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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 does the author cite Trungpa RInpoche as teaching?

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

3. Who taught that there are three principal characteristics of human existence?

4. What does Chodron warn that we become habituated to doing?

5. What does Jarvis Jay Master write?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ways does Chodron write that meditation can be misused?

2. What do the vajrayana Buddhists believe about emotions?

3. What image of maitri does Chodron use to explain the concept?

4. What are the qualities of maitri that are cultivated when we meditate?

5. What does Chodron compare to "tapping into a spring of living water that has been temporarily encased in solid rock"?

6. How did the nineteenth century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggest arousing compassion?

7. What do Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa have in common, according to Chodron?

8. Why does the author include an anecdote about finding her boyfriend "passionately embracing another woman"?

9. Under what conditions does the author claim that people can "train" to be a warrior?

10. Why does Chodron mention a walled, protected community in Florida?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why might a student training to be a bodhichitta warrior experience heightened neurosis?

Essay Topic 2

How does Chodron define joy? How does she suggest we cultivate it?

Essay Topic 3

What image of Buddhism does Chodron present to the reader? What does she write about the Buddha? What does she write about different kinds of Buddhism?

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