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| American Indian/Native American |
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| The _____ themselves as well as those who study, Native American research and write on American Indians use the terms interchangeably. |
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| A common Lakota salutation and saying at the end of a prayer illustrates the respect for and connectedness of all things. Means literally, “to all my relations.” |
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| In the mind of the American Indian, the purpose of the ______ is to define, create, and understand reality. The story, storytelling and folklore are primary elements in maintaining tradition, preserving knowledge, and protecting the truth of the past for the American Indian. |
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| ______ is a purification rite and is necessary in order to help the vision quest seeker enter into a state of humility and to undergo a kind of spiritual rebirth. The sweat lodge is central to it. Prayers offered there draw on all the powers of the universe — Earth, Water, Fire and Air. |
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| __________ includes the traditions around health and illness not based on Western science but on tribal beliefs about how to live. Each tribe has its own methods and materials put to use in these traditional healing techniques. |
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| __________ is the true self that transcends the phenomenal world of our daily existence. |
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| This term means the science of life and refers to the system of traditional medicine native to India. |
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| One of the sacred scriptures in Hinduism containing 700 verses of conversation between Krishna and Arjuna regarding the path toward self-realization. It also forms a part of the larger text, the Mahabarata. |
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| The divine ground of all reality that is unchanging, infinite, unconditional and imminent. |
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| The path leading to righteous living. |
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| This is an action or deed governed by the law of causality that can result in positive or negative direction in future lives and in the cycle of birth and rebirth. |
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| This equates with salvation, the final liberation from the cycle of birth and rebirth, resulting in union with Brahman. |
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| The cycle of birth and rebirth. |
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| The term ______ means “knowledge” and refers to the oldest compilation of sacred scriptures in the Hindu tradition. |
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| Used to denote a sense of no-self, that is there is no real self. What we term “self” is an illusion. |
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| Referring to impermanence this term notes that everything in this life is in the state of impermanence. |
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| Refers to our ignorance which ultimately leads us to the cycle of incarnation. |
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| This term refers to the sense of suffering that is central to the religion of Buddhism, the Buddha taught that to exist is to suffer. |
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| This is the law of dependent origination seeking to explain the cycle of life. |
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| This term is close to the concept desire. Desire always leads to attachment, and attachment to being. |
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| The term ______ implies “breath of life” or “life energy” derived from Tao. In Chinese medicine, ch'i is the essence that maintains the functions of the body. |
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| _________ is the name of the religious leaders who taughtand practiced the five virtues of self-respect, generosity, sincerity, persistence, and benevolence to others. |
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| The term ______) is translated as “benevolence for all humanity.” _____ in Confucianism is compared to the Golden Rule in Christianity: “Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you” (Analects 15: 23). |
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| ______ is translated as “propriety, reverence, courtesy, and ritual.” Li implies a person’s right moral conduct that is expressed through ceremony, rites, and courtesy in human relationships. |
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| The origin of ______ is mysterious. It may be translated as the Path. But it is the Path that cannot be named or conceptualized. It encompasses everything. Tao is characterized as ultimate transcendent reality that guides the way of human life. |
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