BUDDHISM

From Tears to
Enlightenment
 BUDDHISM: From Tears to
Enlightenment

Siddhatha Gautama or the Buddha

High born Prince

of the Sakya clan He lived from
in the Kingdom 560 to 477 BC
of Magadha
 Life’s
Searching sufferings
Turning for answers
away from to the Disease
riddle of …
Hindu
BUDDHA Polytheism Old Age
and
pleasures
Death
 “Dharma”
BUDDHA Realization or Law of
Salvation
The solution
lays in his
own mind
 Gospel of Inner
cultivation of right
spiritual attitudes,
“Dharma” coupled with a self-
or imposed discipline
Law of Salvation whereby bodily
desires would be
channeled in the
right directions
 Life is full of suffering
Suffering is caused by
Passionate desires, lusts,
FOUR NOBLE cravings
TRUTHS When these were
obliterated, suffering will
CEASE
Such eradication of desire may be
accomplished only by following the
EIGHT PATH OF EARNEST ENDEAVOR.
EIGHTFOLD PATH OF EARNEST ENDEAVOR

Right belief in ACCEPTANCE of the

Fourfold TRUTH.

Right ASPIRATION for one’s self and

for others.

Right speech that harms no one.

EIGHTFOLD PATH OF EARNEST ENDEAVOR

Right CONDUCT, MOTIVATED by

goodwill toward HUMAN BEINGS.

Right means livelihood, or earning

one’s living by honorable means

Right endeavor, or effort to direct

one’s energies toward wise ends.
EIGHTFOLD PATH OF EARNEST ENDEAVOR

Right mindfulness in choosing topics

for thought.

Right meditation or concentration to

the point of complete absorption in
mystic ecstasy.
 The final
Self- abnegation achievement
of that state
of
THE EFFECTS OF THE LAW consciousne
ss which
The way to OF CAUSE Rigid
AND EFFECT
Discipline of
marks an
SALVATION is…(KARMA) ARE OVERCOME;
Mind and Body individual’s
THE CYCLE OF REBIRTH IS full
preparation
BROKEN!!!!
for entering
the
Consuming love for NIRVANA of
ALL LIVING
complete
CREATURES
Selflessnes.
 DESTROYING LIFE!

TAKING WHAT IS NOT

GIVEN!
MISUSE OF THE SENSES!

TAKING DRUGS OR WRONG SPEECH!

DRINKS THAT TEND TO
CLOUD THE MIND!