The essence of Buddha's teachings is to free people from suffering and achieve enlightenment. The core of his teachings is made up of the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, and the Three Universal Truths.
The Four
Noble Truths
- The truth of suffering
- The truth of the cause of suffering
- The truth of the end of suffering
- The truth of the path to end suffering
- A set of eight guiding principles that help people end suffering and achieve enlightenment
- One of the guiding principles is Right View, which is knowledge about the cause of suffering
- True happiness comes from inner peace
- A peaceful mind can help people handle life's challenges
- People should avoid causing harm to others
- People should cultivate good and purify their hearts
The Noble
Eightfold Path
The Buddha's
values
wisdom, kindness, patience,
generosity, compassion, loving kindness, and humanity.
The Buddha's
message
A: The Buddha described the Four Noble Truths which
from the heart and nucleus of all his later teachings. The Four Noble Truths
are:
- The Noble Truth of
suffering.
- The Noble Truth of
origin of suffering.
- The Noble Truth of the
Extinction of suffering.
- The Noble Truth of the
Path that leads to the Extinction.
They also represent the essence of his teachings for those
who understand these noble truths generatively and vividly will become noble
persons (Ariya).
Q.2.
Why do beings have to wander so long in saṁsāra?
A: “It is through not understanding, not realizing
the Four Noble Truths, that beings have to wander so long through this round of
rebirths. And the Four Noble Truths are:
- The Noble Truth of
suffering.
- The Noble Truth of
origin of suffering.
- The Noble Truth of the
Extinction of suffering.
- The Noble Truth of the
Path that leads to the Extinction.
Q.3.
State the Noble Truth of suffering.
A: Birth is suffering, decay of ageing is
suffering, sickness is suffering, death is suffering, sorrow, lamentation,
pain, grief, and despair are suffering, association with the undesirable and
beloved ones is suffering, not to get what one desires is suffering, in short:
The Five Groups of Existence are suffering.
Q.4.
Why is the Five Groups of Existence (clinging) regarded as suffering?
A: The Five Groups of Existence (clinging) are the
corporeality group, the feeling group, the perception group, the group of
mental formations and the consciousness group.
In other words they represent all the material entities
and the mental entities that constitute the body and mind of all beings. If we
can observe these entities penetratively with the mink-eye, that is, the mind
associated with the right concentration, one shall observe that they are
arising and dissolving very rapidly and incessantly. So they are impermanent
and unsatisfactory, and what is impermanent and unsatisfactory must be regarded
as suffering.
Q.5
Is sensual pleasure real happiness or suffering? Why?
A: 1.sensual
pleasure is not real happiness, if is suffering.
2. When pleasant sense objects appear in the sense door
(eye, ear, etc.). Pleasant sensations arise. People enjoy these pleasant
sensations with joy and with greed-rooted consciousness. The pleasant
sensations, the joy of enjoyment with greed-rooted consciousness represent
sensual pleasure. Since they immediately dissolve soon after they have arisen,
sensual pleasure is transient, feeling, and prelude to suffering.
3. We have to exert constant effort to enjoy sensual pleasure again and again when we can no longer enjoy it; we are disappointed, exerting constant effort and disappointment mean suffering. Since sense desires can never be gratified, ungratified desires mean suffering.
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