How can Buddhists know if their life is an ethical one? By keeping the five precepts, a set of guidelines for those who wish to do no harm.
What Are the Four Schools of Tibetan Buddhism?
Here’s a short primer on the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism and some of their key practices.
What Are the Three Minds?
Zen master Dogen wrote that someone working to benefit others should maintain three minds: magnanimous mind, parental mind, and joyful mind.
What Is the Threefold Training?
Buddhist training falls into three categories: sila (discipline or ethical living, samadhi (concentration), and prajna (insight or wisdom).
What Are the Four Brahmaviharas?
The brahmaviharas are four prized emotions or mindstates that give us a framework to cultivate positive behaviors and minimize harmful ones.
What Are the Five Powers?
The five powers are a set of qualities that work in a sequence to support awakening.
What Are the Five Skandhas?
According to Buddhism, people are made of five aggregates, or “heaps.” These are known in Sanskrit as the skandhas.
What Are the Three Poisons?
The three poisons are the energy of ego’s three basic attitudes—for me, against me, and don’t care.
What Is the Fourfold Sangha?
Sangha is one of the three jewels of Buddhism. Traditionally, the sangha is dividied into four categories, known as the fourfold sangha
The Three Doors of Liberation
The three marks of existence—impermanence, suffering, and no self—are the Buddha’s basic description of reality.