After enlightenment he teaches the four noble truths that I agree with and find it accurate. The first truth is “Life means suffering”. This mean that we live in an imperfect world and we ourselves are imperfect, thus we suffer.We inevitably have to endure physical and psychological suffering.
Physical suffering such as sickness, injury, pain, old age, and eventually death; and we also have to endure psychological suffering like fear, sadness, frustration, depression, and disappointment. There are also something know as positive suffering like ease, comfort and happiness, but because of our imperfectness this things are not permanent. So we can never reach any thing permanently that we strive for, and just as happy moments pass by, so do we and our love ones.I think that they are truth to this concept. If we look at the world around us nothing stays the same, there is birth and rebirth all around us.
Like when a forest is burned down because of a lightening it is then reborn after the fire settle. The second truth says, “The origin of suffering is attachment”. As we are attached to the impermanent things, this attachment is known as ignorance. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge towards the understanding that e are attaching ourselves to that which can never be permanent.
I also see truth in this noble truth. Let’s look at the burning forest again, if one was to attach there mind to one specific tree then their will feel pain and depression as the forest burned. When the forest is being reborn that person will never be able to see the true beauty of the new born, but will be drowning in depression. I think that detachment is a very important thing we must learn in order to live a happy life. It seems that we learn detachment at a very young age.
Like when a child wants a spific toy, our parents try o show us that the one we have is better, in a sense they are try to get us to detach from that which we think we really want so we can see that which is right in front of us. The third noble truth is, “The cessation of suffering is attainable”. This idea says that we can overcome suffering by the unmaking of sensual craving and conceptual attachment. If we can be detached from the materialist then we have attend a state known as Nirvana. A state free from all worries, troubles, and complexes, it is said that you cannot understand unless it has been attend.
It is like trying to explain what hot feel like to a person that only knows cold. The fourth and final truth tells us, “The cessation of suffering is attainable”. This is the most important truth of all, is the aha moment for all those that want to be free of suffering. It says that suffering can end by a gradual path of self-improvement. The path to end suffering is described in more detailed in the Eightfold Path.
Which is as follows; Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration.These Eight paths can further be categorized in three main way of life; wisdom, ethical conducts, and metal development. In total the path leads to a person that is complete free from attachment in words, thoughts and deeds. As I have previously listed Buddha has a very easy and true system.
I think that if we were to look at our culture as a whole we find that we too are trying to have some kind of moral code that will end suffering for all. If we can see the world like a forest and understand that sometimes things don’t last forever but when it is gone, something else takes it place. Then we will all live a more peaceful life.
