Four Truths for the Aryas

A framework that explains our unsatisfactory experience in cyclic existence and how we can free ourselves from it.

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Four Truths for the Aryas

Attributes of true dukkha: Empty

How to identify our wrong views about a permanent, unitary, and independent person.

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Four Truths for the Aryas

Attributes of true dukkha: Dukkha

How to meditate on the unsatisfactory conditions that characterize our existence in samsara.

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Four Truths for the Aryas

The three higher trainings

How the three higher trainings relate to each other and why we need all three…

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Four Truths for the Aryas

The truth of dukkha

The four aspects of the first truth, the truth of dukkha. How we are stuck…

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Examining our obstacles

Examining where our heart of compassion gets blocked and explanation of the Buddhist perspective on…

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Four Truths for the Aryas

The four noble truths

An overview of how we can strive to benefit ourselves and others in the long…

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Four Truths for the Aryas

Ethics and right livelihood

A response to a student's question on what to do if one's loved ones are…

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Four Truths for the Aryas

Pali tradition and noble path

The 16 aspects of the four noble truths in the Pali tradition, focusing on the…

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Four Truths for the Aryas

Third and fourth noble truths

The remaining eight aspects of the third and fourth noble truths of true cessations and…

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