Four Noble Truths

We’ve gone through a general explanation of the twelve links of dependent arising. We need to develop more and more familiarity with this system in order to be able to actually work with it. Therefore, it is a very worthwhile topic to study and to contemplate over and again. ...

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...

His Holiness’s advice on teaching the lam-rim is to start with the four noble truths.

Shakyamuni Buddha first taught the four noble truths: true sufferings, true origins or causes of sufferings, true stoppings or cessations of suffering and its causes, and the true pathway mind that will lead to these stoppings.

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.

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

We need to develop a deeper understanding of the four noble truths by understanding its sixteen aspects.