The Four Noble Truths

Описание: This is an edited video of an online Dhamma talk given to the participants of the SA-Zest Deepavali Retreat on 4 November 2021.

00:00 Start
00:06 Introduction
00:50 Middle Path as a cliché
01:24 Brief biography of Siddhattha's search for enlightenment
04:41 Rationale behind self-mortification
07:20 Supreme enlightenment of the Buddha
07:33 Middle Path in context
08:04 Sensual indulgence in context
09:05 First sermon
10:35 Noble Eightfold Path
11:05 4 Noble Truths
11:20 Definition of suffering in the first sermon
11:24 3 types of suffering
14:54 Dukkhadukkha (painful suffering)
15:25 Vipariṇāmadukkha (transformational suffering)
17:05 Saṅkhāradukkha (constructional suffering)
18:38 Empirical evidence for the power of mindfulness
22:53 Momentary nature of the 5 aggregates
23:08 We have more than one mind
24:44 Categorising suffering as defined in the first sermon
30:24 Cause of suffering
33:12 Ending/cessation of suffering
39:22 What is nibbāna?
39:41 The way that leads to the cessation of suffering
40:29 Root cause of mental sufferings in the world
41:20 Experiential verification of the first two Noble Truths led to my renunciation