Four Noble Truths

Once we have a little bit of an understanding of the twelve links of dependent arising and how our uncontrollably recurring rebirth, samsara, actually works, then we can focus with close placement of mindfulness on the feelings in terms of being the true origins of suffering....

Review True sufferings and the true origins of sufferings are the first two noble truths. These are the things that we need to rid ourselves of. There are four aspects that are associated with each of these and, to work with them in meditation, it is necessary to have a clear...

We have done the meditation on the close placement of mindfulness on the body and it might also be helpful to try the meditation of the close placement of mindfulness on the feelings in terms of the noble truth of the true origins of suffering. General View of Feelings as...

Mind Is Nonstatic Let’s go on to the close placement of mindfulness or mental glue now holding onto or focusing on the mind, meaning specifically primary consciousness – the five types of sense consciousness (eye, ear, nose, tongue and body consciousness) and mental...

The Fourth Noble Truth — True Pathway Minds The fourth close placement of mindfulness is on phenomena in terms of the four aspects of the fourth noble truth. “Phenomena” in this context refers to the mental factors and specifically the factor of discriminating awareness. The...

The Mahayana tradition of the four close placements of mindfulness correlates each of the four in terms of one of the four noble truths for countering one of the four discordant ways of paying attention to our five aggregates.

The true suffering in life that we all face is that, with the types of limited bodies and minds that we have, we perpetuate our problems.

With a true cessation of the true causes of true sufferings, none of the true sufferings can ever recur again.

Non-conceptual cognition of the total absence of anything corresponding to our misconceptions about how we exist is the true pathway of mind leading to the true cessation of the true causes of all our true sufferings.

An uncommon explanation of the four noble truths as what Buddha taught to counter two sets of reversed, mistaken views.