The 4 Noble Truths
are Absolutes!
The 1st Noble Truth:
This is Suffering!
There is no
pain,
which does not torment!
And nothing that is not pain torments...
This certainty, that existence torments:
Is what makes that 1st an absolute
truth...
The 2nd Noble Truth:
Craving is the Cause!
No other source causes
suffering, than
craving,
Nothing else provides
this craving, than misery...
This utter certainty in
producing suffering:
Is why this 2nd is considered
an absolute
truth!
The 3rd Noble Truth:
Suffering can End!
There is no pure peace except
Nibbāna,
Nibbāna cannot be anything, but peace...
This certainty that it is
this perfected peace:
Is why the 3rd is reckoned as an
absolute
truth.
The 4th Noble Truth:
By the Noble Way!
No exit-outlet is there other than the
Noble
Way,
The Noble Way never fails to provide
the escape...
This sure status as the one and only Exit:
Has made this Noble 8-fold Way recognized
as the absolute 4th
Noble
Truth.
This genuinely irrefutable infallibility,
Which is their true
and essential core,
Is what the wise declare to be
The Truth's
meaning
common to all four!
Visuddhimagga 496
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/pdfs/PathofPurification2011.pdf
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The_3rd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Ceasing_of_Suffering,
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