Noble Truth
Essays

The Truth of Suffering -- the First Noble Truth

When Buddha discusses suffering or pain (dukkha), the First Noble Truth, he is referring not only to pain as though someone had burned a hand on a stove, or had stumbled and bruised knee.

The central concept of Buddhism is the Four Noble Truths. The Four Noble Truths inform both Buddhist theory and Buddhist practice. Even though there are many different branches of Buddhist philosophy, they all share in…

The Four Noble Truths as taught by Buddhism characterize human life universally. No human being, however healthy or however wealthy, is free from suffering or from desire. According to Buddhist teacher Ajahn Sumedho,…

Compared to Western Psychology, what are the characteristic features Buddhist approaches to the mind? To what extent can these fruitfully interact?

Buddhism is a religion which originated in Northeast India and follows the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama. He became famous as "the Buddha," a term which means "the enlightened one." Buddhism has two major divisions --…