Short List of Buddhist Lists
Four Noble Truths
https://www.lionsroar.com/what-are-the-four-noble-truths/
1. Suffering: Life always involves suffering, in obvious and subtle forms. Even when things seem good, we always feel an undercurrent of anxiety and uncertainty inside.
2. The Cause of Suffering: The cause of suffering is craving and fundamental ignorance. We suffer because of our mistaken belief that we are a separate, independent, solid “I.” The painful and futile struggle to maintain this delusion of ego is known as samsara, or cyclic existence.
3. The End of Suffering: The good news is that our obscurations are temporary. They are like passing clouds that obscure the sun of our enlightened nature, which is always present. Therefore, suffering can end because our obscurations can be purified and awakened mind is always available to us.
4. The Path: By living ethically, practicing meditation, and developing wisdom, we can take exactly the same journey to enlightenment and freedom from suffering that the buddhas do. We too can wake up.
Eight-Fold Path (4th Noble Truth)
https://tricycle.org/magazine/noble-eightfold-path/
THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH
1. Right understanding (Samma ditthi)
2. Right thought (Samma sankappa)
3. Right speech (Samma vaca)
4. Right action (Samma kammanta)
5. Right livelihood (Samma ajiva)
6. Right effort (Samma vayama)
7. Right mindfulness (Samma sati)
8. Right concentration (Samma samadhi)
Six Paramitas
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-six-perfections-449611
1. Generosity
2. Morality
3. Patience
4. Energy/Zeal
5. Meditation
6. Wisdom
Each of the Six Perfections supports the other five, but the order of the perfections is significant also.
For example, the first three perfections--generosity, morality, and patience--are virtuous practices for anyone. The remaining three--energy or zeal, meditation, and wisdom--are more specifically about spiritual practice.
The Ten Paramitas:
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/teachings.htm
Paramita means gone to the other shore, it is the highest development of each of these qualities.
1. Giving or Generosity; *
2. Virtue, Ethics, Morality; *
3. Renunciation, letting go, not grasping;
4. Panna or Prajna "Wisdom" insight into the nature of reality; *
5. Energy, vigour, vitality, diligence; *
6. Patience or forbearance; *
7. Truthfulness; Skillful Means
8. Resolution, determination, intention;
9. Kindness, love, friendliness;
10. Equanimity.
Four Immeasurables
Love
Compassion
Empathic Joy
Equanimity
Five Wisdoms/Poisons in [ ]
http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Five_buddha_families
1. wisdom of dharmadhatu {nondual awareness} [ignorance]
2. mirror-like wisdom [anger]
3. wisdom of equality [pride]
4. wisdom of discernment [desire]
5. all-accomplishing wisdom [jealousy]
Excellent Chart of Five Buddha Families & their qualites & connections:
http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Five_buddha_families
Eight Worldly Concerns
https://www.lionsroar.com/buddhism-by-the-numbers-the-eight-worldly-concerns/
1 & 2: Happiness vs. Suffering
Once we have happiness, fear arises, for we are afraid to lose it. When suffering arises, no amount of wishful thinking makes it go away. The more we hope for it to be otherwise, the more pain we feel.
3 & 4: Fame vs. Insignificance
We are obsessed with fame and afraid of our own insignificance. When it dawns on us how hard we need to work to be seen as someone special, our fear of insignificance is only magnified.
5 & 6: Praise vs. Blame
We need to be pumped up constantly or we begin to have doubts about our worth. When we are not searching for praise, we are busy trying to cover up our mistakes so we don’t get caught.
7 & 8: Gain vs. Loss
Just as we are about to congratulate ourselves on our success, the bottom falls out. Over and over, things are hopeful one moment and the next they are not, and in either case we are anxious.
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