In my last blog post I wrote about The First Noble Truth. The First Noble Truth about life that the Buddha observed is that life is filled with a particular kind of suffering called dukkha. In the Second Noble Truth he described the cause of human suffering as craving. Let's see if we can connect …
On Suffering and The First Noble Truth
When you start studying Buddhism you start running into lists, lots and lots of lists. This probably has a lot to do with Buddhism originating in an oral culture where monks had to remember a ton of religious material entirely by memory. Numbered lists were one way to help give the memory a boost. Rhyming …