The cause of suffering is craving and fundamental ignorance. The good news is that our obscurations are temporary. They are like passing clouds that obscure the sun of our enlightened nature, which is always present.
Therefore, suffering can end because our obscurations can be purified and awakened mind is always available to us. Accepting that all life is impermanent and imperfect, and that it involves suffering frustration or dissatisfaction.
The truth of the origin of suffering. Knowing that there are things in life that cause suffering, for example desire, which is the need for things to be a certain way.
The truth of the end of suffering. Understanding that suffering can be ended if we detach ourselves from craving and desire. Finally, the noble truths are noble in the sense that they deserve respect. This, too, relates to that handful of leaves.
This indicates that these truths deserve to be placed before all others. All too often, the world tells us to ignore the suffering entailed in our clinging and caused by our craving, to regard these things as trivial and irrelevant. Our greed, aversion, and delusion are all too happy to ignore these truths in pursuit of their own agendas, the truths that hold more value for them.
They prefer that craving be given free rein. They force us to make a choice: Which are we going to respect more—our cravings or the truths of how suffering arises and how it can be brought to an end? Thank you for subscribing to Tricycle! As a nonprofit, we depend on readers like you to keep Buddhist teachings and practices widely available.
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Contrary to what is accepted in contemporary society, the Buddhist interpretation of karma does not refer to preordained fate. Karma refers to good or bad actions a person takes during her lifetime. Good actions, which involve either the absence of bad actions, or actual positive acts, such as generosity, righteousness, and meditation, bring about happiness in the long run. Bad actions, such as lying, stealing or killing, bring about unhappiness in the long run.
The weight that actions carry is determined by five conditions: frequent, repetitive action; determined, intentional action; action performed without regret; action against extraordinary persons; and action toward those who have helped one in the past. Finally, there is also neutral karma, which derives from acts such as breathing, eating or sleeping. Neutral karma has no benefits or costs.
Karma plays out in the Buddhism cycle of rebirth. There are six separate planes into which any living being can be reborn -- three fortunate realms, and three unfortunate realms.
Those with favorable, positive karma are reborn into one of the fortunate realms: the realm of demigods, the realm of gods, and the realm of men. While the demigods and gods enjoy gratification unknown to men, they also suffer unceasing jealousy and envy.
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