The Noble Truth of Buddhism

There are lots of moving parts of Buddhism. The first noble truth that life is always going to be events or suffering, I think is pretty much a common sense. But the analysis of how the world works, I don't think is common sense. I think a lot of it is very uncommon sense. And philosophers come up with these. So, there are lots of philosophical arguments in the Buddhist traditions. It's got to stand up to reason for you. Maybe this distinguishes it from many religions, certainly theistic religions. That's certainly an feature of Buddhism.

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