The Four Noble Truths

The Noble Truth Of Sufferings
The Noble Truth of the Cause Of Sufferings
The Noble Truth of the End of Sufferings
The Noble Truth of the path leading to the End Of Sufferings

The Noble Truth Of Sufferings

What is the Noble Truth of Sufferings?

Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering, dissociatiom from the loved one is suffering, not getting what one wants is suffering: in short this five categories affected by clinging are suffering. There is this Noble Truth of Suffering: such was the vision, insight, wisdom, knowing and light that arose in me about things not heard before.

This Noble Truth must be penertrated by fully understanding suffering: such was the vision, insight, wisdom, knowing and light that arose in me about things not heard before.

(Samyutta Nikaya LV1,11)

The Noble Truth of the Cause Of Sufferings

What is the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering?

It is craving which renews being and is accompanied by relish and lust, relishing this and that: in other words, craving for sensual desires, craving for being, craving for non-being.
But where does this craving arise and flourish? Whenever there is what seems lovable and gratifying, theron it arises and flourishes.

There is this Noble Truth of the origin of Suffering: such was the vision, insight, wisdom, knowing and light that arose in me about things not heard before.

This Noble Truth must be penertrated to by abandoning the origin of suffering: such was the vision, insight, wisdom, knowing and light that arose in me about things not heard before.

This Noble Truth has been penetrated to by abandoning the origin of suffering: such was the vision, insight, wisdom, knowing and light that arose in me about things not heard before.

(Samyutta Nikaya LV1,11)

The Noble Truth of the End of Sufferings

What is the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering?

It is the remainderless fading and cessation of that same craving; the rejecting, relinquishing, leaving and renouncing of it. But whereon is this craving abandoned and made to cease?

Wherever there is what seems lovable and gratifying, thereon it is abandoned and made to cease. There is this Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering: such was the vision, insight, wisdom, knowing and light that arose in me about things not heard before.

This Noble Truth must be penertrated to by realising the Cessation of suffering: such was the vision, insight, wisdom, knowing and light that arose in me about things not heard before.

This Noble Truth has been penetrated to by realising the Cessation of suffering: such was the vision, insight, wisdom, knowing and light that arose in me about things not heard before.

(Samyutta Nikaya LV1,11)

The Noble Truth of the path leading to the End Of Sufferings

What is the Noble Truth of the Way Leading to the Cessation of Suffering?

It is this Noble Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration.

There is this Noble Truth of the Path leading to the Cessation of Suffering: such was the vision, insight, wisdom, knowing and light that arose in me about things not heard before.

This Noble Truth must be penertrated to by cultivating the Path leading to the Cessation of suffering: such was the vision, insight, wisdom, knowing and light that arose in me about things not heard before.

This Noble Truth has been penertrated to by cultivating the Path leading to the Cessation of suffering: such was the vision, insight, wisdom, knowing and light that arose in me about things not heard before.

(Samyutta Nikaya LV1,11)