The fourth noble truth is fine, as is the 2nd and 3rdI do not know about university politics but the fourth Noble Truth is wrong.
The vagueness of the first is the problem here
The fourth noble truth is fine, as is the 2nd and 3rdI do not know about university politics but the fourth Noble Truth is wrong.
clw_uk wrote: The fourth noble truth is fine, as is the 2nd and 3rd
The vagueness of the first is the problem here
This is an okay superficial definition for the 4th, but what they have after that is probably off:Cultivate the path
We don't cultivate dukkha, we want to eliminate it.that is keep doing 1-3
Hmm see "wanting to eliminate dukkha" is craving ...We don't cultivate dukkha, we want to eliminate it.
Hi Mara (you're good at playing devil's advocate)clw_uk wrote: That's nice but wanting to get rid of dukkha, is aversion
All taken, of course, from the first sermon. If you try to do a better job of expressing what the author of the text book expressed badly, at the very least you might find what I found when I tried: it's not an easy thing to do in such a small space, in a way that a new student will understand. At best, they might be grateful and fix the error with your revision.Anguish, he says, is to be understood, its origins to be let go of, its cessation to be realized, and the path to be cultivated.