View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the third lord of materialism?
(a) The lord of convenience.
(b) The lord of mind.
(c) The lord of ambition.
(d) The lord of applause.

2. What does the yogi Patrul Rinpche suggest we do to arouse compassion?
(a) Relax our body in order to feel physically.
(b) Imagine ourselves in the place of someone in pain.
(c) Meditate on the feelings of others.
(d) Write letters to our enemies.

3. What are the three noble principles?
(a) Meditate, exercise, and rest.
(b) Good in the beginning, good in the middle, good in the end.
(c) Confess your faults, move toward your fears, and release your expectations.
(d) Love, hope, and generosity.

4. What is the "foundation" of bodhichitta training?
(a) Generosity.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Love.
(d) Teaching.

5. What is the compassionate aspiration that the author begins with as she begins to teach?
(a) The desire to help all of her students to feel enough compassion for themselves that the students can reach Nirvana.
(b) The wish that her students can apply the teachings to free themselves and others from suffering.
(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 aspiration that her students enjoy their class as much as she enjoys teaching.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author relates the story of a woman who found herself surrounded by people threatening to throw stones. What did she feel in that moment?

2. What are the lojong teachings for?

3. What is the main point of the formal practice of maitri?

4. What does the author compare with the rawness of a broken heart?

5. What insight did the woman give whom the author mentions is constantly on a diet?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 346 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample