What are the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism? An explanation of the four noble truths in Buddhism: suffering, true cessations, true paths, and true origins. The Four Noble Truths are you should know Suffering....
The Four Noble Truths are you should know Suffering. Bottom line is whether we are humans or animals we want to be happy. We just don't know. We keep creating causes for more unhappiness. We open mouth, insert foot and do things that are just not kind. Buddha says that through our own suffering we can learn to get out of it.
The way out is the second noble truth which is True Cessations. True Cessations of Suffering come when we change inside our minds. We change from a person saying, "It doesn't matter what I say to you. I don't care if it hurts or not. I'm just gonna say, I don't really want to harm anybody. I know that my words are very unkind sometimes." It's an internal looking inside to say, "You know what I love my husband so much that I'm gonna show him, by watching myself, by not letting my anger get the better of me. I'm going to that loving place instead of that vengeful place or the other places our minds can go to."
So, True Cessations are taking Buddhist teachings and realizing that through changing our minds we can change everything. We change on the inside out. True Cessations are taking the teachings and putting them into our hearts, actually practicing them.
The third is True Paths. True Paths are spiritual paths from a Buddhist standpoint, our internal paths of spiritual growth, internal changing, changing myself who is a critical person to a person who criticizes less, who has less anger. Every year you change a little bit more. Pretty soon you evolve into a person who is not angry, who is not critical, who is actually loving.
The fourth is True Origins. It's actually the first. Buddha says everything comes from our mind. Our happiness comes from our mind. Our sadness comes from our mind. Our hatred comes from our mind, within us. Ignorance comes from our minds. We can't blame anyone or anything for our unhappiness. It's actually very powerful, because it gives us the opportunity to move to a place of liberation, which is what Nirvana is, freedom from all suffering. Then we can help everybody else. As long as we're all going up and down the waves of suffering in our lives, we are not much help for our friends, to others. We can't help them, until we get out. Imagine yourself, or imagine one person, then another, one by one developing and maintaining peaceful states of mind all day long, all night long? This would have a huge, huge impact.
