The Four Noble Truths

by Ajahn Sumedho | 2004 | 22,385 words

A collection of talks dealing with understanding and practicing the Four Noble Truths. The Four Noble Truths refer to a basic concept within Buddhism. In short, they refer to: dukkha (“suffering”); samudaya (“arising”); nirodha (“cessation”); marga (“the path”)....

Chapter 3 - The Third Noble Truth

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What is the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering?
It is the remainderless fading and cessation of that same craving:
the rejecting, relinquishing, leaving and renouncing of it.
But whereon is this craving abandoned and made to cease?
Wherever there is what seems lovable and gratifying,
thereon it is abandoned and made to cease.
There is this Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering:
such was the vision, insight, wisdom, knowing
and light that arose in me about things not heard before.
This Noble Truth must be penetrated to by realising the Cessation of Suffering ...
This Noble Truth has been penetrated to by realising the Cessation of Suffering:
such was the vision, insight, wisdom, knowing
and light that arose in me about things not heard before.

[Samyutta Nikaya LVI, II]

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