🌿 Theravāda Buddhism 101
Focus:
Your own direct practice to reach enlightenment with emphasize of mindfulness, impermanence, and direct insight.
Main figure:
Gautama Buddha (the historical Buddha)
Theravāda does not rely on Amitābha Buddha for rebirth or salvation. Instead you will hear:
“Buddho”
Metta phrases
Pali chanting
Gautama Buddha was not a god. Buddha was a human being. This is very important in Theravāda. He was a human who: struggled, practiced, awakened. This means others can too.
Theravāda uses the Pali Canon, the oldest preserved teachings of the Buddha. They are in the Pali language — which is why chanting sounds the way it does.
Pali is how venerable monks who walked for peace communicated. They spoke different languages.
Core practices:
Mindfulness meditation
Loving-kindness (Metta)
Moral living
Wisdom through insight
Goal:
Become enlightened through your own realization. I walk step by step myself.
Three core practices:
Theravāda is often summarized in three trainings:
- Morality (Sīla) – being harmless, honest, kind
- Meditation (Samādhi) – calming and focusing the mind
- Wisdom (Paññā) – seeing reality clearly
In the Buddha’s teaching, loving-kindness — Metta — is not just something we give to others. It is something that grows inside and protects the mind.
As taught when Metta is cultivated sincerely, it brings: inner calm, freedom from fear, gentle strength, and a natural compassion for all beings.
The Four Noble Truths
These are the core realization of Gautama Buddha:
1. Life includes suffering (dukkha)
2. Suffering has a cause (craving)
3. Suffering can end
4. There is a path that leads to its end
The Noble Eightfold Path
Everything the monks do fits into these:
- right understanding
- right intention
- right speech
- right action
- right livelihood
- right effort
- right mindfulness
- right concentration
Sangha - Buddhist practitioners/monks. There are monastic Sangha - refers to ordained monks and nuns who follow the…
🌿 Theravāda Buddhism 101
Focus:
Your own direct practice to reach enlightenment with emphasize of mindfulness, impermanence, and direct insight.
Main figure:
Gautama Buddha (the historical Buddha)
Theravāda does not rely on Amitābha Buddha for rebirth or salvation. Instead you will hear:
“Buddho”
Metta phrases
Pali chanting
Gautama Buddha was not a god. Buddha was a human being. This is very important in Theravāda. He was a human who: struggled, practiced, awakened. This means others can too.
Theravāda uses the Pali Canon, the oldest preserved teachings of the Buddha. They are in the Pali language — which is why chanting sounds the way it does.
Pali is how venerable monks who walked for peace communicated. They spoke different languages.
Core practices:
Mindfulness meditation
Loving-kindness (Metta)
Moral living
Wisdom through insight
Goal:
Become enlightened through your own realization. I walk step by step myself.
Three core practices:
Theravāda is often summarized in three trainings:
- Morality (Sīla) – being harmless, honest, kind
- Meditation (Samādhi) – calming and focusing the mind
- Wisdom (Paññā) – seeing reality clearly
In the Buddha’s teaching, loving-kindness — Metta — is not just something we give to others. It is something that grows inside and protects the mind.
As taught when Metta is cultivated sincerely, it brings: inner calm, freedom from fear, gentle strength, and a natural compassion for all beings.
The Four Noble Truths
These are the core realization of Gautama Buddha:
1. Life includes suffering (dukkha)
2. Suffering has a cause (craving)
3. Suffering can end
4. There is a path that leads to its end
The Noble Eightfold Path
Everything the monks do fits into these:
- right understanding
- right intention
- right speech
- right action
- right livelihood
- right effort
- right mindfulness
- right concentration
Sangha - Buddhist practitioners/monks. There are monastic Sangha - refers to ordained monks and nuns who follow the…
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