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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. Why does the author encourage readers to question the "strategies of the ego"?
2. What does the author argue that we do to sow the seeds of our own suffering?
3. What does the author claim Martin Luther King is an example of?
4. What is the compassionate aspiration that the author begins with as she begins to teach?
5. What three difficulties does the slogan "train in three difficulties" encourage?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the Buddhist teaching tell us that all other beings have been over the course of many lifetimes?
2. What do Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa have in common, according to Chodron?
3. What does Chodron compare to "tapping into a spring of living water that has been temporarily encased in solid rock"?
4. Why does Chodron describe the experience of a young woman who was in a foreign country, surrounded by people throwing stones at her?
5. According to Chodron, what is our relationship with enlightenment?
6. Chodron asserts that there are two options in life. The first is "to grow up and relate to life directly." What is the second?
7. What aspiration is used in the practice of loving-kindness?
8. What are the three principles that the Buddha taught to be characteristic of human existence?
9. What are the three lords of materialism?
10. What are the stages of the formal practice of loving-kindness?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does the author compare our fears in life to? What analogy does she make? Do you think this is an effective analogy? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
What does Chodron say is like tapping into a spring? What is the importance of this comparison to the overall argument of this book?
Essay Topic 3
Why might a student training to be a bodhichitta warrior experience heightened neurosis?
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