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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. What is the fifth power?

2. Practicing impermanence helps us do what?

3. Our true home, and paradise, are where?

4. The third condition requires what?

5. What are the Five Aggregates?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the seven factors of awakening or enlightenment?

2. What is the Sixth Power?

3. How is Buddha important as one of the three jewels of refuge?

4. Describe a second paramita.

5. For what does the author ask?

6. How should one go about finding a way to earn a living?

7. How is nonself important?

8. What is Dharmakaya?

9. What are the Three Doors of Liberation?

10. What is paradise? What helps generate the energy in ourselves to be in paradise?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are Three Doors of Liberation.

Part 1) What are these Three Doors of Liberation? How are they opened by the Dharma Seals?

Part 2) How do these Doors compare to other aspects of Buddhism?

Part 3) Are these required to be truly liberated and joyful? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

One's living is important.

Part 1) What type of living is important? Why is this important?

Part 2) How does this reinforce Buddha's teaching? How can this Right-living lead to peace and joy?

Part 3) How does one's living affect others? How does it affect the world?

Essay Topic 3

Buddha said we feed our happiness or suffering with four nutriments.

Part 1) What are the four nutriments? Are these good? Why or why not?

Part 2) What is the importance of these nutriments? What nutriments do you feed in your own life?

Part 3) How could you feed your happiness in your own life that would follow the principles of Buddhism?

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