Four Noble Truths

The Buddha liked to make lists.

So the first speech he gave after he got enlightened was the Four Noble Truths.

And the fourth of the Noble Truths is actually a list within a list.

And that's the Eightfold Path.

Now we can also say that, uh, the triple gem, the second item on the list of the triple gem.

is the dhamma itself the teaching of the buddha and that the teaching of the buddha comes in the form of the more noble truths that he said in fact that he only taught one thing and that was dukkha dukkha naroda and that uh the common expression that we use here is don't worry be happy that's the whole real teaching of the buddha is that don't get caught up in stuff don't get involved with arguments that already everything is okay and so we avoid the the dukkha we avoid the bad feelings and then go to uh sidestepping or stepping around the dukkha so that the entire teaching of the buddha can be referred to as uh duca duca neroda now that breaks down immediately into the four noble truths and the first truth of the dhamma is that duca dissatisfaction exists things break hearts break computers break lives break everything that is there is going to fall apart that along with that idea of uh there is duca it does exist is that um we can see it as temporary knowing that everything is temporary we can sort of have prior knowledge that things are temporary, so that when something does break, you can say, aha, I see that, I know that, I've known it all along that things have a tendency to break, and here it is breaking, but guess what? I'm not going to break my heart because some computer broke.

This is the way of looking at the Dhamma, is that dukkha comes when we don't like the chain.

And things are going to change.

All of that stuff makes life much easier.

That when you own a lot of stuff, that means there's a lot of stuff that can get broken and a lot of stuff that can feel bad.

So this is the main teaching of the Buddha, is these Four Noble Truths, that everything falls apart if you attach to it the fact that you own it.

Bhikkhu Buddha Das, in fact, says that nothing is worth clinging to as I, me, or mine, because anything that you do cling to as I, me, or mine is subject to breakage, is subject to change.

Do we talk about the cause of suffering? Do we talk about the cessation of suffering? Do we talk about a path that can end suffering? What is it called? Very good.

This is actually about the Four Noble Truths.

Okay, so let's look at the Four Noble Truths in Buddhism.

This is why fundamentals in Buddhism, Buddhism 101 are the most basic teachings by the Buddha.

After the Buddha attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, after he came out from the perfect enlightenment, he walked to the path of Sana, the deer park.

And this was the first Dharma he preached the Four Noble Truth and the Noble Eightfold Path.

So if you are Buddhist, you're studying Buddhism, this is like a must know Okay, so let's look at what the Buddha said about the Four Noble Truths.

Why are they called the Four Noble Truths? What do you think? Yes, it is definitely real, right? Definitely Noble Truths.