The Four noble Truths
The Dharma discovered by the Buddha was Ariyasacca or the Four Noble Truths namely
- Dukkha : Because human nature is not perfect, during our lifetime we can inevitably have to endure physical suffering such as pain, sickness, injury, tiredness, old age, and eventually death. we have to endure psychological suffering like sadness, fear, frustration, disappointment, and depression. All these things are natural kinds of suffering everyone has to face in like.
-Samudaya : The origin of suffering is attachment. Because of attachment, humans struggle in many ways trying to hold everything around them. And this is the reason why humans suffer by desire, passion, ardour, pursuit of wealth and prestige, striving for fame and popularity.
- Nirodha : The third noble truth expresses the idea that suffering can be ended by attaining dispassion, suffering can be overcome through human activity simply by removing the cause of suffering. Attaining and perfecting unattachment is a process of many levels that ultimately results in the state of Nirvana.
- Magga : There is a path to the end of suffering and a gradual path of self-improvement, which is the Eightfold Path. It is the middle way detween the two extremes of excessive self-indulgence hedonism and excessive self-mortification or ascetioism, and it leads to the end of the cycle of rebirth.