
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Basic Teachings – Part 1 – Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Heart of the Buddhas Teachings”
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The Four Noble Truths, Part Two
The four noble truths are referred to in chinese as the four wonderful truths, or the four holy or sacred truths. The current translation of the heartsutra that mentions the four noble truths has them as suffering, cause, cessation, path. So i was thinking about this. I think we all know the noble truths, right? Which tiktehan tells us in chinese, they are referred to as thefour wonderful truths,. They are usually reduced to one word in in the original language, duca, suffering, samdia, arising, or cause, neroda, cessation, marga, path. Those are the four truths.
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