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# Four Noble Truths

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The Four Noble Truths are a Buddhist teaching.

## [edit] Truths

The First Noble Truth: Dukkha

1. Life Means suffering. Dukkha usually is translated as suffering. Other working definitions of dukkha are unsatisfactory, insubstantial and impermanence.

The Second Noble Truth: Samudaya

2. The cause of suffering is desirous attachment. Our attachments to loved ones, life to thoughts and feelings cause much of the suffer we wish to avoid.Pain and Suffering are inevitable.

The Third Noble Truth: Nirodha

Nirvana is the Absolute Truth.

The Fourth Noble Truth: Magga

The Path. Truth is found through the Middle Way by way of the Eightfold Path.

      1. Right Viewpoint - Realizing the Four Noble Truths (samyag-dṛṣṭi, sammā-diṭṭhi)
      2. Right Values - Commitment to mental and ethical growth in moderation (samyak-saṃkalpa, sammā-saṅkappa)
      3. Right Speech - One speaks in a non hurtful, not exaggerated, truthful way (samyag-vāc, sammā-vācā)
      4. Right Actions - Wholesome action, avoiding action that would do harm (samyak-karmānta, sammā-kammanta)
      5. Right Livelihood - One's job does not harm in any way oneself or others; directly or indirectly (weapon maker, drug dealer, etc.) (samyag-ājīva, sammā-ājīva}
      6. Right Effort - One makes an effort to improve (samyag-vyāyāma, sammā-vāyāma)
      7. Right Mindfulness - Mental ability to see things for what they are with clear consciousness (samyak-smṛti, sammā-sati)
      8. Right Meditation - State where one reaches enlightenment and the ego has disappeared (samyak-samādhi, sammā-samādhi)

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