Four Noble Truths

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In Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths (Sanskrit: चत्वार्यार्यसत्यान, romanized: catvāryāryasatyāni; Pali: cattāri ariyasaccāni; "The Four arya satya") are "the truths of the noble one (the Buddha)," which state how things really are when they are seen correctly. The four truths are: dukkha (lit. "suffering"; 'unsatisfactoriness', 'not being at ease'; from dush-stha, 'standing unstable'; also translated as "unreliable", "precarity, instability, an unreliable place to stand", "the Uncontrolled"). Dukkha (precariousness) is an innate characteristic of transient existence; samudaya (origin, arising, combination; 'cause'): in conjunction with this unsteadiness there is thirst (desire, longing, craving) for, attachment to, and repulsion towards transient, unsatisfactory things and feelings; nirodha (cessation, ending, confinement): this whole mass of attachment to non-controllable things can be 'blown out' (nirvana) or contained by the confinement or letting go of this craving and revulsion; marga...

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