What are the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism, in summary?
1. Life is frought with suffering (this is the correct version of the first noble truth – it is not ‘life is suffering’. For you see we can’t escape it, happiness is very fleeting. If you want a new car, to eat at your favorite resteraunt, or a new pair of shoes that can make you happy – but it’s not permanent it will leave and gain you will return to a state of unhappiness wishing for something else to fill that void (this is speaking on a very general level – realize) 2. We suffer because we grasp for things As i explained about we search for happiness outside of ourselves – hoping that some inanimate object will make us happy but it won’t. Now this doesn’t mean abandon all material posessions and live in a box in the woods. No, you can still take simple pleasure from these items but realize and do not delude yourself into thinking that you can always be happy with only these things or that these things will make you happy forever. 3. We can end this suffering, it is not inevitable T
