Buddhism

Buddhism is a complex system with the aim of enlightenment, defined as the eradication of suffering, which is caused by the mind's tendency to form a "self" which desires. In one sense, the aim of Buddhism is to exorcise your soul. In a political sense, the aim of Buddhism is to eliminate society, tradition, the family, etc. Nietzsche defined it as a "pessimistic" philosophy for this reason, calling it "beyond good and evil." It was a favorite of the fascist Julius Evola.

4 noble truths

 * 1) Suffering exists
 * 2) The cause of suffering is desire
 * 3) The end of desire is the end of suffering
 * 4) The noble eightfold path leads to the end of desire.

8 fold noble path

 * 1) Right view
 * 2) Right resolve
 * 3) Right speech
 * 4) Right action
 * 5) Right livelihood
 * 6) Right effort
 * 7) Right mindfulness
 * 8) Right concentration

12 links of dependent origination

 * 1) Ignorance
 * 2) Fabrications, impulsees
 * 3) Sense-consciousness (consciousness of the 6 senses)
 * 4) Name-and-form (mind and body: the 5 skhandas and the body made of the 5 elements)
 * 5) Sense-bases (eye, ear, taste, touch, smell, etc)
 * 6) Contact (object, base, consciousness meet)
 * 7) Feeling (pleasant or unpleasant reaction to contact)
 * 8) Craving (of the six senses)
 * 9) Clinging (sensual, view, practice, self)
 * 10) Becoming (how the sense of self relates to consciousness)
 * 11) Birth (arising of the sense of self)
 * 12) Aging, death, suffering (the sense the ego is under attack)

12 reversed links, from suffering to freedom

 * 1) suffering
 * 2) faith
 * 3) joy
 * 4) rapture
 * 5) tranquillity
 * 6) happiness
 * 7) concentration
 * 8) knowledge and vision of things as they are
 * 9) disenchantment with worldly life
 * 10) dispassion
 * 11) freedom, release, emancipation
 * 12) enlightenment consciousness

5 Skhandas (perception of self)

 * 1) Forms (the body)
 * 2) Feelings (pleasure, pain, neuter)
 * 3) Perceptions (complex thought, mental objects, memory)
 * 4) "Foundations" (impulses, karma, intuition, willpower)
 * 5) Consciousness