Four Noble Truths of Buddhism:
1. Suffering exists
2. Suffering arises from attachment to desires
3. Suffering ceases when attachment to desire ceases
4. Freedom from suffering is possible by practicing the Eightfold Path

Three Qualities Eightfold Path
Wisdom (panna) Right View
Right Thought

Morality (sila) Right Speech
Right Action
Right Livelihood

Meditation (samadhi) Right Effort
Right Mindfulness
Right Contemplation

Three Characteristics of Existence
1. Transiency (anicca)
2. Sorrow (dukkha)
3. Selflessness (anatta)

Hindrances
1. Sensuous lust
2. Aversion and ill will
3. Sloth and torpor
4. Restlessness and worry
5. Sceptical doubt

Factors of Enlightenment
1. Mindfulness
2. Investigation
3. Energy
4. Rapture
5. Tranquillity
6. Concentration
7. Equanimity

Things that slow us down and restrict our freedom
- Self-delusion
- Doubt
- Clinging to Ritual
- Sensuous Lust
- Ill Will
- Greed for Fine Material Existence
- Greed for Immaterial Existence
- Conceit
- Restlessness
- Ignorance

The ten perfections (paramis) are:
- Generosity (dana)
- Morality (sila)
- Renunciation (nekkhamma)
- Wisdom (panna)
- Energy (viriya)
- Patience (khanti)
- Truthfulness (sacca)
- Resolution (adhitthana)
- Loving-Kindness (metta)
- Equanimity (upekkha)

Surreal o visual de Sydney from Vaucluse. Can't get any better!!!!

Por do sol em Vaucluse...Visual de Sydney, surreal...