Four Noble Truths

An introduction to the Four Noble Truths, Buddha’s unique approach to the problem of suffering, and how it can be solved.

An explanation on how the four noble truths are understood at initial, intermediate and advanced levels.

The basic framework for the Buddhist teachings.

The true causes of our true sufferings are our belief in a false reality and unawareness that it is mere fantasy, plus the disturbing emotions and compulsive behavior that they generate.

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.

A brief introduction to Buddhism.

The lam-rim, or graded stages of the Buddhist path, take us from an ordinary limited being to a fully enlightened Buddha.

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

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.