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The One Absolute Reality: Nirvana (Enlightenment)

The two types of meditation:
1. Samatha; (serenity, calm, relaxation)
2. Vipassana; (Insight)

The Threefold summary of the Buddha?s teachings:
1. Avoid all evil,
2. Cultivate the good,
3. Purify your mind.

The Threefold summary of the Eightfold Middle Path:
1. Wisdom
2. Morality
3. Concentration

The Three Characteristics of Existence:
1. Suffering
2. Impermanence
3. No permanent self

The Three Realms of Existence:
1. Realm of sense world
2. Realm of Form
3. Realm of the Form-less

The Three ways a fool can be known by:
1. His conduct in deed.
2. His conduct in word.
3. His conduct in thought.

The Three ways a wise man can be known by, same as above

The Three root causes of the origination of (negative) karma:
1. Greed (attachment)
2. Hatred (aversion)
3. Ignorance (delusion)

The Three dangers from which a mother can not shield her son, nor the son his mother:
1. Old age
2. Disease
3. Death

The Three pillars or grounds for making merit:
1. Generosity
2. Moral restraint
3. Meditation

The Three types of suffering:
1. Body or mental pain
2. Suffering that is inherent in formation ? maintenance of body and things, oppressive nature of continuous upkeep.
3. Suffering of change ? pleasant and happy conditions in life are not permanent.

The Four Noble Truths:
1. Life is suffering
2. The cause of suffering is unreasonable expectations
3. Suffering ceases with the ceasing of unreasonable expectations
4. The way to reasonable expectations is the Noble Eightfold Middle Path

The Four Supreme Efforts:
1. Not to let an unwholesome thought arise which has not yet arisen.
2. Not to let an unwholesome thought continue which has already arisen.
3. To make a wholesome thought arise which has not yet arisen.
4. To make a wholesome thought continue which has already arisen.

The Four Emotions to be strived for:
1. Loving-kindness
2. Compassion
3. Sympathetic joy with others? success
4. Equanimity

The Four Foundations of Mindfulness:
1. Contemplation of the body
2. Contemplation of the feelings
3. Contemplation of the mind
4. Contemplation of the mind-objects (Dhamma)

The Four qualities of matter:
1. Hardness
2. Cohesion
3. Heat
4. Resistance to motion

The Four subjects not fit for speculative thought:
1. The specific qualities of a Buddha.
2. A person?s jhana attainment.
3. The results of kamma (karma).
4. The nature of the world.
(Speculating on these could lead one to mental distress and insanity.)


The Four means to accomplishment:
1. Desire
2. Energy
3. Consciousness
4. Investigation
(Note that desire is not all bad, the desire to accomplish something good, known as chandha in Pali, is good.)

The Four evolutionary stages of religion:
1. Devotion
2. Discipline
3. Tranquility
4. Understanding (Wisdom)

The Six Senses:
1. Eye; visual consciousness
2. Ear; auditory consciousness
3. Nose; nasal consciousness
4. Tongue; gustatory consciousness
5. Body; (feel) tactile consciousness
6. Mind Element; mind consciousness

The 11 benefits to practicing metta(loving-kindness) meditation / prayer:

1. You will sleep easily
2. You will wake easily
3. You will have pleasant dreams
4. People will love you
5. Devas (gods or angels) and animals will love you
6. Devas will protect you
7. External dangers, such as poisons, weapons, and fire, will not harm you
8. Your face will be radiant
9. Your mind will be serene
10. You will die unconfused
11. You will be re-born in happy realms