The Four Noble Truths

 The Short Version:

1) Life is filled with suffering

2) All suffering is caused by attachment.

3)The only way out of suffering is through non-attachment (detachment)

4) Detachment can be achieved only through a profoundly spiritual path. (like the 8 fold path)

*The word detachment gets a bad wrap. It does not mean that you don't care. Ask yourself, what attaches? What part of you attaches to whatever you are attached to? Think of that part of you as your ego, which in most cases believes it rules the roost when it is, in fact, fragmented and unhealthy. Therefore attachment is painful and does cause suffering.

The eight fold path is:

Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindedness, Right Concentration.

Dear Readers, please do not assume that you understand anything you read on this blog. Written here is the language of spirit.