Tarot Blades: Defining Magick: The Buddha's Cheat Sheet

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Tarot Blades: Defining Magick: The Buddha's Cheat Sheet

The Four Noble Truths:
Buddha’s first & most fundamental teaching; explains nature of experience and spiritual potential; grounds for Buddhism
1. The existence of suffering
2. The origin of suffering
3. The cessation of suffering
4. The path of the cessation of suffering

The Noble Eightfold Path:
Buddha’s directions for how to become liberated.
1. Right understanding
2. Right thought
3. Right speech
4. Right action
5. Right livelihood
6. Right effort
7. Right mindfulness
8. Right concentration

The Six Wholesome and Unwholesome Roots of Mind:
According to the Buddha, the mind is always under the influence of at least one of these states.
1. Generosity
2. Love
3. Wisdom
4. Greed
5. Hatred
6. Delusion

The Eight Vicissitudes
According to the Buddha, we will always experience these pairs throughout our lives, no matter what our intentions or actions.
1. Please and pain
2. Gain and loss
3. Praise and blame
4. Fame and disrepute

The Five Precepts
The Buddha said an ethical life is founded on refraining from:
1. killing
2. stealing
3. sexual misconduct
4. false, harsh, or idle speech
5. intoxicants that cloud the mind

The Three Kinds of Suffering
Buddha taught that all types of suffering can be placed in these categories.
1. The suffering of pain
2. The suffering of change
3. The suffering of conditionality

The Five Hindrances
The classical hindrances to mindfulness
1. Desire, clinging, craving
2. Aversion, anger, hatred
3. Sloth
4. Restlessness
5. Doubt

The Six Sense Doors and the Three Feeling Tones
Everything we experience comes through these portals:
1. Seeing
2. Hearing
3. Smelling
4. Tasting
5. Touching
6. Thinking

Each moment of experience is felt as one of the three Feeling Tones
1. Please
2. Unpleasant
3. Neutral

The Six Stages of Metta
The Buddha said to expand your circle of compassion and love starting with yourself and moving gradually outward in this pattern. One cannot move to the next stage until the level love at the current stage is equal to the level of love in the stage preceding it.
1. Yourself
2. A benefactor (family member or lover)
3. A good friend
4. A neutral person
5. All beings without exception