Early Buddhism — Suffering, its cause, cessation, and a path
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What changes if suffering is read not as a pessimistic verdict on all life but as a diagnosis with causes and a possible cessation?
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The Four Noble Truths distinguish dukkha, its arising centered on craving, its cessation, and a path leading toward cessation.
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Mind in Indian Buddhist Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §1 Early Buddhist conceptions of mind; Four Noble Truths and dependent arising
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Reducing the teaching to “life is only suffering” misses its therapeutic structure, which allows pleasant experience while analyzing the conditioned arising and cessation of dukkha.
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Mind in Indian Buddhist Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §1–§2, dukkha, impermanence, craving, and liberation
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