ÿþ<html> <head> <style> <!-- p.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-top:0in} p {font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; } --> </style> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <title>Drop of Dhamma Delight!</title><link rel="shortcut icon" href="../../Pics/icons/011.ico" ><body background="../../Pics/brown7-bg.jpg"><table border="1" cellpadding="17" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="99%" id="AutoNumber1" height="780"><tr><td width="95%" background="../../Pics/orange.jpg" height="100%"><center><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="97%" id="AutoNumber2" height="90%"><tr><td width="90%" style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 9pt" height="105%" bordercolor="#000000" background="../../Pics/BDBackgrnd.jpg" align="left" valign="top"> </head> <div class=Section1> <body bgcolor="#FFCC00" lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=blue> <div class=Section1> <div> <div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><b> <font size="7"> <span style='font-family:Papyrus;color:#993300'>Friends:</span></font></b></p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p class=MsoNormal> <span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus; color:#993300'>  <b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <u>The 4 Noble Truths&nbsp;are the Core of Buddhism!</u></b></span></p> <blockquote> <p> <img border="0" src="../../Pics/four-noble-truths.ssss.gif" width="515" height="103"><br> <br><span style='font-family:Verdana; color:#800000'><u>1: This is </u><b><span class=GramE><u>Suffering</u></span><u>!</u></b></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS"> </span></font><span style="font-size: 11.0pt"> <font face="Comic Sans MS"> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Suffering.htm">Suffering</a></font> <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS;'>is of three kinds:<br>a: Obvious suffering, which is any bodily </span> <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS;'>pain</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS;'>&nbsp;and&nbsp;any mental sadness.<br>b: Suffering due to change includes also pleasant feeling as this indeed also<br>becomes quite disappointing, when it inevitably&nbsp;changes, fades, and vanishes.<br>c: Suffering due to construction is all that is conditioned, since all this thus <br>later inevitably will fall apart. This also includes any object, which&nbsp;induces a <br>neutral feeling. This <a href="http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm">1st Noble Truth</a>, that points out that all worldly things<br>ultimately speaking is Suffering, has to be fully <i>understood</i> in all aspects...<br> <br></span></span> <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS;'> <img border="0" src="../../Pics/suffering.ogr.jpg" width="515" height="69"><br> </span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'> <br></span> <span style='font-family:Verdana;color:#800000' class="GramE"> <u>2: <b>Craving is the Cause</b> of Suffering!</u></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><font face="Comic Sans MS"> <a href="http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Craving.htm">Craving</a> is of three kinds:</font></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><br></span> <span style="font-size: 11.0pt"><font face="Comic Sans MS">a</font><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; '>: Craving for sensing forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touches,&nbsp;&amp; mental states.<br> b: Craving for becoming. (ex: May I become rich, forever young, famous, etc.)<br>c: Craving for non-becoming (ex: May I neither become sick, nor old, nor&nbsp;</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; '>dead!</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; '>)<br>This <a href="http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering.htm">Second Noble Truth</a> on the Cause of Suffering has to be <i>eliminated</i>...</span></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Comic Sans MS;'> <img border="0" src="../../Pics/4ntruth.gif" width="515" height="177"></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; color:black'><br></span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'> <br></span><u> <span style='font-family:Verdana;color:#800000' class="GramE">3: <b>Absence of Craving is the End</b> of Suffering!</span></u><span style='font-family:Verdana;color:#993300'><br> </span><font face="Comic Sans MS"> <span style="font-size: 11.0pt">a: Not craving for any sense stimuli of any kind...<br>b: Not craving for any kind of re-becoming as this or that in any future...<br>c: Not craving any non-becoming, but accepting all ills that inevitably come... <br>This <a href="http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_3rd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Ceasing_of_Suffering.htm">3rd Noble Truth</a> on the End of Suffering has to be <i>accomplished!</i></span></font></p> <p><u><span style='font-family:Verdana; color:#993300'><img border="0" src="../../Pics/4.noble.tryths,ppu.gif" width="277" height="192"><img border="0" src="../../Pics/4.noble.truths.bs.jpg" width="236" height="192"><br> <br></span> <span style='font-family:Verdana; color:#800000' class="GramE">4: <b>The Noble 8-Fold Way is the Method</b> to End Suffering!</span><span style='font-family:Verdana; color:#993300'><br></span></u><span style='font-size: 11.0pt;'><font face="Comic Sans MS">Which <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Noble_8-Fold_Way.htm">Noble 8-fold Way</a> has to be developed in order to end all suffering?<br></font></span> <span style='font-size:11.0pt;'> <font face="Comic Sans MS">1: <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_View.htm"> Right View</a></font><font face="Comic Sans MS">&nbsp; <i>(samm-ditthi)</i><br> 2: <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Motivation.htm">Right Motivation</a> &nbsp;<i>(samm-sankappa)</i><br> 3: <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Speech.htm">Right Speech</a> &nbsp;<i>(samm-vc)</i><br> 4: <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Action.htm">Right Action</a> &nbsp;<i>(samm-kammanta)</i><br> 5: <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Livelihood.htm">Right Livelihood</a> <i>&nbsp;(samm-j+va)</i><br> 6: <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Effort.htm">Right Effort</a> &nbsp;<i>(samm-vyma)</i><br> 7: <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Awareness.htm">Right Awareness</a> &nbsp;<i>(samm-sati)</i><br> 8; <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Concentration.htm">Right <a href="../III/Concentration_Samadhi.htm">Concentration</a> </a> &nbsp;<i>(samm-samdhi)<br></i></font></span> <span style='font-size:11.0pt; '><font face="Comic Sans MS">This <a href="http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_4_Noble_Truths.htm">Fourth Noble Truth</a> on the Way to End Suffering has to be <i>developed!</i></font></span></p> <p> <img border="0" src="../../Pics/wheel.4.jpg" width="513" height="168"></p> <span style="font-size: 11.0pt"><font face="Comic Sans MS"> <font color="#993300"><u>More on these quintessential Four Noble Truths <i>(</i></u></font><i><a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sacca.htm">Ariya-Sacca</a><font color="#993300"><u>): </u></font></i><br></font> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm"> <font face="Comic Sans MS">The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering</font></a><font face="Comic Sans MS">, <br></font> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering.htm"> <font face="Comic Sans MS">The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering</font></a><font face="Comic Sans MS">,<br> </font> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3rd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Ceasing_of_Suffering.htm"> <font face="Comic Sans MS">The_3rd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Ceasing_of_Suffering</font></a><font face="Comic Sans MS">,<br> </font> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4th_Noble_Truth_on_The_Way_to_Cease_Suffering.htm"> <font face="Comic Sans MS">The_4th_Noble_Truth_on_The_Way_to_Cease_Suffering</font></a><font face="Comic Sans MS">,<br> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Actually_So.htm">Actually_So</a>, <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Perfectly_Enlightened.htm">Perfectly_Enlightened</a>, <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Pass_it_on.htm">The_Stick</a>, <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Abyss.htm">The_Abyss</a>,<br> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Absolute_Certainty.htm">Absolute_Certainty</a>, </font> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_16_Aspects.htm"> <font face="Comic Sans MS">The_16_Aspects</font></a></span></li><font face="Comic Sans MS">, <span style="font-size: 11.0pt"> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sour_Sense_Sources.htm">Sour_Sense_Sources</a>,</span></font><span style="font-size: 11.0pt"><font face="Comic Sans MS">&nbsp; <br> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Indeed_True.htm">Indeed_True</a>, <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Noble_Truths.htm">The_4_Noble_Truths</a>, <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Whenever_and_Wherever.htm">Whenever_and_Wherever</a>, <br></font> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Concentrated_Truth.htm"> <font face="Comic Sans MS">Concentrated_Truth</font></a><font face="Comic Sans MS">, <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/ClansMan_Breakthrough.htm">ClansMan_Breakthrough</a>, <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Focused_Truths.htm">Focused_Truths</a>, <br> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Pass_it_on.htm">Pass_it_on</a>, <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/300_Spears.htm">300_Spears</a>, </font> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Few_are_Fine.htm"> <font face="Comic Sans MS">Few_are_Fine,<span style="text-decoration: none"> </span></font></a> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Indispensable_Necessity.htm"> <font face="Comic Sans MS">Indispensable_Necessity</font></a><font face="Comic Sans MS">, <br> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ultimate_Fact.htm">The_Ultimate_Fact</a>, <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_5_Destinations.htm">The_5_Destinations,<span style="text-decoration: none"> </span></a></font> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_4_Truths_Meaning.htm"> <font face="Comic Sans MS">The_4_Truths_Meaning</font></a><font face="Comic Sans MS">, <br> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Clustered_Truths.htm">Clustered_Truths</a>, </font> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ignorance.htm"> <font face="Comic Sans MS">Ignorance</font></a><font face="Comic Sans MS">, <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Simple_yet_Complex.htm">Simple_yet_Complex</a>, <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Four_but_One.htm">Four_but_One</a>, <br> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Blind_Turtle.htm">The_Blind_Turtle</a>, <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/By_Chance.htm">By_Chance</a>, <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Trifling_Dust.htm">Trifling_Dust</a>, <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Rare_Rebirth.htm">Rare_Rebirth</a>, </font> <a href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/True_Wisdom.htm"> <font face="Comic Sans MS">True_Wisdom</font></a>.<font face="Comic Sans MS"> </font></span> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p> <span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Papyrus; 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