QUESTION: What is the Third Noble Truth?
ANSWER: The Third Noble Truth is that suffering can be overcome
and happiness attained. This is perhaps the most important of the Four
Noble Truth because in it the Buddha reassured us that true happiness and contentment arc possible. ‘When we give up useless craving and learn to live each day at a time, enjoying without restless wanting the experiences that life offers us, patiently enduring the problems that life involves without fear, hatred and anger, then we become happy and free. Then and only then, do we being able to live fully. Because we are no longer obsessed with satisfying our own selfish wants, we find we have so much time to help others fulfill their needs. This state is called Nirvana.
ANSWER: The Third Noble Truth is that suffering can be overcome
and happiness attained. This is perhaps the most important of the Four
Noble Truth because in it the Buddha reassured us that true happiness and contentment arc possible. ‘When we give up useless craving and learn to live each day at a time, enjoying without restless wanting the experiences that life offers us, patiently enduring the problems that life involves without fear, hatred and anger, then we become happy and free. Then and only then, do we being able to live fully. Because we are no longer obsessed with satisfying our own selfish wants, we find we have so much time to help others fulfill their needs. This state is called Nirvana.
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