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    The four truths of Buddhism take an essential part in this religion. As it is called forward noble truths, it is chiefly partitioned in 4 sections. Dukkha, Samudaya (suffering caused by desire), Nirodha, and the last part is Magga. The primary motivation behind the Four Truths is to tell individuals that the world is loaded with agony and the reason that the individuals endure is a direct result of people desire and want. That causes the greater part of the agony (Laumakis 2008). In this paper, I

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    The Four Noble truths are essential and provide the foundation for the teachings of Buddhism. They were the first of Buddha’s teachings to his disciples after he achieved enlightenment. The Four Noble Truths are: 1. the truth of the nature of suffering (Dukkha), 2. the truth of the origin of suffering (Samudaya), 3. the truth of cessation of suffering (Nirodha) and 4. the truth of the path leading to the cessation of suffering (Marga). Dukkha, teaches that life and human existence is characterised

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    his four noble truths and the noble eightfold path with his final lesson at his time of death to see that you cannot completely remove suffering, but a healthy perspective about desire can allow one to flow past the suffering. This type of approach provides a more comprehensive idea to the teachings of the Buddha. By first exploring the four noble truths and the noble eightfold path it becomes clear that he evolved and grew as a teacher until he took his last breath. The four noble truths and

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    Gautama, were the Four Noble Truths. Not only are the four noble truths the backbone of Buddhism and they help us understand the

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    The Four Noble Truths are the central beliefs that make up the Buddhist teaching. They are not forced actions or dogmas, just simple truths established by realisations of the Buddha. Those who understand them are considered spiritually Noble. To understand the Noble Truths, one must understand the idea of ‘suffering’. Suffering according to The Buddha is birth, old age, death sorrow, grieving, dejection and despair. It is contact with unpleasant things; it is not getting the things you want or desire

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    The key problem which Buddha identifies as the first of the “Four Noble Truths” is dukkha which is most often translated as “suffering” but which can also be translated as a sense of unsatisfactoriness, of unease, of insubstantiality, of emptiness. However, two points need to be made immediately. The first is that Buddhism does not to claim that existence ultimately has to be dukkha. The whole point of the third Noble truth, which is the cessation of dukkha, is that it is possible to reach a level

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    existence. Underneath the bodhi tree, the Buddha attained the “state of awakening which he sought.” Ultimately, one can infer that the Buddha did complete all of the stages of the Four Noble Truths, since the Buddha becomes the Blessed One after attainting enlightenment. This thesis argues that through the Four Noble Truths, any person can rid themselves of suffering

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    Four noble truths exist within Buddhism – all revolving around suffering (Duhka). ‘Duhka’ is a term commonly translated as ‘suffering’ in Buddhist terminology. The term can mean ‘pain’, ‘unease’ or the ‘ultimate unsatisfactoriness’ of moments within human life (Kelly, 2008). Buddha preached that life is full of suffering, there is a cause of the suffering, it is possible to stop suffering and there is a way to extinguish suffering (Aich, 2013). Kelly (2008) describes the cause of suffering as a

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    content life, passion suddenly disappears from him. Such depression stops when he meets Socrates, an old man at the gas station, and learns inspirational lessons which connect to the Four Noble Truths from Socrates. The lessons promote great changes in Dan’s

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    The four noble truths "are suffering, origin, cessation, and path" (Lopez, 2015, p. 860). These noble truths "are said to be true only for those with insight into the nature of reality" (Lopez, 2015, p. 860). As opposed to "the benighted, they are not true" (Lopez, 2015, p. 860). In the first truth presented by Buddha, he recognizes the sufferings as "the physical and mental constituents of the person" (Lopez, 2015, p. 860). Then the Buddha moves into "the truth of the cause or origin of those sufferings"

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