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The Fourfold
Truth as taught by the Buddha is as follows:
1. Life consists entirely of suffering
2. Suffering has causes (these two are the description of reality)
3. The causes of suffering can be extinguished
4. There exists a way to extinguish the causes (the last two express
the ideal)
In explanation
of the FOURTH NOBLE TRUTH the Buddha taught the Eightfold way as
follows:
1. Right View;
seeing things as they are.
2. Right Thought.
3. Right Speech.
4. Right Action. 2, 3 and 4 are the elements of human character.
5. Right Mindfulness.
6. Right Endeavour.
7. Right Livelihood. 5, 6 and 7 are the elements of human life or
the dynamic aspects of human character.
8. Right Concentration. This is the motive power to carry one through
all the worlds; this human world of desire, the heaven of bodily
beings, the higher heaven of formless/bodieless beings and then
holy beings; finally to reach the state of PARINIVANA (Highest Nirvana)
… Buddahood.
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