Friends:
The 4 Noble Truths are Absolutes!
The 1st
Noble Truth:
This is Suffering!
There is no
pain,
which does not torment!
And nothing that is not pain torments...
This certainty, that existence torments:
Is what makes that 1st an absolute
truth...
The 2nd
Noble Truth:
Craving is the Cause!
No other source causes suffering, than
craving,
Nothing else provides this craving, than misery...
This utter certainty in producing pain:
Is why this 2nd is considered an absolute
truth!
The 3rd
Noble Truth:
Suffering can End!
There is no pure peace except
Nibbâna,
Nibbâna cannot be
anything, but peace...
This certainty that it is perfect peace:
Is why the 3rd is reckoned as an absolute
truth.
The 4th
Noble Truth:
By the Noble Way!
No outlet is there other than the
Noble Way,
The Noble Way never fails to provide escape...
This sure status as the one and only Exit:
Has made this Noble 8-fold Way recognized
as the absolute 4th Noble
Truth.
This genuinely irrefutable infallibility,
Which is their true and essential core,
Is what the wise declare to be
The Truth's
meaning
common to all four!
Visuddhimagga 496
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdfs/PathofPurification2011.pdf
More on these Four Noble Truths (Ariya-Sacca):
The_4_Truths_Meaning,
Indeed_True,
The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering,
The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering,
The_3rd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Ceasing_of_Suffering,
The_4th_Noble_Truth_on_The_Way_to_Cease_Suffering
Have
a
nice
&
noble
day!
Friendship is the
Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samāhita
_/\_ ]
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Absolute Certainty!
--
Related Buddhist site:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Group Home:
http://groups.google.com/group/What_Buddha_Said
Edit your membership to unsubscribed, normal email,
summary, digest or no email here:
http://groups.google.com/group/What_Buddha_Said/subscribe
May all beings become thus Happy!
Friendship is the GREATEST!
Have a Nice Day!
Bhikkhu Samahita
Ceylon