Quote: "In Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths (Sanskrit: चतुरार्यसत्यानि, romanized: caturāryasatyāni; Pali: caturāriyasaccāni; "The Four Arya Satya") are 'the truths of the Noble Ones', the truths or realities for the 'spiritually worthy ones'."
The four basic principles of Buddhism: suffering (dukkha), the cause of suffering (samudaya), the cessation of suffering (nirodha), and the path to the cessation of suffering (magga).
Buddha: The founder of Buddhism and the one who expounded the Four Noble Truths.
Dharma: The teachings of Buddha that provide a way of life.
Sangha: The community of Buddhist monks, nuns and laypeople.
Samsara: The cycle of birth, death, and rebirth which is the cause of suffering.
Karma: The law of cause and effect that determines the future of an individual based on their actions.
Three Universal Truths: Impermanence, suffering, and non-self.
Four Noble Truths: The fundamental teachings of Buddhism that explain the cause of suffering and the path to liberation.
Eightfold Path: The set of guidelines for living a meaningful life and achieving liberation from suffering.
Mindfulness: The practice of being fully present in the moment and aware of thoughts, feelings and surroundings.
Meditation: The practice of calming and focusing the mind to achieve inner peace and tranquility.
Noble Eightfold Path: The practice of right understanding, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.
Enlightenment: The ultimate goal of Buddhism, achieved through the practice of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.
Suffering (Dukkha): Life is marked by suffering, and everything in the world is impermanent.
The Origin of Suffering (Samudaya): The cause of suffering is desire, craving or attachment.
The Cessation of Suffering (Nirodha): The end of suffering is attainable through the eradication of craving and desire.
The Path to the Cessation of Suffering (Magga): The Noble Eightfold Path is the way to achieve the end of suffering.
Quote: "dukkha ('not being at ease', 'suffering,' from dush-stha, 'standing unstable,') is an innate characteristic of the perpetual cycle (samsara, lit. 'wandering') of grasping at things, ideas, and habits."
Quote: "samudaya (origin, arising, combination; 'cause'): dukkha (unease) arises simultaneously with taṇhā ('craving, desire or attachment, lit. 'thirst')."
Quote: "nirodha (cessation, ending, confinement): dukkha can be ended or contained by the confinement or letting go of this taṇhā."
Quote: "marga (path, Noble Eightfold Path) is the path leading to the confinement of tanha and dukkha."
Quote: "Symbolically, they represent the awakening and liberation of the Buddha, and of the potential for his followers to reach the same liberation and freedom as him."
Quote: "As propositions, the Four Truths are a conceptual framework that appear in the Pali canon and early Hybrid Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures, as a part of the broader 'network of teachings' (the 'dhamma matrix'), which have to be taken together."
Quote: "unguarded sensory contact gives rise to craving and clinging to impermanent states and things, which are dukkha, 'unsatisfactory,' 'incapable of satisfying' and painful."
Quote: "This craving keeps us caught in saṃsāra, 'wandering', usually interpreted as the endless cycle of repeated rebirth, and the continued dukkha that comes with it."
Quote: "There is a way to end this cycle, namely by attaining nirvana, cessation of craving, whereafter rebirth and the accompanying dukkha will no longer arise again."
Quote: "This can be accomplished by following the eightfold path, confining our automatic responses to sensory contact by restraining oneself, cultivating discipline and wholesome states, and practicing mindfulness and dhyana (meditation)."
Quote: "The function of the four truths, and their importance, developed over time and the Buddhist tradition slowly recognized them as the Buddha's first teaching."
Quote: "This tradition was established when prajna, or 'liberating insight', came to be regarded as liberating in itself, instead of or in addition to the practice of dhyana."
Quote: "The four truths came to represent this liberating insight, as a part of the enlightenment story of the Buddha."
Quote: "The four truths grew to be of central importance in the Theravada tradition of Buddhism by about the 5th-century CE, which holds that the insight into the four truths is liberating in itself."
Quote: "They are less prominent in the Mahayana tradition, which sees the higher aims of insight into sunyata, emptiness, and following the Bodhisattva path as central elements in their teachings and practice."
Quote: "Beginning with the exploration of Buddhism by western colonialists in the 19th century and the development of Buddhist modernism, they came to be often presented in the west as the central teaching of Buddhism."
Quote: "sometimes with novel modernistic reinterpretations very different from the historic Buddhist traditions in Asia."
Quote: "They provide a conceptual framework for introducing and explaining Buddhist thought, which has to be personally understood or 'experienced'."
Quote: "The truths are... the truths or realities for the 'spiritually worthy ones'... the potential for his followers to reach the same liberation and freedom as him."