Understanding the Four Noble Truths doesn’t come easy. It has taken me months of reading, listening and reflecting to get even a small understanding of what seems so simple. I have the benefit of over two thousand years of teachers, and I have the benefit of the insight of the Buddha himself. Actually it did take him quite a few years and going down blind alleys before he figured out the Four Noble Truths.
The Four are the golden nuggets of enlightenment:
- There is suffering
- The origin of suffering is attachment / aversion
- There can be cessation of suffering
- The path is the middle way.