PHIL 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mahayana, Huayan, Bodhidharma
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The fourth noble truth: the eightfold path to the elimination of suffering. The three dharma seals : insubstantiality, impermanence, non-self. Buddha"s answers to is there or is there not a self? . The image of fire in the suttas. We should be less concerned about our own continuation and more about the causal results of our actions. The role of compassion in undermining self and attachment. Three layered answer to the questions why be moral? . The moral rules are linked with karmic action and result bad actions bring bad karmic results, states, rebirths, etc. Greed, anger, and delusion keeps us on the path of suffering and unenlightened. We have a general obligation to reduce suffering in others, duty of benevolence. Shift to concentration on concepts of emptiness, movement away from (in some sense) the monastic focus of early buddhism, and the bodhisattva. Key figure in madhyamaka (middle way) thought (a mahayana school)
