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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How should we treat our suffering?

2. What is the opposite of mindfulness?

3. Looking deeply into our suffering and writing down what nutriments we are feeding to sustain takes what?

4. Right speech is based on what?

5. Non-thinking allows us to enter reality __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Fourth Mindfulness Training?

2. What is selective concentration?

3. How should one speak the truth?

4. How can one find conditions for happiness that are already available?

5. How can one avoid unwholesome thoughts? How can one touch the seeds of joy and peace and transform our suffering?

6. How is conscious or mindful breathing important?

7. Describe the first stage of the Third Noble Truth and the second turning.

8. Why do we suffer?

9. What is a misunderstanding about suffering?

10. What is used to understand the Four Noble Truths?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hahn feels we must be mindful of our well-being and happiness.

Part 1) What steps can be taken to be mindful or our well-being and happiness?

Part 2) What nourishes your joy? How? how can you enhance they joy and happiness in your life in accord with Buddha's teachings?

Part 3) How do the Noble Truths play a part in understanding and increasing your joy and happiness?

Essay Topic 2

The twelve turning of the wheel of Dharma is practiced to understand the Four Noble Truths.

Part 1) What are the twelve turnings of the wheel of Dharma? What are the Four Noble Truths?

Part 2) How do the turnings help one to understand the wheel of Dharma?

Part 3) What does this connection between the turnings of the wheel of Dharma and the Four Noble Truths reveal about other aspects of Buddhism and their connection with one another?

Essay Topic 3

Buddha taught the Eightfold Path up until his death.

Part 1) What is the Eightfold Path? How can it be applied in your daily life?

Part 2) How is this Path connected to other aspects of Buddhism?

Part 3) How might Buddha have created this Eightfold Path? How is this Path a progression of steps as in other aspects of Buddhism? I sthis practical for everyday life? Why or why not?

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