Search results for: "The Four Noble Truths"

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  2. Protecting Your Space
     … Belief in kamma is what grows into an understanding of the four noble truths: There is suffering, and it’s clinging. There is a cause, and the cause is there in the mind, something the mind is doing, and something you can do something about. There are factors in the mind that you can convert into the path; you want to develop those so … 
  3. The Buddha’s Wisdom
     … He identifies the problem for you in the four noble truths: The problem is suffering—the suffering we inflict on ourselves but don’t have to. The suffering he identified as clinging to the five aggregates. And he defined clinging as desire and passion. The cause of suffering is craving. Craving, too, is desire and passion, the difference being that the word for craving … 
  4. The Sublime Attitudes
     … If we didn’t have goodwill for ourselves and the people around us, the four noble truths wouldn’t make any sense as an important teaching. It’s because we would like to see suffering end, not only for ourselves but for the people around us, that we want to follow the path to the end of suffering. We’re concerned to find out … 
  5. Analyzing Suffering
     … Views about karma, views about the nature of suffering and the four noble truths: These are useful views for the purpose of putting an end to suffering. So you hold on to those. As for precepts and practices, after all, the Buddha does give the precepts for us to follow, and there’s the practice of jhana. Here again, you follow these practices as … 
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