Transcript The Four Noble Truths

THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
By Mrs Pang-Han Ah Yew
GENERAL
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Foundation of Buddha’s teaching associated with socalled being
Doctrine is homo-centric vs theo-centric religions
Introvert not extrovert
Do not and cannot change with time –eternal truths
Original: ‘With regard to things unheard before, there
arose in me the eye, the knowledge, the wisdom, the
insight and the light’
Called ‘Ariya Saccani’ –discovered by the greatest Ariya
(far removed from passions)
FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
Suffering (dukkha ariya sacca)
2. Cause of suffering
(dukkha samudaya ariya sacca)
3. Cessation of suffering
(dukkha nirodha ariya sacca)
4. Path leading to the cessation of suffering
(dukkha nirodha gamini patipada ariya sacca)
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FIRST NOBLE TRUTH:
SUFFERING (DUKKHA ARIYA SACCA) 1
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Dukkha=that which difficult to endure
Du=comtemtible; kha=emptiness
Birth is suffering
Decay is suffering
Disease is suffering
Death is suffering
United with the unpleasant is suffering
Separated from the pleasant is suffering
Not getting desires is suffering; Wish unfulfilled is
suffering
In brief, the 5 aggregates of attachment is suffering
FIRST NOBLE TRUTH:
SUFFERING (DUKKHA ARIYA SACCA) 2
Deals with the constituents of self (individuality
& different phases of life)
 Analysed
 Scrutinised
 Examined
→a proper understanding of self
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FIVE AGGREGATES
PANCAPADANAKKHANDA
Individual is composed of 5 phycho-physical
parts:
1. Matter (rupa)
2. Feeling (vedana)
3. Perception (sanna) -2
) mind = 52
4. Mental states (samkhara) -50 ) cetasikas
5. Consciousness (vinnana)
SECOND CAUSE OF SUFFERING
(DUKKHA SAMUDAYA ARIYA SACCA)
Deals with past, present & future births –
implied kamma; deals with mental attitude of
ordinary man towards external objects of sense
 Craving produces rebirth (ponobhavika)
accompanied by passionate clinging,
welcoming life
 Craving for sensual pleasures (kamatanha)
 Craving for existence (bhavatanha)
 Craving for non-existence (vibhavatanha)
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THIRD NOBLE TRUTH:
TRUTH OF CESSATION OF SUFFERING
(DUKKHA NIRODHA ARIYA SACCA)
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Concerned with a powerful source latent in us all –
craving, causing ills of life
Complete separation from, & destruction of craving
Its forsaking
Renunciation of attachment to external world
Realised by developing Noble Eightfold Path liberation therefrom → nibbana
Non-attachment thereto
FOURTH NOBLE TRUTH:
PATH LEADING TO THE CESSATION OF SUFFERING
(DUKKHA NIRODHA GAMINI PATIPADA ARIYA
SACCA)
The Noble Eightfold Path
 Purely mental
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 Absolute
purity
 complete deliverance from all repeated births
 mind released from all passions
 immortality