This project is centered around the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism:
This assignment will be done over two lab days (Monday and Friday) and will be assessed as a quiz grade. Day one will be an individual assignment while day two will be collaborative. The instructions are basic:
Day One
Day Two
- Life inevitably involves suffering. It is imperfect and unsatisfactory.
- Suffering originates in our desires.
- Suffering will cease if all desires cease.
- There is a way to realize this state: the Noble Eightfold Path.
This assignment will be done over two lab days (Monday and Friday) and will be assessed as a quiz grade. Day one will be an individual assignment while day two will be collaborative. The instructions are basic:
Day One
- Find a current news article that shows modern evidence of Noble Truth #1, and write a brief summary of the article along with an explanation of why you chose it to represent Noble Truth #1.
- Find an example of suffering that you can link to desire or greed (Noble Truth #2). [The type of evidence is up to you: news article, photograph etc..]
- Your opinion of Noble Truth #3: In your experience - based on everything from knowledge to experience - does Noble Truth #3 present a potentially effective solution to the problem of suffering? If not, why not? If so, what roadblocks stand in the way of it working?
Day Two
- Today you will be working in groups of 8 to explain the different aspects of the Eightfold Path.
- Each member of the group will focus on a single aspect of the Eightfold Path and complete a template (located in class documents) for their "eighth" of the Path. Once these templates are complete, they should be posted to the group's padlet page under the links tab of the website.
- After the templates have been uploaded, each member of the group should make a second post on the group's padlet page to answer this questions: "Does the Eightfold Path seem to present a viable method for accomplishing the goal of Noble Truth #3? Why or why not?"
- Once both of these steps are complete, follow the link under the group pages to the padlet page where we will drop the files we created one day one concerning the first 3 Noble Truths.