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Beneath the Bodhi tree the future-buddha entered four subsequent states of meditation David Beckham Jersey , and from these, he remembered his previous lives and gained understanding of the processes of samsara that all forms of life are subject to. He saw that the cause of rebirth was ignorance which would only cease when the need for sense-pleasures were quenched. As his ignorance of the truth was dispelled he was set free, and seeing things as they truly are, he became an enlightened being. A Buddha.


After the Buddha had singlehandedly found the path that leads to freedom, he returned to his former ascetic companions and shared with them the truth (DharmaDamma) of his discovery, at the deer park in Benares. This was the setting for his first sermon known as the Dhamma-cakka-pavattana sutta, which means 'discourse on the setting in motion the wheel of truth'. The Buddha revealed the Four Noble Truths concerning DukkhaDuhkha, a word, originally sanskrit Manchester United FC Jersey , that can be translated as meaning 'suffering' or alternatively as 'anguish', 'unsatisfactoriness' or 'ill'.


The first noble truth is that the nature of existence, as experienced by all living things is suffering. this truth was the cause of the Buddha's initial agitation when he first encountered old age, disease, and death. Everything that is born is subject to decay and death and is therefore recognized as 'Anicca', that is, impermanent. within samsara all are fated to suffer this process repeatedly, not only in this world, but also in the other various levels of existence that can be both heavenly and hellish Leroy Sane Jersey , the destination determined by an individuals particular karma. Greed, Hatred, and Delusion, being specific to the nature of samsara, are also states of suffering.


Both dukkha and anicca are categorized as two of the 'three marks of conditioned existence', the third being 'Anatta' or 'no-self'. According to Buddhism the individual self is not really a 'self' at all but an illusionary construct of five aggregates known as Skhandhasskandas. these are; 1)Rupa (form); 2) Vedana (feeling); 3) Sanna (perception); 4) Sankaras (skilled or unskilled actions or tendencies); and 5) Vinnana (consciousness). It is these skandas, in interaction with one another, that are to be understood as being subject to samsara rather than the individual, who does not really exist.


In a Buddhist text known as 'Milinda's Questions' the body is likened to a chariot. Here Kevin De Bruyne Jersey , the monk Nagasena demonstates for the benefit of the inquiring King Milinda that as the individual parts of the 'self' do not contain the 'self' within themselves, then "How can there be a self?", when the individual parts are viewed collectively? Likewise, the seperate parts of a chariot have no 'chariot' within them, so how is it that a chariot exists when the parts are connected? The answer is "there is no chariot" and similarly neither is there a self. the 'self' is merely a convenient label of no real substance (Horner, I.B 'trans', in Beckerlegge, 2001, p.349-51). And so Oleksandr Zinchenko Jersey , the individual is seen as anatta.


The second noble truth concerns the cause, or 'Uprising', of suffering. Dukkha is born from ignorance and perpetuated through our desire for sense-pleasures. Existence is perceived as a series of conditions that function within a wheel of cause and effect known as Paticcasamuppada, which means 'Dependent Origination' or 'Conditional Arising'. It is all wrong desires that keep the wheel turning. As all wrong desires have adverse causes, they also have adverse effects, which in turn become causes of more forms of suffering. The Buddha regarded individuals to be 'on fire' through their attachment to objects of desire (Horner, I.B 'trans', in Beckerlegge, 2001 Sergio Aguero Jersey , p.344). In feeding the flames of the senses, we perpetuate the false belief that we are real, and as we persist in 'Ever-Becoming' samsara retains its awful hold:



If this is, that comes to be;
From the arising of this, that arise;
However;
If this is not, that does not come to be;
From the stopping of this, that is stopped
'Majjhima-Nikaya 2.32'
(Horner, B.I 'trans', in Zaehner Manchester City FC Jersey , R.C, 'ed', 2001, p.277)

With the third noble truth the Dharma of Buddhism makes the transition from darkness to light as it reveals, optimistically, that there is an end to suffering. By dispelling ignorance and quenching the flames of sense-desire, the realm of conditional existence, along with all impermanence and suffering that distinquishes it, can be transcended:


There is an island which you cannot go beyond. It is a place of nothingness Jordan Henderson Jersey , a place of non-possession and of non-attachment. It is the total end of death and decay, and this is why i call it Nibbana (the extinquished, the cool).
'Kappas Question in the Sutta-Nipata'
(Saddhatissa. H, in Beckerlegge, 2001, p.349)


The root meaning of Nirvana, or Nibbana, is to 'blow out' such as the blowing out of a fire. The word 'skanda' means 'heap' or 'bundle' and can refer to a bundle of wood. As already mentioned, the burning of individuals by their desire for sense-objects has them caught up in samsara and a state of ever-becoming. the skandas which constitute the self Mohamed Salah Jersey , or rather, the no-self, can be compared to a burning bundle of wood that needs to be extinquished. And when the desires for sense-objects are 'blown out' Nirvana is attained.


The fourth noble truth is the path that is to be followed if there is to be an end of suffering. It is the practice of Buddhism Itself, known as the Eight-Fold Way, which is often divided into three categories.


These are:


A) wisdom. which includes, 1) perfect understanding and 2) perfect resolve, which are both related to a correct knowledge and application of the Buddha's teachings in the life of an individual.


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