Ajahn Dhammasiha is asked how to apply the Buddha's teaching of Four Noble Truths in our daily life.
The 4 Noble Truths are a core teaching of the Buddha, that is acknowledged as fundmental in all Buddhist traditions, including Therevada, Mahayana and Vajrayana.
These thruths do not constitute a philosophical thought excercise, but are directly applicable to our experience of pain, disappointment and suffering. They show us a practical method in the Noble Eightfold Path to completely extricate ourselves from pain, frustration, depression, old age sickness, death and repeated birth.
Ajahn points out that we usually blame external causes for any pain and disappointment we experience:
"It's because of this person that I'm so miserable!"
However, we can never get out of suffering by trying to eliminate all external causes. There's just too many of them, and often they are beyond our control.
Instead, the Buddha points us to the internal causes of suffering: Craving; Attachment; Desire; Anger; and the Delusion of I, Me, Mine and Self.
If we can abandon the internal causes of our suffering, we can overcome it once and forever. We can experience the state beyond all suffering: Freedom, Release, the Deathleath Element, Nibbāna.
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