Turning Toward Suffering
What happens when we turn our minds toward the very thing we try to avoid?
Four Noble Truths
The four noble truths in Buddhism are key insights that define the very orientation of Buddhist practice. The Buddha realized the four noble truths when he attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree. At his first sermon, he identified the truth of suffering, the truth of the origin of suffering, the truth of the end to suffering, and the truth of the eightfold path. Explore teachings, Dharma Talks, and reflections on these core Buddhist insights. Go deeper with the Tricycle online course: The Four Noble Truths.
The Four Noble Truths
Did you know that suffering is optional? In this 8-part video teaching, Tibetan master Gelek Rimpoche explains why this is true, how to recognize the causes of suffering, and how to make choices that alleviate it.…
Magazine | Teachings And Texts
The First Sermon of the Buddha
In the Buddha's first sermon at Deer Park, he taught the Four Noble Truths by addressing the existence of suffering, its cause, and its end.
Back to Basics
Dharma 101, this issue’s special section (p. 40), includes some very basic questions, but that doesn’t limit it to beginners. There’s nothing elementary in asking about karma, enlightenment, emptiness, or in asking, “if there is no…
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Who was Buddha?
Siddhartha Gautama was born around 567 B.C.E., in a small kingdom just below the Himalayan foothills. His father was a chief of the Shakya clan. It is said that twelve years before his birth the brahmins…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
The Fourth Noble Truth
The Buddha to his companions at the Deer Park: “The fourth truth is the path which leads to the cessation of suffering. It is the Noble Eightfold Path of right understanding, right thought, right speech, right…
TeachingsMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
The Buddha-charita Part II
This installment is the second in a series of excerpts from The Buddha-charita or Life of Buddha, the first complete biography of Shakyamuni Buddha, written by the poet Ashvaghosha, probably in the first century C.E. The…
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