Four Noble Truths Meditation By Lillian

THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS WHEEL OF DHARMA SUTRA

Each of the four noble truths has four parts, making up sixteen aspects of the four noble truths.

True suffering has...

Impermanence

Misery

Emptiness

Selflessness

True source has...

Cause

Source

Strong production

Condition

True cessation has...

Cessation

Pacification

Abundance

Definite emergence

True path has...

Path

Knowledge

Achievement

Deliverance

HOW DO WE ACHIEVE LIBERATION FROM CYCLIC EXISTENCE?

We achieve liberation from cyclic existence through realising the third and fourth noble truths, true cessation, and true path. Realising them depends on first realising the first two truths, namely true suffering, and true source. You need to understand true suffering to be the very nature of cyclic existence and then you are motivated to escape.

WHAT IS CYCLIC EXISTENCE?

To be liberated from cyclic existence we need to know what cyclic existence is. As a human being, you have five aggregates,

Form

Feeling

Discrimination

Compositional factors

Consciousness

We have form but we're not form.

We have feeling but we're not feeling.

We have discrimination but we're not discrimination.

We have compositional factors but we're not compositional factors.

We have consciousness but we're not consciousness.

These five aggregates are the basis of the label "person", a person is dependent on five aggregates.

Cyclic existence is the five contaminated aggregates of every ordinary being arising from contaminated karma and delusion. An ordinary being is distinguished as one who has not attained the path of insight. A sentient being is anyone who has not attained Buddhahood. It's ordinary beings who suffer in cyclic existence.