RELIGST 3UU3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dukkha, Zhiyi, Impermanence

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 3UU3
• Professor: Joe Larose

Document Summary

Midterm: 2 questions, choice in each question. Three truths (ultimate emptiness, provisional existence, both ultimate emptiness and provisional existence) Three thousand worlds in an instant fo thought (doctrine and practice integrated) Ontology what exists and what doesn"t exist: understanding the existence what really is , Life is dissatisfactory (duhkha: craving (desire/passion/thirst) is the cause for this dissatisfactoriness, this dissatisfactoriness can be ended by stopping craving, the 8-fold noble path leads to the end craving dissatisfactory because it is impermanent nothing is permanent. The three marks fo existence impermanence (anitya) every constituent of the world of samsara is impermanent. No self (anatman) the buddha rejected the existence of a permanent, unchanging self or soul. Includes things like table or computer assemblage of parts- won"t last forever. Extends to us as well- physical psychological existence is collection of pieces. Form (rupa) material body, composed of the elements. Sensation (vedana) a collective term for the experience of the senses (pleasant, unpleasant or neutral)