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                                     The Four Noble Truths

• dukkah (suffering, incapable of satisfying, painful) is an innate characteristic of existence in the realm of samsara

Now this, bhikkhus, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

• samudaya (origin, arising) of this dukkha, which arises or "comes together" with tanha ("craving, desire or attachment")

Now this, bhikkhus, is the noble truth of the origin of suffering: it is this craving [tanha, "thirst"] which leads to re-becoming, accompanied by delight and lust, seeking delight here and there; that is, craving for sensual pleasures, craving for becoming, craving for disbecoming

     nirdha  (cessation, ending) of this dukkha can be attained by the renouncement or letting go of this taṇhā;

Now this, bhikkhus, is the noble truth of the cessation of suffering: it is the remainderless fading away and cessation of that same craving, the giving up and relinquishing of it, freedom from it, non-reliance on it.

• magga (path, Nobel eightfold path) is the path leading to renouncement of tanha and cessation of dukkha.

Now this, bhikkhus, is the noble truth of the way leading to the cessation of suffering: it is this noble eightfold path; that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.

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