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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Buddha say about our relationship to enlightenment?
(a) We can all achieve enlightenment through the same method.
(b) Enlightenment can be achieved by everyone.
(c) We are never separated from enlightenment.
(d) Only by releasing the goal of achieving enlightenment is it achieved.

2. What does the author cite Trungpa RInpoche as teaching?
(a) "Anger is natural, but not helpful."
(b) "Everything has meaning."
(c) "There is no cure for hot and cold."
(d) "Life is always best when you try to look on the bright side."

3. What is lhenchak?
(a) Happiness.
(b) A Tibetan term for how free-flowing love can go "astray."
(c) Tibetan for "missed opportunity to feel love."
(d) An Indian term for "practicality meeting creativity."

4. What is the compassionate aspiration that the author begins with as she begins to teach?
(a) The wish that her students can apply the teachings to free themselves and others from suffering.
(b) The aspiration that her students enjoy their class as much as she enjoys teaching.
(c) She expresses her wish to introduce her students to ideas that will open their minds to a new kind of Buddhist thought.
(d) The desire to help all of her students to feel enough compassion for themselves that the students can reach Nirvana.

5. What does the author call "those who train wholeheartedly in awakening unconditional and relative bodhichitta"?
(a) Saints.
(b) Warriors.
(c) True yogis.
(d) Winners.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does equanimity compare with our usual perspective?

2. Where did Atisha Dipankara take the bodhichitta teachings?

3. How does Chondron describe our "fundamental energy"?

4. Which of the following does the author warn that meditation can become when meditation practitioners do not pay attention to their negative emotions?

5. What does the yogi Patrul Rinpche suggest we do to arouse compassion?

(see the answer key)

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