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Theme 2, Religious Concepts - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Dukkha touches everything because of anicca. Constant change
        
        Holidays, birthdays, first kiss, weddings. " I wish it was how it used to be"
    - - Illness, death, pain of watching a loved on die,
        
        Kisagotami and the mustard seed: Kisagotami's only child dies, she goes to the Buddha for wisdom on how to bring back her dead child. he tells her to go retrieve a mustard seed from a family where death or illness has not occurred. she goes from house to house till she realises that she is not the only person to experience Dukkha/suffering and that death is a natural part of life
    - - suffering involved in a general dissatisfaction with life rather than a specific reason
        
        a sense of pointlessness " the end is death so what's the point?"
  - - - Can't step into the same river once. Once your toe hits the water the water has already moved along.
      - Be in the here and now and don't focus on the past. learn from your mistakes but don't carry them with you
      - Things don't last
        
        Dukkha doesn't last forever
  - - - 5 Skandas
        
        Consciousness- awareness of being alive, thoughts and feelings
        
        Mental formations - habits and impulses
        
        Perception - ability to decide whether a feeling is pleasant or not. (sounds + textures), linked to feelings
        
        Feelings / sensations - Positive or not
        
        Form - physical appearance, skin bone, blood
        
        The Chariot & King Milinda
- - - - 12 Links of existence- Becoming, birth, aging & death
        
        A seed leads to new life, woman in labour, carrying a corps.
        
        12 links show the truth of ignorance leads to suffering, that one leads to another. Ignorance leads to bad Karmic energy. Shows pratityasamutpada
      - Rebirth- " a person is neither the same nor different" ~Nagasena
        
        Analogy of the flame. The fire of one is used to start another flame. Are they the same or different?
      - 3 fires- Greed, hatred and delusion/ignorance
        
        Greed + Hatred = "I want" or "I don't want", 2 sides of the same coin. both forms of grasping or craving
        
        ignorance = not knowing that greed and hatred lead to dukkha
      - The moon / The pure land. where people go when they escape samsara
        
        "Fool looks at the hand and not at the moon". Finger is the teacher and his teachings, pointing at liberation. The moon is the goal, we should focus on getting there and not how we get there
      - Pratityasamutpada- inter-dependant origination (causes), links
        6 realms of existence- Human, animal, hungry ghost, jealous god, hell and heavenly
        Dharma- teachings of the buddha
        Yama controls the samsara, god of death
- - - - Wisdom, morality, meditation