정토회 온라인 불교대학

Introduction To Buddhism I

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Course Description

In Jungto Dharma School, you will learn the original teachings of the Buddha under the guidance of Ven. Pomnyun Sunim. You will learn how the mind works and experience changes in your perspective on life.

Ven. Pomnyun Sunim

Ven. Pomnyun Sunim is well known for his unique ways of engaging audiences in Dharma Q&A sessions. Before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, his talks took place in public places like community centers, libraries, universities, and churches and were free of charge. Thus, they were easily accessible to people from all walks of life and of different ages and religious backgrounds.

Course curriculum

1. Lesson Home Week 18
1. 1 of 3. 🔴 Opening Dharma Talk for the 2021 Jungto Dharma School
2. 2 of 3. 🔴 Opening Dharma Talk for the 2022 English Jungto Dharma School
3. 3 of 3. 🔴 Ven. Pomnyun Sunim (법륜스님)'s Journey Toward Happiness and Freedom
4. Week 1 Wrap Up
1. 1 of 3. 🔴 1. Whose Teaching Came First, the Buddha's or Freud's?
2. 2 of 3. 🔴 2. What Is the Essence of Buddhism?
3. 3 of 3. 🔴 3. Contradictions in Buddhism
4. Week 2 Wrap Up
1. 1 of 3. 🔴 1. Do We Share Our Thoughts or Our Feelings?
2. 2 of 3. 🔴 2. The Reason We Do Sharing
3. 3 of 3. 🔵[Optional] 3. What Is Sharing? by Ven. Pomnyun Sunim
4. Week 3 Wrap Up
1. 1 of 4. 🔴 1. Why Do We Need to Attain Enlightenment?
2. 2 of 4. 🔴 2. How Can I Measure My Progress in Practice? I
3. 3 of 4. 🔴 3. What Is Awakening?
4. 4 of 4. 🔵[Optional] 4. What Is Enlightenment?
5. Week 4 Wrap Up
1. 1 of 5. 🔴 1. The True Aim Of Buddhist Practice
2. 2 of 5. 🔴 2. What Factors Contribute to Our Happiness?
3. 3 of 5.🔴 3. Enlightenment Is Becoming Liberated from Reincarnation
4. 4 of 5. 🔴 4. Finding Happiness in the Here and Now
5. 5 of 5. 🔵[Optional] 5. What are the Buddha's Teachings?
6. Week 5 Wrap Up
1. 1 of 6. 🔴 1. A Buddhist Perspective on the Environmental Crisis
2. 2 of 6. 🔴 2. The Meaning of Barugongyang, the Traditional Buddhist Meal
3. 3 of 6. 🔴 3. What Can Schools, Communities, and Nations Do to Deal with Climate Change?
4. 4 of 6. 🔵[Optional] 4. How to Focus on Solving the Climate Crisis
5. 5 of 6. 🔵[Optional] 5. Are There Any Buddhist Guidelines for Preparing and Consuming Food?
6. 6 of 6. 🔵[Optional] 6. Barugongyang and the Clean Plate Campaign
7. Week 6 Wrap Up
1. 1 of 4. 🔴 1. Should I Change My Method of Practice?
2. 2 of 4. 🔴 2. Can I Be Happy While Maintaining Mindfulness?
3. 3 of 4. 🔴 3. Be Here, Now and Me: the Way to Nirvana
4. 4 of 4. 🔵[Optional] 4. How Can I Maintain My Patience?
5. Week 7 Wrap Up
1. 1 of 6. 🔴 1. What Is the Meaning of the Middle Way?
2. 2 of 6. 🔴 2. What Is the Eightfold Path? I (Precepts)
3. 3 of 6. 🔴 3. What Is the Eightfold Path? II (Meditation)
4. 4 of 6. 🔴 4. What Is the Eightfold Path? III (Wisdom)
5. 5 of 6. 🔵 5. [Optional] The Middle Way
6. 6 of 6. 🔵 6. [Optional] How Should We Practice to Attain Enlightenment? The Middle Way and the Eightfold Path
7. Week 8 Wrap Up
1. 1 of 6. 🔴 What Is the Law of Dependent Origination?
2. 2 of 6. 🔴 Humans and Nature
3. 3 of 6. 🔴 What Is Nonself?
4. 4 of 6. 🔵[Optional] The Meaning of Having the Three Jewels within the "Self"
5. 5 of 6. 🔴 The Definition of "Self" in Buddhism
6. 6 of 6. 🔵[Optional] How Can I Experience the State of Nonself?
7. Week 9 Wrap Up
1. 1 of 4. 🔴 1. The World We Know Is Different from Reality
2. 2 of 4. 🔴 2. The Twelve Sense Fields and the Eighteen Realms
3. 3 of 4. 🔴 3. The Five Aggregates and Real Entity
4. 4 of 4. 🔵[Optional] 4. Differences in Perspective
5. Week 10 Wrap Up
1. 1 of 4. 🔴 1. What Are the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination
2. 2 of 4. 🔴 2. How Can We Change Our Habits?
3. 3 of 4. 🔴 3. How Can We Maintain Equanimity?
4. 4 of 4. 🔵[Optional] 4. What Is True Mindfulness?
5. Week 11 Wrap Up
1. 1 of 6. 🔴 1. The Threefold Refuge and Its Historical Meaning (Theravada & Mahayana)
2. 2 of 6. 🔵[Optional] 2. The Threefold Refuge in Common Terms
3. 3 of 6. 🔴 3. Modern Buddhism and Its Focus on Religion
4. 4 of 6. 🔴 4. How to Do the 1000-Day Practice
5. 5 of 6. 🔴 5. Six Principles of Unity, the Way to Achieve Harmony in the Sangha
6. 6 of 6. 🔵[Optional] 6. What Can I Do to Ensure Peace Within My Family?
7. Week 12 Wrap Up
1. 1 of 5. 🔴 1. How Can I Process the Anger and Sadness I Feel About Racist and Sexist Crimes?
2. 2 of 5. 🔴 2. How Can Different Philosophies and Religions Reconcile?
3. 3 of 5. 🔴 3. What Can Be Done for World Peace and Harmony?
4. 4 of 5. 🔴 4. Integrating Meditation and Peace Work
5. 5 of 5. 🔵[Optional] 5. At Justice Assembly at 2018 Parliament of the World’s Religions
6. Week 13 Wrap Up
1. 1 of 5. 🔴 1. What Is the Meaning of No Everlasting Abiding Dharma?
2. 2 of 5. 🔴 2. How Should I Answer the Question, "Who Am I?"
3. 3 of 5. 🔵[Optional] 3. What Is Emptiness?
4. 4 of 5. 🔴 4. What Is the Meaning of "Emptiness"?
5. 5 of 5. 🔵[Optional] 5. How Can I Maintain Order in Life?
6. Week 14 Wrap Up
1. 1 of 6. 🔴 1. Definition of justice
2. 2 of 6. 🔴 2. How Can One Avoid Being Bound by Ethics and Morality?
3. 3 of 6. 🔴 3. Following the First Precept
4. 4 of 6. 🔴 4. The Buddha's Teaching Related to Career Choice
5. 5 of 6. 🔵[Optional] 5. How Can I Measure My Progress in Practice II
6. 6 of 6. 🔵[Optional] 6. What do You Recommend us to do in Life?
7. Week 15 Wrap Up
1. 1 of 6. 🔴 1. How Can We Solve World Problems in a Non-Materialistic Way?
2. 2 of 6. 🔴 2. We are JTS
3. 3 of 6. 🔴 3. The History of the Mungyeong Jungto Retreat Center
4. 4 of 6. 🔴 4. The Compassion of Sujata
5. 5 of 6. 🔴 5. The Objective of Practice
6. 6 of 6. 🔵[Optional] 6. Acceptance Speech - The 37th Niwano Peace Prize
7. Week 16 Wrap Up
1. 1 of 4. 🔴 1. What is Chamhoe?
2. 2 of 4. 🔴 2. What Should Be My Mindset While Doing 108 Bows?
3. 3 of 4. 🔴 3. The Objective Truth
4. 4 of 4. 🔵[Optional] 4. Don't Look at Others, Look Within Yourself
5. Week 17 Wrap Up
1. Week 18 Wrap Up
1. 1 of 4. 🔴 1. Practice Is to Change Your Habits
2. 2 of 4. 🔴 2. How to Apply the Middle Way to Practice
3. 3 of 4. 🔴 3. Practice Is to First Know Yourself
4. 4 of 4. 🔴 4. The History and the Purpose of the 108 Bows

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Introduction To Buddhism I

Course Description

Ven. Pomnyun Sunim

Course curriculum

⭐ W E L C O M E ⭐

[Week 1] Orientation

[Week 2] Buddhism as a Practice

[Week 3] Seminar I - What Is Sharing?

[Week 4] Teachings on Enlightenment

[Week 5] The Goal of Buddhism : Nirvana and Liberation

[Week 6] Seminar II - The Buddhist Perspective on the Environment and the Formal Monastic Meal

[Week 7] The Four Noble Truths and the Law of Causality

[Week 8] The Middle Way and the Eightfold Path

[Week 9] The Law of Dependent Origination

[Week 10] The Five Aggregates, the Twelve Sense Fields, the Eighteen Realms

[Week 11] The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination

[Week 12] The Threefold Refuge and The Six Principles of Harmony

[Week 13] Peace and Harmony

[Week 14] No Everlasting Abiding Dharma and the Five Precepts

[Week 15] Current Social Problems and The Tasks of Buddhism

[Week 16] Seminar IV - Vision of Jungto Society

[Week 17] Chamhoe(Repentance) and The Real Meaning of Prayer

[Week 18] A Life of Happiness and Freedom I

[Week 19] A Life of Happiness and Freedom II

About this course