The Noble Truth of Suffering Every living being is a victim of suffering
The Lord Buddha explained the nature of suffering in detail. The Pali word for ‘suffering’ is ‘dukkha’
The Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering # 2
The Lord Buddha taught that the extent of craving in the minds of living beings is so great as to be beyond words
Mechanism # 2: Abstention from the Four Forms of Bias
Bias may occur whenever two persons are together. If we are not careful, bias can start from our mind. It will never happen if we have responsibility for our own human dignity because the true cause of bias is the untrained mind.
The Noble Truth of Suffering :10. Exposure to hateful things
The Buddha characterized this form of suffering as the sort of cloudedness of mind, grief and melancholy which result from cloudedness of mind
Monks complete four-year retreat
The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering # 4
In the Lord Buddha’s first sermon to the group of five initial disciples he advocated to steer between the extremes of sensual indulgence
The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering # 2
Thus the Lord Buddha taught that if we can overcome our greedy attachments to the things we love in the world, craving can be overcome too
The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering # 5
What is the true meaning of ‘insight’ [vipassana] meditation? In fact insight is insightful vision or seeing things according to their true nature, seeing them thoroughly from every perspective.
The Noble Truth of Suffering : 7. Pain [dukkha dukkha]
The Buddha characterized this sort of suffering as that which makes the mind depressed and dejected
The Noble Truth of Suffering : 2. Suffering as a result of Aging [jara dukkha]
The lord Buddha defined Suffering resulting from aging as the form of suffering that has the characteristic of deterioration of the bodily organs and faculties such alarming symptoms as the hair turning grey