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2. Play AudioJustice vs. Skillfulness
    … The Buddha set out duties only in terms of the four noble truths. As for the issue of helping other people, he didn’t place a duty on anyone. He pointed out the advantages of being generous, but he didn’t try to force anyone in that direction. He simply pointed out that certain things are skillful and certain things are unskillful in your … 
3. Play AudioBecoming
    … As he said, only when he had gained knowledge of things as they have come to be — in terms of the four noble truths, and the three levels of knowledge about each truth — did he claim full Awakening. That’s the kind of knowledge we’re working our way down to. And the only way you can get down to that level of unintended … 
4. Play AudioSafety
    … There’s a school of thought that says we should be wide open to everything, and not allow even the four noble truths to restrict us. That’s basically saying that wide open experience, accepting experience, is as good as it gets. You might as well accept that. But the Buddha says there’s something better, and it comes from being focused on what … 
5. Play AudioLook at Yourself
    … As we noted today, when the Buddha describes the four noble truths, he talks about suffering and the cause of suffering, but he doesn’t talk about the cause of the end of suffering. He talks about the path you follow to get there. You can’t cause the deathless, but you can practice in a way that arrives there. It’s your activity … 
6. Play AudioEnlightenment is Not a Hot Dog
    … For others, it’s related to the four noble truths. For others, it’s related to the six sense media. And you find that as you focus on these things, they overlap more and more, so they’re not really separate topics. You start with one particular topic and you work in on it, and you discover the other topics are related. So it … 
7. Play AudioQuestion Your Defilements
    … I believe or don’t believe, but in terms of what actually happens as a result of following a particular thought, following a particular idea?” That question led him to the four noble truths, led him to see things in terms of dependent co-arising—in other words, processes just arising and passing in the mind without thinking about “This is me, this is … 
8. Play AudioFear of Death
    … The deconstruction is the four noble truths, just looking at things in terms of stress, the cause of stress, what you’re doing to put an end to that cause. And the actual end of stress comes as you get more and more precise, more and more skillful at following the path. Your precision and skill lead you to detect even more and more … 
9. Play AudioUnskillful Habits
    … But that’s what the four noble truths are pointing us to: the suffering we create for ourselves. That’s the issue. The suffering coming from outside was not the main issue. It is an issue, but because we pile on our own suffering inside, we make it more and more difficult to deal properly with the outside stuff. So straightening out our own … 
10. Play AudioSelves with Skills
     … The main issue is actually in the four noble truths, starting with the fact that we suffer in our clinging, we cling because of craving, and we crave because of ignorance. However, it is possible to put an end to that ignorance, put an end to that craving, by following the path. These are truths that carry duties: The suffering is to be comprehended … 
11. Play AudioThe Choice Not to Suffer
     … This is why the Buddha puts the cessation of stress third there in the four noble truths. Some people wonder: Why didn’t the Buddha put the path as the third truth, and then the cessation of stress as the fourth truth? Well, to have energy to follow the path, you have to be convinced that it is possible to get beyond the stress … 
12. Play AudioFire Escapes
     … That’s what the four noble truths are all about. They’re not just four interesting statements about suffering. They’re an announcement that this is the big problem in life and here’s the solution. So it’s up to you how much you want to benefit from that teaching, how much you want to benefit from that announcement. But if you are … 
13. Play AudioSensitivity & Strength
     … You work both on the intentional technique in the concentration practice, and on the questions that come up in the course of the practice, because concentration gets more solid when you learn how to ask questions in terms of the four noble truths when any distraction comes up. You can start seeing through the distraction, seeing it for what it is, realizing what you … 
14. Play AudioAdjusting the Flame
     … After all, you’ve got this problem in the four noble truths. Suffering is caused by the craving that leads to becoming, and one of the forms of craving that leads to becoming is craving for non-becoming—in other words, craving to destroy whatever types of becoming you’ve already got. So how do you free yourself from becoming without craving non-becoming … 
15. Play AudioFabricating Around Pain
     … You look at the four noble truths. It’s not the case that pains cause suffering. Craving and clinging cause suffering. In other words, the things coming out of the mind are causing suffering. But they’re not things that are there inevitably. If you bring knowledge to them, if you bring awareness to them, you can actually turn them into the path of … 
16. Play AudioAlways Willing to Learn
     … In the beginning stages where the wave is still subtle, you can apply the four noble truths: look for the stress, look for the craving and the clinging, and do what you can to let go of that craving and clinging. You need to do this early, for if you let the wave develop to a crest, to the point where you’re in … 
17. Play AudioThe Dhamma Wheel
     … People sometimes ask, “Where’s the wheel?” The wheel is in the part where the Buddha talks about the four noble truths, the duty appropriate to each, and then the fact that he had completed the duty. That was what constituted his awakening. In those days, when you talked about what we would call a table — where you set two variables against each other … 
18. Play AudioWhen You Practice on Your Own
     … So you settle the mind in with the sense of the body as you feel it from within—with a sense of ease, a sense of well-being—and from there, you contemplate the four noble truths. Many people listening to the Dhamma in this way would gain their first taste of awakening. There were other people, though, whom the Buddha would treat more … 
19. Play AudioWalking Meditation: Stillness in Motion
     … Luang Pu Dune talks about this in his short definitions of the four noble truths. The mind that goes flowing out, he says is a cause of stress. It’s good to be able to catch that flowing out in action, to see the current, to see how and why it moves, and to get practice in not flowing along with it. Ajaan Lee … 
20. Play AudioOpen Are the Doors to the Deathless
     … That’s what the four noble truths are all about. All too often, Buddhism is described as being pessimistic because it focuses on pain and suffering. Well, the Buddha never said that life is suffering, but he did say, there is suffering and this is what it is: clinging to the five aggregates, which are activities of the mind. So, it’s something you … 
21. Play AudioThe Best News in the World
     … The other categorical teaching is the four noble truths: what suffering is, what its cause is, the fact that it can be ended by putting an end to the cause, and that the way to put the end of the cause is through the noble eightfold path, which boils down to three things. Some of the factors are factors of virtue, some are factors … 
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