ or ‘The Five Precepts’ etc. can all be worth credit as ‘teachings’ if applied correctly.
The Buddha –
Pre Birth story -Mothers dream, Birth & life of Luxury
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"The Bodhisattva, wandering as a superb white elephant ... approached her from the north. Holding a white lotus flower in his trunk, he circumambulated her three times. Then he gently struck her right side, and entered her womb." Nidäna-Kathä, (500AD) introduction to The Jätaka Queen Maya, dreamt a white elephant told her she would give birth to a holy child who would achieve perfect wisdom". Also in Aśvaghoṣa's Buddhacarita, (Acts of the Buddha) 200AD
‘I am chief of the world, Eldest am I in the world, Foremost am I in the world. This is the last birth. There is now no more coming to be’ – Siddarttha Gotama’s words when born i.e. the buddha prophecies his enlightenment.
‘I was very spoiled…I had a palace for the winter, one for the summer and one for the rainy season’ – Buddha describing his palace life.
The Buddha -
The four sights
Specification Listed: None.
‘Thus, he realised the triviality of the mundane life, which is bound to crumble, because if one is born one would undergo the process of ageing, sickness, death and all kinds of suffering… The ascetic’s resolution to renounce the worldly life in quest of the truth infused greater happiness in his heart and inspired him to lead the life of an ascetic.’ Jataka 075 describes Siddhattha Gotama seeing the Four Sights
The Buddha –
Ascetic Life
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‘I will perform the uttermost penance’. He brought himself to live on one seed…, or one grain of rice, and even to fast …. By this fasting, however, he became as thin as a skeleton ; the colour of his body, once fair as gold, became dark ; and the thirty-two signs of a great man disappeared’ – Jataka Tales
‘He perceived that penance was not the way to enlightenment’ – Jataka Tales
The Buddha –
Enlightenment and Teaching
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‘If today I shall become a Buddha, let this pot go up the stream; if not, let it go down the stream’ -Siddhartha Gotama before enlightenment (it went up stream against the current)
‘May skin, indeed, and sinews, and bones wilt away, may flesh and blood in my body dry up, but till I attain to complete enlightenment this seat I will not leave’! – the Buddha’s vow to become enlightened ” Jataka Vol 1
‘To Nirvana my mind has gone, I have arrived at the extinction of evil desire’ – Buddha on enlightenment
“To the Buddha for refuge I go, to the Dhamma for refuge I go, To the Sangha for refuge I go” The Buddham Saranam Gacchami Chant use by Buddhists daily to express their faith.
The Dhamma//Dharma
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'One who abides in Dhamma, who delights in Dhamma, who contemplates Dhamma, who memorises Dhamma does not lose the way’ – Dhammapada
‘My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience ... My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold on to or worship . ... "I shall show you, monks, the Teaching's similitude to a raft: as having the purpose of crossing over, not the purpose of being clung to." ’ the Buddha explains his teaching to the ascetic Dighanaka MN 22.Alagaddupama Sutta
‘To the Buddha for refuge I go. To the Dhamma for refuge I go.’
The Dhamma//Dharma /
Nirvana
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'By the destruction of his cravings, this monk hath extinguished hunger and hath attained nirvana.' Buddha PC- NK Iti Vuttaka 7-8
'Just as the water of river plunges into the ocean and merges with the ocean so the spiritual path, the noble eightfold path, plunges into nirvana and merges with nirvana.' Buddha
The Dhamma//Dharma
Dependent origination/conditionality (pratityasamutpada)
‘One who sees paticcasamuppada sees the Dhamma. One who sees the Dhamma sees paticca samuppada’ – Buddha
‘When this is, that is; This arising, that arises; When this is not, that is not; This ceasing, that ceases’ – Majjhima Nikaya
‘"if this exists, that comes to exist." ~ all events and incidents in life are so intimately linked with the fate of others that a single person on his or her own cannot even begin to act. '. Tenzin Gyatso (the Dalai Lama)
The Dhamma//Dharma
Dharama / Nibanna
"Pleasure is the binding force in the world. Rolling thought processes are its ever-changing base. With the complete eradication of craving, The state called nibbana is attained" – Buddha - PC SN I, Nal. 37, PTS 39; Suttanipata 134, Nal. 436, PTS 202.
The Dhamma/Dharma
Three Marks of Existence: dukkha, anicca, anatta.
Specification Listed: None.
"all conditioned things are impermanent, all conditioned things are painful, all dhammas are without Self" Buddha -PC -AN 3.136.
dukkha,
‘What I teach is suffering and the cessation of suffering.’ Buddha... Majjhima Nikaya, vol 1, page 140
The story of Kisa Gotami (See other quotes)
‘Kisa Gotami, I have a way to bring your son back to life.’ ‘My Lord, I will do anything to bring my son back’. ‘If that is the case, then I need you to find me something. Bring me a mustard seed but it must be taken from a house where no one residing in the house has ever lost a family member. Bring this seed back to me and your son will come back to life.’ Gotami Sutta.
"In brief, to be reborn is dukkha, not to be reborn is sukha" Sariputta - AN 10.65
anicca,
The story of Nagasena and the chariot (See other quotes)
Nagasena said his name was merely his name and not the true self. A chariot is not a chariot but lots of different parts. People are made up of lots of different parts (organs, skin etc) and the owner is given the name. This links to Anatta.
anatta.
"All conditioned things are inherently lacking. All realities are devoid of an abiding self" – Dhammapada 277-9
‘If all the harm, fear and suffering in the world occur due to grasping on to the self, what use is that great demon to me?’ ’ Shantideva (Indian Buddhist monk from the 8 century C.E.).
Four Noble Truths
‘He who has gone for refuge to the Buddha, the teaching and his Order, penetrates the transcendental wisdom of the Four Noble Truths – suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the Noble Eightfold Path leading to the cessation of suffering’ – Dhammapada 190-191
First Noble Truth
‘Suffering I teach, and the way out of it’ – Buddha
‘Now this, is the noble truth of suffering.
Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness
is suffering and death is suffering.’ – Buddha First Sermon PC
Second Noble Truth
“Attachment is the root of suffering.” [Pali canon, upadhi dukkhassa mūlanti]
‘The second noble truth is the origin of suffering. It is craving which leads to renewed existence, accompanied by delight and lust.’ Buddha First Sermon PC
The ignorant person says, I’m suffering. I don’t want to suffer. The first noble truth is not, I am suffering and I want to end it. It is there is suffering. Ajahn Sumedho advises us to not identify with the suffering. [From The Four Noble Truths (Amaravati Publications), page 9]
Third Noble Truth
“Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness.” The Buddha (Dhammapada, verse 223)
‘There is no fear for one whose thought is untroubled, whose thought is unagitated, who is free from good and evil.' (Dhammapada 39) ’
“Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.” - Dhammapada verse 5
"It is the remainderless fading away and cessation of that same craving, the giving up and relinquishing of it, freedom from it, nonreliance on it.This is called the noble truth of the cessation of suffering." SN 56.13: Khandhasutta
Fourth Noble Truth
‘Mental phenomena are preceded by mind, have mind as their leader, and are made by mind'Dhammapada verse 1
“Now this, bhikkhus, is the noble truth of the way leading to the cessation of suffering: it is this noble eightfold path; that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.” [The Fourth of The Four Noble Truths] - Buddha in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta ("The Discourse That Sets Turning the Wheel of Truth")
Four Noble Truths-
Eightfold path
"The Noble eightfold path is the most honourable way" Dhammapada 273
"If you walk the path, you will arrive at the end of suffering".Dhammapada 275
Human Personality –
5 Skandhas
‘The skandhas are also related to blockages of different types — spiritual ones, material ones, and emotional ones’ – Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
‘Avalokiteshvara while practicing deeply with the Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore, suddenly discovered that all of the five Skandhas are equally empty, and with this realisation he overcame all Ill-being’ – Heart Sutra
Human Personality –
Sunyata + Buddha Nature
We and all sentient beings fundamentally have the Buddha-nature as our innermost essence – Sogyal Rinpoche
If you want to find Buddha-nature, love someone and care for them – Dainin Katagiri
Human Destiny - arhat and bodhisattva
"I am the teacher supreme, i alone am the fully enlightened one, whose fires are quenched and extinguished." Buddha First Sermon
‘Disciples of the Buddha are fully awake dwelling both day and night in contemplation of the Awakened One…of reality…of the true nature of the body…taking delight in compassion…in cultivating the heart’ – Dhammapada 296-301
‘You yourselves should make the effort; the enlightened ones are only teachers’ – Dhammapada 276
Human Destiny – Bodhisattva Pure Land
‘Namu Amida Butsu (I return to Amitabha Buddha)’ A pure land buddhist mantra
"Sukhavati is rich in a great variety of flowers and fruits in this buddha field they are all fixed on the right method of salvation until they have won nirvana." The larger sukhavativyuha sutra
‘Even a bad man will be received in Buddha’s land, how much more a good man?’ Honen (twelfth century Japanese Pure Land teacher)
"Even a good man will be received in the Buddha's land, how much more a bad man?" Shinran (a student of Honen)
Mahayana + the The Bodhisattva Vow
The story of burning house in lotus sutra
dainin katagiri = if you want to find buddha-nature, love someone and care for them.
"However innumerable sentient beings are; I vow to save them". Shantideva explains the Bodhisattva vow
‘Just as all the previous Sugatas, the Buddhas…So will I too, for the sake of all beings, Generate the mind of enlightenment And accomplish all the stages Of the Bodhisattva trainin’ – Bodhisttva Vow
Karma The Five Precepts and 6 Perfections
The wise who practise jhana [training of the mind] concentration and Insight Meditation take delight in the peace of liberation from sensual pleasures and moral defilements.— Dhammapada 181
Karuna (compassion)
‘I believe that at every level of society, the key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion.’ His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, 'What Is The Purpose Of Life?''
Metta (loving kindness)
‘Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, so should one cultivate an unbound mind towards all beings" Karaniya Metta Sutta (The Discourse on Loving-kindness) 7
The five moral precepts
‘Whoever destroys a living creature and speaks untruth, takes what is not given in the world, goes to another man's wife and whatever man applies himself to drinking liquor and intoxicants, that person digs up his own root here in this very world.’ Dhammapada 246-247
‘We just keep on working, we are patient with ourselves and on and on it goes.
Quote about Dhamma
Quote about Dukkha
Quote to support Anatta
Quote to support acetic lifestyles
Quote to link noble path and suffering
First noble truth quote Annatta
Quote for what craving leads too
Quote for how everything links kamma
Quote about the Buddha's Early Life
Quote about the Buddha's Life as an Ascetic
Quote about The Dhamma - three Jewels/refuges recitation
Quote about Dukkha 2
Anicca (Story)
Anatta
First Noble Truth / Dukkha
Second Noble Truth / Samudaya
Third Noble Truth /Nirodha
Fourth Noble Truth / Magga
Bodhisattva
Meditation
Death
Compassion (Karuna)
loving-kindness (metta)
Five Moral Precepts
Second Noble Truth 2
a. “If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: ‘Certainly, this is not the Blessed One’s utterance’“ The Buddha [in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta]
b. “Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is Awakened.” The Buddha [Sutta Nipata]
c. “Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.” The Buddha (from the Udana)
d. “Until I am enlightened, I take refuge In the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. Through the merit I create by practicing giving and the other perfections May I attain Buddhahood for the sake of all sentient beings.” -One format of ‘The Refuge Prayer’ from Tibetan Buddhism
e. “I take refuge in the Buddha. I take refuge in the Dharma. I take refuge in the Sangha.” -Buddhist chant and declaration of faith.