The Four Noble Truths in Buddhism and the Eightfold Path
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The relationship of the Four Noble truths to the Eightfold Path. This discussion is limited to explaining this relationship and does not go into detail on what the 8 aspect of the Path are. These can easily be found in any Internet search. The usefulness of this explanation is that the relationship between the two is often not explained clearly. This solution does that.
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This explains what the Four Noble Truths are and how the last of them is the 8-fold path, and how that set of 8 principles leads to nirvana
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In essence, the Noble Eightfold Path is the Fourth of the four Noble Truths. The first three Noble Truths establish the preconditions for the Fourth to take place effectively. The First Noble Truth is that life is problematic (dukkha). Many books translate the word dukkha as suffering, and although that is true, it depends upon how you interpret the word 'suffering' to understand it fully. Probably it would be better in ...
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