The Four Noble Truths

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This small booklet (70 pages) was compiled and edited from small talks given by Venerable Ajahn Sumedho on the central teaching
of the Buddha: that the unhappiness of humanity can be overcome through spiritual means.

The teaching is conveyed throught he Budhha's Four Noble Truths, first expounded in 528 B.C. in the Deer Park at Sarnath
near Varanasi and kept alive in the Buddhist world ever since.

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CONTENTS
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1. PREFACE

2. INTRODUCTION

3. THE FIRST NOBLE TRUTH

Suffering and self-view
Denail of suffering
Morality and compassion
To investigate suffering
Pleasure and displeasure
Insight in situations

4. THE SECOND NOBLE TRUTH

Three kinds of desire
Grasping is suffering
Letting go
Accomplishment

5. THE THIRD NOBLE TRUTH

The truth of impermanence
Mortality and cessation
Allowing things to rise
Realisation

6. THE FOURTH NOBLE TRUTH

Right Understanding
Right Aspiration
Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood
Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration
Aspects of meditation
Rationality and emotion
Things as they are
Harmony
The Eightfold Path as a reflective teaching

7. GLOSSARY