Question

describe the four noble truths. what do buddhists mean when they say that life is suffering? what causes this suffering and how we escape? does this preoccupation with suffering make buddhists pessimists? why or not?

Answer 1

They are the truth of pain, the truth of suffering's cause, the reality of suffering's resolution, and the truth of the way to suffering's resolution.

The idea of suffering is meant to communicate a pragmatic attitude that deals with the world as it is and works to make it better, not a pessimistic one. Although not rejected, the idea of pleasure is accepted as transient. What is essentially an unquenchable hunger can only be continued by the pursuit of pleasure. The same reasoning disproves any notion of happiness. The only things that are inevitable and certain in the end are age, illness, and death.

The domain of man also provides enlightenment, or Nirvana, as an opportunity, which is absent from the other five planes. Given the vast number of living things, Buddhists view being born a human as a rare opportunity for spiritual joy that one should not waste.

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