Impact of the Four Noble Truths

Impact of the Four Noble Truths – (1535)

Main Point

My point with this post is to draw upon the four noble truths that the Buddha taught, and reiterate that our suffering always has a cause and that just as it is true that it has a cause there is a way out.

This is such good news that there is a cause and there is a way out and both of these two things are a truth!

Thank God!

To know this, is so useful because at times we feel our pain or suffering so vague, obtuse and mysterious that we think that it does not have a cause and much less a remedy.

But it does! It Does!

The following excerpt expands a little more on this.

Supporting Excerpt from a Book

“Regardless of the many different schools and traditions, the primary aim of Buddhism is the realisation of the Four Noble Truths. ‘Noble’ is used to signify that the realisations and consequent actions based on these truths are refined and profound. The truths are, in essence, two cause and effect relationships: dukkha and its causes, freedom from dukkha, and the causes of this freedom.

They are:

1. There is dukkha (unsatisfactoriness or suffering).

2. Dukkha has causes.

3. There is freedom from dukkha.

4. There are ways or paths to freedom.

The cause–effect relationships evident in the Four Noble Truths can be applied to the basic patterns evident with all dukkha, including psychological disorders, and provides a way out of all types of dukkha, or at the least can reduce the severity of these experiences.”

End (1535).

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