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Heart of Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
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One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers by Gail Sher
Meditations of the Heart: Classic Meditations Based on the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism by Jack Kornfield
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Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, & Liberation: The Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, & Other Basic Buddhist Tea by Thich Nhat Hanh
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The Feeling Buddha: A Buddhist Psychology of Character, Adversity and Passion by David Brazier
The Four Noble Truths by Dalai Lama
Buddha Heart, Buddha Mind : Living The Four Noble Truths by Bstan-Dzin-Rgya-Mtsho
From the Four Noble Truths to the Four Universal Vows by Christine D'Amico
Pain and Its Ending: The Four Noble Truths in the Theravada Buddhist Canon by Carol Anderson
Life Is Weird: And Other Noble Truths (Little Books With Big Ideas) by Laurie Fisher Huck
Early Buddhist Philosophy in the Light of the Four Noble Times by Alfonso Verdu
Four Noble Truths
The Four Noble Truths are taught in Buddhism as the fundamental insight or enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha (the historical Buddha), which led to the formulation of the Buddhist philosophy.
1. Dukkha: All worldly life is unsatisfactory, disjointed, suffering.
2. Samudaya: There is a cause of suffering, which is attachment or desire (tanha).
3. Nirodha: There is a way out of suffering, which is to eliminate attachment and desire.
4. Marga: The path that leads out of suffering is called the Noble Eightfold Path.
This outline form is exactly that used by doctors of the Buddha's culture when diagnosing and prescribing for a disease: identify the disease, its cause, whether it is curable, and the prescribed cure. Thus the Buddha treats suffering as a "disease" we can confidently expect to cure.
Because of its focus on suffering, Buddhism is often called pessimistic. But since Gautama Buddha presented a cure, Buddhists consider it neither pessimistic nor optimistic but realistic.
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