PHI 2389 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Four Noble Truths, Noble Eightfold Path, Skandha
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The first noble truth dukkha (the noble truth of suffering: life according to buddhism is nothing but suffering and pain, dukkha means suffering, pain, sorrow or misery. It also means imperfection, impermanence, emptiness and insubstantiality: however, he does not deny happiness in life. It changes and when it does, it produces pain, suffering, unhappiness: dukkha as conditioned states, the five aggregates: (five aggregates of attachment are dukkha) Four noble truths: aggregate of matter : solidity, fluidity, heat and motion (four great elements). It senses the world of ideas and thoughts and mental objects. Ideas and thoughts which form a part of the world are thus produced and conditioned by physical experiences and are conceived by the mind. Hence mind is considered a sense faculty or organ like the eye or the ear: aggregate of perceptions: the perception that recognize objects whether physical or mental, aggregate of mental formations includes volitional activities both good and bad.
