| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Dictionary definition of evil | profoundly immoral or malevolent |
| Social construct | any phenamenon invented or constructed by participants in a particular culture or society existing only because people agree it exists |
| objective truth | concepts that are true across culture and across time independent of culture |
| 3 aspects of Evil | origin, nature (what is evil), end |
| utopia | a place or state of things in which everything is perfect |
| 3 sights of Buddha | old man, sick man, dead man |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual descipline |
| dakkha | the noble truth of suffering-life is suffering |
| the 1st of the noble truths | Problem-life is full of suffering |
| the 2nd of the noble truths | Cause-cause of suffering is attachment or desire |
| the 3rd of the noble truths | Solution-solution to suffering is detachment |
| the 4th of the noble truths | Process-to follow the eightfold path |
| samsara | buddhist concept of the continous cycle of rebirth |
| afflictions of interdependent causes/effects | ignorance, craving, clinging |
| actions of interdependent causes/effects | volition, becoming |
| suffering of interdependent causes/effects | consciousness, name and form, 6 sense spheres, contact, feeling, birth, old age and death |
| 6 worlds | world of gods, men, animals, titans, hungry ghosts, hells |
| world of gods | paradise |
| world of men | lack and greed |
| world of animals | driven by desire and oppressed by men |
| world of titans | dominated by war |
| world of hungry ghosts | constant unsatisfied craving and desire |
| world of hells | torture and suffering |
| 12 sections in outer ring | interdependent causes/effects |
| 3 poisons | ignorance (boar), clinging (snake), craving (rooster) |
| monster ontop of wheel | monster of impermanence |
| ring around 3 poisons | light and dark |
| whispy line | the eightfold path out of suffering |
| what led to spiritual death | adam and eve's disobedience |
| biblical devil | an angelic or personal, spiritual being who chose to rebel against god because of pride and the desire to be independent of god |
| origin of evil | free-will |
| 7 deadly sins | pride, gluttony, lust, wrath, greed, sloth, envy |
| pride | cardinal sin and leads to all others, narcissistic and arrogant |
| sloth | failure to utilize one's talents or gifts |
| rejection of god led to... | 7 deadly sins and spiritual death |
| sins and spiritual death lead to... | personal and corporate misery and judgement which led to hell |
| concept of hell | separation of god, weeping, darkness and regret and choice/punishment |
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