Life is suffering (dissatisfaction in the face of ongoing change)
Suffering's cause is craving or desire (attachment, greed, grasping)
That can be ended
Through the
Emptiness/interbeing (egolessness, no self)
Signlessness/notionlessness (everything changes, impermanence )
Wishlessness/non-craving (ending dissatisfaction, desire and aversion)
Three schools, or styles, of Buddhism
Hinayana: Self-development through monastic, intensive, or rulebound practice
Mahayana: Expanding to include wider communities, and embracing all beings
Vajrayana: Embracing life itself as enlightenment
Buddha (self nature; I take refuge in the Buddha),
Sangha (community; I take refuge in the Sangha),
Dharma (teachings/laws/truth/wisdom; I take refuge in the Dharma)
Everlasting Truth: not raising the view of extinction is called "not killing."
Ungraspable Truth: not arousing the thought of gain is called "not stealing."
Free Truth: not raising the view of attachment is called "not being greedy."
Inexplicable Truth: not expounding a word is called "not lying.
Pure Truth: not arousing ignorance is called "not being intoxicated."
Faultless Truth: not talking about sins and mistakes is called "not talking about others' faults and errors."
Truth of Equality: not talking about self and others is called "not elevating oneself and putting down others."
Pervading Truth: not clinging to a single thing is called "not being stingy."
Truth of No-self: not contriving a reality of self is called "not being angry."
Truth of Oneness: not raising a distinction between Buddhas and beings is called "not slandering the Three Treasures."
A Mahayana Vow
Beings are numberless; I vow to save them.
Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to end them.
Dharma gates are boundless; I vow to enter them.
Buddha's Way is unsurpassable; I vow to become it.