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?????? ???? ????? ???? Introduction to Buddhism & Meditation 2009/6/6 Buddhist Association of Canada Cham Shan Temple Sunday Dharma Class

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Buddhist Association of Canada Cham Shan Temple ná mó fó tuó ? ? ? ? Namo Buddha ná mó dá mó ? ? ? ? Namo Dharma ná mó seng qié ? ? ? ? Namo Sangha

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???? 3 Prefect Practice Cultivate Diligently Discipline, Concentration, & Wisdom (Shila, Dhyana & Prajna) Put out the Fire of Greed, Anger & Ignorance ????? ?????

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????? – Dharma, Teaching of Buddha ??? 3 Dharma Zeal ??? 4 Reliance ?? 10 Good Deeds ??? 4 Noble Truth ??? 8 Fold Path ???? 12 Causation Link ?? 6 Paramita ?????? 84,000 Approaches

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Ten Schools in China

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???? – The 10 Realms

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?? Ten Good Deeds ?? : ??????????? ?? : ??????????????? ?? : ???????????

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Four Noble Truth ?? ? Eightfold Path to end suffering ? Suffering ? Cause of suffering ? Cessation of the cause of suffering ? Effect ? Cause ?? Mundane ??? Supramundane

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Suffering (dukkha) ?? ? Effect ?? Mundane ??:??,?? ??:??,??,?? ??:?,?,?,?,???,???,???,???? Birth, Old Age, Sickness, Death, Parting with whom we love, Meeting with whom we hate, Unattained desires, 5 Skandhas

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???? Setting the Wheel of Dharma in Motion Sutra “Now this, monks, is the noble truth of dukkha: Birth is dukkha, aging is dukkha, death is dukkha; sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair are dukkha; association with the unbeloved is dukkha, separation from the loved is dukkha, not getting what is wanted is dukkha. In short, the five clinging-aggregates are dukkha.”

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Four Noble Truth ?????? ? Eightfold Path to end suffering ?, ?, ?, ? ? Suffering ?, ??, ?, ?? ? Cause of suffering ?, ?, ?, ? ? Cessation of the cause of suffering ?, ?, ?, ? ? Effect ? Cause ?? ???

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Four Noble Truth ?????? ?????:????,???;???,???;???,???;???,????????:??????,??????,????? ?????:????,???;???,???;???,???;???,????????:????????,????????,??????? ?????:????,???;???,???;???,???;???,????????:????,???????,?????,???????

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Four Noble Truth ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? Arises and Ceases Unborn/Unarisen Immeasurable Unconstructed

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Four Noble Truth ?????? ??? ???? ??? ??? Avatamsaka Sutra Scroll 12 Chapter 8 Four Noble Truth

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???/?? - Eightfold Path / 3 Prefect Practice

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???? - ???? ??? ??? ??? ???

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12 Links in Chain of Causation - 3 Periods in Life Cycle

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3 Forces of Re-incarnation - 3 Periods in Life Cycle

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???? ???? ?????? ????? ??????? ??????????? ,?????? (???)? ???? ??????????? ,?????? (???)? ????

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12 Links in Chain of Causation - 3 Periods in Life Cycle

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????????? 12 Links in Chain of Causation - 3 Periods in Life Cycle

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Ignorance (Avidya) ?? Delusion, full of confusion (?) – the fundamental seeds of all sufferings.Two categories: Incorrect understanding or misconception (??) Incorrect thoughts (??) – the function of incorrect understanding Four contra-facts (???): Take impermanence, sufferings, no-self, unclean as permanence happiness self clean (?????????????) ::?????????????????????????????? Four severity levels of Avidya: People with sharp faculties believe in and accept the Dharma teaching as soon as they are exposed to; with fruitful present conditions believe in and accept the Dharma teaching after diligent effort by the expounders; with weak faculties or little good deeds believe in and accept the Dharma after persevered effort by the expounders; with severe karmic obstacles never believe in or respect the Dharma teaching in this lifetime. ????,?????????,???? ? ????,???? ? ????,???? ? (???????Ksitagarbha Bodhisattva’s Fundamental Vows Sutra) Complete cleansing of misconceptions and incorrect thoughts is the first level of enlightenment – Shravaka (??)

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6 Fundamental Avidyas ?????

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Tiantai 3 Avidyas or Delusions ?????

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Volitional Actions, Karmas (????) Good (??), Bad (??), Neutral (???) Three forms of actions that commit to karmas: Body (??), Speech (??), Mind (??) The power of karmas is as big as Mount Someru, as deep as an ocean, hindering us from seeing the true reality. (Ksitagarbha Bodhisattva’s Fundamental Vows Sutra) ????,????,????,????????????

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?? 8 Consciousness

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?? Name and Form The four great elements: Solid, Liquid, Gas, Energy begin to converge (??,??????) into five aggregates / skandhas (?????), creates the fetus from which body, organs, and senses begin to develop.

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18 Elements of Cognition ?

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Five effects in the present ??? ? Consciousness ?? Name and Form ??Cognitive Sense faculties/organs ? Contact - Our sense organs or faculties begin to receive external stimuli. ? Feelings - Five types: Sadness, Happiness, Depression, Joy, Equanimity (?????)

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Three causes in the present ??? ? Attachments - Dwelling on things, tangible or intangible, dwelling on likes and dislikes. ? Grasping - Driven by our attachments, we pursue conditions. ? Existence - New seeds resulted from grasping are deposited in our consciousness. These seeds with proper conditions will produce the future rebirth.

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Dukkha effect in the future???? ? Birth, the karmic effect of our current Attachment, Grasping, and Existence. As soon as there is Birth, Aging and Death are unavoidable. ?? Aging and Death, Death is the worst of all sufferings: Buddha told us it’s like “a live turtle being de-shelled”??????, and like “a live body being sliced up by blizzard of knives” ??????

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Cultivation approach???? The repeating cycle of death-and-rebirth never ends unless the chain is broken. Control the three causes in the present life: Attachments (?), Grasping (?), and Existence (?). Breaking out from the chain to liberates from the vicious suffering cycle of death-and-rebirth. Pratyeka-Buddha (??) accomplish their level of enlightenment by breaking out of the chain.

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Two approaches ???? ?????????, ??????????

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