RELS 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lie, Mahayana, Nonviolence

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 131
• Professor: Aditi Sen- Chowdhury

Document Summary

Rooster represents lust, pig represents delusion and snake represents hate. Second layer is karma - go up or down, determines whether you go into a better higher realm or a worse realm. Six realms of samsara (realms do not have to be exclusive) Hungry ghost - have huge narrow necks and big bellies, forever desiring something, can never be satisfied. 12 links of the dependent origination (when we are born these are what are bestowed upon us) Lack of insight: volitional or karma formations: potter. Action starting a chain of events: consciousness: monkey. Single consciousness perceived through sense organs: mind body: boat. Skandhas: six senses: house with 6 windows. Six senses, always with us: contact: embracing couple, feeling: eye pierced with an arrow. Can only break the cycle between feeling and craving: craving: person drinking. Desire without satisfaction: grasping: monkey reaching for a fruit. Next life: birth: woman giving birth, ageing and death: an old person about to die.