11-01a What question has been asked only of Jesus and Buddha?
What are you?
11-01b How did Buddha answer (the question that has only been asked of Jesus and Buddha)?
I am awake
11-02 What does the term Buddha mean?
Enlightened one or awakened one
11-03 What legends surround the life of Buddha?
The worlds were flooded with light at his birth. Everyone rejoiced and wee peaceful except Mara.
11-04 What are the known historical facts of Buddha's life?
Born in 563 BC in modern day Nepal, the son of a feudal lord. Born Siddartha Guatama of Sakyas he seemingly had everything including a wife except he still felt discontent.
11-05 By legend, what did the fortune tellers summoned by Siddartha's father predict?
If he remained with the world, he would become a world conquered and unify India. If he renounced the world, he would become the world redeemer.
11-06a What are the four passings?
Old age, disease, death and withdrawal from life
11-06b What accumulative lesson is learned (from the four passing)?
Body cannot escape age, disease, decrepitude and death in despair of finding the physical plane. You can't bring anything with you. This instigated Buddha's desire to escape the finite self for a world of neither age nor death.
11-07 What was the "great going forth"?
Renounced worldly things and followed path of truth seeker and enlightenment on a six year journey through the forest.
11-08 What are the three phases of Siddhartha's six year journey?
Hindu Yogis, asceticism, raja yoga
11-09 What is the immovable spot?
The Bo tree where Buddha sensed his enlightenment and finished raja yoga
11-10 What were the Evil One's first three temptations?
Desire of three women, death through hurricanes, challenged right to what he was doing
11-11 What is the Great Awakening?
Buddha's enlightenment
11-12 What was Mara's last (fourth) temptation?
Who could understand Buddha's discovered truth?
11-13 What were Buddha's post-enlightenment activities?
Preaching, founding order of monks and nuns, challenging Brahmin society and accepting resentment
11-14 How did Siddhartha, now Buddha, die?
From dysentery after eating a meal of dried boars flesh at Cunda the Smith's home
11-15 What is the meaning of the Taoist periscope?
Try to find develop the ultimate not the natural world