Four Noble Truths
- Suffering exists
- Suffering arises from attachment to desires
- Suffering ceases when attachment ot desire ceases
- Freedom from suffering is possible by practicing the Eightfold Path
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Three Characteristics of Existence
- Transiency (anicca)
- Sorrow (dukkha)
- Selflessness (anatta)
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The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Mindfulness of the body and breath
Mindfulness of feelings
Mindfulness of the mind
Mindfulness of the mental objects
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Noble Eightfold Path
Right View
 Right Thought
Right Speech
Right Action
Right Livelihood
Right Effort
Right Mindfulness
Right Contemplation
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Five Aggregates (skandhas)
- Form (rupa) is made up of earth water fire and wind
- Feeling (vedana) is one of pleasant, unplesant and neutral. Feelings arise when there is contact between the six internal organs and the six external objects .
- Perception (samjna)is related to the six external objects (sight, sound, odor, taste, touch, mental objects)
- Volition (samskara) is the response of the will to the six external objects
- Consciousness (vijnana) grasps the characteristics of the six external objects
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| Four Boundless States (brahmaviharas) |
| State | Near Enemy | Far Enemy | Description |
| 1. Metta/loving kindness | Selfish love | Hatred |
good-will, friendship, extending unlimited, universal love and good will to all living beings without any kind of discrimination, 'just as a mother loves her only child' |
| 2. Karuna/compassion | pity | cruelty |
empathy, to feel with someone instead of for someone. Apply to all living beings who are suffering, in trouble, and affliction |
| 3. Mudita/sympathetic joy | hypocrisy | envy |
spontaneous joy in response to others success and welfare |
| 4. Upekkha/equanimity | indifference | anxiety |
even-mindedness based on insight into the nature of things |
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Seven Factors of Enlightment
- Mindfulness
- Investigation
- Energy
- Rapture
- Tranquility
- Concentration
- Equanimity
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Ten Perfections (paramis)
- Generosity (dana)
- Morality (sila)
- Renunciation (nekkhamma)
- Wisdom (panna)
- Energy (viriya)
- Patience (khanti)
- Truthfulness (sacca)
- Resolution (adhitthana)
- Loving-Kindness (metta)
- Equanimity (upekkha)
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Five Hindrances
- Sensuous lust
- Aversion and ill will
- SLoth and torpor
- Restlessness and worry
- Skeptical doubt
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Ten Fetters of Existence
- Self-delusion
- Doubt
- Clinging to Ritual
- Sensuous Lust
- Ill Will
- Greed for Fine Material Existence
- Greed for Immaterial Existence
- Conceit
- Reslessness
- Ignorance
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"Life is painful. Suffering is optional." - Sylvia Boorstein
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