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  1. In the Elephant’s Footprint
     … Sometimes he talked about the expansion of the four noble truths into dependent co-arising. But he never mentioned the three characteristics. He didn’t awaken to the three characteristics. He awakened to the four noble truths. And from the four noble truths, he was able to awaken to nibbana. What are the four noble truths about? They’re about karma. They’re about … 
  2. The Graduated Discourse
    If you were to take a class on Buddhism in a college or university, one of the first teachings you’d learn about would be the four noble truths. And from an academic point of view, that makes sense. As Ven. Sariputta said, “All the Dhamma is contained in the four noble truths in the same way that the footprints of all animals are … 
  3. The World of the Noble Truths
     … One is the four noble truths, the other is the noble eightfold path, and they contain each other. The fourth noble truth is the noble eightfold path. And the first factor of the noble eightfold path, right view, consists of the four noble truths. This makes the point that the four noble truths are not just a theory. They are a way of looking … 
  4. Using the Four Noble Truths
  5. Timeless Practice
     … Even arahants, after their awakening, still experience change, experience fabricated things, but they’ve learned how not to suffer in the sense of the suffering of the four noble truths. They don’t weigh their minds down because of the suffering of the four noble truths. They’ve learned to put an end to it. The Buddha equates that kind of suffering or stress … 
  6. Dhammacentric
     … The other is the four noble truths along with their duties. Suffering and stress are to be comprehended. Their origination is to be abandoned. Their cessation is to be realized, and the path to their cessation is to be developed. These things are always true, always beneficial, and always should be kept in mind. The question is, when the Buddha talks about right mindfulness … 
  7. To the Far Shore
     … The question is, why is it important? To see how it’s important, you have to see that it fits into another bigger teaching, which is the teaching on the four noble truths. Ven. Sāriputta once said that if you want to understand any skillful quality, any skillful teaching, you have to put it in the context of the four noble truths. That’s … 
  8. From Darkness to Light
     … Technically, it’s said to be ignorance of the four noble truths. But it’s not simply the fact that we don’t know the four noble truths. You’ve probably heard the four noble truths many, many times. For many people, that’s the first thing they learn about Buddhism. We know the words, we can know the definitions, but we can still … 
  9. Training Your Desires
     … And that’s why the Buddha defined ignorance as ignorance of the four noble truths—not ignorance of the three characteristics, ignorance of the four noble truths—because they revolve around desire. There’s the unskillful desire that causes suffering. Then there’s the skillful desire in the noble eightfold path, under the factor of right effort, that leads to the end of suffering … 
  10. To Know the Noble Truths
    The Buddha says we suffer because of ignorance, and he defines ignorance as ignorance of the four noble truths: not seeing things in terms of suffering, the cause of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the path to the cessation of suffering. Now, for anyone who has read much about Buddhism—not even all that much—you’ve probably read about the four noble … 
  11. The Dhamma Wheel
     … As the Buddha said, when he knew the four noble truths and the three levels of knowledge appropriate to each one, that was when he was able to claim that he had gained full awakening. The four noble truths, of course, are the truth of suffering or stress—the Pali word is dukkha—the origination of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the path … 
  12. Wise about Happiness
     … At the same time, of course, the practice of merit prepares you for the four noble truths, because the four noble truths are all about what you do—and the fact that some things you do are more skillful than others. The cause of suffering is something you do. You crave. You cling. The path is something you do. You develop all the factors … 
  13. The Thinking Heart
     … That’s what the four noble truths are all about. They speak to this problem of the heart, which is the problem of suffering. But they apply your mind to it. If we think in terms of mind and heart being separate, the four noble truths try to get them back together again, so that your mind can talk to your heart in a … 
  14. Fix Your Views
     … Remember what the four noble truths have to say about right view. It’s interesting: The four noble truths are right view, but they also stand outside right view to describe the position of right view as part of the path—in other words, something to be developed. As you develop right view, it’s meant to develop right resolve, right speech, right action … 
  15. The Graduated Discourse
     … Appropriate attention usually means seeing things in terms of the four noble truths. **But it’s interesting that when the Buddha describes the four noble truths in the context of appropriate attention, he expresses them this way: “This is stress. This is the origination of stress. This is the cessation of stress. And this is the path leading there”—the implication of the word … 
  16. The Five Faculties Confirmed
     … Training the mind will require seeing things in terms of the four noble truths. Now, the four noble truths are not intuitive. As the Buddha says, we suffer because of our clinging. Our knee-jerk reaction is usually that we’re suffering because of things other people have done or because of situations outside. Or we may say that we’re suffering because we … 
  17. Abandoning Effluents (1)
     … When you’re focused on these issues, then issues of becoming—your identity in the world—and ignorance—ignorance of the four noble truths—get weakened because you are applying the questions of the four noble truths: Where is the suffering? What is the suffering? What’s the best way to relate to that? What’s causing the suffering? What’s the best way … 
  18. The Wheel of Dhamma
     … There’s a good reason why the Buddha started the teaching with the four noble truths and the duties appropriate to them, because that’s the whole framework of our practice. They may sound abstract. You may wonder why there are four noble truths. Why aren’t there five or six or three? They’re not truths about something so much as they are … 
  19. Anti-slacker Dhamma
     … When talking about the realizations that led to his finding the Deathless, he always talks about the four noble truths or dependent co-arising, which is an extension of the four noble truths. Or this/that conditionality, which covers the basic causal principles underlying the four noble truths and dependent co-arising. So the four noble truths, as he said, are the framework. The … 
  20. Friends with the Dhamma Wheel
    We just chanted the sutta on setting the wheel of Dhamma in motion, and the question sometimes arises, “Where’s the wheel?” It’s 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 each duty. It comes as twelve permutations. In other words, you’ve got four noble … 
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