A Way to Transform Your Suffering
The Noble Eightfold Path | Part 1: Worldview & Understanding
A useful philosophy contains more than a collection of words. The words must be made flesh. They must be lived. They must be embodied, felt, and experienced.
Today, then, I will pick up from where I left off with the Four Noble Truths, which provides the conceptual framework for the Buddha’s life philosophy. And then, once we’ve refreshed ourselves a bit, I will move into the Noble Eightfold Path, which asks us to live this understanding.
Recap | The Four Noble Truths
Alright. Let’s quickly recap what we learned. First things first, it’s important to remember that the Four Noble Truths hold the intention underlying the Buddha’s entire philosophy — that intention being to understand and alleviate the suffering in the world. Without understanding this aim, we can’t get very far since it holds the entire framework.
With this aim in mind, the Buddha then opens our eyes, hearts, and ears to four important things about our precious human experience, truths not to be accepted dogmatically but to be examined and understood directly for ourselves. They are:
- Suffering or Dis-ease
- The cause of suffering
