The Foundations of Buddhism

Four Truths 61 true happiness as long as he and those dearest to him were prey to disease, old age, and death. This is the actua ...

Four Truths town, in another country, on another continent. But how close does it have to come before it in some sense impinges ...

Four Truths and culturally specific that it requires particular explanation; the ancient Indian sage might protest with some jus ...

Four Truths eradicate its cause that is the starting point of Buddhist practice. All this suggests something else that is fundam ...

Four Truths this kind of belief system should be seen as a relatively recent phenomenon---,-the legacy of the Reformation and th ...

66 Four Truths ideas about the ultimate nature of the world and our destiny in fact hinders our progress along the path rather t ...

Four Truths Why did the Buddha refuse to give categorical answers to these questions? It has been claimed by some modern scholar ...

68 Four Truths is fairly clear that this is indeed how the early texts and the subsequent Buddhist tradition understand the matt ...

Four Truths ccmcept of a creator God-omnipotent or otherwise. Thus there is no need in Buddhist thought to explain the existence ...

Four Truths with delight and greed, delights in this and that'; this is then specified as 'the thirst for the· objects of sense ...

Four Truths 7I At first desires may be like the trickle of a stream, but they grow into a river of craving which carries us away ...

72 Four Truths shore safe and free of danger, but there is no ferry or bridge to cross from one side to the other. What if I wer ...

Four Truths 73 beings to suffering and the round of rebirth: the view of indi- viduality, doubt, clinging to precepts and vows, ...

74 Four Truths fundamental ignorance and misapprehension of the nature of the world. Thus we can state the three fundamental def ...

·Four Truths 75 Nirval).a is a difficult concept, but certain things about the traditional Buddhist understanding of nirval).a a ...

Four Truths can be termed 'nirvat;~.a with the remainder [of life]' (sopadhise::;a- nirviifJa/sa-upiidisesa-nibbiina ): the nirv ...

Four Truths 77 nor dying, nor being reborn; it is without support, without occurrence, without object. Just this is the end of s ...

Four Truths 'non-existence' (abhiiva). But for the Sautriintikas, even this is to say too much: one should not say more than tha ...

Four Truths 79 certainly be more misleading than others,. ultimately whatever one says will be misleading; the last resort must ...

8o Four Truths The second truth suggests that we must recognize that the mind has deep-rooted tendencies to crave the particular ...